The post today is going to be a short one.  I am going to give you 3 examples to look at.  It’s a relatively simple process to place advertisement on your web site.  You should do so for 2 reasons.  Number one, because the banners and links you place on your site can make you money.  Two, because it makes your web page look more professional.

You also need to know that when a search engine spider comes by to crawl your site, it reads each page in the order that you see it in the “Source” tab.  This means that if you have a table with 3 cells (1 row with 3 columns), the spider reads the left hand in it’s entirety from top to bottom then it reads the next cell (or column).  So, you can’t put any information in column 1 because it will be indexed in the search engine.  The description of your web site should be at the top of the first page (sometimes called and index) and normally this description is typed out in the middle column.  You will see the website description in my examples.  You should know enough about Nvu by now, that you can add this information by yourself.  (CLICK HERE)

I am going to use 3 advertisements from “Commission Junction” as our examples.  Commission Junction is one place you as an affiliate need to become familiar with.  Here is the link so you can join if you are not already a member.  http://www.cj.com.  I am not going to cover how to create Commission Junction links.  They have their own tutorial and you should use it.  I will be getting my links from their site and placing them on our template.

First, I am going to use a skyscraper.  It takes up a lot of space on the left hand side.  You can add other links, but make sure the are banners so the search engines bypass them to get to your description.

To add the links, you will be using the “insert” tab located at the top of the Nvu navigation bar.  Click on it and select “HTML”  (CLICK HERE).  A square input box will then appear.  All you need to do is to paste the html code that you copied from Commission Junction (or any html code you like) into that box and press insert. (CLICK HERE).  Your new advertisement will appear in the area you specified.  (CLICK HERE).

Last step is for you to get two more ads to place in the right hand column.  Here is what my example looks like (CLICK HERE).

Go to the web and see what it looks like on the Internet.  (CLICK HERE).  Play around with it.  You can make your page look any way you want.

In the next post, I will teach you how you can make a header graphic for your web site using a free program.

Until my next post………………………hope your making money!!

Henry Michaels

Tags: webpage, advertisment

In today’s lesson, I will show you how you and take your Adsense code and make it look like the navigational links you created yesterday. This trick may get you a few extra Adsense clicks that you might not normally get. Joel Comm in his book “Adsense Secrets” tells how he uses this same blending technique to make 2 to 3 thousand dollars on each one of his sites. Your about to learn the same technique.

Pull up your template that you saved yesterday using your Nvu software. Let’s change the size of the left hand column to a more equal width. (CLICK HERE) to see where you start. Put your cursor over the “Home” link and press you enter key once to shift the line down. Now right click on your cursor and highlight and choose “Table Cell Properties…”. It will bring up a new menu. Change the “width” of the cell to even out the web page. In my example (CLICK HERE), I am going to change it to “162″ (CLICK HERE). This will even out the entire page (CLICK HERE).

Next you need to divide your links because you are now going to insert the Adsense code. First divide the links (CLICK HERE). You see where I put the word “here” in the middle. You will use this to identify where you will be placing the Adsense code in the “Source” tab.

Now, let’s go get the Adsense code that you will need for your web site. We will have to create a custom code because the default is blue and you want to have your links appear in black. If you have not applied for an Adsense account you can do so by clicking here. Once you have your account set up you need to create “Adsense for Content” Links (CLICK HERE).

The next page you come to is this one (CLICK HERE). This is where you need to pick between two formats for Adsense. You need to select the bottom one so you can get the code that will give you a link format for your navigation area. You will need to select the size “120 x 90″ and choose 4 links. Don’t choose 5 as the links will look very small compared to the size of your navigation links that you have on your template right now (CLICK HERE). You will also have to change the the “LINKS” hexadecimal code to 6 Zeros “000000″. When you add the zero’s, the box will turn black to confirm that you have changed the color. Look to the lower left hand side of the screen and you will now see how they will appear on your site. Press continue and you will be at a page entitled “Choose Ad Channels”. This is an individual choice. You can choose to track each and every Adsense Ad that you create. If you don’t want to do this, then press the continue button one more time.

The last thing you need to do at this point to just press the button at the bottom that says “Submit and Get Code”. The next page will have your Adsense Code that you will need for your navigation area. Copy everything in the code and put it on Note Pad and save it to your desktop. Give it any name you want. You will want to save it in case you need to go back a step.

Ok, now that you have your Adsense Code, go back to your Nvu program and choose the “Source” Tab. It will look like this (CLICK HERE). Get rid of the “<br>” and the “here<br>”. The <br> is a line break. It tells your browser to shift down a line. This is what happens when you hit your enter key. The word “here” was the one we put in when we divided the links. It’s only purpose is to show you where you will be placing the Adsense code.

Now insert your code. This is what it looks like after the code is placed (CLICK HERE). Go back to the normal tab and put the word “Here” in the middle area. This is our next landmark so we can see where we will be pasting our article.

Remember when I showed you how to wrap text around an advertisement. I am going to use that one as our example. You can use the project you completed at that time or if you want just write your own new text. I wanted to show you how the wrapped text look when it is combined with a formated web page. In case you missed the article you can read it here (CLICK HERE).

Locate the text wrap example and copy the content code (CLICK HERE) and (CLICK HERE)

Copy and paste both into this area (CLICK HERE)

Now you can see an example of what today’s lesson looks like: (CLICK HERE).

Next lesson, we will be adding affiliate links and banners to both sides of the web page.

Until my next post………….hope your making money!!

Henry Michaels

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