I just wanted to share a quick little post on how you can host sponsor ads without using Passionfruit or Adproval. When Passionfruit started charging, I wanted to find a way that I could host my own Ads without a fee. I also didn't want to sign up with Adproval. So I discovered how I could easily host my own ads with little effort.Hosting a sidebar ad is really easy. All you have to do is go to your "Layout" tab in Blogger. Select "Add a gadget" and add "HTML". Then, just paste in this code:
<center><a href="SPONSOR’S URL"><img src="IMAGE URL FOR SPONSOR’S BUTTON/AD" width="200" height="200" border="0"/></a></center>
- Replace SPONSOR'S URL with the URL of your sponsor's blog or shop
- Replace IMAGE URL FOR SPONSOR'S BUTTON/AD with the direct image URL for their button
- Replace the "200" 's with the width and height for the ad.
If you want to put another ad right after it, type:
<br>
And copy and paste the code again, filling out the next ad's info. If you have smaller ads, say 100x100, and you want them to line up in a nice, clean block, you can do that as well. Just paste the code one after another and leave out the <br>.
That's it! Then you can just collect the ad costs from your sponsors directly by using Paypal. It is a little more work to remember to switch out your ads, but I wanted to offer up this info in case anyone else was wondering how to do this!
