Ads

Arcadem Pro 2.8 and above provides the ability to sell ads directly from your site using PayPal. This cuts out the middle man and allows you to make a lot more money over simply running an ad service such as AdSense alone.

This menu is the place where you can customize your site and also manage your ads.

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Settings

When you want to sell ads on your site, you need to do some changes with the ads related settings. In this menu, you will find some of them.
Here you can set four main options for your ads: Enabled Direct Ad Sales, Enabled Ads Before Games, Number of Banner Ad Spots, and the most important is PayPal address where you receive the payment.

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Ad Positions

There are three ad position types of ads on your Arcadem Pro 2.8, you can set each type with different size and price. In Arcadem Pro 2.8 you will find terms like CPC, CPM, and CPTP. They all are the term for pricing method for your ads.

CPC : Cost Per Click, the amount an advertiser will be charged every time a user click on an ad displayed in the related ad type.

CPM : Cost Per Metric, the amount an advertiser will be charged every time they ads have been displayed 1000 times, and in result, each time an ad is displayed it is charged 1/1000th of this amount.

CPTP : Cost Per Time Period, the time period can be a day, a week, a month, or a year. This is the amount to run an ad in the related position for the specified time period.

All these three ads position can be disabled by change the cost value to 0.00 (zero). And each type also can be combined with the other charges types.

You also can change the size of the ads differently for each ads position type. Just simply change the value of width and height in the related textbox.

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Ads before Games

You can set your site to display ads before users play a game. This tab has several options related with the Ads Before Games. You can set how long the ads will be displayed, and how much it will cost. Remember that the display time of your ads will should be entered in milliseconds (1000 = 1 seconds).

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Manage Ads

Before doing changes from this menu, ensure that you’ve logged in from the site front page (not the admin panel). When you get a message “Authorized access only. If you’re an administrator and have received this message, please log in into the front end of the site first, before altering ads in the admin panel.”, that’s mean you are not logged in on the site front page.

When you have logged in to the site front page, you will find this menu open the “Your Ads” window. This window will automatically opened showing “Manage Ads” tab. This is the place where you can approve, pause or delete an ad. You also can see the summary of you ad overview in the “Overview” tab.

In the “Manage Ads” tab, you will see a table containing you ads which also has three buttons in each row. The three buttons is used to pause, approve and delete the ad.

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Create New Ad

You can access the second tab of “Your Ads” window by choosing its tab title or by clicking this menu. In this tab you will several text boxes to enter the ad information. You should fill the ad’s name, type, placement, image, destination URL, maximum number of clicks, maximum number of expressions, and budget.

The ad you entered here need to be approved in the “Manage Ads” tab before it can be displayed on your site.

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AdSense/Other

You also can add you Google AdSense code to your site. Use this tab by clicking its title or click the AdSense/Other menu. Enter your AdSense code in the text box and click Create Ad.

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Manage User Ads

When some users advertise their site on your site, you can manage their ad from this menu. This menu will open Manage User Ads window where you can pause, approve and delete users ads. You make changes using three buttons in each line the same as when you make changes with your ads.