METHODS FOR SELECTING AND DISPLAYING ADVERTISING LINKS

摘要

A method for selecting one or more advertising links for incorporation into a web page of an affiliate website stored on an affiliate web server when the affiliate web server receives a request message from a browser of a computing device that requests the web page. In one implementation a control application running on an affiliate webserver facilitates the reception of the one or more advertising links and first information related to the one or more advertising links from one or more intermediary servers, the first information received from each of the one or more intermediary servers includes target geographic data for each of the advertising links and compensation information of each of the one or more intermediary servers payable to the content website upon the one or more advertising links being activated by the computing device. In one implementation the control application stores the one or more advertising links and the first information in a database and determines the geographic location of the computing device. In one implementation the control application then selects from among the one or more advertising links stored in the database one or more of the advertising links to be displayed on the web page, the one or more selected advertising links to be displayed on the web page being selected by a comparison of the target geographic data of the advertising links with the geographic location of the computing device and a comparison of the compensation information associated with each of the one or more advertising links. In one implementation, upon the control application inserting the selected one or more links into the web page it causes the web server to transmit to the browser of the computing device the web page together with the selected one or more links.