Most publishers, creators, and website owners choose to have our team take care of everything to set up the ads, but you have the option to install the ads yourself with our team’s guidance. If you’d like to get a better understanding of the self-install process, please use the links below:
- Self-installation: Wordpress sites (using the Raptive plugin)
- Self-installation: Non-Wordpress sites
For now, we’ll specifically focus on the most common scenario, where we install the ads for you so you can sit back and relax!
On your start date with Raptive, you’ll hear from one of our install experts to let you know we’re about to log in to your site and start working.
- We’ll set up your ads.txt file
- An ads.txt file lists the advertisers we partner with who are authorized to sell your ad spaces. It’s crucial to helping you earn well! We set up a redirect to your ads.txt file, which is hosted on our servers.
- If you were already running ads, we’ll remove ads from your previous ad provider.
- We’ll do this at the same time we’re setting up your new Raptive ads to minimize ANY downtime in ad earnings.
- We’ll set up custom placements for your Raptive ads.
- If you use WordPress, we’ll install the Raptive Ads WordPress plugin. If you don’t use WordPress, we’ll add a snippet of code in the header of your site.
- Either way, your ad placements are all set up on our end and automatically added to the right spot on the page targeting HTML elements—this lets us make any adjustments quickly and easily!
- We’ll add a ‘Raptive Partner Site’ badge in the footer of your site.
- This is placed through the Raptive plugin or code. This badge is used to inform high-paying advertisers that your site is part of the Raptive community, making you more money.
- In addition, the following will be added to your site:
- A “Do not sell or share my personal information” link to help keep you aligned with privacy laws like CCP/CPRA. Details here.
- A link to our “Terms of Content Use” (learn more here), which establishes your content as proprietary property, signaling to third parties—like AI platforms—not to copy or reproduce it without your permission.
We’ll verify that your ad layout is set up exactly the way we talked about and everything is running smoothly and looks great on the page.
Then we’ll ask you to take a look at your site and make sure you love it too—we’re more than happy to work with you to make any tweaks or changes you need.