Congratulations

You have created your Zone, added an Advertiser, built a Campaign, and supplied a Creative. Now comes the rewarding part — seeing all that work come together on your website.

Visit a page where the module created for your WaypointAds Zone is displayed. If your Campaign and Creative are active and their dates are valid, your advertisement should appear in the position you selected.

There it is. Your first WaypointAds advertisement is live.

Click the advertisement to make sure it takes you to the destination you entered for the Creative. Then reload the page and take another look. Behind the scenes, WaypointAds is already beginning to do the less exciting work of keeping track of what happens.

Add a Little Rotation

One Creative is enough to prove everything works, but you don't have to stop there.

Try adding another Creative of the same size to the Campaign. Once you have multiple eligible Creatives assigned to the same Zone, reload the page several times and watch WaypointAds rotate the advertisements.

This is a good opportunity to experiment. Add different images, give them appropriate destination URLs, and watch how several Creatives can share the same advertising space without requiring additional Zones.

Try the Wrong Size

You might also deliberately try something that shouldn't work.

Attempt to add an image whose dimensions do not match the size required by the Zone. WaypointAds checks the Creative against the advertising space and prevents an incorrectly sized image from being used there.

That protection becomes considerably more useful once you have several Zones and a growing collection of Creatives. You don't have to remember whether a particular image belongs in a 300 × 250, 728 × 90, or another advertising space. WaypointAds helps keep the wrong Creative out of the wrong Zone.

Take a Look at the Dashboard

After viewing and clicking your advertisement, return to the WaypointAds Dashboard.

You should begin to see activity associated with your advertising. As your site receives visitors and your advertisements are displayed, WaypointAds will continue recording their performance.

Don't expect impressive numbers immediately. You have only just switched the lights on.

You're Advertising

That's it. You have now followed the complete WaypointAds Core process from creating an advertising space to seeing a real advertisement displayed on your website.

From here, you can create additional Zones, Advertisers, Campaigns, and Creatives using the same principles you have just learned. You can place advertising in different areas of your site, add multiple Creatives for rotation, and begin building an advertising setup that suits your website.

But before racing off to create twenty-seven Zones and filling every available patch of screen with advertising, take a moment to enjoy this one.

You created it. WaypointAds served it. And your website is now advertising.

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