Getting Started
An
ad network consists of:
- Advertisers and their advertisements
- Publishers and their websites
Please follow these basic steps to setup your ad network:
1. Setup Ads and Advertisers
1.1. Create an Ad
- Follow the menu "Ads / Create a new Ad"
- Choose an ad format
- Enter an ad name
- Fill in other required and optional ad settings
1.2. Add an Advertiser (optional)
- Enable the Advertiser module from the menu "My Account / Add-ons / Advertisers"
- Follow the menu "Advertisers / Add a new Advertiser"
- Click the Add tab and fill in the required fields
1.3. Link Ad to an Advertiser (optional)
- Follow the menu "Ads / All"
- Click on the ad name
- Click on Relations / All Advertisers tab
- Check the suitable permission box to allow your advertiser to View and/or Edit this ad, then click the Link button
2. Setup Publishers
2.1. Add a new Website
- Sign into your account, follow menu "Publishers / Add a new Publisher"
- Fill in the name and URL address of the website
2.2. Add User to a Website (optional)
- Follow the menu "Publishers / All"
- Click on a website name
- Click on the User Access tab and fill in the user registration form
- This site user can login with his/her own username and password. A site user has read-only permissions (view linked zones/ads, generate reports, and get ad tag) and cannot modify, edit or delete entities/items.
2.3. Create a Zone (Ad Placement)
- Follow the menu "Zones / Create a new Zone"
- Enter the zone's name on this website. This allows your partner site to display ads in different placements. For example: websites in your ad network have two ad placements: one for 728x90 ads and one for 160x600 ads
2.4. Link Zone to a Website
- Follow menu "Publishers / All"
- Click on a Website
- Click on All Zones tab
- Check the box for the zone that you want to link to this website
2.5. Link Ad to a Zone
- Follow the menu "Zones / All"
- Click on the zone name
- Click on All Ads tab
- Check the box for the ad that should be displayed in this zone
2.6. Set Payout Rates (optional)
The advertiser pays you the full rates (CPM, CPC, CPA) for this ad. You can set individual payout rates for each of the partner sites. For example: advertiser X pays $10/CPM to you, you pay site A $6/CPM and site B $7/CPM.
After linking the ads to the appropriate zones:
- Click on the ad name, then click on "Rates" tab
- The first tab, Full Rates for Advertiser, is the rate that you get from your advertiser
- The second tab, Payout Rates for Partner Site, is the rates that you pay to your partner sites
2.7. Get the Ad Tag
You can now send the
ad tag (ad serving code) to your publishers directly or they can also generate the ad tag on their own by signing into the account that you have created for them.
- Follow the menu "Zones / All"
- Click on a zone name
- Click the Ad Tag tab
- Paste this HTML ad tag into your web page where you want to show the advertisement
