WordPress Tip: Showing Ads in Your Sidebar
September 6th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized 4 Comments »
You can show ads in your sidebar through a simple plugin called WP125. This plugin allows you to add and manage a collection of 125 pixel graphic ads. One note I forgot to mention in the screencast is that each ad must be exactly 125 x 125 pixels in size. Otherwise you’ll end up with strange looking spaces in your sidebar images.
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Tom,
Some individuals may be concerned about getting various statistics from the ads. There is another plug-in which I actually do not use rather alternatively code it in but it is called Adspeed. It is not free but the minimal cost is worth it.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adspeed-ad-server/
Developer Site
http://www.adspeed.com/Knowledges/1030/Serving_Code/AdSpeed_Plugin_WordPress.html
Is this what you’re using on the STC Notebook? That would be a helpful plugin. Thanks for the tip.
Yes, and once you understand what it can actually do you can get clever and use it to track various types of images and text links. Not just the standard use of dynamically displaying and tracking ads. I also forgot to mention that it has a number of report types and can track revenue streams from ads. I do not remember how I stumbled upon it but so far its been great. I hope the developers do not give up on this tool as it is an affordable alternative to high traffic and expensive powerhouses like Doubleclick.