Displaying banner ads is the common method to monetize your website. It’s extremely easy to find examples of websites that display banner ads. Be it from Google AdSense or other advertising programs.
In WordPress, you can display ads based on specific tags. This means, banner ads will only appear on posts that contain the specified tags.
Displaying ads based on tag is a great idea if you have a large website which already has thousands of articles. WordPress users commonly use tags to group posts based on certain specific topics.
This post will show you how to display ads based on tag in WordPress using Advanced Ads plugin.
Display Ads Based on Tag in WordPress Using Advanced Ads
Advanced Ads is a freemium plugin. It is a feature-rich ads manager plugin. You can use it to display ads based on certain conditions, including tags. Free version of Advanced Ads allows you to display ads based on tag.
Before being able to use this plugin, you surely need to install it first on your WordPress site.
Once the plugin is installed, you will have a new menu called Advanced Ads on your WordPress dashboard. Click this menu and select Ads to create a new ads.
Give your ads a name and select ads type. If you want to display ads from Google AdSense, you can select the top option (Plain Text and Code). If the ads wizard is running, click the Stop Wizard and show all options link to show all options.
On the Ad Parameters section, click the arrow icon and paste your ads code on the available field.
Now switch to the Display Conditions section and click the arrow icon to open the available condition options.
Since you want to display ads based on tag so select the Tags option from the dropdown menu. Click the add button. This will display the existing tags on your WordPress site.
Select the tags you want your ads to be displayed on and select the Tags option from the dropdown menu once again, followed by clicking the add button.
Once done, click the Publish button.
Determine the location where you want your ads to be displayed. There are several options you can choose from.
In this example, we choose After Content. This option will display the ads right after the content section on a single post.
You can change the location of the ads anytime you want. To do so, you can go to the Placements option under the Advanced Ads menu on your WordPress dashboard.
Summary
Displaying ads on specific tags can be a smart idea if you want your ads to show up on a specific topics in your website. Especially if your website has hundreds or even thousands of posts.
Doing so will make your ads be more targeted so that the conversion will relatively high.
Advanced Ads is a great plugin to display ads on your WordPress website. You can use to display ads based on certain conditions. Including tags.
