Custom "Context Links" system downloadable Source Code from my blog

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by dannytuppeny, Aug 30, 2007.

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    I've written a simple context-ads system for my blog which works a bit like Kontera ContentLinks or Amazon's Context-Links.

    It gives you control over the ads it places, since you put spans around them, eg:

    "Today I bought an <span class="shop">Xbox 360</span>!"

    It uses Javascript to pick these items up and hyperlinks them. Then there's a server-side script that reads config from an XML file that lets you specify a load of Affiliate URLs with templates to replace product numbers into. It supports multiple regions so you can send visitors to US/UK too. It's running on my blog now (check out some posts here: http://blog.dantup.me.uk/search/label/Xbox%20360). The links my system added are those with tooltips that say "Buy x from Amazon".

    There's a full writeup of the system, along with a download link here:

    http://blog.dantup.me.uk/2007/08/ad-system-source-code-available-to.html

    I hope it might be of use to someone - whether to use or to learn from and steal :)
     
    dannytuppeny, Aug 30, 2007 IP