How to Add Google AdSense and Advertising Banners to your Elgg Powered Social Network
Making Money from Social Networking is something that you would love to do, Specially if you have done a successful steps by working hard to keep members satisfied with your social network application, and some of you may think it’s the time to Make Money from My Social Network!
I got lots of emails asking me about how to add Google AdSense to Elgg powered social network they own and run by themselves and would like to earn money from AdSense, and 125×125 banner ads that they may want to sale or link to their affiliates, so I am going to tell those who need Ads plugin for Elgg application that it’s ready for you to use, and it’s not new to you if you are an Elgg community owner, it’s just the same Custom-Index plugin for Elgg but with some magical touch!
Basically what I did was editing some codes plus adding a few files and images to the original plugin to give you the ability to add ads to your social network. If you think that I am a programmer then you are wrong, I am just a simple guy started as a web designer and I am not on the blogging and social networking world, I am just trying to share what I have and what people asked me to get this updated plugin, Here is a DEMO for it on New Media Bloggers Social Network on the main domain of this blog.
I have set a special page to download Ads-Custom-Index plugin for Elgg 1.5, it’s a normal static one page, I want to try this kind of pages and how it will respond to it’s traffic and download as I know that Elgg search is increasing everyday from other posts about Elgg that I have posted before, and it’s still the best posts that drive traffic to my blog
Ads Custom-Index Elgg plugin for Making Money Online from your own Social Network
Installation:
If you are already running Custom-Index plugin on your Elgg installation and you would like to upgrade it to the Ads-Custom-Index plugin then just remove it and install Ads-Custom-Index plugin!
Don’t forget to sign-out from your community account to check how it will check how your ads will look like on the main page, maybe opening a different type of browser will help you check both logged-in and out, use FireFox and IE together for example!
Responsibility:
I have tried this plugin my self, and tried to update it with some extra options, and I am giving it to you, so I am not responsible for any damage to your social network! So plz take care and always backup your work before installing any new plugins!
How to use it?
It’s very simple, I have named the files with related names, you will find it easy o manage if you have a little experience with HTML code and you know how to add your AdSense code to any simple web page!
In the “mod\custom_index\views\default\canvas\layouts” folder you will find the important files, these files are:
- hot_spot.php
- ads_336×280.php
- ads_front_125.php
- new_index.php
- _new_index.php
You can simply edit these files to put your own 125×125 ads, change Google AdSense code to yours, and change the hot spot image. Find images on this folder “mod\custom_index\images”, add images on this folder to make it easy for you to manage! That’s all!
I have tested this plugin on Elgg 1.5, if you discovered that it’s working on Elgg 1.6 or any other newer versions, then plz tell me!
If you enjoy the plugin, then why not comeback to this page and add a comment tell the world it’s working!
If you have any problem post it here, and I will try to help (Just plz remember that I am not into code that much) so Don’t ask for any modifications, I am just sharing what I have with you and trying to help!
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I have decided to publish this post and make Updated Custom-Index plugin download link available at New Media Bloggers to give credits to FBC100s Club, so if you are in the good mode today, it will be a nice idea to promote this post by ReTweet it!
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If anyone wants to know I have found this not to work under 1.6.1
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i love Google Adsense, it allows me to make money on my personal blog and some of my health related sites.
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i use Adsense on my blogs and websites, i can say that Adsense is the best make money online program on the internet.
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admin Reply:
November 24th, 2009 at 8:19 am
@Cathryn, That’s true, good luck with your earnings and have a good day!
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this is really an informative article. you made nice plugin i hope i will upgrade asap.thanks for sharing.
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Adsense is the best paying make money online program on the internet. I just wish that i could increase my website traffic to high levels so that i could earn more money on Adsense.
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Cool page, great content! I put this on my elgg in a few seconds and think its a good addition. I was wondering if its supposed to put any advertisements on the dashboard or if anyone knows how to extend this a bit more?
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admin Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 8:35 am
@Lukas, Good to know that, I wish if I am using Elgg again to develop the plugin more but actually it’s not on my time plan, sorry!
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I like this plugin, and it does work on 1.6 (that’s what I’m running and it works fine)
I’m just wondering if it’s possible to change the three 125×125 single image spots into one 480×125 ad rotator? I’ve tried using some rotator php scripting, but when I upload it the adspace disappears all together. Any thoughts ? Thanks!
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admin Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Hello @Josh, Thank you for your feedback that it’s working on Elgg 1.6 !
Actually I never use a rotating script before and I am not sure which code you are using, I am so sorry hat I can not help right now with his issue, but maybe you can add the path of the php codes again, probably the code can not find the right path for your images and this is why the ads is not shown!
Good luck!
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nice plugin software. I’ll try to add it in my site too
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Is this plugin compatible with ELGG 1.6 ?
Nice write up…thanks
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admin Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
@Mike, Actually I don’t know because I didn’t use elgg 1.6 i had a problem with my hosting server so i am thinking about using Elgg 1.6
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This will be very useful for these uses nice to see you take the time to share this information with your fellow bloggers
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The plugin seems to be quite promising, as it will help to earn more money. I will try to give it a try, thanks for sharing.Have retweeted your post.
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nice blogggg, i like this ADSENSE
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Thanks bro for sharing this software, sure I must learn a lots about it. I hope I can use it.
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