Make Money Blogging: WordPress Plugins for Advertising

• August 16th, 2010
• Posted by Jason
• Blogging
• 1 Comment

WordPress is a blogging platform that can be used quite effectively to generate revenue on a recurring basis. This can be achieved by selling ad space to advertisers. However, adding, replacing and rotating individual ads can turn out to be quite a time consuming and cumbersome task for even the most advanced and experienced blogger. Luckily, a large number of freely available plugins makes this job a whole lot easier, saving valuable time and effort which allows bloggers to focus more on producing new content for their blogs and still make money blogging. Ten are discussed here:

Advertising Manager
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager/
This plugin can be used to rotate Google Adsense ads as well as ads from other networks without the need to visit their sites. It provides an easy mechanism to import ads and allows them to be placed within blog posts, pages or the WordPress sidebar quickly and easily.

Max Banner Ads
http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mba/
This plugin allows you to manage banner ads. It can be used to easily add, control, and track banners anywhere on your blog including inside blog posts without having to worry about editing theme code. It also provides a number of useful statistics such as the ability to track impressions and click throughs.

Shantz WordPress Prefix Suffix
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shantz-wp-prefix-suffix/
Custom messages, copyright messages, permalinks, images and ads can be added to posts by inserting HTML or CSS code at the beginning, middle or end of blog posts with the help of this plugin, which can help drive more traffic to advertising partners. It also provides the option to enable or disable ads.

All in One Adsense and YPN
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-adsense-and-ypn/
This plugin makes it possible to automatically insert google adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network ads into blog posts on the fly. It allows the user to customize the ads and to specify their exact position on the page or blog post regardless of the number of posts present on the blog, and then automatically generates and inserts them.

OmniAds
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/omniads/
This plugin provides the ability to control the exact location and time ads are displayed on your blog with the use of complex PHP and HTML snippets. It supports Google Adsense, eBay, Amazon and several other ad networks.

Sponsor Ad Management
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cd-ad-sponsor/
This plugin can be used on sites which sell paid sponsorships. It maintains a list of sponsors and associated ads and tracks the performance of sponsor ads by in terms of number of clicks and impressions. It also provides scheduling and other customizable features.

WP Tag Ads
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-tag-ads/
This plugin can be used to display eBay auctions on your blog by making use of post tags. The content of blog posts or pages is scanned and relevant eBay product ads are displayed. It provides several configurable options.

Float Ad
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/float-ad/
This plugin can be used to place a floating which appears at the top of the blog. The ad remains visible while the page is scrolled which results in greater visibility and the potential for an increased conversion rate.

ISIS Ad Management
http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/isis-ads-management-new-wordpress-widget-to-displaymanage-125125-ads
This widget-based plugin can be used to manage 125*125 ads. It enables you to display any number of ads in the WordPress sidebar and provides drag and drop functionality.

WP125
http://www.webmaster-source.com/wp125-ad-plugin-wordpress/
Although this plugin limited to 125×125 ads, as the name suggests, it makes up for it by providing scheduling and tracking features. It inserts an Ads menu into the WordPress admin menu which makes it even easier to manage ads. Ads can be inserted for a specified number of days and are automatically disabled upon expiry with the option to notify the user by sending an email. WP125 also allows the user to select the order in which ads are displayed and can also display them randomly.