How to Make Money with Ebay Partner Network on PHPBB3
I showed you the other day how to create a custom BBcode tag so you can embed YouTube videos on phpBB3.
Today, I’m going to show you how to create another custom BB code tag for your phpBB3 forum, so you can make money with eBay Partner Network by letting your forum members post their eBay auctions.
(1) The first thing you’ll need to do is log in to your eBay Partner Network account and click on “Tools“:
(2) Then click on “Link Generator“:
(3) In the Link Generator Options:
For Advertiser choose: eBay
For Link Type choose: Item ID
For Item ID enter ANY eBay item # Example: 0123456789012 (note: this is just to create a link and the BB tag will auto-fill this when posting in your forum)
Leave Geo-Target as is.
For Select program to apply choose: The ebay site you want visitors to land on Example: eBay US, eBay CA, eBay UK, etc.
For Campaign Name or ID choose a campaign or create a new one. Example: phpbb3auctions
The rest of the options you can ignore and now you just click Generate Link.
(4) Get Your Link – Copy the link from URL Only:
(5) From the link you just copied above, replace the eBay Item #’s at the end of the link with the {NUMBER} tag. (Note: I am only showing the end of the link below with the eBay item #’s but you will be keeping the full link intact.)
Change:
…customid=&ext=0123456789012&item=0123456789012
Into:
…customid=&ext={NUMBER}&item={NUMBER}
The changed link will be used in (8b) below.
(6) Log in to your Administrative Control Panel (ACP) of your phpBB3 forum and click on the the Posting tab on the top menu…
(7) Click the Add a new BBCode button in the bottom right hand corner…
(8a) Enter the following in the BBCode usage box:
(8b) Enter the following in the HTML replacement box (Important: Replace ENTER YOUR LINK HERE with your link you added {NUMBER} from (5) above):
(8c) Enter the following in the Help line text box:
(8d) Ensure that Display on posting page is checked.
(8e) Click Submit
You have now created a new custom BBcode tag [ebay][/ebay] that will appear in the posting editor for you and your phpbb3 forum community members to use.
To post an eBay auction item you and your phpbb3 forum members just need to use the [ebay][/ebay] tags and enter the eBay item # of the auction item – Example: [ebay]0123456789012[/ebay]
Be sure to create a “How To Post Your eBay Auction Items” post at your forum with instructions on how your members can use the [ebay][/ebay] tags to post their auction items.
Each time a members posts their eBay auction item, your eBay Partner Network code will now automatically be inserted. You are giving them an opportunity to advertise their auctions and you make money when any members or visitors click through from your forum to bid, purchase or register at eBay.
If this post was helpful please leave a comment letting me know or if you have any questions or need help feel free to ask and I’ll answer any questions or help if I can.
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MoneyM8 wins a ShoeMoney Shirt on 8-8-08
I just received an email from ShoeMoney.com stating I WON a ShoeMoney T-Shirt. AWESOME!
You may recall that I posted about ShoeMoney’s comment contest a few days back. He is giving away a Shoemoney shirt everyday in July and August, and all those that win a shirt are entered into the grand prize draw for a MacBook Air. All that you need to do to enter is comment on the articles on his blog. My winning comment came at this post, which happens to be a Free Shirt Friday post. And I win a free shirt! Now I have a chance to win a MacBook air.
Winning the shirt is cool as it is because I’ll be able to take a pic of myself in the shirt and get my mugg among the others in Shoemoney’s gallery. My 8 minutes of fame ;-)
Thanks Jeremy aka Shoemoney :D
robots.txt tips for WordPress to prevent Duplicate Content
When you use the Wordpress.org blog script there is a lot of duplicate content created from the various pages and category pages that the WordPress script creates. If you’ve been reading about SEO, you probably know Google doesn’t like duplicate content and therefore your blog will likely be penalized for it.
Thanks to reading a post by Jeremy at ShoeMoney.com and reading about different User-agents, I was able to create a robots.txt file that will help eliminate duplicate content from Google indexing.
Add the following in your robot.txt file to prevent Google from indexing duplicate content in your WordPress blog:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /archives/
Disallow: /index.php
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: */trackback/
Disallow: /page/
Disallow: /pages/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: /*?
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /wp-includes/
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /
User-agent: duggmirror
Disallow: /
The above should help with duplicate content on your WordPress blog website.
How to Add YouTube Videos to phpBB
With bulletin boards such as phpBB, you can’t embed videos just by copying and pasting the embed code in a post. With the new PHPBB3 they have a feature that allows you to create custom BB code tags, which I did for a forum so I could embed YouTube Videos in a post, and I’ll show you how to create a custom BBcode tag so you can easily embed YouTube Videos in your posts on your phpbb3 forum (See alternate instructions at bottom of this post if you need to use the full YouTube URL to add YouTube videos on your phpBB forum)
(1) Log in to your Administrative Control Panel (ACP) and click on the Posting tab on the top menu…
(2)Click the Add a new BBCode button in the bottom right hand corner…
(note: The “youtube”, as shown in the photo below, won’t appear at this point on your forum)
(3a)Enter the following in the “BBCode usage” box:
(3b)Enter the following in the “HTML replacement” box (note: you can adjust the width and height to what you want):
(3c)Enter the following in the “Help line text” box:
(3d)Ensure that “Display on posting page” is checked.
