Greetings! I have a new plugin that I would like to share with the Digital Point community, the plugin is called WP Tag Ads and it could make you a little extra $$$ from your WordPress blog. What makes this plugin a little different is that it reads your post tags and serves ads based on the tags you provide in the post. Ads are are displayed via the WP Tag Ads widget, this widget can be placed anywhere in a sidebar. However, ads are only shown in posts, not pages or any other section of the blog. WP Tag Ads widget lets you customize the appearance of ads to match the look and feel of your blog. So take a look and let me know what you think. http://www.wptagads.com
Right now it's only eBay, but I do have plans for more in the future. For the most part I have been working on the ad delivery so more outlets is not out of the question. Here is a site running the ads: http://books-and-records.com/bobs_view/2009/01/05/first-edition-signed-books-are-a-great-investment/ Here are some of the keywords he uses in the post: first edition books,first edition signed books,signed books,signed first editions On WP Tag Ads site, if you look at the posts, there are ads running. In the next couple of days I will be releasing other sizes and ways to include them into other areas on the site. For instance you could place some JS into the post footer and run the ads. There is really a ton of ways I can improve this, but for now I am releasing it to see how other webmaster can use it. Right now there is about 60 sites using the plugin, I am awaiting feedback or bug fixes.
I have to admit that's a great plugin idea for advertising. While I will be waiting on a future version as I've never had a lot of luck via ebay sales I'll be jumping on it pretty quickly when you make it a bit more customizable on which advertisements are being displayed. Seriously great job! I'm looking forward to a future release
A couple more questions for you. 1. How to use it without using widgets. 2. How to display more than one Ad.