OIOPublisher Stats Tracker: YES for Banner Ads, NO for Link Ads

OIOPublisher is a perfect WordPress Plugin for ad management. You can easily sell ad spot in your own blog and it has even the ability to track the stats of the ads (CTR, impression, clicks, and even the geographical location of the clicker). But there will be some changes in the advertisement if the stat tracker is enabled.

If the stats tracker is enabled, this is how the links will look like:
http://www.niessuh.com/wp-content/plugins/oiopub-direct/modules/tracker/go.php?id=28

And If the stats tracker is disabled, this is how the links will look like:
http://www.example.com

So if you are selling text links, there will be some issue. If you will take a look at my ads powered by OIOpublisher, the tracker is enabled in the 125×125 square ads and disabled in the link ads. How did it happen?

I just asked the very kind Simon, developer of OIOpublisher, in their forums. I asked how to enable tracker in banner ads and disable in link ads. And after a few minutes, I got a respond.

For OIOPublisher v1 and above:

1. In OIOPublisher plugin folder, go to include/output.php
2. Look for the line below under oiopub_sidebar_links function:
   

   if($oiopub_module->tracker == 1 && $oiopub_set->tracker_enabled == 1 && $res->item_id > 0) {

   and replace with

   if($oiopub_module->tracker == 1 && $oiopub_set->tracker_enabled == 1 && $res->item_id > 0 && $rand == 9999) {

3. That’s it! and save your work.

For OIOPublisher v2 and above:

1. In OIOPublisher plugin folder, go to include/output.php
2. Look for the line below under link zone:
   

   if($oiopub_module->tracker == 1 && $oiopub_set->tracker['enabled'] == 1 && $d->item_id > 0) {

   and replace with

   if($oiopub_module->tracker == 1 && $oiopub_set->tracker['enabled'] == 1 && $d->item_id > 0 && $rand == 9999) {

3. That’s it! And again don’t forget to save your work.

Why you need to do this?

Usually, banner ad advertisers wants impression and clicks so they need to track the stats of their ads while text link advertisers don’t need clicks and impression, what matter to them is the link juice so they don’t need to know how many clicks does their link gets in the blog. In that case, there will be a conflict. One needs tracker and the other don’t so you need to do this for the sake of your advertisers.

Disclosure: Do this at your own risk. I am not responsible to whatever damage will happen in your plugin after doing this. For guidance for this tweakings, please just ask in the OIOPublisher forum instead.