AuctionAds stacking

I haven't seen anyone else mentioning this so I thought I would post it. On my forum I wanted to increase the length of a vertical skyscraper ad so it would include more than 3 ads. The preset size of the largest banner is 120x600 and I didn't want to load multiple modules to fill more vertical space. After playing around with the format I found that you can stack 2 or more ad scripts to create a 120x1200 skyscraper. Turns out this was really simple. I altered the keywords within each script to avoid any duplicate listings. Here is how I arranged the scripts within a module on my forum. The working ads can be viewed at http://bike-talk.com/forum/

<tr>
<td class="alt1"><div align="center">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
auctionads_ad_client = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
auctionads_ad_campaign = "";
auctionads_ad_width = "120";
auctionads_ad_height = "600";
auctionads_ad_kw = "harley parts, harley, parts, motorcycle";
auctionads_color_border = "E5E5E5";
auctionads_color_bg = "E5E5E5";
auctionads_color_heading = "8B0000";
auctionads_color_text = "333333";
auctionads_color_link = "8B0000";
auctionads_options = "n";
--></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ads.auctionads.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script></div><br />
<div align="center">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
auctionads_ad_client = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
auctionads_ad_campaign = "";
auctionads_ad_width = "120";
auctionads_ad_height = "600";
auctionads_ad_kw = "harley davidson, vtwin, v-twin, chopper";
auctionads_color_border = "E5E5E5";
auctionads_color_bg = "E5E5E5";
auctionads_color_heading = "8B0000";
auctionads_color_text = "333333";
auctionads_color_link = "8B0000";
auctionads_options = "n";
--></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ads.auctionads.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script></div><br /></td>
</tr>


It's my understanding that Adsense's TOS never allowed this type of stacking, but with AuctionAds we can really start to get creative with how ads are displayed. There are all kinds of combinations that could allow you to taylor these ads to your site's layout. For instance, you could stack a 120x600 with a 120x240 for a 120x840, or multiple horizontal banners to get one that fits your width... you get the idea.

Yup - IM doing this myself in a few places

Interesting! Thanks for the info and tutorial kenfuzed :thanks:

I do this as well, but actually the last few weeks, the positions where I stacked the ads started showing up blank. Coud be there were not enough ads to be displayed for the targeted keywords, but as soon as I removed one (just used a single 160x600), they came back. Either case, Auctionads has been a great addition to my community.

I do this as well, but actually the last few weeks, the positions where I stacked the ads started showing up blank. Coud be there were not enough ads to be displayed for the targeted keywords, but as soon as I removed one (just used a single 160x600), they came back. Either case, Auctionads has been a great addition to my community.Make sure you use a different keyword or keyword order in the second ad. I noticed as well that when I used identical keywords that occassionally I would see blank ad areas. Each script should act independently of each other but perhaps there are other things going on AuctionAds' side that prevents duplicate items from being displayed.

I have actually contemplated looking for a script that would auto-refresh a module so ads would appear to update or rotate. That way if the ad area comes up blank, it would refresh after a given time and hopefully right itself. The other advantage would be to continually present new ads every couple minutes. The script would need to reload just the module and not the whole page to avoid uneeded server load. Just an idea :D