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Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page
I've tried to follow the directions to allow me to display search banner results but I keep getting no banners on the search results page.

Please advise. What am I missing/doing wrong?
These are the directions supplied:

Displaying Search Result Banners
To be able to have ceartain banners show up when users search for specific keywords you need to:
1. In Adcycle, create a group in Adcycle called SearchTargeted
2. In Adcycle, edit the campaign you want to be targeted and under Other Targeting, click on Add/Modify Criteria. From here you can add the keywords you want associated.
3. In Adcycle, click on Groups and select the SearchTargeted group you just made and make sure the campaign is selected.
4. In Links SQL enter:
<%Plugins::Adcycle::display_search_banner%>
in your search_results.html template.

Thanks.

Mark G.
OhioBiz


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Re: [mgeyman] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
Did you ever get this working Mark?
I might be able to help you if you are still having the problem.
what i am wondering is if you can have more then one keyword targeted banner on a page. If anyone knows how to achive this can they let me know. It seems that the keyword code directly from adcycle does not work at all.
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Re: [knewt] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
knewt,

I'm still not getting the Adcycle targeted keywords to work with Links SQL 2.1.1. Any ideas?? Also, I have a number of static html pages outside of the Links SQL dynamic pages, is there any way to get the ads to work (impressions/click-throughs) properly or is that impossible?

Thanks a lot for your assistance in advnace!

mgeyman
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Re: [mgeyman] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
Hi mgeyman
to help with ad cycle I would need to get into your admin and see what you have done. if you would like I can do this. as far as having the ads work on your static pages, yes, you can do this. you have to place the adcycle code generated by your campaigns into your web site where you want the banners to show up.
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Displaying Search Result Banners
To be able to have ceartain banners show up when users search for specific keywords you need to:
1. In Adcycle, create a group in Adcycle called SearchTargeted
2. In Adcycle, edit the campaign you want to be targeted and under Other Targeting, click on Add/Modify Criteria. From here you can add the keywords you want associated.
3. In Adcycle, click on Groups and select the SearchTargeted group you just made and make sure the campaign is selected.
4. In Links SQL enter:
<%Plugins::Adcycle::display_search_banner%>
in your search_results.html template.

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.
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Manu,

Hmmmm. I tried this but now I get the black banner ad with "AdCycle.com" showing up no matter what keyword(s) I type into the search box. Why does this happen? Also, I want to follow the Google model with strictly text-based ads. You can see an example of this in one of the categories on my site:(http://www.ohiobiz.com/...velopment/index.html.) The category tex-based ads work fine but I still can't get the Adcycle text-based ads to work properly with targeted keywords.

I would greatly appreciate yours or anyone else's input!

Thanks a lot.

mgeyman
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Manu,

Any follow-up on this? I still can't get it to work properly (see my last comments).

Thanks a lot.

mgeyman
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Re: [mgeyman] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
hi, sorry for my late reply, but i was very busy these days.

to prevent the black adcycle-banner, setup a standard-search-target banner. put this banner into your search-target-group. then goto your adcycle groups-list of your search-target-group and set the weight for your standard banner to (0-Default).

Now everytime a keyword is entered by a user for which there is no keyword-targetting-entry your standard-banner will be displayed instead of the black adcycle one.

to the rest i can't say much at the moment.

how do you exactly display our text-based ads?

do you have two different SearchTargeted-Groups (one text-based & one banner based)?

did you define your adcycle-SearchTargeted-Group in your plugin-manager?

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.
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Re: [mgeyman] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
ok, found something that might work for you:

1. In Adcycle, create a group in Adcycle called SearchTargeted

2. In Links SQL go to the admin panel, under Plugins. Then click on Plugin Manager and edit the Adcycle plugin. Set the keyword_group setting to correspond to the Adcycle Group ID of the SearchTargeted group.

3. In Adcycle create a Campaign for your SearchTargeted-Group with NO Keywords (that will be the standard-ad if there is no ad for a keyword).

