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Bloggers Get Those 125×125 Ads

By Fennster • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Blogging Tips

If you visit my site often you may notice the new spots available for those infamous 125×125 photo ads. If you haven’t take a look at the sidebar on the right, ahh there you go. After doing some digging and for us Wordpress users there are a couple widgets/plugins that you can use. What if they don’t work properly on your site?

Here I explain a solution for those of you like myself had the same issue. I will throw out a small credit to the Bullshit Stalker for having the same set up on his blog. In my opinion I think it’s a little bit more work but in the end I believe it would work better than some of those widgets out there.

How to get the 125×125 ads on your site without a widget

  • First get yourself a Paypal account and upgrade to the business account ( costs you nothing to upgrade though they will take a small fee for each transaction placed).
  • Then click on Merchant Services tab up top of your “My Account” page
  • Then on the left click on Website Payments Standard and then click on subscriptions
  • You are going to create a subscription button. You can use your own custom image and even have it redirect to a thank you page after their purchase. Paypal does a great job of leading you through this phase of making your button.
  • Now that you have your subscription button code, simply go into your sidebar.php and add the code that was given to you for your subscription button in the area where you would like for it to appear.
  • That’s it!!! When someone clicks on your ad spot, they will automatically be redirected to Paypal with all your info to purchase. Now when someone has purchased a subscription to your advertisments, which I only have mine set for 1 month without a recurring payment, the recipient and yourself will get an email letting you know that someone has purchased an advertisment.

    I hope this help anyone that was having problems like myself with the widgets not working properly with the theme being used. If you have any questions please leave a comment and I will get back to you ASAP and help you out the best I can.

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      A detailed way to get those 125×125 ads on your site if the plugins aren’t working correctly…

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