A great way to monetize your website is to sell advertising space. You can easily create and sell 125×125 pixel ads and place them on your website using nothing more than Microsoft Paint and some HTML code. You do NOT need fancy software to put the ads on your website. A typical ad price would be $50 per month for a 125×125 ad. This is 123 Easy. If you can cut and paste you can do this!
1. Create the Ad
Likely the advertiser has their own 125×125 already created and you can simply upload that; however in the event that they don’t, you can create an ad for them and charge them appropriately.
2. Create the Ad Structure
The simplest ad structure that you can use is a table. The table contains at least one row and cells. Each ad image is uploaded into the cell of the table and a link pointing to the destination is attached to the image. The basic structure code is as follows:
<table>
<tr><td>Ad Image 1</td><td>Ad Image 2</td></tr>
</table>
Calm down! It’s a little bit of code and the good part is that WordPress will create the rest for you. You can copy and paste, right? Simply copy the code above and put it into a temporary post using the HTML tab. Find the HTML tab in the image below:
We won’t be keeping the post, we’ll just use it for a working area for the moment.
Click back on the Visual tab and you will see a basic table. It will look like this:
Ad Image 1 | Ad Image 2 |
Don’t worry about the size as it will self adjust as we move forward. Breathe! The rest is just copy and paste. Highlight the words “Ad Image 1” in the first cell of the table. Click on the Upload/Insert button:
Search for the ad you which to insert and then click on the button to upload the image. Then click on the Insert into Post button. Once the image has been inserted, click on the image and click on the Link button and type in the destination for the ad image.
If you happen to have 2 ads, simply repeat the process to get the 2nd one into place. Once the ads are in place and linked, click on the HTML tab again. You’ll see a lot of HTML code back there. You created that! Now we’re going to select all of it (you can hold down the CTRL key and click on the A key if you have a PC). Next we will copy it in preparation for step 3.
3. Place the Ad Structure Into a Text Widget
Open a text widget and simply paste the code into the lower area. You will not need a title. Go ahead and click on the blue Save button at this point. Open up another browser window and admire your work! Next, click on each of the ads to ensure that they link to the proper destination.
That’s all there is to it!