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OpenX Ad Server: Beginner's Guide

By : Murat Yilmaz
Book Image

OpenX Ad Server: Beginner's Guide

By: Murat Yilmaz

Overview of this book

<p>OpenX is the world's leading independent ad server and it provides you with the simple tools you need to make money from advertising. Although OpenX is a fast, robust ad serving solution to power all of your digital advertising, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build an advertising system that meets your needs perfectly.<br /><br />This practical guide gives you a hands-on experience on using OpenX Ad Server, helping you develop feature-rich and professional advertising solutions for web sites with world-class ad serving functionality. The book explores the powers of OpenX Ad Server and provides you with impressive ad server solutions.<br /><br />OpenX Ad Server Beginner's Guide will help you gain control over all the advertising needs of your blogs and web sites on a centralized ad-serving platform, for much easier management than traditional with methods. You will be able to run your own ads and sell your ad space to advertisers at the same time. You will learn how to serve ads according to origin of the visitors using GeoTargeting features. Combined with OpenX Channels, you will maximize your online revenue with relevant ads. This book also tells you how you can integrate other popular Ad networks like Google AdSense, Amazon and so on. Using OpenX for multiple accounts, tracking the success of ad campaigns using statistics, and reports are also discussed in detail.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
OpenX Ad Server: Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - applying dynamic zone sizes


In this section, we will learn how to apply a dynamic zone to allow different sized banners.

  1. 1. Open Zone Properties screen and scroll down until you see the Size section.

  2. 2. Fill the Width and Height fields as shown in the following screenshot. Do not forget to click on Save Changes after changing width.

  1. 3. Let's try to link a 250x250 and a 300x250 banner to this zone to test dynamic zone sizing.

  2. 4. If you haven't done it yet, add a 250x250 banner to one of OpenX campaigns that already has a 300x250 banner. You can use Apple - Mac Devices campaign that we have previously created to add another banner. We assume that we have two such banners and continue with linking.

  3. 5. Click on Linked Banners tab on Zone properties screen.

  1. 6. We had already linked our 300x250 sized Google Adsense banner to this zone. We can see it in the listed screenshot:

  1. 7. Let's select Link individual banners option.

  1. 8. Then, let's browse until we see all the suitable banners...