Central Banner Management

[Guard Dog]

How many of you use a central banner manager for all of your websites? If so, what do you use? Currently I have:

• Homegrown banner server - Server banners to 5 website
• AdPeeps - Serves banners to one of my websites
• OpenX Ads - Serves banners to a couple of my websites
• Static Ads - Mostly in Wordrpess where it is just easier to post banners than use an adserver

This has led me to begin creation of a banner server that will serve all my sites and do it a little easier than using a bunch of different ones. I find most of the banner servers I currently use way too complicated for what is necessary.

Hopefully by the end of the month I will have a casino and affiliate program - centric banner server with the ability to rogue properties. Then maybe I will not feel so overwhelmed when programs change their links!

 

[bonusgeek]

I did a lot of research about this just 2 weeks ago. Not so much for images but a way to centralize my affiliate links so I didn't have to update a million htaccess files for redirects. What I don't like about using one central system is it creates ties between all your websites when you use the same image or link paths or you serve from one master website.

So I started looking into one master database where I could store all my links and images and then have all the other websites pull the data from the one master databsae. The problem is I have never built a database driven website so trying to make heads or tails in my research was difficult. I did find https://www.webassist.com/dreamweaver-extensions/dynamic-connections/?lid=database that on the surface looked like I could achieve what I wanted to, but again it was too confusing to me to understand and I have bigger fish to fry.

So after about 15 hours of research the best solution I found was smartftp. It lets you define unlimitted websites and it has a multi upload feature. Basically enabling you to drag the master image folder or whatever into the multi upload box, then it will upload it to every website you have defined. So now you don't have to log in to all your sites via dreamweaver and make changes, you just make them once in the master image folder and press upload and it does the rest.

So all your images will be served on their respective website, but the smartftp facilitates making changes on a massive scale. It's a bit time consuming getting everything set up, I am only about 30% done but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and this is gonna be a huge time saver for me as I grow.

 

[Guard Dog]

Interesting thoughts Bonusgeek. Maybe I can expand upon that. How does this sound?

A global install location which produces XML consumption files for remote installs. If this were the case, then remote sites could maintain their own replicated information without setting up at all locations. Might be a way to keep sites more isolated from the SE perspective.

Thoughts?

 

[bonusgeek]

I don't know man, I dummy up pretty good when things get too technical so I doubt I offer any valuable input. But I tell you if you come up with something more robust than the smartftp, you could probably sell either a tool or even just create a simple ebook and sell the information. Like I said I spent a lot of time researching and googling terms like "ways to manage links-images for large network" and other phrases and I couldn't find much information. Just something to think about.

Sorry I can't offer any input on the xml, I need to ask for help on something as simple as creating an xml news feed.

 

[lots0]

A global install location which produces XML consumption files for remote installs.

A great idea as long as your not going to be dependant on organic search to generate your traffic.

 

[Guard Dog]

A great idea as long as your not going to be dependant on organic search to generate your traffic.

Please explain I have no idea why an XML consumption file (which is fairly common) would hurt organic search?