Rotate Banners with the Max Banner Ads WordPress Plugin

By Kyle Eslick on June 26th, 2008 | Filed Under Plugins
Tag(s): 125x125 Ad Blocks, Advertising, Banners, WordPress Plugins

Statistics have long shown that rotating your advertising or affiliate banners can decrease advertising blindness and increase clicks. More clicks makes bloggers happy and advertisers happy!

A few months ago I wrote a post about the Got Banners WordPress plugin, which is a simple WordPress plugin that was designed to allow you to rotate banners in a set location. What it does not do is allow you to rotate multiple banners without displaying them all, meaning you can’t rotate 8 banners within 4 posts, etc.

I’ve been waiting for a suitable replacement and I believe yesterday I may have found what I was looking for. What I’m talking about is a new free WordPress plugin by MaxBlogPress called Max Banner Ads.

To get an idea what this plugin is about, you really need to click over and check out the video demonstration that comes with it, but I will attempt to explain it here. Max Banner Ads sort of works like the Shylock AdSense WordPress plugin in that it requires no code hacking. You actually control your advertisements from the WordPress dashboard.

Max Banner Ads allows you to rotate several banners in a single spot or multiple spots, and you can choose from several locations, including your header, sidebar (using widgets), footer, or even within your posts. Want to place it only in the second post? You can do that as well!

As I mentioned above, this plugin is actually being released for free by the author, but he does ask that you write a quick review or at least mention it on your blog. Considering the potential value of this plugin, I think that is more than fair.

[Check out the Max Banner Ads WordPress Plugin]

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There Are 9 Responses So Far. »

1 online banner advertising
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

Yes this is very good plugin released by MaxBloggers. I hope that that would help to increase the value banner advertisement. And main thing it is very easy to use. So i hope that work for banner advertisers as well as publishers………..
2 jbj
Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 4:04 am

Nice post Kyle! I wrote a post last week about ways to display 125*125px ads on a wordpress blog, but I didn’t know this plugin. Thanks
3 Missy
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

Hi,
Do you by any chance know if the ads placed within this Max BannerPress plugin are nofollow?

I’m using it and quite like how easy it is to use. I will shoot off an email to the creator, but just wanted to know right quick, if you knew.
4 mitch
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 8:42 am

Thank you! I am actually looking for a plugin like this and thank God I found your site. Thanks for the info. I am already subscribed in your site. More power to hackwordpress.
5 Fotomanijak
Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

I’m not satisfied with this plugin.
The idea of making it “reviewware” is good.
But forcing people to register just to activate the plugin is bad.
Also you can not remove the “powered by” link if you don’t buy the premium version.
And the third and the biggest lack, and the main reason why I will replace this plugin this instance is that it doesn’t have support for flash type of banners.
6 Peter Towler
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 at 11:18 am

I’ve just downloaded this plugin and set it up – wrongly. There doesn’t seem to be any way of editing the the banners or their positions after initial setup. I’ve even deleted the the plugin from everywhere, downloaded the zip file again and uploaded to the plugin folder. Plugin then appears in recently active. When I activate it the originally loaded banners are still there in their original settings. Has anyone any suggestions?
7 Peter
Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

at the file max-banner-ads.cls, you must remove the 663 line: starts with ${base64_decode