O.K, So I lied, this adserver will work stand-alone and as a plug-in for Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla! It’s called OpenX and is a complete adserver solution. In fact, this is a buddy with benefits.
See the bookcase ads at the side of this page? They’re managed and delivered via OpenX. They’re not ordinary ads. OpenX uses built-in geolocation to determine which ads to serve so if you are in Europe you will see ads for Amazon.co.uk, if you’re in Canada you will see ads for Amazon.ca and if you’re from the US or anywhere else then you will ads for Amazon.com. It’s a very impressive product and it’s free.
No More Amazon Ads, Yippee \Q/
Just a quick comment to let you know I’ve removed the Amazon ads that once adorned the sidebars. I’ve been considering their removal for the past month or two because they slow down the site’s page load time but I wavered on the side that some visitors might find them useful so I left them up. However, Amazon has twice adjusted its user agreement within the last 30 days. One of those adjustments changed their linking policy and the second one served to combine its Amazon U.K, Amazon FR and Amazon DE user agreements such that one agreement for Amazon EU covers all three programs. That latter change is a little guise about EU harmony and a big ruse to inflict ever more stringent rules to its affiliates; rules that heavily favor Amazon over its affiliates. As you can tell, I am not happy with the changes. To be blunt, I feel pretty shafted by Amazon and I am sure many other webmasters will feel the same once they read Amazon’s new user agreement.