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This is the third and final video in a series about Installing OpenX. In this episode I show you the easiest and quickest way to install the OpenX ad code into a WordPress blog. I also show where to edit your theme to input the code in one line. Once this is done, you no longer have to mess with the code in your theme or plugins unless you switch to a different theme in your WordPress blog.

You get access to all three OpenX videos. OpenX is an open source program, but the support is paid. You can receive paid support from OpenX consultants or paid support from OpenX.org. It will be a lot more than what I’m charging. OpenX is free, but that doesn’t mean it’s simple. Installing Ad code can be a little tricky even if you’re familiar with WordPress themes, the video is a detailed and narrated 10:14 minutes long.

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OpenX is an open source program that controls the ads on your website. It’s a great way to serve the ads to your website and can be a central location for all of your ads on all of your different websites. Multiple ad campaigns from multiple advertisers are possible, along with incredible control over how and when your site visitors see which ads.

There are two OpenX solutions. Installing OpenX on your own server or the hosted OpenX where your ad campaigns are hosted by the OpenX folks on their server. This service is free until you get to 100 million ad impressions a month.

You get access to all three OpenX videos. OpenX is an open source program, but the support is paid. You can receive paid support from OpenX consultants or paid support from OpenX.org. It will be a lot more than what I’m charging. OpenX is free, but that doesn’t mean it’s simple. The installation process is fairly straightforward, the video is a detailed and narrated 14:35 minutes long. If you prefer to use the hosted option of OpenX, skip this video and move on to Part 2: Creating an ad campaign

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Part 1 of a series detailing how to install OpenX. This episdoe explains how to install OpenX on your own server.

Part 2: Creating an ad campaign
Part 3: OpenX Installing Ad Code in WordPress

If you have several ads either rotating in various places on your website and or have multiple websites with multiple ads and advertisers you realize things can get out of control rather quickly and you can lose track of your advertisers or what banners are where. A few tools can help.

OpenX

If you’re not using the open source adserver OpenX, you don’t know what you’re missing. At first glance, OpenX seems complicated, it can be, but it’s not any more complicated than keeping track of multiple advertisers with multiple websites and campaigns.

OpenX is worth the time invested or the money invested in someone else to install and set it up for you. There are plenty of tutorials at OpenX.org, a forum and a list of paid consultants. I’m not on that list, but I can help you out.

In the next few days I will be uploading video tutorials explaining how to install, setup ad campaigns and installing into your WordPress blog.

Affiliate Director 2

Affiliate Director 2 is a great tool for keeping track of all of your affiliate programs.  AD2 is not only a central location to keep track of your affiliate programs, it also provides a cloaking link that hides your affiliate links. You use the AD2 links in your websites, so if any of your affiliate programs change or you want to change a link you change the link in one place instead of trying to find every link in every website that link may be installed in. Read the rest of this entry »