Webmasters are trying out different ways to attract guest authors.And starting a revenue sharing program is one big attraction that could pull many new guest authors.We have already started 100% adsense revenue sharing program for both Techpraveen & Geekyard sites.I thought of writing an article of making a blog revenue sharing so other bloggers can benefit out of this article 😉
In this tutorial I will provide step by step instruction on how install and configure Author Advertising Plugin and make a blog revenue sharing.
What is this plugin all about?
Author Advertising WordPress Plugin allows webmasters to create a revenue sharing program.There are many advertising programs out there i.e Yahoo, Google Adsense, Amazon etc.Ok, lets now set up a revenue sharing blog.
Step 1: Install Author Advertising Plugin
- Goto Dashboard –> Plugins –> Add new.
- Search for “Author Advertising”
- Click Install and Activate the plugin.
Step 2:Run SQL query in phpMyAdmin
- Now goto WordPress dashboard –> Settings –> Author Advertising Config.
- You can see a warning just copy that CODE.
- Run the copied code in SQL query of your phpmyadmin. If you are on Dreamhost, then refer to this post How To Access phpMyAdmin In Dreamhost.
- After entering phpMyAdmin.Select a database and paste the copied code as shown below,
- Click Go button.You will get a information saying your SQL query has been executed successfully.
- That’s it the rest of the steps are simple 🙂
Step 3: Create a 300 x 250 Google Ad Slot
- Open your Google adsense account.
- Set up a new 300 x 250 Ad slot according to your site appearance.
Step 4: Configure Google Adsense Code
- Now, open the Author Advertising Config page and do the following settings.
- Enter Publisher ID and set Admin percentage.Click Contributor under allowed roles.Don’t know how to find Google Pub id? Checkout this article.
- Enter Title, page content,Google slot no etc.
- Tick Custom fields.
Step 5: Setting up Advertising Code
- Now, copy the 300 x 250 ad code that you created in Step 3 and paste it in the Ad Place 1 text area but make the following changes to this code.
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “%pubid%”;
/* Techpraveen Top */
google_ad_slot = “%custom1%”;
google_ad_width = 300;
google_ad_height = 250;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>
I changed the pub-id number to %pubid% and google_ad_slot number to %custom1%
- Click on Save Changes.
Step 6: Enter the code in your WordPress template
- Now, goto Appearance –> Editor –> Single.php code and enter the following code where you want the 300 x 250 text ad to appear.
<?php kd_template_ad(1); ?>
- Save the template.
Finally checkout how to add Google AdSense into Your Posts.
That’s it 🙂
thank you , i want to try to my blog, revenue sharing hmm… it is if i install it will get more traffic ?
I think no. Traffic depends on the quality of the Content and how well you promote it 🙂 Revenue sharing is just a way to increase the post frequency. 🙂
Thanks for sharing ,i agree with you that wordpress is really working very well and i am sure this post will also bring more bloggers to this plugin ..
thanks for sharing these nice informative post …this post really make more people able to organize such blogs
Thank you very much for the info. I have been looking for this info for the last few days. Your efforts are appreciated.
thanks for sharing this tutorial looking forward to make my own blog a revenue sharing bog
Thanks! the steps are clear and simple. At first sight. I’ll try them and may be later share my experience 🙂
Arun the plugin will work fine 🙂
hi nice info, i have added to my blog. I have one doubt will the plugin work if we upgrade wordpress
I really like your blog.Thanks for sharing such a wonderful information.