Rotatee: Easy Banner Rotation

I have wrote in the past on how you can use images to get your best posts noticed by your blog visitors and also implemented that idea on my blogs. But I also wanted to rotate the images so that more posts could be noticed.

I tried out a few rotation WordPress plugins but they did not work well. So I contacted Shrihari, the guy who made the useful GotBanners plugin, and asked if he could make a plugin for this.

He contacted me some days later letting me know about his new site called Rotatee, which is a remotely hosted banner rotation service. You can use it to rotate ad banners on your website.

Rotatee can be considered as an easier and better alternative for GotBanners. I heard from a lot of users that they struggled to install GotBanners. But, with Rotatee, users can get going in three simple steps:

1) Create a campaign…
2) Add the ad codes and assign them a weight (probability of displaying)…
3) Get a one-line code to place on their website…

I’ve addressed a lot of GotBanners’ problems here on Rotatee. Rotatee can be used to do what GotBanners does. Also, it can be used to show one random banner at a time (like other systems) and anything in between “show 1″ and “show all”.

Also, there is a “weight” option to control the probability of showing a banner. Also, it was not possible to install multiple instances of GotBanners on the same blog. With, Rotatee this has been over come. Also, there are ways to style your ad spots easily.

Though Rotatee is a cool service that’s easy to use, it isn’t completely free. The basic account is limited to 5 Campaigns. So if you would like to create more than 5 Campaigns, you will have to upgrade to a PRO account. Luckily there is no limit on the number of banners that you can rotate.

So how much does a PRO account cost ?

The PRO account costs just $3.99 per month. You can save 20% by paying half-yearly ($19.99) and save 40% by paying annually ($28.99)

Apart from letting you rotate banners for your site, Rotatee also provides you with the total banner impressions along with a pie chart based on it.

Rotatee is currently in a closed beta and so to use it you will need an invite code. Luckily Shrihari was kind enough to give the readers of JohnTP.com a chance to try out his banner rotation service.

To try out Rotatee, just use the invite code “johntp“. Please note that this invite code will only work for the first 200 signups, so hurry!

If you would like to see Rotatee in action, check out my hardware review blog (I couldn’t use it here as the basic account has a limit of 5 Campaigns).

I hope Shrihari gives me a free PRO account now that I wrote about his site

Update: Shrihari just let me know that the “johntp” invite code will now work for 1000 signups