AdSense Alternatives When Your RPM Is Low: Sell Direct
Looking for AdSense alternatives because earnings are thin? Compare other networks, affiliate links and direct sponsors, and see which one fits a small site.
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Notes on monetizing a WordPress site.
Plugin updates, monetization playbooks, real-customer setups, and answers to the questions publishers actually ask about ads, affiliate links, and classifieds.
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Ads Inside a WordPress Community Without Wrecking the Feed
How WB Ad Manager places ads inside Jetonomy threads, BuddyPress feeds and bbPress forums, who sees them, and the limits worth knowing before launch.
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How to Add AdSense to WordPress Without Slowing the Page
Add AdSense to WordPress with auto ads or manual units, load the script only where an ad shows, cap units per page and reserve space to stop layout shift.
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What Chrome's Ad Metrics Mean for Publishers
Chrome reports four CrUX ad metrics: count, density, network weight and CPU weight. See what each measures, where to read yours and which ones you control.
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How to Rotate Ads in WordPress and Pick the Winner
Rotate ads in one WordPress slot, see how Priority sets each ad's share of views, and learn when a click-through gap is real enough to call a winner.
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Affiliate Link De-Cloaking: What People Can See
Cloaking hides an affiliate URL before the click, not after it. Here is what visitors, browser tools and bots can see, and what de-cloaking really means.
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Affiliate Link Disclosure Examples: What to Say and Where
Affiliate link disclosure examples to adapt, where each goes on a WordPress site, what the FTC says about wording, and what WB Ad Manager does and does not do.
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Banner Ad Sizes for Your Website: What Fits Where
Banner ad sizes for a WordPress site, including mobile banner sizes: which fit each placement in WB Ad Manager, and the spec sheet to send a sponsor.
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Email Capture Ads: Turn an Ad Slot Into a Signup Form
WB Ad Manager can show an email signup form in any ad slot, list the addresses it collects, export them to CSV and pass each one to your email tool. Here is how it works.
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Expire Affiliate Links Automatically After a Promotion Ends
Give a cloaked affiliate link an end date so it stops redirecting when the offer does, and set a fallback so late clickers land somewhere useful, not on a 404.
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What Is Link Cloaking?
A plain explanation of link cloaking for affiliate and sponsored links, why sites use it, the nofollow and redirect rules that go with it, and how it differs from the deceptive cloaking that search engines penalize.
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Placing your first ad zones without breaking your layout
A practical guide to creating ad posts in WB Ad Manager, choosing from the 16+ built-in placement hooks, and getting ads live without touching theme code.
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Switching your affiliate links to tracked branded URLs
How to set up WB Ad Manager's link cloaker to replace raw affiliate URLs with branded /go/ slugs, count clicks per link, and update destination URLs without editing every article.
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The Ad Sales Pipeline, From Inquiry to Invoice: What to Automate and With What
How publishers can replace spreadsheets, manual rate emails, and chased invoices with a pipeline that handles the routine steps. Which stages WB Ad Manager covers, which need other tools, and where humans stay in the loop.
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Where to find what: this site and the store
How wbadmanager.com and the Wbcom Designs store split the work for WB Ad Manager, and where to go for playbooks, comparisons, downloads, support and release notes.
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