Banner ads are so common that the majority of people online have "conditioned" themselves to ignore basic banners.

One must get extremely creative if they wish to generate enough interest that will entice a visitor to click on the banner ad.

This tutorial covers 3 basic yet very powerful plugins, that you can utilize to place your affiliate banners in random locations throughout your website.

I will be using wealthy affiliate banners to demonstrate how to use each plugin, you can of course use any banner for any affiliate program that you choose.

Advanced Floating Content


The "Advanced Floating Content" plugin, allows you to place a banner in any of the four corners of your website. Top Left or Right, and Bottom Left or Right.

This is the banner I will be using to demonstrate this particular plugin. I recommend you use square banners because I feel that they are more attractive, blends in better than rectangle banners, and are less obtrusive.


Corner Ad

The "Corner Ad" plugin, allows you to place a nifty "Page Curl" ad in the top left corner of your website.

I particularly like this plugin because it allows you to set the curl to open after so many seconds (I choose 1) and to also automatically close after as set number of seconds (I choose 5 to 10).

I love using, what I call, the "Mr-Clean Wanna Be" banner that is provided here at Wealthy Affiliate, because the man just looks so darn cool peeking out from under the page curl!

CM Pop-Up Banners

The "CM Pop-Up Banners" plugin allows you to place a pop-up banner directly in the middle of pages on your website.

The banners can be configured to display on every page, or you can select them to show only on certain pages.

This is a great plug-in you can use to place different pop up ads on select posts, based on which topic the particular post is covering.

For instance, one of my most profitable niches is diet and weight loss.

If I write an article about the benefits that Green Tea provides to aid in improving weight loss; I could then place a pop-up banner on this page that advertises green tea from one of the merchants I am an affiliate with. I could also place a specialized "Subscribe Now for more great Green Tea information" banner to promote my mailing list.

If I write an article about increasing energy by increasing ones intake of Vitamin B12, then I could place a banner on that page that promotes a B12 vitamin or other product like a blender that can be used to make smoothies that have ingredients that are high in B12. Or I could also design yet another banner that states something like "Subscribe today for more great B12 information", again to entice site visitors to sign-up for my mailing list.

But for the purposes of this tutorial, I will instead be using the banner below as my pop-up banner.



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Mick18 Premium
This is wonderful, Maria. I didn't even know there was such a thing. Thanks for sharing.
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MariaDale Premium Plus
You are most welcome Mickey, I didn't either until I got to looking at my sites with different eyes, and realized that I could probably do better with the way I am displaying ads on my sites.
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Makinitwork Premium
Thank you Maria, this is so helpful. I struggle with the adverts placement and this will help me too. cheers Jen
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MariaDale Premium Plus
You are welcome, if you are having trouble with other placement areas, the ad inserter plugin is ideal. I have used it for years and I have provided training for it as well at Maybe that one can help you as well?
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JosonInc Premium
Very informative but too much, too long for a one-time read. Could we have a shorter but just as effective and informative read? Thank you.

Joe
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MariaDale Premium Plus
No, there is no way to shorten it, I provided it to give in depth knowledge & tutorials have a minimum page requirement.

I made sure to add one plugin per page.

You can easily skip the information that you find too lengthy, the plugin configurations start on page 3, but I do write my tutorials in order to help all, including those who do need more in depth information so that they can understand the features better.
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MRRSP Premium
Thanks for sharing this Maria! Very helpful ☺️

All the best
Melissa
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MariaDale Premium Plus
You are most welcome Melissa, I wish you all the best and I hope that one of the plugins helps your marketing efforts, the page curl one is the one I like the most!
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MRRSP Premium
It's funny that you say that! That's the one I'm most interested in lol I really like the page curl, I've never seen that before.
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