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3 plugins to monetize your WordPress blog

9 Dec, 2011 Branding Great Resources Tips Permalink

In a previous article, I shared 12 must-have plugins to make your WordPress blog more interactive. This time, I want to tell you about three plugins that will help you monetize your page.

Ad Squares Widget

“The Ad Squares Widget makes it possible for you to display 125×125 ad squares ( or some other configurable size ad, advertisement, banner ) into a widget-ready bar for WordPress®. It supports AdSense®, Javascript, XHTML and more.”

You can add up to eight squares per widget and randomly shuffle their positions. You can also create as many widgets as you wish.

For more information and to download the plugin, click here.

Easy Ads

“East Ads provides a unified and intuitive interface to manage multiple ad providers on your blog. Currently supported are Chitika, BidVertiser, Clicksor, and, of course, AdSense. The list of ad providers will be expanded later on at your request.

AdSense dumped you? Don’t be heartbroken; there are other fish in the sea. You may find happiness with Clicksor, BidVertiser or Chitika. Use Easy Ads, and you may get lucky!“

I like Easy Ads, as it is quite flexible and lets you decide where you want to place your ads inside the content of your posts (beginning, middle, end).

For more information and to download the plugin, click here.

Smart Ads

“Automatically adds advertisements before and after your post’s single page content based on word count or post age. You can also ad custom ads using the built-in shortcode.”

This is my favorite plugin of the three. It is very simple to figure out and accepts pretty much any type of code.

For more information and to download the plugin, click here.

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About The Author

Cendrine Marrouat is a journalist, blogger, content curator, author, and workshop facilitator located in Canada. She is the founder of two social media blogs: Social Media Slant and Creative Ramblings. On March 6, 2012, she released The Little Big eBook on Blogging: 40 Traffic Generation Tips, a comprehensive resource that provides bloggers of all levels with essential information and precise guidance to attract quality traffic to their blogs. She is currently working on an eBook on social media strategies that should be released before the end of 2013.
  • http://www.dealnerds.com DealNerds

    Thanks for this. My site can get pretty long, so I like to drop a few ads in the middle of the content. With Adsense, I only get 3 spots, so I have one at the top, one on the side bar and one wayyyyyy at the bottom. I could fit at least 4 more ad banners in the site and still not have it look like an ad farm. I’m checking out AdBrite now, but their ads look kind of spammish. I guess I’ll keep looking.

  • http://www.cendrinemarrouat.com Cendrine Marrouat

    Thank you for letting us know!

  • clamshell

    clicksor seemed a little bit weird for me.
    thanks for the information.
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