I noticed a lot of affliates have banners. Do you guys just plot the banner into your pages manually or do you use some sort of banner management software? If it is the latter, which software do you use?
The affiliate program I'm currently using, and is my #1 love, has dynamic banners. So you can see which banner is bringing in visitors, you can easily change the banners and it doesn't cost you bandwidth at all. I wrote some things on the affiliate program I'm currently using, but only about one product: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=846708 They have other great products. So just signup and see what they have to offer.
I thought about this, but wouldn't you want to have your banner change every time the page is refresh?
theres another thing that I recently stumbled across that does what you are looking for but I have not had much time to test it out but you might have some interest to look into openx. you are supposed to be able to keep track of all of your advertising.