9 Amazingly Effective WordPress Advertising Plugins You’ll Want to Use
Hi there! Your mere presence on this post means you’re a proud WordPress website owner. Well, now that you’ve set up your WordPress web portal and published a few articles and blogs on the same, you’ll definitely want to incorporate some ads and affiliate site links on the same.
It is an absolutely brilliant idea to inculcate advertisements into your website. Doing this not only enables you to make quick money, but you can even get a greater global exposure. The only question that arises here is that once you’ve placed advertisements into your web pages, how are you supposed to keep a track of the same? Hold on! I’ve a brilliant answer to this question.
There are ample number of plugins that can be installed into the website for keeping a good track of all the ad banners that you intend to display on your all-new WordPress blog/website. Keep on reading this post as I make you familiar with 9 awesome WordPress advertising plugins that will let you record when your banner ads expire, their order or placement, click-through rate, track impressions etc. So, let’s get started.
Simple Ads Manager
As the name suggests, Simple Ads Manager offers you a straightforward method to display advertisements at the places where you want them to appear on your WordPress website. As an approach to target your advertisements better, you can even choose to place the ads on individual web pages. Installing this plugin into your WordPress website allows you to use the third-party ad networks either by entering Javascript or HTML code directly or by uploading the images directly. The very first time when you start a new ad, you’ll get a comprehensive options menu and later you may choose to output your advertisement either as a shortcode or as a widget. Simple Ads Manager plugin renders you the freedom of altering the ad weighting, choosing a default ad and placing ads at your preferred places within the website.
Banner Manager Pro
Banner Manager Pro plugin serves as a fantastic solution for all those WordPress website owners who not only want to manage the advertisements and banners on their site but also intend to sell them to the advertisers via an automated process. Although there are other plugins that perform the same job, but Banner Manager Pro plugin comes with hassle-free payment options. Among the incredible features of this plugin, ones that have helped it stand out from the crowd include:
- Ability to sell ad space directly to advertisers
- Several payment gateways such as PayPal, Skrill, Authorize.net etc.
- Ability to insert ads using shortcode, PHP or HTML
- 8 Pre-set banner sizes
- Setup advertiser sign up page with shortcode
- Handy admin options for managing ad sales to advertisers
AdPress
AdPress is yet another WordPress plugin that serves as a comprehensive solution for serving advertisements on your WordPress blog. The clean and straightforward interface allows you to automate the sales process without having you to spend your time on managing advertisers. With this plugin, you can even preview your ads and allow clients/advertisers to login directly to see the progress of their ads. The only downside of AdPress plugin is that you can use it on a single website. Some of the remarkable features of this WordPress plugin include PayPal integration, clients can get easy access to ad analytics, purchase history, automated selling process, support for images, text ads and flash and many more.
WP Pro Advertising System
WP Pro Advertising System makes it convenient for you to manage all the advertising campaigns for your website. Moreover, you can even see the status of the ads along with managing the advertisers, banners and ad zones in a flexible manner. The upside of this plugin is that in order to add a new banner, you can simply upload the same from your computer, add proper code and link directly to the banner that is hosted elsewhere on the World Wide Web. Some incredible features of this WordPress plugin are that it comes with 4 ways to manage ad zones, 3 ways to add new banners, flexibility to monitor statistics and a responsive ad zone option.
AdRotate
AdRotate is one of the most comprehensive WordPress advertising plugins available in the web market. With this plugin installed and activated for your website, you can easily sell ads directly to the advertisers. In addition to this, you also gain a greater control over the scheduling of ads that you intend to sell through your website. Some of the noticeable features of this WordPress plugin include: regular updates, automation of ads, ad groups, support for flash and images, support for third-party ad networks, tracking of clicks and impressions, simple dashboard view and many more.
WP Insert
Although, WP Insert is viewed as an excellent advertisement solution for WordPress, it actually does a lot more. In addition to advertisement management ability, this plugin even enables you to manage the tracking code such as Google Analytics. Also, you can easily create a variety of legal pages with just a simple click of the mouse. Other amazing features of this WordPress plugin include: widget ads, managing the tracking scripts, flexibility to run third-party ad network along with other ads, ability to insert ads anywhere in the template/theme, ability to create 1 click legal pages such as privacy policy, copyright notices, terms and conditions, disclaimers etc, Geographical targeting and many more.
OIO Publisher
OIO Publisher has everything that a good WordPress advertising plugin should have. Installing this plugin into your WordPress website will allow you to sell advertisements directly from your website followed by automating the entire process. With this plugin, you can also run an affiliate program for your site and recruit other bloggers to sell ad space via your site. Some of the impressive features of this plugin include: automated sales process, built in affiliate program, flexibility to run third-party ad networks with the existing advertisements, support for banner ads and text ads, built-in sidebar widget, use on unlimited sites, display of default ads in empty slots, unlimited ad zones, code to integrate ad zones anywhere in the theme/template and many more.
WP 125
WP125 is a straightforward WordPress plugin that lets you add 125×125 sized ads to your WordPress blog. With this plugin, you can even choose to insert ads using a widget or template tag. The only downside of this plugin is that it doesn’t take care of the ad sales process and you need to install separate plugins for the same. Features that make WP125 stand out from the crowd include: manual or random ordering of advertisements, flexibility to choose exactly how many days the ad should run on your site, receiving email notifications, ability to track clicks on your ads, support for template tags and widgets, flexibility to choose a custom place holder for empty ad slots and many more. WP125 is a WordPress plugin that allows you to keep a track of how many times an ad has been clicked by the website visitors. Also, whenever an ad run is over, the record for the same is archived on the Inactive ads screen to allow you to check on the final click count or revive the respective ad for another run.
Nice Notifications
Nice Notifications is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add a ‘sticky’ type notification bar that will stick to the top of the readers’ browser. Being fully responsive, Nice Notifications makes room for perfect loading of the ‘sticky’ type notification bar. Features of this plugin include: ability to add widgets to notifications bars, ability to add bars to top/footer bars, support for animations, fully customizable and many more.
Final Words
If you’re really looking forward to monetize your WordPress blog by incorporating advertisements, then trust me installing these plugins will serve as a great source of help.
Have you used any of the aforementioned plugins in your WordPress website? If yes, do share your experiences in the comments box below. Also, don’t forget to pen down your feedback for the above post.
Nice collection, But I think you should also try Ad Injection plugin which also provides a lot of fuctionality for WordPress users.
Very Nice collection, and very helpful for non developer too..
I looking for a advertise plugin for wordpress but should be really easy to buy advert by users! Any recommendation?
Hi Jessica, I have seen OIO Publisher and AdRotate used on websites where clients sold ads directly. OIO has huge deficits in terms of usability, AdRotate was not flexible with caching. I ended up with my own plugin (https://wpadvancedads.com) but it does not yet have an interface to sell ads directly.
Thomas