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Banner Ad Rotator
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| Article by: | Art Downey (3/20/2003) |
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| Summary: | An introduction to the Microsoft AdRotator component which ships with IIS and is the simplest way to implement banner ad rotation on your site. |
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Banner Ad Rotator
The default installation of IIS comes with a Microsoft banner ad component called AdRotator. To use the component, the first thing we need to do is create a text file in the following format:
We'll call this file banner_ads.txt
Now let's take this apart. The redirect line we'll come to in a moment. The next three lines are the width, height and border of the ad - all obvious enough. Next, a compulsary star. Then follow image path, link , alt text and percentage shown for the first banner, followed by the same for the next banner. This text file would therefore show 80% CodeToad banners, and 20% Google. You can have as many banners as you like.
Now back to the redirect line. You'll notice the page name ads.asp. This is a name I made up and it can be any asp page you create. This page will now receive a querystring with a variable named URL containing the URL to redirect to.
If that's all we want to do we would simply add the following code to the ads.asp page:
But this would be the place to monitor click throughs and statistics should you wish to do so, perhaps by storing the url in a database.
Calling the ads
So that's the system set up, now all we need to do is call the banner from our page. That's just like calling any other component:
The MSWC.AdRotator object is created, and goes to the banner_ads.txt file to read off the details of the ads, and display one, according to the percentages. It's as easy as that.
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Posted by :
 Archive Import (Ray Middleton) at 14:32 on Friday, May 30, 2003
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hiya
ive followed the code exactly and all works fine, except for the url for the mouse over and execution of link.
i end up gettin url's like:
http://www.renaultsportsclub.co.uk/ads.asp?url=http://www.fastandfuriousshow.co.uk/&image=../mainimages/f_f_banner2211.gif
instead of just http://www.fastandfuriousshow.co.uk
could u please guide me as to what i am doin wrong.
many thanks
Ray
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Posted by :
Archive Import (jake) at 10:45 on Monday, June 09, 2003
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I am having exactly the same problem as the poster above.
When clicking the image it doesnt work as expected.
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Posted by :
Archive Import (dholder) at 15:04 on Monday, September 15, 2003
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make sure your redirect file is uploaded and its linked in the schedule file.
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Posted by :
 MSpoon at 20:33 on Thursday, October 23, 2003
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Hi all,
Are there any tutorials out there that show how to actually track impressions and clicks on the ads that are served with this component.
I have the component working fine, but I want to be able to check how many times an ad has been served and clicked on.
Thanks for any ideas.
MSpoon
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