Placing AuctionAds Inside of an IFRAME for Better Website Performance

11 Jun, 2007 Web Development, Software Development

Until AuctionAds realizes that they should write their code into an IFRAME, it is best you create your own IFRAME for these advertisements.

This is important for two reasons. First, the latency between your website and the AuctionAds website might be different causing your pages to load slower than normal. Second, if the AuctionAds service is down for whatever reason your pages will load extremely slow.

By placing your AuctionAds inside of IFRAMEs you won’t have to worry about these issues keeping your visitors from viewing your website’s content.

Creating the Code

First, you’ll need to make an HTML file on your web server that contains the AuctionAds code you wish to embed into your website.

Next you’ll need to create the IFRAME where you wish to code to reside:

<iframe src="aacode.html" width="WIDTH" height="HEIGHT" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" ></iframe>

Make sure you replace aacode.html with the appropriate path to the HTML file you uploaded to your web server, and also change WIDTH and HEIGHT to the appropriate values for the ad code.

That’s it! Never again worry about AuctionAds affecting your website’s performance.

Now if they’d only do this for us…

UPDATE: Poking around I see AuctionAds does put their code into IFRAMEs (not sure when this was activated or if it was always like this). That said, AuctionAds hasn’t been the most reliable service, so keeping with your own IFRAME will keep your website from screeching to a halt when there is an outage.

Tags: auctionads, iframe

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8 Comments so far »

Hannes Johnson said

on June 11 2007 @ 9:23 pm

Interesting… I hadn’t thought of that.

Cool tip.
HMTKSteve said

on June 12 2007 @ 5:14 am

Since they are not contextual this does make sense. The only drawback is that you may have to make a bunch of these files ahead of time if you want to have different products show up.

So, you making much money with AuctionAds?
Ryan J. Parker said

on June 12 2007 @ 9:17 am

Steve, I realized it was perfect for my largest website, and I’ve made $32 in 5 days of placing the ads.

The auctions can take time to end, so I’m interested in seeing how it performs over a 30 day time span.
HMTKSteve said

on June 13 2007 @ 5:23 am

Which website is that? I’m finding AuctionAds to be very profitable for me as well. Some days it even outperforms AdSense!
Ryan J. Parker said

on June 13 2007 @ 9:13 am

It’s http://www.smartcapper.com

I can’t place AdSense on that website, so I was happy to see that AuctionAds provides a little extra income.
Webmaster marketplace said

on August 17 2007 @ 12:16 pm

Knowing Shoemoney he will probably come up with some sort of solution soon. Some companies however disallow the use of iframes full stop.
shreker said

on August 29 2007 @ 3:49 am

Great solution for banned by AdSense sites.