
Image Rotator
Flash source files are included, but the only items that need to be edited are the image files and the messages that accompany each image, and that is done in an easy to edit XML file.
Within the XML file you can choose from assorted transitions, assign font color, font positioning and more.
AdSense
A Professional Design that will make your site stand out from the rest. XHTML valid and search engine friendly. Photoshop PSD files included. Royalty free images provided by Media Design. Services.
Affiliate Marketing
Strict, CSS, WCAG 1.0 AAA and Section 508 Accessible. Spiders love content.
Optimization equals higher placement.
Media Design #18 Affiliate Advertising YouTube Video
This site requires the Flash Player.
This template offers a YouTube video player for viewing YouTube video files.Easy to edit XML file allows you to simply paste in the url address of the YouTube video you want to view.
Add as many videos as you want and select them from a scrolling menu at the bottom of the player. Add the power of video content to your web site with our user friendly YouTube video player.
The player is designed to display video at a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels.
Affiliate marketing and advertising is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts, which in most cases involve displaying affiliate advertising banners.
This affiliate advertising template is designed to make it easier for you to implement your affiliate ad banners or AdSense code through the use of additional include files or library items.
This allows for easier editing when changing or adding advertising content to your site.
Search's Golden Triangle
In a study conducted by Eyetools Eyetracking, the key location on Google for visibility as determined by the eye activity in the study is a triangle that extends from the top of the results over to the top of the first result, then down to a point on the left side at the bottom of the "above the fold" visible results. This key area was looked at by 100 percent of the participants. In the study, this was referred to as the "Golden Triangle".
This template includes an ad block placed in the Golden Triangle area for optimal ad exposure.
Types of Affiliate Programs
There are a multitude of affiliate programs available that cover almost every possible topic or category.
AdSense is probably the most well known and the most popular offering a Pay Per Click (PPC) program utilizing contextual advertising, whereby ad code is pasted into your web page and Google spiders the text content of your page in order to display relevant ads.
Other popular programs include Clickbank, Commission Junction and Share a Sale, just to mention a few.
Ad Blocks
This template is set up using two ad blocks in the left column and another block at the top of the content section on the sub page. The sub page block is designed to display banner type ads with the dimensions of 468 x 60 pixels. Each block currently contains image file samples of ads. Replace the image files with your AdSense code or your banner.
Setting Up AdSense
First you will need to apply for an AdSense account. This can be done by going to:
http://adsense.google.com
After your account has been set up, you will need to login to your account manager and select AdSense Setup. Choosing AdSense for content will allow you to display contextual ads and/or image ads. Use the wizard to setup your ad and at the end of the process you will be able to copy your AdSense code and paste it into your ad blocks.
The ad blocks in the left column are set up for 250 x 250 pixel ads and the sub page ad block at the top of the content area is set up for 468 x 60 ads.
Features
- Two page layouts included - index.htm and subpage1.htm.
- Templates compatible with Expression Web.
- Include pages used for the top header, bottom footer and the navigation column.
- One embedded Flash Image Rotator that is edited through a user friendly XML file.
- Flash FLA files for editing the font and font size. ReadMe file included.
- SWF Object code used for Flash embedding and detection.
- Photoshop PSD files included.
- Cascading style sheet file.
- Royalty free images provided by Media Design Services.
- Tested in IE6, IE7, FireFox, Netscape and Opera.
- Validated XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS, WCAG 1.0 AAA and Section 508 Accessible.