Good websites can make good income, if you know how to monetize your website properly. It could be through Google Adsense, affiliate links, or selling conventional banners ads on your site. That being said, there are a number of ways you can display advertisements on your website. If your website runs on WordPress there may be a few plugins that you might consider to handle your advertisements.
Ad Sanity
Ad Sanity is an ad rotator plugin for WordPress. You can use it to create and manage adverts on your website with ease. If you are comfortable managing posts and categories on WordPress, then chances are you’ll find managing advertisements and ad groups with this plugin a breeze. With Ad Sanity, you can use ad widgets to display ads.
You can easily set up start and end date to display adverts for a specific duration of time or an infinite duration. You can view the number of clicks and views for each advert. The advert statistics can easily be exported if requested by the advertiser. In addition, the plugin has a loads of features that can be activated by using add-ons.
Full Details & Download | Price: $29
WP AdCenter
Control all the advertisements on your website from your WordPress control panel. Custom shortcodes and widgets can be utilised to place the ads. It is possible for a potential advertiser to sign up and pay via Paypal.
You can have multiple adzones on your website depending on requirements. Ad campaigns can be effectively handled with WP AdCenter. Comprehensive statistical data regarding the ads on your website is provided by this plugin. Once this plugin is up and running, you can earn money hands free. And not only does this plugin come with excellent support but they offer a 60 day money back guarantee.
Full Details & Download | Price: $49
OIOPublisher
An ad manager that permits complete control over the ad space on your blog. This ad management solution can be instantly loaded on to your WordPress website with a plugin version of OIOpublisher that requires a 1 click install.
The plugin can be used to create banner ads, inline ads and text ads. The plugin provides multiple skin options and enables geo location to target the a visitor with the appropriate adverts.
Full Details & Download | Price: $47
WP PRO Advertising System
You can use this awesome plugin to manage your website’s advertisers, track clicks, impressions, ad campaigns, banners/adzones & click through rates (CTR). The plugin is compatible with Visual Composer which makes it easier to position the advertisements on your website.
The plugin’s advanced management system can be used to oversee the profiles of advertisers, combine multiple ads, create multiple ad campaigns for advertisers.Banner management is straightforward and easy to use. The plugin provides 4 mechanisms to place adzones with template tags, shortcodes, widgets and iframes.
It is easy to track the statistics such as click through rate, impressions for each banner, campaign and advertiser. The plugin also offers two add-ons that require separate purchases but these add-ons further enhance the functionality of the plugin.
Full Details & Download | Price: $28
AdPress
AdPress is fully featured ad management plugin for WordPress with extensive features. It can be used to sell ads by duration of use, page views or number of clicks. The advert can either be an image, flash or plain old ad links.
You can do some cool stuff with your advert as well, like ad rotation to induce more clicks and a better click through rate. The plugin also provides the option to display ads with a call to action feature.
The plugin can be set to auto approve ad requests or moderate the ad requests. You can easily check history of ad purchases, manage clients and import/export data. Needless to say the plugin supports Paypal and provides ad analytics as well. In addition, the plugin provides multi site support.
Full Details & Download |Price: $39
Buy Sell Ads
This plugin is used to buy and sell ads on WordPress pages. The features of this plugin include live preview pre-order, statistics tracking with Facebook and Paypal support. You can easily manage ad orders from your admin panel, configure payments and change ad layouts.
Full Details & Download | Price: $28
Advert Flap Pro
A great plugin to help draw attention to your advertisements. The plugin animates your adverts, draws user attention and results in clicks. If you are looking to promote a product with special offers, then this is a plugin worthy of the task.
Full Details & Download | Price: $15
WP Background Takeover Advertisements
A plugin to enable wallpaper advertisements on your WordPress website. You can schedule your adverts to expire as per client requests, promote products with increased click through rates and increase your social media engagement and following.
Use this plugin to display adverts in the posts section, or by categories/page or throughout your website. The background can have two distinct URLs linked to it.
