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I already saw (and read) this page about ad-enhanced web pages: http://support.x10hosting.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=3&nav=0,3,4 and http://x10hosting.com/panel.php?adcode .

1. I understand that I would need to first post the ads on my site at or near the top, but would this apply to the forum I have on it, which is set up with SMF. If so how would I add ads to that?

2. What are the exact benefits of having ads posted to the site? Do I get more storage, bandwidth, not having to log into these forums or what? If someone could point me to a page or tell me the benefits that would be great! :)
 
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codemonkeybox said:
I already saw (and read) this page about ad-enhanced web pages: http://support.x10hosting.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=3&nav=0,3,4 and http://x10hosting.com/panel.php?adcode .

1. I understand that I would need to first post the ads on my site at or near the top, but would this apply to the forum I have on it, which is set up with SMF. If so how would I add ads to that?

2. What are the exact benefits of having ads posted to the site? Do I get more storage, bandwidth, not having to log into these forums or what? If someone could point me to a page or tell me the benefits that would be great! :)
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To add the advertisements to SMF, you'll have to directly modify the header.php file that's included in every page of your forum.

The benefits of having an ad-enhanced account is a drastic increase in disk space and bandwidth. I know for sure that you start off with 500 MB of disk space, but can get up to 2.5GB by using the corporate advertisements.
 
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Quick note for the SMF page, I believe if you hunt there will likely be a plugin/addon/mod for SMF that makes managing advertisements easier. That modification might come in handy, although I have no idea if it's still around or current (I used to use it on my SMF forum a few years ago, but I've since switched to phpBB so I don't know if it's still out there).

It's an option if it's still available though; might be easier than modifying the files, and quite possibly having them revert their changes if you ever upgrade/patch the forum.
 
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