Banner Ads Make Money
In this article I have discussed banner advertising as it relates to Blogger Blogspot blogs. You have learned a little about how affiliate programs work and how you might use banner ads on your own blog to make extra money. For tutorials on adding banner ads to your Blogger Blogspot blog please refer to Add Affiliate Banner Ads to a Blogger Sidebar and Add an Affiliate Banner to Blogger Header.
Add an Affiliate Banner to Blogger Sidebar
A lot of people want to make money from their blog and for this
reason want to learn how to insert affiliate banners into their Blogger
Blogspot blog. In this Blogger tutorial which is the first of a series I
will show you how to place a banner in the sidebar of your Blogger blog
(Blogspot blog).
Even if you are new to Blogger and have very
little technical knowledge this tutorial is still suitable for you as I
will guide you through every step in the process of adding a banner ad
to the sidebar of your Blogger blog.
How to Add an Affiliate Banner To the Sidebar of Your Blog
It is relatively easy to add an affiliate banner to the sidebar of your blog.
1. Sign up with an affiliate marketing program like Commission Junction and select your merchant
2. Decide on the size of the merchant banner
or banners you wish to display in your sidebar making sure that
whatever you choose will fit into the sidebar space otherwise your
banner ad may not display properly on your blog. Typical sizes suitable
for sidebars are:
- small rectangular banners 125x90 or 125x125
- square banners 200x200 (if space allows)
- short vertical banners 120x200
- long column style skyscraper bnnners 120x600 or 160x600
3. Choose your banner and you will be presented with the merchant code to display the banner. Right click to select all and right click again to copy the code to the clipboard of your computer
4. In a new window login to Blogger and navigate to Design > Page Elements
5. Click on Add a Gadget
in the sidebar. If you are using a customized template you may have 2
different sidebars so decide which you want the banner ad to display in.
6. Select HTML/Javascript widget from the Add a Gadget menu
7.
Place your mouse in the content box of the Configure HTML/Javascript
widget and right click. Choose paste to insert the merchant code of
your banner ad into the content box
8. In the title box add a Title like Sponsored Ads if you wish otherwise leave it blank
9. Click on Save
10.
Using Blogger's drag and drop feature to pick up your new
HTML/Javascript widget and position it where you want your banner ad to
show up in your sidebar.
11. Save your layout
12. Click on View Blog to see you new banner ad in action.
Add Space Between Your Banner Ads
If
you want more space between your banner ad and the previous widget you
can add <p> before the code your inserted in the HTML/Javascript
widget. If you need even more add another <p>
To Center Your Advertising Banner
If you want to center your banner ad insert <center> before the merchant code and </center> after it.
Add More Than One Banner
If
you want to add more than one banner ad to the same widget you can just
by pasting the code for the second banner ad below the first lot of
code. If you want some white space between the banners ads insert
<p> between each lot of code.
Troubleshooting
Your Banner Does Not Display
Your
banner ad should appear right away. If your banner ad doesn't display
at all then there is a problem with the widget you have just created.
Retrace your steps making sure you have got all the code.
Only Placeholder for the Banner Displays
If
you see a placeholder but no ad displays then the affiliate website may
be off line or there is a problem with the code in some way. Go back
and make sure you copied all of the code correctly
In
this Blogger tutorial you have learned how to add an affiliate marketing
advertisement banner to the sidebar of your Blogger blog (Blogspot
blog) and about some common problems that you may encounter. In my next
tutorials on banner advertising I will show you how to place a banner
in a variety of other spots on your blog including the footer, above the
first post and in the header. Why not bookmark this site so you can
return easily?
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