Serving ads on your website(s)

If you need to make money with ads on your website(s), check out OpenX ad server 2.8. The new version released earlier this week brings lots of new features and improvements!

• You can easily manage your ad inventory: manage advertisers, websites, all ads formats supported.

• Deliver what you want to whom you want: target users by country, campaigns frequency, and much more!

• Measure the performance of your ads: check out the extensive set of reports provides statistics on your websites and ad zones as well as your advertisers and ad campaigns, broken down by conversions, revenue, and more.

There are lots of options available and the product is available for download for you to install on your own server, or as a hosted version where you can get started and start serving ads in a few minutes!

Check out the OpenX Ad Server options:

• Try the online demo

• Download OpenX now! (requires PHP5 and Mysql or Postgresql)

• Sign Up for OpenX Hosted for FREE!

• OpenX Blog

• Developer zone (API, Plugins)

Video Tutorial

Getting Started with OpenX from OpenX Limited on Vimeo.

OpenX Screenshots

Campaign screen:

Link a banner to one or several of your website zones (ad slots):

Reporting screen:

OpenX Market

Finally, if you use OpenX, you can earn more money by monetizing your ad space using the OpenX Market.

OpenX Market is a new monetization service that provides you with a powerful way to expand your reach to advertisers who’d like to bid directly for your ad impressions. This means more advertisers will get to compete for your ad space, which translates into higher revenues for you, the publisher. Learn more about the OpenX Market and check out the Video Tutorial

An Intro to OpenX Market from OpenX Limited on Vimeo.

OpenX and Matomo

OpenX is the company behind the open source software program Matomo. The project leader (Matt) is employed by OpenX. Also, web analytics and ad serving are tightly coupled and we could imagine in the future some interesting integration between your adserving software and web analytics. You can learn more about OpenX and Matomo by reading the FAQ.

Have fun using Matomo… and making money using OpenX! Let us know what you think of 2.8 in the comments.

Matomo is highly customizable thanks to the Plugins Framework and the web service API. Custom Plugins can be developed to meet your business needs, add a new feature, or modify an existing functionality. Matomo can easily be rebranded and offered as a white label web analytics solution to your customers or community users.

We have received many requests for custom paid plugins development from community users, companies, SEO experts.

Contact the Support team to get started.

Screenshot of the one click install process on Sourceforge

From the Sourceforge newsletter

3. PIWIK WEB ANALYTICS

SourceForge.net-hosted projects and developers host their content in a
variety of places, including our Project Web service, our Developer Web
service, and external web sites. It’s often unclear how many people you
are actually are actually reaching with your pages, and even more often
unclear where those users are in the world, what OS they are using, or how
long they are spending reading your pages. This is where web analytics
solutions come in to play.

SourceForge.net has launched the Matomo web analytics solution as part of
our growing Hosted Apps and Hosted Apps for Developers offerings, allowing
projects and developers to tag their web pages and obtain a comprehensive
set of analytics about their traffic. Matomo offers several ways to view
your analytics data, including dashboards, APIs and widgets that can be
embedded in your web pages — much more useful than a simple page counter.

For more information:
* Matomo added to Hosted Apps offering:
https://sourceforge.net/community/forum/topic.php?id=4148&page&replies=1

More information

We are in contact with Sourceforge and we will make sure Sourceforge always uses the latest best release of Matomo. This has the potential to become one of the largest sets of installs of Matomo in one place.

With Matomo APIs, open source codes, extended plugin architecture, providing Matomo to hundreds or thousands of small websites is just a few API calls away. Check out the Matomo API documentation, the Matomo Demo and of course, Matomo on Sourceforge!

New servers for the website

The first servers we had were too slow to handle the load of the traffic generated by the website, the demo, and our build/development architecture. We were having downtimes due to crashes of the development server.

These problems are now fixed ! We upgraded our servers at the beginning of July. Everything is going smoothly since the migration. Please welcome victoria and henry!

