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What is Joe's Banner Exchange?

Good question!  This banner exchange is a free and open banner exchange network for the horticultural industry. If you are a grower, retailer of allied trader, we encourage you to join up. When you upload your banner ads to the network, they will be displayed on other exchange member's web sites. Who's ad is displayed where and when is ballanced over the banner exhchage network, meaning that everyone gets a fair go.

The benefits of this exchange is two-fold. First of all, you get FREE advertising into a very niche business market. You can be sure that your ads are shown to people that are actively looking for horticultural infromation and plants. Second, by linking to each other, we increase our search rankings over time.

Great! How do I Join?

It's very easy really. Just follow these steps...

  1. If you do not already have a TyTags web site account , please visit www.tytags.com and REGISTER a new account.  (Tytag's in donating their server space and bandwidth for this free exchange, so a big thanks to them!).
  2. Now send an email to joe@tytags.com to let him know you wish to be added to the Banner Exchange. Make sure you include your TyTags user name in this email!
  3. After a while, Joe will sign you up and you will receive an email telling you that you are now an Advertiser.  Once you have that email, you are ready to start uploading and sharing your advertising banners with the rest of the Banner Exchange.

Some Rules

To keep things fair, we have a few rules for Joe's Banner Exchange.

Rule 1: Ad sizes

We current support three sizes of banner ads: 

Regular-sized banners and are 468x60 pixles.

Large 'Leader" banners which are 728 x 90 pixles.

Rectangular "Business Card" banners which are 180x150 pixles.

You will need to ensure that your banners fit one of these three sizes.

Rule 2: Banner formats

We currently support image files (jpg, png, gifs) as well as text-only ads and Adobe Flash ads.

Rule 3: You must place banner ads on your web site

The way the banner ad network functions is that for every ad you show on your web site, you get an and on someone else's site. This means that you must include banner ads on your web site by adding some simple web code onto your own web site. There are three different types of code you can add, depending up the size of the banner you wish to place on your web site.  Members of the exchange who do not place banner ads somewhere on their own site will eventually be removed from the network... sorry, but this is all about helping each other. If you need help adding code to your web site, put in a request via the service desk on the TyTags web site and we'll do everything we can to help you out.

 

 

Rule 4: Keep on topic! 

Joe's Banner Ad Exchange is only for the nursery industry.  We accept ads about nuseries, growers, plants from plant breeders, horticultural products, trade associations, etc. We even accept banners that announce upcomming events.  Just as long as the ad has something to do with the horticultural industry. Banner ads that do not fit this requirement will not be approved.

 

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Adding Banners to Joe's Banner Ad Exchange

Adding your banners to the Banner Exchange is easy!  Just follow these steps...

Login to the www.TyTags.com and then click on My Account -> My Banners to bring up the banner management page; Now click on the Joe's Banner Exchange campaign link as shown below.

The Banner Manabement Page

To upload new banners, click on the Upload images link as show below.  If you already have banner ads uploaded on the internet, you can also just type in their address (URL) next the word External. Most of the time, you will just want to upload you banners using the Upload images function.

When the upload banners window opens, select browse and locate the banner file on your computer. To upload a file, click on Add.  This will add the file to the list of banners. When you have all of your banners listed in the box under the Add link, click on the Upload File(s) link to send all of the files to the banner exchange server.

Cool! Nearly there. All you need to do now is set up text and functional details for each of the uploaded banners. To do this, select the image from the drop down list next to the words Internal, and then give the image a Title. You will aslo need to select a URL (a web address) where you want people to go when this banner ad is clicked. Make sure you include the "http://" part at the start of the address! When you are happy, click on the Add Banner link button.

In order to protect us all from inappropriate ads, Joe will check every banner that is uploaded. Once it's approved, it will start showing up on the banner exchange network automatically.

 

 

 
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EXAMPLE 1: LARGE LEADERBOARD BANNER

This advertisment is an example of the large Leaderboard banner ad size.  It is 728 x 90 pixes and is suitable as either a major ad at the top of your web site, or an ad to finish off a page.  You can place this type of banner on your web site by using the following code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.tytags.com/DesktopModules/BannerDisplay/GetBanners.aspx?moduleid=736& amp;portalid=0&amp;html=False"></script>

* Note: the above lines of code should be placed on a single line.

  
EXAMPLE 2: STANDARD BANNER AD

This is a standard, full-sized banner ad. It is 468 pixles wide and 40 pixles high. It's the most commonly used banner size on commercial web sites. To add this type of banner to your web site, use the following web page code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/Portals/0/http://www.tytags.com/ DesktopModules/BannerDisplay/GetBanners.aspx?moduleid=742& amp;portalid=0&amp;html=False"></script>

* Note, the above code should all be placed on a single line. We have placed it onto three-lines for ease of reading.
  
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EXAMPLE 3: BUSINESS CARD BANNERS

This is a rectangualr 'business-card' ad. It is 180 pixles wide and 150pixles high. While these ads can stand alone, it is very common for several of these ads to be run together, one under to the other, to form a column.  This way, several different ads can be run at the same time.

To add this type of banner to your web site, use the following web page code:

For a Single Business Card Ad:

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.tytags.com/DesktopModules/BannerDisplay/GetBanners.aspx?moduleid=741&amp;portalid=0&amp;html=False"></script>

For a Column of Three Business Card Ads:

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.tytags.com/DesktopModules/BannerDisplay/GetBanners.aspx?moduleid=745&amp;portalid=0&amp;html=False"></script>
  
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