Gold Ad-Free Community

Gold Ad-Free Community is how you can keep your Yuku community ad-free.

No banners, no text links, and no pop-ups. All your users will enjoy ad-free browsing when visiting your community, or you can use Yuku's Ad Settings to control exactly who does and doesn't see ads on your community.

Gold Ad-Free Community is divided into two tiers:

• Boards with under 50,000 page views per month
• Boards with over 50,000 page views per month

Note: To find out if which level your board is, go to admin > stats graphs and view the graph for daily page views. This is the page views of ALL pages of your board. Set the graph to show you 1 month. This will give you the monthly viewing total.

Gold is purchased and spent differently for these two tiers. Note that this is calculated on all page views, and not just views of pages with ads on them.

Enabling Contributions

To become a Gold Ad-Free Community, you need to enable contributions so that you and your members can contribute to the community.

To Enable Contributions:
1. Click the Allow Contributions Button


When contributions are enabled, your members will see a button on the main page that allows them to contribute to your community's Gold Ad-Free cost.

There is also a contribute button in your admin control panel. Note: You need to enable contribute to allow you to pay for Gold, even if it's just you who is going to pay for it.

This is what the controls for a non Gold board looks like in the admin control panel:

Purchasing Gold Ad-Free Community

Depending on whether your board is under or over 50k views will determine which payment screen you see.

Under 50k boards

If your board is under 50k views, you will then see this screen:



Once you've paid for Gold, your control panel will look like this:



While your board remains under 50k views, your gold will be measured in days. If your board goes over 50k views, then you gold will be converted into ad page credits.

Over 50k boards

If your board is over 50k views you will see this screen:


Once you've paid for Gold, your control panel will look like this:

Migrated boards that are over 50k views

If your board was migrated from ezboard and had an active Gold community subscription, the remainder of your Gold subscription (from ezboard) will be applied in DAYS, not pageviews. Contributions and the balance of your ezboard Community Chest will be applied as pageviews. This will result in two status lines as in this example:


After the ad-free days from ezboard have been used up, the page views will begin to be used.

What happens when an under 50k board goes over 50k views

If you page views increase from under 50,000 per month to over 50,000 per month, then you board will switch from the under 50k pricing model to the over 50k pricing model.

What this means is that your remaining days will be converted into ad-free page views. You will also then have access to the Ads Settings page. When your board changes, the default setting is for all members and registered users to NOT see ads, and for unregistered guests to see ads. You can change this to however you wish to manage your ads.

Benefits for contributors

For every $5 that you donate to a Community, $1 (equal to 1 month) will be added to your own Yuku Supporter balance.

Community Chest

There is no community chest in Yuku at this time. We are spec'ing up an exciting way to allow communities to fund raise and this option that will eventually replace the Community Chest feature.

Payments

Contributing to a community is done via Paypal. You can use a PayPal account OR a credit card.

• Find out how to contribute as a member
• Find out more about managing and viewing contributions

Ad-free page views - your stats

To find out how many of your ad-free page views you are using daily, weekly and monthly, go to admin > stats graph and view ad-page views


The total ad-free page views equals the total of pages viewed that show ads. The only pages that show ads are the topic pages.

Managing Ads

Ads are shown on Thread pages and search results pages. They are not shown on the main page or forum topic list pages. They are not shown on your community profile or calendar pages.

If you have an under 50k board and you pay for Gold community, ALL visitors to your board will experience an ad free visit.

If you have an over 50k view board, then you can additionally control who sees ads and who doesn't. Using the menu item Ads Settings you can choose to show ads to some members based on criteria. Where a box is checked, this indicates that ads are NOT shown.

Find out more about managing who sees ads in Ads Settings