Full Details & Download | Price: $16
Corner Peel
Corner Peel makes for an excellent non intrusive advertising solution and helps with cross platform product promotions. Personally, this plugin holds great appeal to me. I can not count the number of time that I’ve put off by poor advertising practices, this plugin seems to put an end to that with an awesome solution.
While reviewing this plugin, I tried the live preview of this plugin. I have to say unlike many other animated adverts I found this the least irritating and the most drawn to. The animation is slow, deliberate and it continues only if you choose to view the advert.
Full Details & Download | Price: $14
Banner Manager
With Banner Manager you can manage the adverts on your website. Payment can be made via a number of widely accepted transaction services like Paypal, Skrill and Authorize.net.
The plugin provides 8 banner sizes and 3 banner embed methods. You can enable banner rotate for your adverts and also track the click through rates.
Full Details & Download | Price: $20
kk Easy Ads
A plugin designed for ad management with a specialisation in self hosted advertisement campaigns. The plugin provides three options for ad cost for prospective buyers of adverts; Cost per Click (CPC), Cost per 1000 impressions (CPM) and Cost per day.
Full Details & Download | Price: $20
WP Ad-Monetizer
You can use this advertising management plugin to display adverts by countries, categories, posts and pages. The plugin enables use of ad-banners or adsense codes in different ad-blocks.
Full Details & Download | Price: $19
Since there are many WordPress blogs that use Envato affiliate links, I thought I’d cover a few plugins dedicated to just that.
WordPress Monetize Now
A very simple plugin created with one purpose in mind, to serve the Envato Affiliate Program. You can use this plugin to display popular items, search items, random items or new items from ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, CodeCanyon, VideoHive, PhotoDune, 3DOcean, AudioJungle and ActiveDen.
You need to set your Envato ID and API. Then you’ll have access to balance, deposits and sales. If you are using affiliate programs of Amazon, ShareASale or Commision Junction; fret not WordPress Monetise Now plays nice with all of those programs.
Full Details & Download | Price: $16
Envato Affiliate Cash
Envato Affiliate Cash another Envato Affiliate management plugin. With this plugin you can add your referral ID to all your Envato links.
The plugin works with all links in post sections, comments and even RSS and excerpt content. If another referral code is found instead of your own, then this plugin will replace that referral code with your own. The plugin works with all Envato marketplaces and it enables cloaking to mask your affiliate URLs.
Full Details & Download | Price: $5
Automatic Envato Referral
An extremely simple and functional plugin that does one simple task efficiently. It adds your referral ID to any Envato marketplace link on your website. And like the previous plugin, if any referral tag apart from your own is found, it is replaced.
Full Details & Download | Price: $5
If you’re aren’t interested in a premium plugin and are perhaps looking for a free plugin, a few good ones for you to check out!
Adsense Made Easy
A simple plugin designed to add your AdSense adverts to your posts automatically. You can change the position of the ads on your website with widgets and the appearance of the ad can also be modified.
Full Details & Download | Free
Wp Insert
A powerful ad management solution with support for multiple ad networks such as Adsense, Yahoo, Adbrite and Chitika. The plugin can help display an ad in pretty much any place on your website.
Full Details & Download | Free
WP Advertise It
You can create ad blocks with this plugin and place them anywhere on your WordPress website.
Full Details & Download | Free
Conclusion
It is a bit daunting isn’t it? To choose your advertisement management plugin. After all, your earnings are directly linked to your decision.
If you are running a heavy traffic website with an array of advertising choices for your prospective ad buyers, then WP AdCenter and Ad Sanity are probably your best choices with OIOPublisher, a not too far off third choice. The above three offer the best well rounded advertisement management solutions for WordPress websites.
And if you use an Envato Affiliate Program, you can choose one among the three plugins that I’ve shared above. Or if you run adsense on your WordPress blog, you can use Adsense Made Easy. Interested in banner ads, you should try Banner Manager or WP PRO Advertising. And finally if you like animated ads, you’re best off with either Corner Peel or Advert Flap Pro.
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