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Announcing the Planet Nexus 2.0 release of the NexAds system

Many thanks to our beta testers and all loyal members of Planet Nexus who have been with us through development of NexAds.   We couldn't have gotten to this stage without you!   We are hereby open for business. Skyon Archer has been tirelessly tuning, tweaking and continuing to innovate the system and it is humming along!

Let's take a look at some of the things that have been happening under the hood:

 "Greetings, I'm your friendly NexBot!"
We have a new mascot! NexBot is now appearing in your NexAdsCP information block  to provide your system health report.  He will let you know at a glance if your script is correctly installed. If NexBot is green, your ads are getting out there! If there is an issue, his color will change to bright red to alert you to correct the problem.  NexBot makes his rounds every day to check that  your links are displaying on all our member sites.  

Construction of our homepage has been completed.  We think it expresses our persona, and the potential of NexAds to grow and be a real force in web promotion.  It is now the landing page for https://planetnexus.net

The NexAds login page can be accessed at https://nexads.planetnexus.net

You can access the support forum by any of the URLs below. You may wish to edit your bookmarks:  
https://planetnexus.net/community  
https://planetnexus.net/support 
https://planetnexus.net/forum
https://planetnexus.net/forums
https://support.planetnexus.net
https://forums.planetnexus.net

A number of new information pages have been added, including our Terms, various help pages on use of the system, and more are being planned.

NexAds image ads have new image backgrounds.  Our system will automatically detect the light or dark version for you according to your NexAd color choices.

Feeds for blurbs and comments have been provided. These can be accessed by link, or installed on your site and styled as you like.

Our member site thumbnails are now managed by our servers. This means these images will not experience sporadic down times.  Thumbnail previews appear on  your MyPage, the Sites Roster and in your NexAds control panel.

Your portable contact form has received some very strong new spam controls. This makes iit an even more valuable perk for subscribers.


We have built a new page into our support forum ACP that will help us manage the entire system more effectively.  It's got some pretty nifty bells and whistles.  (Archer is the king of search and sort. )  This installation has opened up some ideas to enhance our subscriber experience as well, so stay tuned.

Let us know what you think.   We want your NexAds experience to be the best it can be, so your feedback is important to us!

NexAds offers forums, websites and blogs the availability to get their name and links in front of thousands that they might have otherwise never had the opportunity to do so.

Member sites of NexAds have fantastic control of what text and colors are used within their NexAds Control Panel.  However, often a member may not fully understand how to create an effective advertisement.  Choosing the right ad styles can mean the difference between ads your users will notice -- and click -- and ads they'll skip right over.

Colors

For most color techniques, we recommend using colors for your ad text and links that already exist on your site. For example, if the links on your site are all green and your text is black, use green links and black text in your ads as well. Since most users are accustomed to seeing blue links, you might also try using blue. In general, use common sense when choosing your ad styles. If your site's main colors are pastels, don't design ads that are all primary colors. Users won't click on ads that are visually offensive.

Tip for making your ads visible: open your page and give it a quick glance, putting yourself in the mindset of a regular user. Do the ads draw your attention, without being garish? Would you be likely to notice and read them, or do your eyes glide right past them? Try to find a balance between ads that overwhelm your content and ads that your users won't even see.

Content

Sometimes NexAds members want to convey effectively exactly what their site has to offer the end-user.  Often, in doing this, the member doesn't take into consideration on how their ad will look when displayed in an ad unit and the text becomes rather large in amount of words (length).  It is recommended that you limit the length of your site description to no more than 150 characters.  Using too many words can actually hurt you because the text will overflow the space available on the ad!

Here are three different ads, let's compare the number of characters of each one and how they appear:


133 characters


190 characters


217 characters

The first ad image is using 133 characters in their ad text.  This looks pretty good but a few more characters wouldn't hurt to remove some of the white space.

The second image is using 190 characters in their ad text.  This looks really good but realize that this same text will also be displayed on different ad units, some as small as 125x125 buttons.  That might be a tad too much text for such a small ad!

