Monitoring Banner Ads.

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I have about 40 banner ads, placed on different sites all over the internet.

I pay each site owners a specific monthly price based on the placement of the banner on an agreed page of the site.

The problem is keeping track of those banners.

For example, I might not find out that a site owner has moved the banner placement we agreed on.

Or that the site owner could remove my banner altogether.( It would be nice to be able to trust every site owner. But that's not the reality)

And so I would never find out about either of those issues unless I visited each site individually.

Of course I can go around to each site and manually check each banner to see if it's still in the agreed position and operative. But that's takes a lot of time.

So I'm wondering, if by chance, anyone knows if a software tool exists that could automate that banner monitoring function?

I haven't been able to find anything.
#main internet marketing discussion forum #ads #banner #monitoring
  • Depending on what CMS you use and how your website is built I`d go for some affiliate tracking software and give each banner a new aff link. That could do a lot, considering it will show the traffic and conversion for each particular link.
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    • Not a perfect solution but you can use Google Analytics to track from which banners/sites traffic is coming.

      Justin Cutrini posted a neat tool that will automate the process of creating unique GA-friendly tagged links for every banner/site.

      Google Analytics Campaign Tracking Pt. 2: The EpikOne Link Tagging Tool - Analytics Talk

      So you will have one place to check for results and if you see, for example, that traffic from one banner on one site has stopped that could alert you to a problem.

      Like I say, not a perfect solution, but an extremely helpful tool.
  • Several folk I know use CPV Labs for that kind of thing.
  • Looking at traffic in any analytics tool should prove that it is still up. The location/page might be harder to track.

    Michael
  • I would hire someone very cheap and have them take screenshots of all the banners (and then also report whether they are in the proper positions based off the initial screenshots you provide to them). Would be worth the $5-$10 a month it would cost to check up on them each month
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    • I would say either tracking links for the banners,
      or just save the pages in favorites in a folder
      and monitor it (take a look at it) from time to time.
  • You should be able to hire some one for less then your potential loss of income from less than reputable site owners.

    I place most of my banners through brokers so I don't have this problem. Another benefit is protection. I recently got a refund for an ad that the site owner was clicking on over and over. I sent in screenshots of my analytics...instant refund.
  • Tracking link s would be the answer, but as mentioned, knowing the banners exact location is difficult.

    Couldn't you just ask the site owners to shoot you a quick message to let you know when they've taken your banner down?
  • You can do this very simple. Just get propser202 set it up on one of your hosting accounts and use that to measure clicks. Takes 5 minutes to set up.
  • For every banner that you are going to post on various websites, you need to know how many clicks you are getting from there.

    If you are selling a product through Clickbank, you can track traffic and sales from that.

    If you are not using Clickbank products then you can use a tracker that tracks your unique visitors from each website you promote on. I use a tool called Adminder.
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    Monitoring Banner Ads.

    I have about 40 banner ads, placed on different sites all over the internet. I pay each site owners a specific monthly price based on the placement of the banner on an agreed page of the site.