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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 - achieving targeting with website channels


In this section, we will learn how to apply content advertising targeting using website channels.

  1. 1. On Websites listings page, click on Targeting Channels link near the website.

  1. 2. Click on Add new Targeting Channel link.

  1. 3. Fill in the following fields accordingly. Write ch_notebook in the Name field.

  1. 4. Now, we have added a targeting channel. Click on change the delivery options link to continue.

  1. 5. Select Site - Source from Add delivery limitation drop-down menu and click on Add button.

  1. 6. Write notebook-reviews for Site - Source field and click on Save Changes button.

  1. 7. Let's open 300x250_New_iMac banner properties page and click on Delivery Options link.

  1. 8. Click on the red cross near the Site - Source delivery limitation. The Site: Source option, which was previously added will now get deleted.

  1. 9. Now, select Site - Channel option from Add delivery limitation field and then click on Add button.

  1. 10. Then, select ch_notebook...