Comments on: Geo targeting your ads with Ad Buttons

By: Family Tree Software

Family Tree Software — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:29:21 +0000

This is a cool concept. If you’re directing traffic to a geo targeted campaign that isn’t qualified as they are from the incorrect country then that traffic is potentially wasted, thanks for the update.

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:07:49 +0000

Jon, the plugin uses the ip2nation database by Per Gustafsson There are a few code samples on how to use it on his site. Using one of the samples, here’s something you can try:

$sql = 'SELECT country FROM ip2nation WHERE ip < INET_ATON("'.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].'") ORDER BY ip DESC LIMIT 0,1';


	list($country) = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query($sql));

switch ($country) { case 'se': // Show Swedish ad echo"YOUR SWEDISH AD CODE HERE"; exit; case 'us': // Show US ad echo"THIS IS WHERE THE US AD CODE GOES"; exit; default: // Ad for the rest of the world echo"AD CODE TO SHOW TO OTHERS"; exit; }

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:38:48 +0000

Hi, I posted this on WordPress.org, but maybe here is a better place to ask.

I am using Adbuttons specifically for the geotargeting to display different ads to UK and US viewers. I have 4 125px ads for each country.

What I could love is a way to display some additional adverts by placing code in template files (e.g. single.php) and using the geo targeting database to do this. For example, I have one advertiser that only wants to show ads to UK, and the advert is javascript so cannot use img/url anyway. Is this possible? I am sure it must be relatively simple, and would be good to make use of the geo targeting database.

By: Jeet

Jeet — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:04:53 +0000

Hi Nico!
Agreed to Rob – great plugin.
Thanks for keeping it free.
Im sure that everyone should measure the increase in income from your plugin and share it with you through donation
Thanks again for your work.

By: Nico

Nico — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:58:03 +0000

Rob, that is something that will quite likely be added in a future release of the Ad Buttons plugin

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:57:34 +0000

Hey Nico!

Great plug-in, but I like it so much that I’d really like to use it more than once so that I can break up my ads.

Maybe in a future release you could make it so that I could create more than one instance for my site?

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:05:34 +0000

Looks good to me in both FF and IE. Try clearing your cache and history in FF. I have had similar problems with some other site, where my ISP was serving me a cached version of images. If that is the case, maybe give it a day and the problem should fix itself.
The page is created by the code on the server, so there can be no difference between what FF and IE see, also the output of the script is a simple link and image, nothing special.

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:40:06 +0000

Hi Nico.

That was what i thought but no… If you want to check it for yourself please visit http://www.desaparezca.net/blog2 with both navigators (iexplorer and firefox). There is only one ad, at the right panel, is called Ads!.

Thanks in advance.

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:18:01 +0000

Luis, your problem sounds like a local cache problem to me. Try reloading the page in firefox by pressing [ctrl] + [F5]

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:32:59 +0000

Hi!

Thanks in advance for this awesome plugin. I have a strange problem, i’m using wordpress 2.8.4 and ad buttons 1.7, when i visit the website with iexplorer the ad image is visible but with firefox (3.5.3) the ad image dont show up. ¿Any idea?