Well, there’s been a few tweaks, but so far the Ad Manager seems to be running smoothly. As is always the case, bad data in means bad data out. I had a few cases of some ads not showing images because Performics had urls with two “.”s before the com– “xxx..com/xxx”. After I fixed these [...]
“So, where is he going with all this?” I hope that’s your question. Well, what I’m hoping to build is a ad management system for my blogs, and maybe someday for a blog network. Sure, I could have bought a system, but this has been more educational in terms of technologies, and the up front [...]
So, we talked last post about Randomizing ads– so that you never see the same ad when click on the site. We also discussed filtering by category, so the ad is a little bit closer to the topic of the post. This has a lot of benefits, but it also means a little bit of [...]
When you’re running a blog that covers different topics, you’re rarely going to want to show the same ad every time the page is refreshed– unless it’s something you figure that you’re really good at selling. Why? Because every person is different and comes to your blog looking for something different. To the person that [...]
In the news the past couple days has been a dialog between Google and a Christian organization that wanted to run side ads based on some search criteria. The Christian group wanted to display ads helping homosexuals and commented that homosexuality was a sin. It’s now come out that Google will allow pornography links and [...]