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Coming up: GeoTargeting for mere mortals!

I hope to *finally* release a big update to AdRotate and AdRotate Pro sometime next week. It took a lot of testing and trying to get it right but I finally came up with a useful GeoTargeting solution.

What does this mean for you? Time to shake up your sales pages and get some new advertisement packages going.

Publishers:

You can now sell adverts for specific areas. As wide as a country (or selection of countries). Or a series of cities.
No longer does your Long Beach coffee shop advert have to show up globally. You can fine-tune all of this. You can sell per city or general region.

getlocation-groups

geolocation-ads

As you can see in the screenshots, it IS very easy to use. Type in a bunch of cities OR select a bunch of countries. And that’s about it. On top of that there is the option to allow your advertisers to use this option as well, if you allow them to make their own adverts.

Advertisers:

Target your locale with more precise adverts. If your shop/business/endeavor is for Japan only. You can target that country. Or a few cities in Japan. It’s all possible now. If the admin permits you, you can create your own localization by selecting countries or cities.

The power of geoPlugin and MaxMind:

AdRotate always had a reliable way of getting a users IP address. This strength is now turned into a super-power by matching that IP against the excellent database of geoPlugin. geoPlugin uses some data from MaxMind – the popular and renowned IP database specifically for targeting specific audiences.

Thanks to Jack T. from bullettmedia.com who suggested I use geoPlugin. geoPlugin which is a free-ish service provides a basic package for free for anyone willing to register. Of course if you like what they do and you want to help them out make a donation via Paypal or upgrade your account to a premium package. Check out their website for more information.

Interested in AdRotate development? Take a look at the development page or get in touch.

Introducing, a new forum, especially for AdRotate!

I’ve been contemplating the best move for a while. This seems to make the most sense.

With the current forum at www.telltal.es becoming more and more obsolete i’ve decided to start a new forum on the adrotateplugin.com domain. In fact the only reason it’s still online is because of AdRotate. So starting today I’ve revised the support strategy, if you can call it that.

There are now 3 ways to find and get your answers;
1. Premium support. This uses a ticket/email system. It’s fast, private and personal. I will be involved with your questions/issues a lot more than on the forum.
2. An AdRotate Support Forum. Dedicated to AdRotate. I will be on this forum almost every day (if time permits!), answering your questions. The URL is http://forum.adrotateplugin.com. Here you’ll find the same level of support that the old forum provided.
3. The WordPress forum. I’ll be here from time to time. I’m not too fond of the limitations this board brings so this will be mainly users helping users. But I will try to read all threads once a week or so.

Note; Due to some differences with the telltal.es forum a new registration is required for http://forum.adrotateplugin.com. This is a bit of an inconvenience. But it’s a one time thing. You don’t need the telltal.es login anymore. The database, and thus your profile, will be destroyed a few weeks or months from now.

You are strongly encouraged to update your bookmarks from www.telltal.es to http://forum.adrotateplugin.com. Thank you!

A new package emerges

Some orders recently inspired me to create a new, more specific, package and we’ll run a trial for that starting today.
If people like it we’ll keep it on the page.

We’ve learned that a few users would rather have us set up just the groups and blocks. Make the necessary theme edits but *not* create ads.
In many of those cases adverts haven’t been sold yet. Or the administrator has appointed someone else to handle adverts.
So buying our time to set up adverts makes little sense there.

Thus, our response to this is as follows.

New package!
I’ve come up with a new package on our service page.
No ads, more groups, a block of ads and the same styling options.
For a reduced price compared to a full package.

You’ll find this package under the name “integrate” on our Premium Setup page.