Comments on: A Simple Guide to Managing Ads on Your Marketplace Items http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/ The Envato Community Blog! Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: quickandeasy http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-13564 quickandeasy Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:20:59 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-13564 Sorry, that meant to say you can only use ‘a’ & ‘img’ tags in your item description. I forgot html was allowed in comments ha…

]]> By: quickandeasy http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-13563 quickandeasy Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:19:09 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-13563 Hey Mauro,

What you do on your own server is up to you. I can’t see there being a problem you using a script to update the images in a directory, however you can only use and tags in your item description, you can’t use any PHP.

]]> By: Mauro Casas http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-13556 Mauro Casas Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:02:56 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-13556 Hey guys!

I was wondering, what if we use a .PHP hosted on our server?
So it rotates the banners solely.

Is this allowed?

Cheers!

]]> By: quickandeasy http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-11067 quickandeasy Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:10:02 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-11067 I was tempted to suggest this at first, but, a lot of authors will have a WordPress install and it’s also a lot simpler + you get the stats of unique clicks etc :)

]]> By: Joost http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-11065 Joost Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:56:30 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-11065 I’m doing the same, just without any WordPress plugin. Simply FTP access and a functional PHP server works like a charm – I link to PHP pages that only contain a header statement that redirects to the page of the specific item ;)

]]> By: Patrik Larsson http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-11037 Patrik Larsson Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:10:00 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-11037 Makes perfect sense and as I said, it’s a great idea you’ve got there and I’ve practiced it for quite some time now. :)

]]> By: quickandeasy http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-11035 quickandeasy Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:28:06 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-11035 It doesn’t have to be an affiliate link, just a link would do. The idea with the pretty link is you can create a single link to use on all your item descriptions, but then change where this link points to at a later date – i.e when you update the ad image.

So domain.com/advert points to file1, but later on, you can change domain.com/advert to point to file2, rather than updating all your item descriptions :)

Make sense?

]]> By: Patrik Larsson http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-11034 Patrik Larsson Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:09:45 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-11034 Great tips, however, as affiliate links aren’t allowed in the Item Description the pretty link plugin renders useless for the marketplaces perse. But, to use the Pretty Link plugin on your WP blog, that’s a brilliant idea that covers the affiliate link and will in terms generate more clicks.

Have practiced these tips for quite some time and they work flawless! Can strongly recommend this for everyone.

Good post, looking forward to what else you have for us :)

]]> By: quickandeasy http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-11032 quickandeasy Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:07:49 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-11032 The WordPress comes into play for the Pretty Link plugin. Sure, you could use a vast array of methods to manage where your links point to, but this is a nice and easy way with plenty of features, especially considering how many authors will (or should) have a WordPress blog up :)

]]> By: Matt http://notes.envato.com/case-studies/how-to-manage-ads-in-your-item-descriptions/#comment-11031 Matt Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:09:06 +0000 http://notes.envato.com/?p=7441#comment-11031 I’m confused if you are talking about placing ads on an external blog or the actual item page on say GraphicRiver. If you’re talking about on an item page, I don’t understand how wordpress comes into play?

]]>