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This module is not ready as an EzPayPal module yet. However, we have a WordPress plugin version that works in conjunction with Easy PayPal. It is described below.
A robust and modern plugin to help you sell and manage text links on your blog.
Contributors: manojtd
Donate link:
http://buy.thulasidas.com/easy-text-links
Tags: text links, advertising, revenue, ezlinks, easy
text links
Requires at least: 3.5
Tested up to: 3.7
Stable tag: 1.61
License: GPLv2 or later
Easy Text Links is a modern plugin to help you make extra revenue from your blog by selling text links. Text link advertising can be significantly more lucrative than contextual ads. This plugin automates the insertion and expiration of the links, and helps you with quick reminder emails to your advertisers.
Other plugins that do similar text link advertising do exist in the repository, but they are typically front ends to services that provide such links (such as Text Link Ads, for instance.) They take a significant cut of your advertising revenue (50% in the case of Text Link Ads) acting as the middlemen between you and your advertisers. Easy Text Links, on the other hand, is for those who want to interact directly with their advertisers, and keep the whole revenue for themselves, cutting the middlemen.
Easy Text Links keeps track of the expiry dates of the text links on your page, and removes them when expired. It also gives you easy means of sending a reminder email to the advertiser, block or delete the links all from your blog page itself, without having to go to the admin page. Of course, it is smart and secure so that only the blog admin with the right privileges will ever see the options to modify the links. It does all this magic using a modern AJAX/jQuery framework with an attractive lightbox effect.
If you have a popular blog, text links can potentially bring in much more revenue than any contextual advertising. In my case, the difference was easily a factor of 100. Keep in mind, however, that most contextual ad providers (such as AdSense) do not like paid link placement, for obvious reasons. Your blog may get penalized in terms page rank or search listing placement. Please weigh the pros and cons carefully before embarking on text link advertising. If you do decide to go for it, this plugin will be able to help.
A pro version of this plugin is available with the following added features:
You can install it using the WordPress Plugins -> Add New interface.
Or,
easy-text-link
folder) to the
'/wp-content/plugins/' directory.To use the plugin, insert the shortcode [ezlink]
in a
post. See the FAQ for more information.
Link Packages describe what you offer to your advertisers. They specify
your rates and other relevant information to entice advertisers to divert
some of the marketing budget in the direction of your blog. For instance,
you may have these packages: (1) "AboveFold" with Price=$100,
Expiry=720 (which is a month in hours) (2) "AboveFold (3mo)"
with Price=$250, Expiry=2160 (three months in hours) (3)
"Footer" with Price=$50, Expiry=720 and so on. You can list them
wherever you want by giving the shortcode [ezlink packages]
.
You will also see all your packages listed on the Easy Text Links
admin page in a neat table, where you can inspect, modify or delete
them.
Sold Links are, naturally, the links you have sold to your advertisers.
You can display them on your posts or pages by the shortcode [ezlink
links]
. If you want to display only a particular link (whose ID is,
say, link1), you would give the shortcode [ezlink
links=link1]
. For multiple links, you give the shortcode as
[ezlink links=link1,link2]
. Again, the sold links will appear
on the plugin admin page where you can manipulate them.
The links and products, when listed using the shortcode
[ezlink]
, will be formatted as an unordered list
(<ul>...</ul>
).
You can specify an option in the shortcode as [ezlink
option=nolist]
. This option can be given with any combination of
[ezlink packages]
, [ezlink packages]
or
[ezlink links=link1,link2,link3...]
.
You insert the shortcode [ezlink invite]
(or [ezlink
advertise]
or [ezlink here]
) to display such an
invitation.
Note that you have to create the target page/post with a title like
"Advertise Here" or something similar and point to it on the
plugin admin page (under the "Advertise Here" Target:
option). Once that is done, your [ezlink invite]
shortcode
will point to that page/post. In that page, you can use [ezlink
packages]
shortcode to list your link packages, and give any
contact details so that your advertisers can get in touch with you.
<ul>...</ul>
) :
[ezlink packages]
.<ul>...</ul>
) :
[ezlink links]
<ul>...</ul>
) :
[ezlink links=link1,link2,link3...]
.<ul><li>...</li></ul>
around any of the lists above : [ezlink option=nolist
...]
[ezlink invite]
or
[ezlink advertise]
or [ezlink here]
The Pro version version of Easy Text Links gives you basic support for widgets. You can use the WordPress default Text widget to insert the shortcode and it will be rendered as expected. A dedicated and multi-insertable widget with fully configurable text links will be released later.
The lite version does not offer a widget. The work around is to install
the Shortcode Widget.
You can then place the [ezlink]
shortcodes in the widgets
provided by Shortcode Widget.
Go to the admin page of the plugin, and edit the Sold Link by clicking on the edit icon (green pencil) on the floating toolbar. You can then set the status to anything other than Deleted or Hidden.
Note that in the Pro version, you have to Approve the links before they will be displayed. This is in preparation to letting your advertisers specify link details after purchasing. You probably don't want to allow such user specified content to appear on your blog without checking. If you do, you will find an option (WIP) to allow it.
Links inserted by Easy Links Pro. Note the floating tool bar that appears when you hover over the link (if you are logged in as the admin to your blog) giving you easy access to the actions you can take.
The Admin Page. The tool bar appears as you hover over a row in the Links Packages or Sold Links table.