Ok, I’ve had this site for a while. Upon my first introduction to Adsense, I was pretty excited. I mean after all, I may make some money just because people are browsing my site. And, since this is a WordPress site, there are tons of ways to integrate Google Adsense ads easily.
Recently, I ran across affiliate marketing. For those of you that don’t know, affiliate marketing can work similar to Adsense, except instead of making money from someone clicking on a banner, you will make money from someone clicking on a banner, then buying something.
So, the first question you may think is, “With Adsense, I always make money, with an affiliate link I won’t.” This is true. But, I’ve looked at the money I’ve made through adsense and it doesn’t amount to more than $5 over a period of several months.
So, I thought wow, that’s pennies. Then it dawned on me. If just one person bought something (from links or images that look identical to Adsense ads) I would make that amount of money or even more with one sale.
So, today, I made the leap. I removed all Adsense ads from this site. Ok, I may be crazy. But, I figured it’s worth the chance.
So, the first thing I did before proceeding was figure out how I could do this easily with WordPress. And, to my smiling eyes, I found the Advertising Manager plugin.
So, how does the Advertising Manager plugin help? Well, I’ve added several of my affiliate links and banners to the plugin. It was an extremely easy process. And, I’ve set it up so they will rotate! So, they will function similar to Adsense. And the BIG bonus. I can customize which affiliate ads display with each post I write. Wow, focused ads on my own articles. Also, I had difficulty figuring out what to do. After I did it one time, everything was easy. Here are the instructions for Advertising Manager just in case
So, if you’re not doing this yet, consider it. I’ll keep you posted on how it works.
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We weren’t getting any traffic to the forums or the classifieds area, so I took these down. I’ve also removed the text link ads plugin and removed the Kontera plugin. The combination of removing all of this should speed up the site and let everyone focus more on the content.
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If you’re sending out a campaign, and you need to add an image with an image map, you can do it.
Hopefully, you’re familiar with HTML. If not, don’t worry. The main things to remember when creating this email are as follows:
- Place your image on the internet somewhere. You’ll have to reference it in the HTML of your email. You don’t want to try and put the image in the actual email. So, the src will look something like this: src=”http://www.parttimewebmaster.com”
- Within the <img /> tag you will have to place the usemap attribute. For example, usemap=”mymap”
- You’ll of course have to create the map. If you’re doing this by hand, you may want to get out a piece of paper. Do a fake drawing of your image and start drawing out where the areas will be. Otherwise, it is a little hard to do when writing the HTML.
So, what do I do. I’d recommend creating an html/web page on your desktop of the email. Add the image map, image and all of the text of your email. Construct the page, then test it in a browser.
If possible, I’d use some type of web page creation software that will make all of this easier. Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc. It will save you a lot of time.
If you don’t have software, you can always do it on your own. There’s some free software here: http://download.cnet.com/Imagemap-Applet-Builder/3000-10247_4-8401917.html?tag=lst-4-3
Here’s an example:
If you had a square image with a width an height of 400, here’s a simple example of what the html code will look like divided into 4 squares:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<!– HERE’S MY MAP –>
<map name=”mymap”>
<area shape=”rect” coords=”0,0,200,200″ alt=”top left” href=”http://dotnetprogramming.blospot.com/” />
<area shape=”rect” coords=”200,0,400,200″ alt=”top right
href=”http://bvcommerce.blogspot.com/” />
<area shape=”rect” coords=”0,200,200,400″ alt=”bottom left”
href=”http://roostersatlantacoupon.blogspot.com/” />
<area shape=”rect” coords=”200,200,400,400″ alt=”bottom right”
href=”http://www.parttimewebmaster.com/” />
</map>
<img src=”http://www.parttimewebmaster.com/logo.gif” usemap=”mymap” border=”0″/>
</body>
</html>
Ok, we use an affiliate version of GoDaddy hosting. For a while now, it has seemed that our hosting was slow for WordPress. After reading on a completely unrelated topic, I think I found the answer.
I was reading an article by ShoeMoney. In it he talked about Kontera. Kontera will add those hyperlinks to your pages based on keywords. Specifically, it will underline the words, you scroll over the word and an ad will appear. He spoke of how this slows your site. And because not a lot of money was made on Kontera, I figured I’d remove it from the site.
Well, once I removed Kontera from the site, this site sped up considerably. So, hope this helps!
Yes, this post seems a little out of place. I always get a haircut here. I received an email from them today talking about their refer a friend coupon. Then it dawned on me, can this be done with the affiliate marketing style? So, talked to the owner and ended up creating a blog that has a coupon for 50% off. So, if you do like a good haircut and your in Atlanta, try out Rooster’s. To get 50% off your haircut, I’ve loaded a coupon here: http://roostersatlantacoupon.blogspot.com for the Roosters coupon.
