Viral Ad Network

If your blog is hosted with blogger then there’s no need to worry if you’re not comfortable writing code. Here’s a simple step by step guide on how to add our ads to your blog on blogger.com .

(note – if you are comfortable editing html then it’s still advised you manually add the script tags to your template, as this will enable more advanced ad formats)

Step 1:

Log into Blogger and click on “Design” under your blog

Step 2:

Click “Add a Gadget” where you would like to insert the ad.

Make sure you have chosen a space on your page that will be large enough to hold the ad. Most of our ads are 300px wide and 250 px high.

Step 3:

Select “Add your own” from the left hand column in the gadget directory window.

Step 4:

Enter the following URL into the text box:

http://van-static.com/gadget-resources/blogger/bloggergadget.xml

And then click “Add By URL”.

Step 5:

Look at the embed code for your ad unit from your dashboard, and find the line starting with “var vaunit_id=”. Copy the number (example below). If you haven’t yet signed up to the viral ad network then apply now.

Now paste that number into the “Unit ID” field. Make sure that you leave the height large enough for your ad unit (normally 250 px). Click “Save”.

Done

Your ad should now have been inserted into your blog – keep on blogging, and we’ll keep picking the best ads to show to your users.

In my last blog post, I described new features we’ve added to our ad units allowing lightbox-style ads to run across the network.

Another feature that we pushed in the same update was increased loading speed for pages showing our ads on safari and Chrome.

By loading the ad asynchronously on these browsers, we have measured a time saving of up to 150ms per ad displayed on the page. (that’s time saved before your page’s onload event).

We will continue to look at other possibilities for improving the loading times of our ads across other platforms and web browsers. For more information on what we do to speed up our loading times, take a look at our previous blog post on file size.