Free Cross Platform Ad Management Solution For Bloggers

One of the much needed solutions was not available to bloggers until now. While all sorts of applications and widgets are popping up every day, many bloggers are still finding difficult to settle on one particular ad serving solution. I personally have tried almost everything from WordPress plugins to installing OpenAds on my server. While WordPress plugins came short of my expectations, OpendAds on the other hand is a little too complicated solution as far as an average bloggers is concerned.

ShowYourAdHere.com is Free Cross-Platform Solution

I specifically would like to underline the fact that Show Your Ad Here is or will soon become a true cross-platform ad management solution for bloggers and webmasters. I have tried the code both on my privately hosted WordPress and new Blogger (Blogspot). I am almost certain it is compatible with with TypePad. Since all you need is to place a snippet of a javascript code, your website may as well be hand coded in the notepad.

You Can Show Your Own Ads Or Sell Advertising Space

Depending on your needs you can use ShowYourAdsHere.com to serve your own ads- anything from privately sold ads to creatives and banners from your affiliate networks. Yes, I did say you can serve independently sold inventory. However there are several disadvantages to sell your own inventory: a) you need to host the banners b) you need to manage your own inventory, payments etc. c) advertisers can not use ShowYourAdHere.com to offer their feedback.

Selling Your Ads With ShowYourAdHere.com

If you decide to have your website listed in Show Your ad Here Marketplace then your each ad zone will be accompanied with a link to your listing:

It allows advertisers to view the options for the length of advertising and prices:

Selling your ads through their marketplace you will receive 75% of the cost of on a ad, while ShowYourAdHere.com keeps the other 25%. The payments are made instantly via PayPal. After the purchase is completed the ad is being displayed on your blog right away. Publishers however have full control over the ad and may remove an ad at a later time. Advertisers have to adhere to the guidelines, at risk of having their ad banners removed from the system without a refund.

ShowYourAdHere.com Is A Community Of Advertisers and Publishers

One of the features not available on other advertising networks is the ability to rate and provide feedback. This goes both ways, advertisers can rate publishers and wise versa. To underline this social aspect a publisher has an opportunity to place a widget on their website or blog which will show the latest visitors as well as placing an 125×125 ad next to the latest visitors:

Some Constructive Criticism.

I am sure Mark is being bombarded with feedback and suggestions. I still would like to address a few things that I believe may help advertisers. At this time there are no statistics about what kind of traffic each website in the marketplace receives. While there is no one proven way to provide accurate statistics, I think such information can useful in attracting potential advertisers. I have been experimenting with QuantCast.com lately and find their statistics to be fairly accurate. However, the websites need to be “quantified” in order for the statistics to be more accurate. Maybe a combination of statistics used on the top 100 Make Money Online Blogs and QuanCast.com can be used to give advertisers better idea of the traffic (both quantity and quality) of the websites listed in the Show Your Ad Here Marketplace.

Also the Geo-targeting feature can be improved. Right now you are offered to either show your ads around the world or in one particular country. Adding more flexibility and options to Geo-targeting can benefits both publishers and advertisers.

What Others Are Saying About ShowYourAdHere.com?

While first few days there were only few reviews of this new product. It looks like the buzz is beginning to spread:

Mark Wielgus Interview– the funder of ShowYourAdHere.com is being drilled about his new product.

Andrew Wee Interviews Mark On His Friday Podcast – this podcast it about an hour long but well worth listening.

Setting the Record Straight– side by side comparison of ShowYourAdHere.com and a service at OIOpublisher.com. I personally think two services are not similar at all. Also the review was written by the founder of OIOpublisher therefore this comparison lucks credibility as far as I am concerned, but you may find it interesting.