Tags: So you’ve seen ‘Open water’ and you are still interested in diving into the deep blue sea? Then the DeeperBlue.net website is for you. Whether you are a total beginner looking for some ideas or an experienced diver with a craving for cutting edge equipment. DeeperBlue.net will keep you in touch with news covering sports events and affairs in the submarine universe, galleries capturing extraordinary scenes, courses on offer and forums as well as shopping where you can grab real bargains. Freediving, scuba, spearfishing and technical diving…they have it all.
DeeperBlue.net use Openads to deliver their banner ads and they have been using Openads for years now. We asked DeeperBlue.net if they would recommend Openads for other web publishers: ‘Yes, it’s an open-source, free, enterprise level ad server and it is absolutely brilliant!’
Thanks for the profile!
We’re extremely happy with OpenAds. We started using PhpAdsNew years ago and upgraded to OpenAds when we moved to the new design of the site in November 2007.
We run numerous zones on the various part of the site. If anyone wants to discuss how we run OpenAds then drop me a line.
Comment by Stephan Whelan — February 14, 2008 @ 10:52 am
Am I missing something? I apologize if I am but, if you think they are so brilliant, then why are you running google image ads at the top right of your homepage? I am seeing swim2000.com your online swimming superstore ad by google.
And why is the author of the blog showcasing this site if they are using google adsense image ads on their homepage?
And does deeperblue.net know that it is against the google tos to rotate ads inside an ad rotation script?
Comment by JP — February 18, 2008 @ 6:56 am
Also, I just noticed that, not only is there the image ad on the top of the homepage, there are 2 large 300×250 Google ads also on the homepage.
That makes 3 large Google ads on the homepage. Doesn’t seem like a good candidate to showcase OpenX. Actually, seems quite the opposite.
And by the way, doesn’t Google only allow 2 ad spots per page?
Comment by JP — February 18, 2008 @ 7:01 am
Hi JP
Thanks for taking the time to write in. I think that DeepBlue is a great OpenX publisher to showcase they are using OpenX in the way typical of most publishers.
OpenX is an ad server for web publishers and, as you describe, is used to rotate ads. Google Adsense is the most popular ad network used by OpenX publishers. In fact, we even use them as an example in our Online Advertising Explained presentations.
Google Adsense do have some challenging terms and conditions which we’ve gone out of our way to handle so that web publishers have the most options available to them.
You might like to discuss details of their terms and conditions with other OpenX publishers on the OpenX Forum. If we can improve OpenX to help publishers then we want to know.
cheers, Oliver
Comment by Oliver George — February 18, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
Has anyone seen a module for DotNetNuke? Many DNN users would love to use this product, but end up having so much difficulty they abandon it for something easier.
Anyone have any ideas for us ASP.NET folks, that don’t mind using the right tool for the right job?
Comment by Chris — February 19, 2008 @ 11:59 pm
Hi Chris
OpenX can be run on any website so long as your web server supports PHP. The recommended way of integrating OpenX with a website is to add some Javascript tags to your web templates. This will work for an ASP.NET website as easily as any other server side technology.
Having said that… we know we can make things easier for publishers and we’re working hard to improve. Integrating more deeply with other CMSs would be a great help for many publishers.
We’d appreciate any feedback and suggestions.
cheers, Oliver
Comment by Oliver George — February 20, 2008 @ 9:19 am
Those google ads are being served via openX.
It’s NOT against TOS to rotate ads. it’s against TOS to modify the adsense code which are two totally different things..
Comment by clueless — April 3, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
again no.
you can have upto 3 google ads per page
Comment by clueless — April 3, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
I’m sure this is not the best place to put this but we’ve currently run into the next scenario.
we have a client who has a big number of sites based on a Windows/ASP environment.
whom came to us a while back and we got openAds installed, customized and finetuned on a Unix box.
Of course this client is constantly growing, more traffic and creating more sites. Now the javascript implementation is beggining to suffer a bit.. few seconds to load each banner and so forth…
So I was wondering if you if the XML RPC implementation has been ported to ASP?
Comment by clueless — April 3, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
XML-RPC is an interface, not client, so you should be able to use whichever ASP XML-RPC client you prefer.
The OpenX forum is probably a better place to get help and other opinions about this.
cheers, Oliver
Comment by Oliver George — April 5, 2008 @ 8:26 am
Hi George,
I am new to openx. You mentioned that openx will be support ASP.Net.
Now i am developing a website using ASP.Net in which i have to use any ad management system.
Will you please tell me how openx will help in this case.
How we can invoke openx in my asp.net application.
Thanks in advance,
Nixson
Comment by Nixson — May 13, 2008 @ 4:50 am
The normal documentation for installing and configuring will work fine for you. It will direct you to add some special code into your website template.
cheers, Oliver
Comment by Oliver George — May 13, 2008 @ 10:58 am