Best Ad Management Plugin for WordPress To Make More Money

Advertising is the heart & soul of a growing blog. It’s the advertising that pays for our hosting, domain & gives us ample amount of reasons to continue blogging as part time or even as a full time. When it comes to managing ads on WordPress, one can easily do the same using WordPress widgets or by editing WordPress theme file.

Adding ads using WordPress Widgets are good enough for someone who is starting out with blogging but when it comes to making real money from Advertising, using an ad management WordPresss plugin is recommended. Also, editing WordPress theme to add ad codes is not everyone piece of cake.

Wondering what an ad management WordPress plugin can do for you?

Here are some of the things that an ad manager plugin for WordPress should help you achieve:

• Run various ad types: This could be running AdSense ads, Media.net ads, affiliate ads or running your own product ads.
• Mobile/desktop ad: There is no point of serving the same ad to desktop & mobile site if it’s not responsive. Especially you don’t want to show advertisements on mobile site when advertising landing page is not mobile friendly. In this hunt for best ad management WordPress plugin, I’m also considering a plugin that let us show different ads based on screen size.
• Monitor number of clicks: When running a direct ad or an affiliate ads, you should be able to see how many clicks you are getting. Ad performance statistics is a must have.
• Run A/B test for Ads: This is no brainer that different ad images will yield different results. An excellent ad manager plugin should able to run 2 or more different ads on the same spot & should tell you which one is giving better CTR.
• Rotate ads: Ad blindness is real & a plugin that can rotate ads based on placement or other factors ensure your regular readers doesn’t face ad blindness.
• Conditional advertising: Don’t you want to show targeted ads based on category or tags or even blog post? Well, this is what a good plugin should help you achieve. If not, you would be showing irrelevant ads on various posts & missing out an opportunity to earn more from your blog adverts.

Apart from these, there are other advanced options like geo-targeting, anti-ad blocker & others that a WordPress ad management plugin should offer.

Considering all the above factors & other feature such as well coded & maintained plugin, I have compiled this mega list of best ad management plugins for WordPress that you can use for your blog. If you are using any basic plugin, it’s a good time to ditch it for these plugins as it would start generating more results.

Best Advertising Plugin for WordPress users to earn more:

When it comes to advertising management plugin for WordPress, there are plenty of free options. However, you should pick the one that is reliable, updated timely & ensures it doesn’t affect your hosting. It took me hours to find these well maintained & developed ad plugins.

Many of the plugins are free & available from WordPress plugin repo & some of them do offer paid option which is optional & offers advanced features. I have carefully listed only those plugins which are also supported by the developer in the forum (WordPress or their own support forum). Else, what’s the point of trying a plugin & getting stuck in between without any support?

Many of the listed advertisement WordPress plugins are from CodeCanyon which are paid but worth your time & money as they are well maintained & got great reviews from existing users.

Since I’m researching for best ad management plugin for using on my WordPress blog, all the listed solution are of high quality & you should pick one that suits your need the most. I’m listing the plugin based on features & ease of use, so the one at the top is best followed by successive plugins.

So, without further delay, let’s look at some of the best advertising plugins for WordPress that will help us to make more money from our blog.

WP Advanced ads:

For those who are looking for one plugin that can manage ads from ad networks such as AdSense, Media.net or any other along with HTML banner ads (Direct or affiliate ads), look no further than Advanced ads.

This plugin has constantly been updated & with 233 times 5-star rating, one of the best solution out there. Advanced ads plugin come in free & pro version both.

The free version offers all features that you need to get started with running ads on your WordPress blog. As stated above this plugin offers:

• Ad rotation
• Schedule ads
• Supports almost all ad type (AdSense, Media.net, DPF, HTML banner ads, Affiliate ads)
• Display ads based on various logic including categories, tags, custom post type or any other.
• Exclude ads to be shown from specific posts.
• Place ads automatically between content, after or before post or show ads using shortcodes or by editing functions file.
• Supports showing ads on WordPress feeds
• hide ads from bots/crawlers
• hide ads from 404 error pages (Useful for AdSense users)
• Supports showing or disabling ads based on the users device.

Well, overall this is a great free ad Manager WordPress plugin. You can download the free version from official WordPress repo here.

The advanced features are offered by various add-ons. Depending upon your need, you can pick only 1-2 pro add-ons that you need for your site. You can check out the list of pro addons here. Now, let’s have a quick look at the features offered by pro version.

• Refresh ads without reloading the page
• Display ads based on the day of week
• Cache busting (allows dynamic features for websites with cache, 2 different methods offered)
• Show ads on AMP version of your site (See our earlier guide on AMP on WordPress here)
• Sticky ads
• Useful Analytics & Stats are available with stats addon.
• Automate ad selling with selling ads addon. Sell based on clicks, days, impression or other custom conditions. Great for those who are looking to sell the direct ad on their WordPress blog. Supports PayPal, Stripe or other WooCommerce payment systems.
• Advance geo-targeting. Show or hide based on geolocation of visitors. This feature uses GeoLite2 data by MaxMind.

Most of their pro add-on cost about 29 euro. However, you can get all add-on for one site only for 69 Euro from here. Personally, I find this one value for money if you are planning to use more than one of their pro addon.

If not, the free version is good enough to help you get started & run any advertisement on your blog. The plugin also comes with detailed manual & support that is ++ for anyone who also needs support when setting up this plugin.

Check out WP advanced ads

AdRotate WordPress Plugin:

This is another plugin that is constantly updated & comes in both free & pro version. The free version offers all basic ad management features that you need to run ads from contextual ad networks like AdSense or run your own HTML banner ads. However, I would not use this plugin for AdSense & recommend this only when you are planning to run direct ads.

In the free version, there are no restrictions on kind of ads you can run. However, pro version is recommended when you need advanced features such as:

• Geo-targeting
• Piwik or Google Analytics integration for statistics
• Exclude clicks or impression from logged in users
• Advertiser management for selling direct ads
• AdBlock disguise

Overall AdRotate is another great ad management solution for WordPress that supports grouping of ads & rotating ads based on different conditions. If you are looking to migrate ads from any existing WordPress ad management plugin, you can use AdRotate switch plugin for the same.

Download Ad-Rotate Plugin || Check out Pro Version

WP PRO Advertising System – All In One Ad Manager

This one is from CodeCanyon & with over 5000 sales this is one of the best ad manager plugins here.  This plugin comes pre-built with many ad placements & supports all major ad types including AdSense.

What you would enjoy is the advanced statistics for your running ads with a beautiful UI. See the below screenshot for example

The plugin cost only $29 which is in competition with other two advertising management plugins listed above.  Before you decide to purchase this plugin, I recommend you to check this 18 minutes training video & device yourself if this plugin is for you or not.

Purchase plugin from CodeCanyon ($29)

Other advertising plugins for WordPress that I’m currently testing & will update once the testing is done are:

I was hoping to find more plugins which let us manage ads, but there is only few quality once that deserves to be listed here. I would keep my eye & ears open for new plugins that deserve to make into our list of best advertising management plugin for WordPress.

For now, I look forward to reading your comment on which plugin are you using on your blog to run or manage ads? If you know of any other plugin that should be listed here, do let me know by commenting below.

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