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No prob. If you need help with it let me know. To use it right you need to set up a cron job.

ewwww, I saw a folder for fake cron, would that work? I'm not sure if my host does cron, but maybe my second host does it and I can call the script remotely using js?

Hmm, I'm not sure what would work, I think calling it remotely (even directly) would work but I've not tested it.

I'm still in the testing stages, I wouldn't implement it till I'm getting a lot more ads. Otherwise it's a bit of an overkill

how have you implemented this?

I set up a cron job.

what do you need the cron for?

To run the maintenance script. It needs to recalculate the banner priorities every hour.

can the job be run from a remote server? I have a friend whose host has cron job.

I don't see why not.

If another site uses phpadsnew, and has my banner, does that count as a back link and therefore enhances my page rank?

It depends on the method of invocation. But generally yes, to a negligible degree.

wait, negligible, is that good or bad here?

Neither, what I'm saying is that it will not help you much at all. Nor will it hurt.

how is it different than a back link?

Well, it depends on where it goes. Since it's a dymamically redirecting link it will probably be ignored by most search engine algos.

Algos might also take advertising into consideration and they might recognize it as an ad and disregard it.

Like I said, it depends on the invocation and more. I would not advise counting on it as a backlink. You should get a text backlink for that purpose.

BTW, I tested it with a remote server running the cron and it works.

Thanks, I was setting up a set so I could get a back link or two, I guess I"ll use the text method instead.

I've read the user manual and there are still some things I don't understand. How do you use it on your sites? I don't get what the difference is between an advertising/campaign and the publisher/zone?

Think of it like this:

Publisher = the website where the ads will be placed. It "publishes" the content and the ads.

Zone = An area of the publisher's website. For example, this forum has a zone that is different from the travel forum. Each is a different zone.

So if you have one site and only one ad size/zone you want to run you just need one of each.

If you have multiple sites you can set up multiple "publishers" or even run them all under one publisher.

If you want to break down the ad categories on your site you use zones.

You have to do this for different ad sizes. You might have a 480 by 60 zone and a 120 by 600 zone and you can break it down even further into categories.

advertiser = the advertiser
campaign = a specific ad campaign

For example, lets say able2know wants to advertise on your site. This is one advertiser. Able2Know wants to have 5 campaigns.

One for sports ads, one for politics, one for religion, one for apples and one for bannanas.

So we'd be an advertiser on your system and we'd run "campaigns". Sometimes this is called a "flight".

There might be a Christmas ad campaign for example...

But it can also be one permanent campaign. With the ad networks that sell advertising for me I enter them as several permanent campaigns.