Adding Affiliate Banners and Links

If you have a website and you'd like to add banners and links to it, you'll need to do some editing. You have two options in editing:

1. Hire a Pro
2. Do it Yourself

Hire a Pro

You can hire a web design & development company to edit your webpages for you. If you're currently working with a web designer, this may be a viable option for you. However, if you're trying to go-it on your own, hiring a web designer to make a few small changes can be very costly.

Do-It Yourself

Doing it yourself is a great way to learn and to save money. If you already have a website, all you have to do is access it, edit it and upload the changes.

First, gain access to your webpages. You'll do this either by using a program like WSFTP to login to your site - or by using a web-based program that allows you to access and make changes to your pages.

If you're using a program like WSFTP to download your pages onto your hard drive, you can open them in Notepad, or in a web-editor like Dreamweaver, Homesite or FrontPage.

All of these programs will give you two "views". One will show you what the page will look like when you upload it - complete with colors and formatting. If you've heard of the term WYSIWYG (wiss-ee-wig), it comes from this "view" and is an acronym that simply stands for What You See Is What You Get. The other "view" will show you the HTML coding.

Using the WYSIWYG view, find the area where you'd like to add your banner. With most programs, you can paste the code in right there. A little grey box will appear denoting the image. The banner won't show until you view it online.

If you program doesn't allow you to paste the code in the WYSIWYG area, you can try "marking" the spot with something like "zzz". Then, go to the HTML view. Perform a search or find using the commands on the new window to find the "zzz" you inserted. Paste your banner code over the zzz and go back to the WYSIWYG area.

When you are finished, upload the updated page to your site. Test it to be sure that the banner shows and that the link to the merchant's site works.

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