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Adding Clickbank HopAds To Your Blogs

We all know that Google Adsense generates a small income and that Clickbank pays affiliates a percentage of any products that are sold via our affiliate links. I decided that of the two, I would rather have the Clickbank ads displayed on my blog, as it has the potential to earn me far more than Google Adsense.

I had noticed that some of the Masterclass students had Clickbank ads instead of Google Adsense. So yesterday I got in touch with Michael Haught of michaelhaught.com and asked him about the Clickbank ads on his blog, as I was very impressed by them. He replied, telling me that it’s a free tool from Clickbank.

So this morning I looked into it, and have now set it up on my blog, it took about 30 minutes to complete and I was amazed at just how simple it was to do.

This is how I done it:

I logged into my Clickbank account and clicked on the Account settings tab, from there I selected HopAd Builder (far right).

From the next window I selected Text Ads Builder and filled it in accordingly.

Once I had completed this task I copied the script into notepad and saved it in my Masterclass folder.

I then went into my WordPress admin panel and selected Appearance, then editor, (on the left), and then I selected Sidebar (sidebar.php) from the right hand side.

When the sidebar code appeared I right clicked and selected all, then copied and pasted it to a fresh notepad doc so that if I made any mistakes I could correct them by returning the code to its original settings. That is very important as the last thing you want to do is mess it all up and not have the original code to fall back on.

In the sidebar 1 text, (near the top), I found <?php include(‘adsense_sidebar.php’) ?> and highlighted it. I then replaced it by pasting in the HopAd code, and clicked the Update file button at the bottom.

I then went to my blog to check my work and noticed that I only had 3 rows of adverts and that they were encroaching to sidebar 2. So not to be put off I returned to my wordpress admin panel and changed some of the HopAd code.

Height was set at 250 so I changed it to 730

Width was set at 250 so I changed it to 160

Rows were set at 3 so I changed it to 15

After each change I clicked the Update file button, returned to my blog and refreshed the page.

When I was happy with the look I decided to write a post about it, I can feel a song coming on……ha ha.

I hope that you find this post helpful, please feel free to leave your comments.

Until next time,
Barry Wells



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17 Responses to “Adding Clickbank HopAds To Your Blogs”

  1. This is a great oportunity to make more profit instead of adsense, if you look at the big guys in IM I can say that most of the do not have adsense on their sites, so that should tell you something, thank you for the information, I’m sure that it will help a lot of people on thier decision, adsense vs. hopad, Thank you again!

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  2. Another good post Barry, and thanks for the tip about the ad size, will check my ad to make sure no wider than 160. I like the look of the clickbank ads you have on your site too, may combine them with my site too.

    Good luck

    Regards

    Dave

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  3. Hi Barry,

    This is really helpful, thank you. I think I will go and do the same!

    Enjoy the journey.

    Mandy

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  4. Hi Barry,
    I love the idea of having more control over which ads are on my blog. Thanks for the info. I’m on my way to Clickbank.

    By the way, nice blog with great content. Keep it up.

    I’ll be back,
    Gayla

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  5. Hey Barry, Thanks for stopping through. I like the idea of the hopads. Nice info here. Bet I’ll do the same.Also thanks for the sizing descript. as it always helps us newbies. Keep it up and Great Work. Hope to partner up in the future so keep me in mind.
    Cragar

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  6. Excellent post Barry – I’ve followed your instructions and added clickbank ads to my blogs. I have a couple of alterations to suggest:
    1. The titles are a darker blue than your blog theme. If you change the hopfeed_link_font_colour from 3300FF to 3366FF they match your blog better (but if you want them to stand out – leave them as they are).
    2. If you change the hopfeed_height to 1400 it will fit 15 rows in.
    (I know – I need to get out more!)

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  7. Barry,
    Thanks so much for this post. I also noticed this on other blogs and wanted to know how to do it. I’ll give it a try.

    Ann
    http://www.ann-martinez.com

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  8. Hi Barry
    Thanks for the heads up. I had tried this before but got it wrong.
    Thanks to your clear instructions I now have the clickbank ads on my blog.
    Cheers
    Steve
    http://steveking.biz

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  9. Very, very useful Barry,
    Thanks for taking the time and trouble to make this easy-to-follow video. I now have Clickbank ads on my site. I particularly liked having control over how the ads looked, including the colour scheme.
    Thanks again, and good luck with your business.
    John

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  10. Thanks a bunch Barry for this post. Great info to make more money instead of the few cents from Google adsense. The instructions were perfect and easy to follow.

    Thanks again,
    Ron

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  11. Liked the post, thanks for the information! I’m a bartender so I have to use the web at breaks at work. I don’t usually like to write comments but loved the post. Awesome stuff!, I bookmarked your site!

    Thanks Nigel, I’m glad that you enjoyed it.
    I’ll keep them coming,

    Regards, Barry

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  12. hey this is a very interesting article!

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  13. Please, can you tell me few more things about this, I am really a fan of your blog… Thank you.

    Hi What would you like to know

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  14. I really liked your blog!

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  16. Been researching this for a while. Thanks for the info!

    Hi Jeremy
    You’re very welcome, I hope it helps.

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  17. I use Clickbank together with Infolinks on my Blog. You can earn a lot in Clickbank if you just concentrate more on US traffic.

    Hi Blake
    Thanks for stopping by and leaving your tip.

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