Website Tutorial - Inserting Banners.

Inserting banners on website pages.

Banners can come in various formats and are often added to creatives within various advertising campaigns.

For instance if you are promoting other peoples products on your site through an affiliate program the vendor of the product has usually set up a set of creatives for you to use on your site to advertise the product.

Within the list of creatives there are often image banners and/or flash banners for you to choose from.
Once you choose the banner you want to place on your site - the code for the banner is created with your affiliate ID inserted [this tracks your visitors interactions so that you can get credit for sales] automatically and you are asked to copy and paste it to your site.

This code must be pasted into the source code in the same way as we pasted the video code into our source code. Refere to video code insert instructions.

It is advisable to check the code for the banner to make sure that you will get credit for a visit or sale from a visitor to your site who you refered via the banner. You will recognise your affiliate ID within the code, just check that it is correct before pasting it into your website code.

I have highlighted my ID for you to see in the banner code I was given to paste to my page below.

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.paypal.com/au/mrb/pal=WJFMUJZQ7H968">
<img alt="Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly."
src="http://images.paypal.com/en_AU/i/bnr/paypal_mrb_banner.gif" 
border="0" height="60" width="468" /></a>

Once I paste the above code into my pages source code the following banner will
appear. I added the text above the banner.

TIP: 

The image of the banner does not reside on your website. You have created a link to the banner image which resides on the vendors site. If your vendors site has a problem or moves the image to a different file location on his/her site - your banner will dissapear - leaving a blank space on your site or an unavailable image box with a red x in it. Therefore it is in your interest to check that the banners are up and running on a regular basis. If you find a banner has disappeared  contact the vendor and let them know that their banner code is no longer working on your site. If you don't get a response within 12 hours - remove the code from your site.


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