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by mistyone
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Hi there

I want to direct people from my site to an affiliate product but I don't know how to do it like it is set up here. I am using a wordpress theme called 'flexibility2' which is a brilliant theme and the creator has set up products in the feature box with links to a few products and he is receiving the credit as an affiliate. Here is the site Adsense Secret. Make money with Google Adsense. and if you hover over where it says "visit inlinks" you will see that you are going through flexibilitytheme.com/go/inlinks. When the page shows in the top URL bar you will see it says www inlinks.com/?ref=222379 I would like to set it up the same but with my affiliate code instead.

I thought I would use this as a template:

<html>
<head>
<title>PUT YOUR TITLE HERE</title>
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="PUT YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="PUT YOUR KEYWORDS HERE">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;
URL=http://http://www.inlinks.com/?ref=288408">

</head>
</html>

but it looks as though the creator of the theme hasn't used an html page to create his link, or is that because he has cloaked his link or has he done it some other way.

As you can see I am a complete newb at this and am probably on the wrong track altogether

Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated

Cheers
Viv
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Aloha Viv

    I did a "view source" on your site, the advertisers code is in this div:

    Code:
    <!-- This is the lower right side featured item in the feature section --> 
<div class="feat_box"> 
  <img src="http://www.adsensesecret.info/wp-content/themes/flexibility2/images/inlinks.png" style="float:right; margin-left:10px;" alt=""/><h2>Easy Blog Money</h2> 
  inLinks and Chitika are two of the best ways to make money with a blog, especially for beginner bloggers.<br/><br/> 
<a href="http://www.flexibilitytheme.com/go/inlinks/" target="_top"><strong>Visit inLinks</strong></a>&nbsp; | &nbsp;<a href="http://www.flexibilitytheme.com/go/chitika/" target="_top"><strong>Visit Chitika</strong></a> 
</div>
    Changing the "href=" statements here to your own site or affiliate link should do the trick.

    One thing I'd be tempted to do is change the "target" from "_top" to "_blank", this would cause the affiliate site to open in a new window or tab. I've never been fond of sending users away from my site!

    Hope this helps

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author mistyone
      Kia Ora Bill

      Thank you very much for your helpful answer to my question

      I am pleased that it requires only a couple of simple changes, ones I can easily do. It has been on my mind for ages and because I couldn't think how to switch the link to show my info I had shelved it, but then today I decided to ask my good warrior friends here, some of my more perplexing (for me :confused tasks that I wanted a resolution to and you have come to my rescue!

      Are you also able to help me with the other question I have posted in this forum see here: http://www.warriorforum.com/website-...-can-i-do.html

      And one more issue I haven't been able to sort out, is on this site: http:Free Internet Speed Test | Internet Speed Check. Yesterday I copied and pasted a new version of the speedtest over the existing code but for some reason, even though at the beginning of the object code there is <center> and the end </center> the object is still staying out to the side of the page. I don't know why it won't site in the middle with the adsense above and below it. What can you see that should be changed or that I might have changed?

      Cheers
      Viv
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Hi Viv

    If you removes the paragraph (<p> </p>) tags that surround the first image it will probably cause the 2nd one to appear beside it - your second "image" is actually a table so that's why I'm not 100% sure it will work. The very best method would be to define a set of DIV's in your style sheet to place these items within, you would then have absolute control over their position.

    As for your speed test, here is the code you currently have to implement it:
    Code:
    <center><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="337" height="250" id="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106" align="left"> 
	<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> 
	<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" /> 
	<param name="movie" value="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />	<embed src="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="337" height="250" name="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106" align="left" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /> 
	</object></center>
    The reason it is to the left is this line:

    Code:
    <embed src="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="337" height="250" name="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106" align="left" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
    The "align="left" should be changed to "align="center", the CSS statement supersedes the depreciated <CENTER> tags.

    Hope this helps!

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author mistyone
      Hi Bill

      Thank you once again for helping me.

      I did actually change in the speed test object the word from 'left' to 'center' yesterday when I updated the version of the speedtest code but it didn't make any difference. I even emptied the cache to make sure it wasn't that that was stopping it from changing. I do find the semiologic theme to be very difficult to work with. I purchased this site over a year ago and I am only now able to do some changes without screwing up the theme altogether I used to do that frequently, but luckily the lady that made the site gave me lots of extra support

      I have just tried it again, but to no avail. I emptied the cache as well but it is still sitting out to the left. Do you think I need to wait awhile for it to take effect? It is probably the theme, it does seem to react differently to making changes than other wordpress themes.

      Cheers
      Viv
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  • Profile picture of the author Mahumba
    Ha Ha Ha HA! I love your domain name!

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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Hi Viv

    Oops! Just noticed that there are TWO "align" tags within your speed test, they both need to be changed.

    I just tried this on one of my test servers and it seems to work, the final code was as follows:

    Code:
    <center><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="337" height="250" id="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106" align="center"> 
	<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> 
	<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" /> 
	<param name="movie" value="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />	<embed src="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="337" height="250" name="AuditMyPcSpeedTestv106" align="center" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /> 
	</object></center>
    See if that does the trick for you, on my example page the speed test is now in the center between the two sets of AdSense advertisements (which are also centered).

    Let me know if it works for you, all the best...

    Bill
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