(3e)Click Submit
That’s it!
The new custom [youtube][/youtube] BBcode tag option you just created will now appear in the posting editor for you and your phpbb3 forum community members to use.
Now, to use the new [youtube][/youtube] BB code tags you just created, you just need to insert the YouTube Video ID of the YouTube video you want to add in between the tags.
The Video ID is the #’s and letters after the =
For Example: The Video ID in the YouTube Video link below is: xmLa_W_afH4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmLa_W_afH4
To post the video you would then put the Video ID in between the tags like this:
[youtube]xmLa_W_afH4[/youtube]
You will now be able to embed YouTube videos on your phpbb3 forum.
If you found this post useful please leave a comment and linking back to this tutorial would be great. If you have any questions or need help, please feel free to ask and I’ll answer or help if I can.
Alternate Instructions to embed YouTube Videos on Your phpBB forum:
I have been asked to provide alternate instructions for those who want to use the FULL YouTube URL – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmLa_W_afH4 – instead of just the Video ID – xmLa_W_afH4 — The only changes needed are to these two parts as follows:
(3a)Enter the following in the “BBCode usage” box:
(3c)Enter the following in the “Help line text” box:
You will then use the YouTube BBcode tags as follows to embed YouTube videos in your phpBB forum using the full youtube URL:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmLa_W_afH4[/youtube]
The above two parts (3a) and (3c) of the tutorial are the only parts you’ll need to change to use the full YouTube URL and you can follow the rest of the instructions exactly as they appear in the main “How to Add YouTube Videos to phpBB3″ tutorial above.
Win a Macbook Air with Shoemoney’s comment contest
I know the few of you that visit just love all the contests that I post about and perhaps we should call this blog Contest M8. Well, I have another contest for you that has been ongoing for awhile.
ShoeMoney is having a comment contest and you can win a Shoemoney shirt or a Macbook Air just by going there and commenting on any of the articles.
Shoemoney is giving away a Shoemoney shirt each day for the months of July and August to a randomly drawn commenter on his blog. Daily winners will also get an entry to the grand prize draw for a Macbook Air.
I know I’m a bit late with posting this, but you can still get your entries in by posting a comment…But PLEASE make it a useful comment and not a spammy type comment just to get an entry ;-)
John Chow Market Leverage Affiliate Challenge and a Contest too
John Chow has team up once again with Market Leverage for an affiliate challenge and another contest for those that don’t take part in the challenge.
As posted by John Chow, “The challenge is pretty simple. Whoever makes the most money with Market Leverage in a month will win an iPod Touch and a $200 ML Amex Reward Card.”
To take part in the Affiliate Challenge you just need to sign up with the special link at the Affiliate Challenge post.
Now for those that aren’t able to take part in the challenge you can still win a Flip Mino. Simply make a comment at the post and you get one entry. Make a post about it on your blog and get another 5 entries.
All winners will be selected Aug.31, 2008.
Can’t get any easier than that to win and the odds are pretty good too.
Google NOT Digging Digg
I wanted to post an update…In the previous post I posted that Google was in the process of buying Digg.com for $200 Million, but now it seems Google doesn’t dig Digg after all and walked away from the deal, as posted on ShoeMoney.com
Just like that, $200 Million was taken from the hands of Digg owners. It wasn’t the first time that happened though, as there have been previous Digg deals that fell through.
What happens to Digg from here? I’m sure they’ll be just fine, but I don’t see another $200 Million deal coming around anytime soon.
Google to buy Digg for $200 Million
According to a report by TechCrunch, it appears Google is set to purchase Digg.com for $200 Million.
Google has scooped up sites like this before, such as YouTube and FeedBurner and I’m sure they’ll be looking at many more in the future.
How can you cash-in by selling your website?
You may not have a website that Google is interested in, but you may have one that someone else may want to buy.
If you are to create a site, your number one goal should be the intention to sell your website in the future. Of course not all websites are going to be worth $200 Million, but there are many people creating websites and then selling them for nice profits. Others buy websites from others, fix them up and then flip them for a profit. Some sell for a few thousand dollars, while others may sell for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What your website is worth will depend on a number of factors. How much it makes per month? How old is the website? What is the page rank? How much traffic does your website get? Is your domain easy to remember? Is your domain a .com, .net or another TLD. .COM domain names tend to be worth more. These and other factors can determine how much your website and domain name is worth.
You can make money by creating and selling websites or buying and selling websites if you put the effort into it.
WordPress 2.6 Released
Of course if you have wordpress 2.5 you probably already know that WordPress 2.6 is available because as soon as you log into your admin dashboard, it says so right at the top.
Here is a video preview of new features on WordPress 2.6
Looks like some pretty good new features if I do say so myself.
I won an iPod Nano
I took part in a survey from Web Perspectives and won an Apple 4GB iPod Nano. I also got paid $10 via PayPal.
You won’t get rich by completing surveys, but you can get a few bucks here and there, plus occasionally win some cool prizes.
