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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

Chapter 6


understanding channels

a

It is true. Zone invocation code can hold only one Site Source parameter.

b

It is true. A banner can use any number of channels at the same time. It enables banners to be connected to multiple content targets. For example, an mp3 player advertisement appearing on both an electronics review zone and a music album reviews zone.

c

No, it is false. Such usage is open to typing errors and hard to manage if you later change Zone Invocation codes, thus Site - Source parameter of the zones.

d

No, it is false. Channels can also hold any number of other delivery limitations. So, it is possible to have two targeted MP3 player zones, which are further channelled by Geotargeting and separately showing ads to US and non-US visitors.