Wordpress Wednesdays: MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad
Posted on January 9th, 2008
There are countless strategies for blog monetization, so we’re always on the lookout for newer and better methods to make money online. There’s Adsense, of course, as well as paid posts, text link ads, banner ads, and so much more. In keeping with having more options, the MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad Wordpress plug-in allows you to integrate a narrow strip ad across the top of your site. You may have seen similar advertising on popular sites like Engadget and Autoblog.
The customization options are plentiful. After installing and activating the Stripe Ad plug-in, you can adjust its appearance through the advanced settings. This includes the font type, size, and color, as well as the color of the stripe itself.
The other cool feature is that you can set an unlimited number of ads (you can also use the plug-in to promote a contest you may be holding or maybe a particularly poignant post that you’d like to share) into rotation, providing each with a certain “weight” so that the randomness leans in your favor. Presumably, ads with weight 2 are shown twice as often as those with weight 1. The scale runs from 1-10. You can see the plug-in in action on my blog; I’m using it to promote Bluefur, my RSS feed, and my advertising page.
The plug-in is absolutely free, but the process of getting it is a little more involving that other free Wordpress plug-ins. First, it is necessary to have a (free) account with MaxBlogPress. To get one of those, you’ll need to provide your name and email address, after which a message will arrive in your mailbox with a confirmation link. Click on the confirmation link and you’ll be directed to a “one time offer” page. You can pretty much ignore this, because a second email is on the way with your download link and password.
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John chow put this ad strip on his blog a couple a days ago and now aload of blogs use it.
sean
Any reason why you didn’t mention the part about getting rid of the “Powered by MaxBlogPress”?
Sounds like a good tutorial for your site
No reason in particular, no. Here are the instructions from, well, you.
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Looks like it’s licensed under GNU GPL to me (it’s got a readme.txt that’s for the official WP Plugin repo, which all plugins in there must be GPL). So just open up maxblogpress-stripe-ad.php, and replace lines 297 and 299 with:
$powered_by = ”;
It’s perfectly legal if it is licensed under the GPL, which it appears to be, although doesn’t specifically say anywhere.
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I should note that you can fill the empty field with whatever you want. On my blog, I switched it to “Click X to close this message –>”