I have signed up for many affiliate programs and I often get confused with the login information, login URL etc. When you have a blog, one of the biggest income generator other than private sales of ads is affiliate program. For example, I am an affiliate of Shaadi.Com and I did a post to promote few days back. I am an affiliate of different affiliate programs and to keep track of the earnings, promotion, banners are difficult if things are not organized well.

Ok let me explain to you, how I manage all these things. I am bit choosy while signing up for affiliate programs so I am not having much to manage, but I do it in an organized way. I will be in a stage when I will be promoting many affiliate programs using my blog and the traffic to my blog.

Tools I use for managing the affiliate programs and private sales of advertisements

Advertisements - I do sell advertisement space other than using Google Adsense. I have good number of websites with enough traffic. I am happy to say  that my traffic is growing everyday and I am working hard on that. 85% of my traffic are from search engines and some from referring sites. I have a very small budget for advertisements  and I usually use Google Adwords.

Let me come to the point now, to manage my Advertisers, I use OpenAds, hosted on my dedicated server and its working fine. I sell space on CPM basis and the advertiser need to buy minimum 10,000 impressions and the ads run till the purchased impressions are over. In fact I have already applied for an invitation for Google Ad Manager, if I get an account, the I could try that. The advantage of using Google Ad Manager will the the efficiency in delivering ads.

Affiliate Programs - To manage my affiliate programs, I again use openads. The ads are rotated along with other paid ads and I get to make some income from my the affiliate programs which I promote. I also have my in house ads running along with these paid ads.

I create a campaign for each affiliate program I promote and add up all the information about the program to the campaign details. I may have different login details for different affiliate programs, so to avoid any confusions, I keep these information updated in the comments column of the campaign.

In this way, by using OpenAds, now known as openX, is good and efficient. There are lots of reporting tools available which can help you in monitoring the performance of your ads and affiliate programs.

OpenX is a opensource program, which can be downloaded for free.