Everything You Can Do With WB Ad Manager: A Full Tour

A full tour of WB Ad Manager, the WordPress plugin for showing ads on your own site and, with Pro, selling ad space to advertisers. How to monetize a website, in six steps, each pointing to the video that shows it in full.

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In this tutorial you will see everything WB Ad Manager can do for a site that has traffic. You need WB Ad Manager, with Pro for steps four to six. It takes about 4 minutes. Six steps. Add and place ads. Target and compare. Links, community and privacy. Sell ad space. Know what earns. Then grow with classifieds. If you have readers, you have an asset that can earn, but you may not know how an ad plugin helps. WB Ad Manager shows ads on your own pages, and with Pro lets advertisers pay you directly. Here is the whole tour. Step one. Add and place ads. Every ad lives under WB Ad Manager, Ads, with its type, placements, impressions and clicks. Videos one to three show how. Add New opens a form. Placements choose where it shows, such as Header, Footer, After Paragraph or Sticky. Schedule limits when it runs. Video two covers placements, popups and the widget. Step two. Target and compare. Display Rules and Visitor Conditions pick who sees an ad. Videos four to seven cover them, with email capture ads. Geo Targeting limits an ad by country. Ad Performance Comparison shows which of two ads earns more clicks. Video five covers rotation. Step three. Links, community and privacy. Links makes short branded links for affiliate offers. Video nine shows them. Partnerships collects sponsor requests. Video ten covers them. In Settings, Privacy and GDPR keeps ads clear and private. Videos eight and eleven cover forum slots and privacy. Step four. Sell ad space. With Pro you choose a site mode, such as Full Platform, in Settings. Video twelve covers it. Packages are what advertisers buy. Video thirteen covers packages and pages. Advertisers lists everyone who signs up, with their status and balance. Submissions holds their ads for your review. Videos fourteen to seventeen cover the wallet, approval and campaigns. Step five. Know what earns. Ad Analytics charts impressions and clicks over time. Video eighteen covers it. The Revenue Dashboard adds income by ad and by placement. Slot Inventory shows every slot and what fills it. Video nineteen covers inventory, and video twenty one covers link reports. Step six. Grow with classifieds. Classifieds is a listing board inside your site. Videos twenty two to twenty five build and run it. Membership Plans earn from sellers who list more. Reviews keeps the board trustworthy. Video twenty brands your emails. That is all six. add and place ads, then target and compare, then links, community and privacy, then sell ad space, then know what earns, then grow with classifieds. You can now do this job on your own site. Next in this series: Get ads on your site and start earning.