My Banner 2.0

Do you want to EARN MONEY using your Dolphin script? If "YES" - this module is exactly for you.This AJAX based plug-in allows you to provide(sell) advertising service to members of your site.Look: You are the owner of a good and well known site. You have been working too hard and now your members love your site. They come to your site communicate to each other, send messages, upload, record and share their video and so on. Now your site has a lot of traffic and some of your members want to put their advertisement on your site. What do they do? They purchase advertisement and it will be shown on the page they choose(home page, profile pages, member accounts, etc. Picture 7). You plan is fulfilled. You start to EARN MONEY. :)Two types of banners could be created: text based and image based.

1. Text based banner. (Picture 1).User would be able to write some text and title for it. The banner could be pointed to some link. Also the profile's thumbnail would be attached to the banner. This type of banner looks like the user says something to the others and allow view it following the provided link.


2. Image based banner. (Picture 2).It's the common banner represented with an image and a link associated with it.

The other useful feature is that the user would be able to choose the pages where the banner would be displayed. In the same case, you(as administrator) would be able to set different prices for different pages. For example, you may make the ads more expensive on the home, account and profile pages, because usually these pages are the most visited by site members. To attract attention of your members to banner purchasing you would be able to set a flexible system of discounts for each page separately(Picture 4). All of them will be displayed on the banner purchasing page. Also your members would be able to use the build-in 'calculator' to get the final price for their advertising campaign. (Picture 3).The other useful capabilities:

1. Preview. Your users will be able to view how their banner will look like before purchasing it.


2. Up coming advertisement. It means, that your users could choose start date for each banner.


3. Purchase a number of ads at the same time and manage them("My Account" menu -> "My Banners") Take a look at Picture 5.


4. Statistics. Users would be able to track the number of impressions and the number of clicks for each banner he has.


5. Edit the banner during the advertising campaign. Even change the type of the banner.

You may manage the plug-in's settings via Dolphin administration panel -> modules -> My Banner. The module's administration panel consists of 3 part

1. Main settings of the module.


2. Pricing for each page with capability to create necessary discounts.


3. Browse. It allows to browse users' banners. Also the module allows to use pre and post moderation for users' banners. In this case you would be able to approve/disapprove the banners in this section. Banner can be deleted at all if it breaks the privacy and policy of your site. Also when you browse the site as administrator and see some 'bad' banner you would be able to disapprove/delete it immediately from the page you have seen it. (Picture 6)


4. The position of advertising block on each page could be changed using default Dolphin's page builder.

NEW in this version.

1. The number of pages where your users can have their banners was increased. Now they can purchase banners for Join and Browse pages too. Note. If you'll need to have the possiblity for the other pages feel free to contact me.


2. Segmentation options. Member can choose a category of members who will see the banner. For example, he lives in USA and has a shot where he sells parts for different cars. So, the most part of his clients are men from USA. So, he can show his banner to males from USA only.From the advertisers' perspective, the segmentation options increase their conversion possibilities as the ad will show only to a specific desired market. There is no extra cost to the advertiser, but the webmaster makes more money because he has not only a more attractive advertising module, but also more advertising space.Take a look at Picture 8.


3. If member purchase banner for a number of pages at the same time, he will be able to manage them separately and impressions/clicks statistics will be calculated separately too. It allows see what page is better to purchase advertising space on.


4. Administrator can grant advertising space for site members for free. It may help you to advertice the banners feature itself on your site. You'll be able to create a number of attractive banners for your own profiles and the other members will want to have their ads too. Take a look at Picture 9.


5. If you have a lot of banners and want to show more then 1 banner on the page you'll be able to increace the number via My Banner admin panel.

You are welcome to test it on my demo site.For more info feel free to contact me via Unity mail box.
 
1. Text Banner

 
 
2. Image banner

 
3. Banner creation page.

 
4. Admin page(Settings and Pricing)

 
5. My Banners page.

 
6. Admin panel(Search and Search results)

 
7. Home page with active banner.

 
8. Segmentation block in banner creation form.

 
9. Admin panel(Create Banner)

NOTE. The latest version can be found here.

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Note. If you are interesting in similar module (app) for UNA, feel free to take a look at our Banners app which is fully compatible with the latest version of UNA script.
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