Create a Campaign-HTML-Ad and use something like the following:




<TABLE BORDER="0">
<TR><TD ALIGN ="center">
<FONT SIZE="2" FACE="Verdana" COLOR="#aabbcc"><B>Sponsored Link :</B></FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="158" HEIGHT="102" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BGCOLOR="#A8DDA0">
<TR VALIGN="middle"><TD>
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="156" HEIGHT="100" ALIGN="center">
<TR BGCOLOR="#EBFFED" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><TD>
<a href="http://www.shop-netz.de/...&mid=36&id=1" target="_blank"><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="Verdana"><B>
Visit TestPage</B></FONT></A><br>
<a href="http://www.shop-netz.de/...&mid=36&id=1" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.shop-netz.de/shopping/images/adimages/banner1.gif" width=130 height=60 border=0 alt="Sponsored Link"></a><br>
<FONT SIZE="1">This is a little Test</FONT>
</TD></TR></TABLE>
</TD></TR></TABLE>
</TD></TR></TABLE>




(the Link-Code will be provided to you by adcycle if you start to create a new HTML-Campaign

4. Now you can create similar campaigns for your advertisers. Therefor you just have to change the bold code in the HTML above. For this campaigns you have to define keywords in the add/modify-criteria area.

5. Goto your adcycle->groups->SearchTargeted (-group) and set your standard-campaign (see point 3.) to weight= (0-default) and all your other keyword-campaigns to (100-High)

6. Goto the plugins->adcenter->Groups->SearchTargeted and the click on [Get Ad Codes]; Select Page-Target (e.g. TOP), PageLayout (Multiple ads in page) and Keywords (Keyword Targeting Code).Click on the CHANGE-Button.

7. Take the IFRAME Cache-bust Code and but it into the right place of your search_results.html-template

8. Now do the following changes in the Cache-bust Code:
  • change every ENTER+KEYWORD+LIST text to <%query%>
  • if you want you can change the manger=adcycle.com tags to manager=yoursite.com
  • if you want to use more than one keyword-code/cache-bust Code in a single page, the id of each keyword-code has to be unique
  • if you like, you can change the alt=""-tags to "Sponsored link"
  • in the <noscript>-part i've added : <noscript> <FONT SIZE="2" FACE="Verdana" COLOR="#aabbcc"><B>Sponsored Link :</B></FONT><br>


If you did the changes, the code in your search_results.html should look something like:




<!-- START ADCYCLE.COM IFRAME RICH MEDIA CACHE-BUST CODE for SearchTargeted -->
<script language="javascript">
<!-- /* © 2001 AdCycle.com All Rights Reserved.*/
var id=313;
var jar=new Date();var s=jar.getSeconds();var m=jar.getMinutes();
var flash=s*m+id;var cgi='http://www.YourDoain.com/cgi-bin/shop/adcycle';
var p='<iframe src="'+cgi+'/adcycle.cgi?gid=39&layout=multi&t=_blank&id='+flash+'&type=iframe&keywords=<%query%>" ';
p+='height=160 width=160 border=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 ';
p+='vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no>';
p+='<a href="'+cgi+'/adclick.cgi?manager=YourDomain.com&gid=39&layout=multi&id='+flash+'" target="_blank">';
p+='<img src="'+cgi+'/adcycle.cgi?gid=39&layout=multi&id='+flash+'&keywords=<%query%>" width=156 height=60 ';
p+='border=0 alt="Sponsored Link"></a></iframe>'; document.write(p); // -->
</script>
<noscript>
<FONT SIZE="2" FACE="Verdana" COLOR="#aabbcc"><B>Sponsored Link</B></FONT><br>
<a href="http://www.YourDomain.com/cgi-bin/shop/adcycle/adclick.cgi?manager=YourDomain.com&gid=39&layout=multi&id=313" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.YourDomain.com/cgi-bin/shop/adcycle/adcycle.cgi?gid=39&layout=multi&id=313&keywords=<%query%>" width=156 height=60 border=0 ALT="Sponsored link"></a>
</noscript>
<!-- END ADCYCLE.COM IFRAME RICH MEDIA CODE -->





9. Now it should work perfect! The only thing you have to to is to change the size of the IFRAME (marked red above), so that the full html-banner is displayed.

