Weird WordPress Experiment - I made my OWN AdSense
Not too long ago I talked about how I'd swapped out a lot of my AdSense stuff with affiliate ads. I'm lazy, so I was using ClickBank's HopAd builder at first, and it works well, but the ads are not really all that great, and they don't have ads for every product.
For the niches that did have good ads and lots of them, that was working awesome.
For the others, not so much.
So here's what I did.
I did a bunch of Google searches for my keywords and copied all the Google Ads that came up. I kept all the ones that would also apply to the affiliate products I wanted to promote, and rewrote and tweaked as necessary.
I bulk loaded the ads all into a non-public WordPress installation I use to remix and distribute content. Each ad was set as its own post, and all to the same category. The "headline" of the ad is the subject of the post, and the rest goes into the body.
Then I set up "Old Post Promoter" plugin to randomly move an old ad to the top every once in a while, so that the order of the ads change and they all get action in the RSS feed.
I then used a plugin called something like "Page Links To" and set each Ad Post to re-direct to my desired affiliate link.
So now what I can take that category-specific feed URL from my "feeder" WordPress and use it in RSS widgets on any of my other blogs, including Blogger ones (where they have worked particularly well).
Using a plugin called RSSImport, I'm currently tweaking a way to include that same ad content directly in the content of the posts as well using shortcodes.
Pros:
I control all the ads and their destinations
I get the advantage of using AdWords more successful ads to promote my own stuff
I can use the one RSS across my whole network
Cons:
Not as fully randomly displayed as AdSense
A little bit (but just a little bit) of setup required
Not actually contextual - I've had to make separate "ad channels" for each niche I'm doing this with.
Anyway, this has been one of my more successful recent experiments, and it's been a while since I'd posted (or even visited much) here.
Hope some people find this one useful.
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