Tuesday, August 15, 2006
How To Put Banners On Your Blog
One way to advertise on your blog is by putting Flash Banners on your blog.
How can you do that? you must be wondering, I have no HTML skills at all.
It's a lot easier then you'd think. The Poker Rooms want to make it simple for you to promote their rooms, so people don't get annoyed or disheartened. When you sign up with an affiliate program you will have a User Control Panel. Somewhere in there there will be a section called Marketing Materials, Marketing Tools or simply Banners. In this section there will be a big display of Banners of many different sizes. The Width is shown first, and length second. ( So a 480x60 banner will be very wide and thin, while a 80x640 banner will be long and thin) .
Once you click on a banner there will be a button saying something like 'GENERATE CODE' This will then generate some HTML code with your details included. This will mean that anyone who clicks on the banner will be logged with you. It is important you do not change this at all as it could mean players not being tracked to you.
Now using Copy and Paste, Copy the entire code shown. You now have choices of where to put this code in your blog. If you want you can just put it in an article. Like this banner here.
To do this I simply switched to EDIT HTML in the Create Post section of Blogger and then Pasted the code in. It has automatically come up like that, and it took me 10 seconds.
If you feel this is too intrusive you can also put the banner in the sidebar.
This is slightly more tricky but easier then you might imagine.
You need to first go to the Template section of your blog. Then look for the section of the HTML for your template that has the sidebar in it. It's about 3/4 of the way down the page. if you can see the section where links go or the archives, then it is best to place the banner after that. If you just copy and paste the HTML code in somewhere around there. When pasted in it should look like the banners in the sidebar on this site. Experiment with different ones until you find one that suits you. Use the preview button as well so you can see what it looks like before you go saving things and screwing thngs up. If you ever change your template you will need to redo your banners as well.
How can you do that? you must be wondering, I have no HTML skills at all.
It's a lot easier then you'd think. The Poker Rooms want to make it simple for you to promote their rooms, so people don't get annoyed or disheartened. When you sign up with an affiliate program you will have a User Control Panel. Somewhere in there there will be a section called Marketing Materials, Marketing Tools or simply Banners. In this section there will be a big display of Banners of many different sizes. The Width is shown first, and length second. ( So a 480x60 banner will be very wide and thin, while a 80x640 banner will be long and thin) .
Once you click on a banner there will be a button saying something like 'GENERATE CODE' This will then generate some HTML code with your details included. This will mean that anyone who clicks on the banner will be logged with you. It is important you do not change this at all as it could mean players not being tracked to you.
Now using Copy and Paste, Copy the entire code shown. You now have choices of where to put this code in your blog. If you want you can just put it in an article. Like this banner here.
To do this I simply switched to EDIT HTML in the Create Post section of Blogger and then Pasted the code in. It has automatically come up like that, and it took me 10 seconds.
If you feel this is too intrusive you can also put the banner in the sidebar.
This is slightly more tricky but easier then you might imagine.
You need to first go to the Template section of your blog. Then look for the section of the HTML for your template that has the sidebar in it. It's about 3/4 of the way down the page. if you can see the section where links go or the archives, then it is best to place the banner after that. If you just copy and paste the HTML code in somewhere around there. When pasted in it should look like the banners in the sidebar on this site. Experiment with different ones until you find one that suits you. Use the preview button as well so you can see what it looks like before you go saving things and screwing thngs up. If you ever change your template you will need to redo your banners as well.
# posted by owenblue @ 4:19 AM 
