When I logged into my Wordpress dashboard today I was greeted by the following message :
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New Message from OIOpublisher! All registered users are now invited to the OIOpublisher 2.0 beta program! You can download the beta version by clicking here, pressing the “download” button and then choosing the beta option. Note that you’ll be required to login. This is a beta version and whilst it has been thoroughly tested, it cannot yet be considered 100% stable. We welcome those who wish to contribute their feedback and bug reports, but if you do not want to experiment with a potentially unstable version, please ignore this alert. Remember that 2.0 includes the ability to install it as a standalone script and will also provide you with 3rd party script integration instructions when in standalone mode. If planning to upgrade from an earlier version, make sure you save a backup copy of both your database and the old plugin files first. |
For those of you who are unfamiliar with OIOpublisher, it’s a direct ad sales plugin for Wordpress that enables publishers such as myself to sell advertising space directly to interested parties and keep 100% of the revenue. I’m using it here on the sidebar of this blog to manage advertising purchases because it automates the Paypal process and keeps track of when ads expire without having to do it all manually.
Compared to solutions such as ProjectWonderful and PerformancingAds, which also enable bloggers to sell ad space for a split of the advertising revenue, OIOpublisher is a hands down slam dunk. Although OIOpublisher is not free and there is a $37 licensing fee, in my opinon all I have to do is sell two $25 ads and I’m already in profit after purchasing the plugin. With ProjectWonderful or PerformancingAds, a publisher expecting to sell hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of advertising would be paying up to 10 times the licensing cost of OIOpublisher in the long run using one of those split-revenue platforms.
Stay tuned for a thorough review of the OIOpublisher 2.0 Beta version I will be publishing later in the day.
In the meantime, if you want to get started using OIOpublisher, Get OIOpublisher Now!!
Have you tried the UDB plugin ?
http://www.uniqueblogdesigns.com/blog/2008/ubd-block-ad-plugin/
It’s free.
I love this plugin. There’s nothing else like it and I’ve tried every different rotating banner plugin there is.
I think it must be so hard to sell ad space on a blog because there are so many blogs out there. It seems the advertisers all flock to the same old blogs to take out ads and all the other talented smaller blogs get overlooked.