New servers for tests and development

We are also very happy to receive help from Free a french ISP with more than 3 million customers. They are giving us a few servers to help us with the developments and performance tests. We created a new page Sponsors. If your company is interested by a sponsorship, please let us know.

These new servers will help us building a faster and scalable Matomo (Piwik). Stay tuned: we will soon post updates about the current development efforts!

This is one of those times, normal people don?t/shouldn?t get so excited about web analytics tools. However, i?m not normal, so https://matomo.org/ has made me sit up and say ?oooh?.

[from webponce]

We are keeping track of the blog posts and articles about Matomo (Piwik) in a never ending list (nearly 200 articles now!). If you know a post that is not yet in the list (or if you’ve just written a new shiny one!) let us know. You can find some media resources on the Media page.

We hope that in the next few months, as well as making users happy, Matomo will make developers happy. The movement has already started with a few plugins being in development and a few already done (more info soon!).

Why are the developers so important? Every user expects something different from web analytics tools. Matomo has the power to give a unique experience by customization (via plugins). We believe that Matomo has a huge potential and we need the help from developers to build up this potential!

If you want to know more, visit the Developer Zone and read about the APIs or the plugin development. Feedback or contributions? Let us know

These last few months we have seen huge interest in Matomo and its innovative features (API, plugins architecture, dashboard), and the next step is to make Matomo function on medium to large traffic websites.

Do you want to work on an interesting project involving problem solving of a highly technical manner?

Do you want your work to be used by thousands of people?

Extract: “Matomo aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics. We are passionate about providing a great service to our users and are looking to hire a PHP5 expert to support our growth!”

For further details, please read the full job description on spoti.tv

To make this translation a reality, we are looking for a Translation Manager volunteer!

Description: Your role in the Matomo community would be to help Matomo get new translations.You would talk to the translators, make sure their translations are up to date whenever possible, help new translators to get started (which is easy anyway). When several people speaking the same language want to help us with translations, you would ask them to review the existing translation.

Time necessary: managing the internationalization of Matomo shouldn’t take more than a few hours per month.

Outcome: working on a fast growing open source project, with a vibrant community, and see new translations added to Matomo thanks to your help!

Please leave a comment if you are interested, or contact us at hello at piwik.org

Thanks for your support!

Do you have a website that has more than 10,000 visits per day?

Are you willing to help us beta test Matomo under medium load?

This test will be for a limited time (a few days) and should not slow down your website whatsoever. You will have to simply add in your pages the Javascript tracker pointing to our piwik server.

Contact us at hello@piwik.org with your website details: URL, no of visits/ pages per month. Thank you for your help!

If we use only the last 2 days data (monday 7th and tuesday 8th), piwik.org has received:

– 120+ visits from a one line polish blog post (still bringing traffic today)

– 180+ visits from a russian blog post

– 800+ visits from several chinese websites and software directories!!! (but please, stand for a free tibet!

The feedburner count is increasing every day to now display that you are 220 followers, Thank you all!

We have already listed more than 130 blog post articles in more than 15 languages about Matomo (Piwik). Thank you to all the amazing bloggers.

View here a pie chart of yesterday visitors coutries. You can get tag clouds and flash charts very easily in Matomo, embed them in your blog, and even in Igoogle and netvibes!

Matomo is more and more downloaded, and to prove you so we have added a download counter. It shows the number of downloads since 2008, 4576 at the time of writing. Thanks WP for the inspiration.

We will soon write a post explaining the new features in Matomo: tracking download and outlinks.

In the meantime, give Matomo a try & download, if your website has a few hundreds visits, it will work like a charm. So far, we love it.

I’m not sure about the blog(s) that started it all, but it seems the articles on incubaweb and seoprofessional did spread the word about piwik worldwide; there were articles written about piwik in polish, italian, english, spanish, french, german yesterday!

Then Matomo got featured on delicious Popular page, which brought not less than 750 direct visits and hundred of undirect visits (via feed readers, websites aggregators, etc.).

Thanks to all the people who wrote / spread the word about Matomo, it really helps us.The beta version is due before April 2008. Stay tuned!See also the related article : Welcome Japan!