Hey guys,

I have a major advertiser who uses DART advertising tags from Doubleclick, as do most major AMerican advertisers. I use Smoke Ranch Banner Ads, which I love, but I cannot get advertiser's DART server to calculate the proper number of impressions. In fact, they are only counting about 1/4 of the total impressions. The problem seems to be a timestamp token. They've given me a replacement but it still doesn't work.

An alternative is to use Google Ad Manager, but that requires Javascript language to be inserted into my section and it's not possible. The Text?HTML module strips them out.

A sample tag  for a 160X600 ad provided to me is:

Placement: CH_ROS_618_97_160x600
Group Name: N/A
Run Dates: 6/18/2009 To 9/7/2009

Iframes/JavaScript Tags:


Internal Redirect Tags:

Redirect URL for image (USE THIS TAG IN DFP ONLY) :
http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N4359.cinchouse.comOX13343/B3708484;sz=160x600

Click-through URL (USE THIS TAG IN DFP ONLY) :
http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/N4359.cinchouse.comOX13343/B3708484;sz=160x600

Do you have any suggestions?

I don't have any problems putting script stuff into Text/HTML modules. You have to make sure that you do it in Source mode of the editor, or switch the editor out of WYSIWYG mode.

There is also a free module from Will Strohl (www.willstrohl.com) that will help you inject code anywhere you need it.

Injecting the Google Ad Manager text worked initially, but then it kept switching the Render mode from HTML back to the default Text mode. I cannot get it to stay in the HTML mode. Any ideas?

Even so, do you have any idea why this wouldn't work with a regular banner ad manager from Smoke Ranch? They don't know why it's not tracking. Interestingly, the tags also aren't tracking with Datasprings' OptIn Email program which also works flawlessly with everything else.

EDITED: Nevermind on this. There is a known issue that it will not accept a script over 900 charcters.

I just tried the script injector for Google Ad Manager but kept getting errors. Here is the code (I tried with and without the body text, etc.):





<!-- PUT THIS TAG IN THE head SECTION -->
[script removed] at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(SqlConnection connection, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, String spName, Object[] parameterValues) at WillStrohl.Modules.Injection.SqlDataProvider.AddInjectionContent(Int32 ModuleId, Boolean InjectTop, String InjectName, String InjectContent, Boolean IsEnabled, Int32 OrderShown) at WillStrohl.Modules.Injection.InjectionController.AddInjectionContent(InjectionInfo objInjection) at WillStrohl.Modules.Injection.EditInjections.SaveInjection()