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Sarah_Jayne · 08-29-2007, 07:02 AM

For the past year or so, I have ditched a lot of the banners on my blogs and replaced them in the sidebars with hosted thumbnails from sponsors.

There are a number of reasons for this but the main one is that I have found that that my blog surfers simply don't click banners all that much. They are far more likely to click on text links or pictures. I suppose that makes sense because that is the general make up of a blog post - pictures and text links.

I took out most of the banners and started sticking in thumbs and hosted thumbs in the sidebar and I found that my surfers started clicking.

It really is amazingly easy to start using hosted sponsor thumbs in the sidebars of your blogs.

The first thing I need to do when I decide to put hosted thumbs in my blog sidebar is to decide which site I am going to promote with these thumbs. In this example I will be working as if I am using these hosted thumbs on a ebony themed blog.

So, I log into my Max Cash account and go to the hosted gallery section. Once I am there I use the pull down menu to decide which of the ebony themed sites I want to promote. I have decided to promote Ebony Porno on this blog.

Once I am on the page that lists free hosted galleries for Ebony Porno I can see that each gallery has a matching hosted 88x88 thumb. This is the size of hosted thumb I am going to use in the sidebar. I simply take a look at a few of those thumbs until I find three (or whatever number you are going to use) I like the best.

Then I just leave it open in another tab so I can have easy access to the url of the hosted thumb for Ebony Porno.

Then I fire up Wordpress (that is the program I use and the most common) and go to the 'add link' area. For this example, please forgive the name of my category as I using an existing blog just to demonstrate.

I then go grab my linking code for Ebony Porno and put it in the URL field on the "Add A Link" section of the page.

Then I scroll down the "add a link" page to the advanced section. Once I am there I go back to the tab where I have the thumb open and copy and paste the url of the hosted thumb into the image url field. Then I click the 'Add Link' button.

I then repeat this two more times until I have put all three of my hosted thumbs up on my blog.

When I then load the main page of my blog the three thumbs look like this on the sidebar:

You do have to play around with how these look in different wordpress themes because it looks better on some themes than they do on others. I also tend to maybe break them up a bit so rather than having all three in a cluster I might have two clusters of three in different link categories so that it doesn't just look like a wall of thumbs.

You could link the hosted thumbs to the matching galleries but I bypass that and link directly to the paysite. Max Cash is fine with the hosted thumbs being used on their own like that and as blogs are my sites and I don't have to follow any outside rules. So, I don't feel bad about putting up a few blind thumbs like that and getting them to my sponsor.

08-29-2007, 07:02 AM
Sarah_Jayne Now with more Jayne Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 40,077	Adult Webmastering 101: Using Hosted Thumbs In The Sidebar Of Blogs For the past year or so, I have ditched a lot of the banners on my blogs and replaced them in the sidebars with hosted thumbnails from sponsors. There are a number of reasons for this but the main one is that I have found that that my blog surfers simply don't click banners all that much. They are far more likely to click on text links or pictures. I suppose that makes sense because that is the general make up of a blog post - pictures and text links. I took out most of the banners and started sticking in thumbs and hosted thumbs in the sidebar and I found that my surfers started clicking. It really is amazingly easy to start using hosted sponsor thumbs in the sidebars of your blogs. The first thing I need to do when I decide to put hosted thumbs in my blog sidebar is to decide which site I am going to promote with these thumbs. In this example I will be working as if I am using these hosted thumbs on a ebony themed blog. So, I log into my Max Cash account and go to the hosted gallery section. Once I am there I use the pull down menu to decide which of the ebony themed sites I want to promote. I have decided to promote Ebony Porno on this blog. Once I am on the page that lists free hosted galleries for Ebony Porno I can see that each gallery has a matching hosted 88x88 thumb. This is the size of hosted thumb I am going to use in the sidebar. I simply take a look at a few of those thumbs until I find three (or whatever number you are going to use) I like the best. Then I just leave it open in another tab so I can have easy access to the url of the hosted thumb for Ebony Porno. Then I fire up Wordpress (that is the program I use and the most common) and go to the 'add link' area. For this example, please forgive the name of my category as I using an existing blog just to demonstrate. I then go grab my linking code for Ebony Porno and put it in the URL field on the "Add A Link" section of the page. Then I scroll down the "add a link" page to the advanced section. Once I am there I go back to the tab where I have the thumb open and copy and paste the url of the hosted thumb into the image url field. Then I click the 'Add Link' button. I then repeat this two more times until I have put all three of my hosted thumbs up on my blog. When I then load the main page of my blog the three thumbs look like this on the sidebar: You do have to play around with how these look in different wordpress themes because it looks better on some themes than they do on others. I also tend to maybe break them up a bit so rather than having all three in a cluster I might have two clusters of three in different link categories so that it doesn't just look like a wall of thumbs. You could link the hosted thumbs to the matching galleries but I bypass that and link directly to the paysite. Max Cash is fine with the hosted thumbs being used on their own like that and as blogs are my sites and I don't have to follow any outside rules. So, I don't feel bad about putting up a few blind thumbs like that and getting them to my sponsor.