Ad Software You Really Need

We have a saying in Spanish that would roughly translate. Only the barber learn from some else’s head. Basically applying it to not learning from some else’s mistakes. Let’s hope you learn from a dumb ass mistake. Now imagine that you start your blog today with post number one and down month 4 you have 1356 post. Now suddenly you receive an email from CJ that one of your advertisers was caught not reporting commissions and he was terminated from CJ. An it turned out that you where such a dumb ass that you did not use an ad serving software and you have manually inserted ads in your post from this affiliate. Now you do not know what post have the ad and which do not mmmm. Yes this happen to me, I was the dumb ass.
 
Some one that does not know how to play chess waits after his opponent to move to see what move he will do. An avg player is 2-3 moves ahead and a good player is 7-8 moves ahead. I always try to be at a minimum 6-7 moves ahead in chess and I will not move till I see the moves in my head, In business you should always be 8 moves ahead but sometimes we have to move when we only are 2 ahead. My point do not wait till your blog is a huge blog start today treating it as a huge blog because when it is already big you may suffer growing pains because you did not act accordingly.
 
Unfortunately many of the things I will discuss here will not apply to bloggers that are either on wordpress.com or blogger.com if you are on either of these platforms I will make a post explaining why you need to move yesterday to a self hosted wordpress install.
 
The first tool is a WordPress plugin called AdMan. With this script you can place ads just like on this site. The one on the front page, the top and bottom banner on the single page and the inline 300×250 they are all served by AdMan. Now I do not put the code directly into AdMan I actually serve my ads from a different adserver. You can get AdMan here.
 
My second piece of software is OpenAds. This is one of the most robust adserver platforms out there. Now this soft could easily cost $900.00 but luckily it is Open Source for the good and the bad. Open Source is great but the biggest drawback is there is no tech installing it for you and at least OpenAds has a good manual and wiki most Open Source does not.
 
Why serve from OpenAds, easy because it goes back to Frank’s question how do you manage 100 blogs. It is all about tools folks. Tools and centralization. Imagine if you had to go to each blog to change ad code mmm no thank you. Now with OpenAds you can even serve your adsense it is also extremely cool to go to one place for your stats and make decisions based on one panel instead of going to your adsense account and then to CJ and then to ClickBank see where I am going with this. You can get OpenAds here.
 
I will warn you be prepared to spend a while trying to figure out OpenAds there is no doubt this is the time to read instructions first and then try to make your first zones and ads. There is a forum so when you get stuck go over there to ask questions.

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