The third image is using 217 characters in their text.  This is really too much.  The text pushes the sites link completely off the ad itself.  Sure it conveys the message they want, but they've lost their link being presented to the viewer.

None of the above images are right or wrong and it all matters to you, the member, to design how you want your ad to look to viewers.

Finally, on this point, too little text is even a worse situation, especially on larger ad units.  Excessive amounts of background color will presented to the viewer.  If you have a site with a lot of text in paragraphs, this might not be a bad thing since it will draw the readers eye, but on everyday sites, it's not a good practice.

I hope this helps you in designing your sites NexAds ad.  Remember, you can always look at how ads are presented by viewing the NexAds Ad Codes page.

Note: Comments concerning the ad examples above are in no way a reflection of how I feel toward any of the sites, or their owners.  The ad units themselves, solely, were the target of the comments

What is NexAds and how does it work?

Our unique links placement system  allows you to get your clickable link in front of thousands of people every day! 

There is NO COST, it's free to Register. Get your website, forum or blog's advertisement in rotation with other smart websites. Sign up now and your advertisement can start working for you today.

All subscriber sites constantly rotate through the Nexus Bar and the optional NexAds that you place on your site.  This means that your information is constantly being exposed to all users who visit every site.  NexAds is a tremendous opportunity for website administrator/owners to get their "name" out there in front of thousands of people who otherwise never would have ever heard of their site! 

NexAds is compatible with all websites, forums, blogs. Basically any site in which you can install a script.  Since it is a placed ad, it is not prohibited on free hosted sites like forums.  NexAds is not content-based advertising like adsense, therefore it does not violate free forum host advertising rules.

Why use NexAds rather than another promotion tool?

NexAds provides a commercially competitive service, with one important difference.  It is FREE. And its not a shot in the dark. You get detailed analytics that inform you of the activity generated by your ads. Our analytics are continually being refined to give you the most useful data for determining how your ads are working.

Google Adsense is a CPC (cost-per-click) advertising program that allows publishers (anyone wanting to put ads on their websites) to insert a small amount of HTML into their sites and have ads appear.

We aren't charging a dime for our services. Impressions and clicks are absolutely free. Our goal is to provide both the newest website and a long-time forum an easy way to gain incredible exposure. Say you have a blog about fishing. Your readers stumble upon this advertisement promoting worship arts resources. Now, that's not something you see everyday and they decide to click on that ad. Suddenly, a brand new, never seen before person has been presented all the glory and splendor that the new website has to offer.

Of course, there isn't any guarantee that the new visitor will become a regular user of the new website, but without the NexAds advertisement, this chance encounter never would have happened!

NexAds . . . working together equals success!  We like to call it "nexworking". 

For more information on the all-new optional NexAds feature, please see : Using NexAd Options

We are experiencing a database issue for NexAds at the moment.  

Accounts on the forum are perfectly safe.  This issue only involves the NexAds system itself.

Know we are working diligently to rectify this issue.

Please have patience and once more information is available, I'll update this topic.

This list will contain various updates and tweaks we are making to the system during the NexAds beta.  Commenting is turned off. Please report any issues with updates in the support forum. Thanks!

Posted: 1/21/2019
We've made a couple changes in the colorful navigation buttons that will hopefully make traveling around the system easier and more intuitive.

• All first buttons in the navigation are considered the "Home" button now.  It will take you to the NexAds welcome page if you are not logged in, and to your Control panel if you are logged in.
  
  
• The redundant NexAds Control Panel button was removed.
  
  
• A MyPage button was added, which only appears if you have created a page in the system.
  

Let us know if you are having any kind of navigating difficulties or confusions. Thanks!



More function updates:  1/23/2018

• Latest Planet Nexus Update added to Control panel  that includes a Subscribe/Unsubscribe button for the News forum.
  
  
• Notification of new comments awaiting approval now on your MyPage.
  
  
• New statistics reports added to the Statistics page:
  • Total Member Sites
    
  • Total Boosts Given
    
  • Unique Viewers in the past 24 hours by members and guests
    
  • Unique viewers in the last 15 minutes
    
• If  a contact Email address is not provided in your Control Panel,  users will no longer see the form.