Overloading AdSense Deluxe
You can do more with AdSense Deluxe than you might think. In programming, giving an object more power than it was originally intended is known as overloading. You can overload AdSense deluxe to show affiliate links
If you are just using AdSense deluxe to display AdSense on your site you are missing out. Often times, targeted affiliate links can pay more than AdSense. AdSense is great for catching the slop and giving you contextual ads, but if you insert the ads as you write the posts, you can make them as contextual as you want.
For instance, if I was writing a post about web hosting, I might use AdSense Deluxe to insert the ads
IxWebHosting 2 free domain registrations & only $3.95/month
StartLogic Only $5.95/month
Web Hosting 300 GB Web Space, $6.95/mo
In my site
AdSense Deluxe doesn’t show AdSense, it inserts blocks of HTML!
There is no reason to limit yourself to just showing AdSense ads with this tool. Although it was designed for AdSense, what it really does is easily insert blocks of html into your posts. So you can create a copy different ad categories and paste in your affiliate html instead of AdSense Code.
For instance, for the above web hosting links, I created an ad block and named it
Webhost
I insert the ad into my site by inputting the html
<!–adsense#Webhost–>
And voila, I overload AdSense Deluxe into becoming Ad Deluxe
In the future, I will find some affiliate programs that I really like, break them into categories, and make use of those in some places instead of AdSense. If it ever turns out that a particular program isn’t very good, I can replace it using AdSense Deluxe without having to go into each individual post one at a time
on June 25th, 2007 at 6:00 am
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on June 27th, 2007 at 4:23 am
A tip is to create generic titles for your affiliate links (i.e. web hosts, domain name registers, link brokers) rather than a specific company. This means that if you drop one affiliate partner and replace it with another, you don’t have to go back through all of you old posts and edit the links.
on June 28th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
That is a handy tip. I know my affiliate programs come and go frequently, so anything that saves me time edited previously written pages is a boon.