Regards,
Manu

Shopping Portal Shop-Netz.de® | Partnerprogramme | Flugreisen & Billigflüge | KESTERMEDIA e.K. | European Affiliate Marketing Forum.
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Re: [ManuGermany] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
hi,

in addition to my posting above:

you should setup also a gif/jpg-Campaign-Ad next to the HTML-one. it is always used if a user's browser can't display reich-media ads.

Just be sure that you check the checkbox "HTML-Default" for your gif/jpg-Campaign-Ad.

Regards,
Manu

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Re: [ManuGermany] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
Hello. I 'm back working on this project.



Thanks for the info although I'm having a heck of a time. You can take a look at one of my search results pages at http://www.ohiobiz.com/ and just doing a query on let's say "cleveland". I don't know if this is possible but what I want to accomplish is have the text-based ad boxes (sponsored links) appear on the right-hand side similar to Google when someone types in a keyword/keyword phrase. If it matches the keywords the advertiser paid for then it would appear there. If there aren't any ads that match any "purchased" keywords then nothing appears. Also, ideally, I would want to have up to 3-4 ads for any given keyword, potentially.

I was trying to follow your directions above but I got lost on a couple of things. My generated Ad code for my text links looks like this:

<!-- START ADCYCLE DIRECT TEXT CODE -->
<!-- Group:SearchTargeted Campaign:OhioBiz Promo Link:Ad #1-->
<a href="http://www.ohiobiz.com/...mp;mid=14&id=859&" target="_top">OhioBiz</a><img src="http://www.ohiobiz.com/...mp;mid=14&id=859" width=1 height=1 border=0><img src="http://www.ohiobiz.com" width=1 height=1 border=0>
<!-- END ADCYCLE DIRECT TEXT CODE -->

Mine doesn't mention "IFRAME RICH MEDIA CACHE-BUST CODE." What am I doing wrong?

Also, where does the javascript come into play and where is ENTER+KEYWORD+LIST and <%query%>? Do I have the right version of this software? When I add keywords they don't seem to be reflected in the code.

Do I have to create a global of some sort and an additional field in Links SQL Database for each listing that have a corresponding Text-based ad? How would this all link together properly?

Help!!

Thank you very much!

mgeyman
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Re: [mgeyman] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
Hi,

I'm using version 2.12 of the adcycle-plugin

goto: adcycle->Groups

Just click on "Ad Code" behind your group "SearchTargeted" (This should be the name of your group)

There you should also find the IFRAME-AdCode

Regards,
Manu

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Re: [ManuGermany] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
Hmmm.

When I do that I get:


Code Options [ ? ] Page Target: Target "_top"Target "_blank"Target "_self"Target "_parent" Page Layout: Single ad in pageMultiple ads in page Keywords: No Keyword TargetingKeyword Targeting Code


Rotation functionality for text links and pop-windows is still under development. In the meantime, please use the direct ad codes provided in the campaign creative pages.
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Re: [ManuGermany] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
Sounds like you are using a newer version of Adcycle since my version doesn't seem to have these capabilities.

mgeyman
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Re: [mgeyman] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
just download the new version from the download-area

Regards,
Manu

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Re: [ManuGermany] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
Are you talking about the download area on the Adcycle site or somewhere on the GT site?

I tried taking it from the Adcycle site but in order to import it as a plugin it requires an Install.pm file associated with it. I posted an email on the forum regarding GT to updated the Adcycle plugin to reflect the ewest version released 12-1-02.

mgeyman
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Re: [mgeyman] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
of course I'm talking of the GT Links SQL-Plugin-Downwload-Area!Crazy

Regards,
Manu

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Re: [ManuGermany] Adcycle - Targeted keywords - search results page In reply to
Hmmm. The last version I see is Links SQL Adcycle plugin v. 2.12 from 2-01-2002 which is really Adcycle v. 1.17.

I guess I'm looking for Links SQL Adcycle plugin v. 2.13 which is really -> Adcycle v. 1.24 (12-1-2002).

I looked in the Links SQL Admin - Plugin Downloads area - I didn't see it there. I looked on the GT web site Links SQL Plugin page (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...inks-sql/plugins.htm) - I didn't see it there. I also looked in the password-protected GT download area and didn't see it there. My Links SQL v. 2.1.1 is there but no downloads available under Adcycle. I'm stumped! Are talking about the same thing?

mgeyman