[How-To Guide] Create Revenue Sharing Website

Already I have offered you WordPress Plugin which allow you to create Revenue Sharing Website/blog. But didn’t tell you how to configure this plugin.

This post focus on configuring Author Advertising Plugin (assuming that you have already installed this plugin) and help you to make your blog revenue sharing.

Step1: Log-in into wp-admin panel by typing URL

http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin

Step2: Go to Settings option and click on “Author Advertising Config” (as shown below):

Step3: After clicking on “Author Advertising Config.”, a new window will open and you will see a message (as shown below):

“CREATE TABLE wp_author_advertising ( id mediumint(9) NOT NULL auto_increment, author_id int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0’, author_advertising text NOT NULL, author_custom1 text, author_custom2 text, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) );”

Step4: To remove this message you have to log-in into PHPMyAdmin and run the SQL query there.

Step4 (a): Log-in into cPanel and click on PHPMyAdmin as shown below:

Step4 (b): Clicking on PHPMyAdmin open a new window where you have run the SQL query as shown in “Author Advertising Config. page (Step3)” (as shown below):

Code you have to copy

“CREATE TABLE wp_author_advertising ( id mediumint(9) NOT NULL auto_increment, author_id int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0’, author_advertising text NOT NULL, author_custom1 text, author_custom2 text, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) );”

Now select SQL from navigation tab and run the SQL query (as shown below):

Step4 (c): If you have done everything as mentioned till now, you will get the confirmation message stating that “SQL query has been executed successfully” (as shown below):

Step5: Now you have to configure “Author Advertising Plugin” to make WordPress blog a revenue sharing blog. With this plugin you can use any advertising program but in my case I’m using Google Adsense.

Step6: Now, I’m showing screen-shot of my settings, you can use these setting as a reference for setting-up your own blog as a revenue-sharing blog.

Step7: Now, this part will be shown to contributor (or the role you assigned to new user) in dashboard and they will use it to enter their Adsense pub id and channel. In custom field one, enter your channel no, which is being use to display your ad (as shown below):

Step8: If you have done everything correctly till now, then you can place this code anywhere on your blog, where you want to display your ad.

Below you can see the 336*280 ad unit, you can change it according to your need. This ad unit, will pull up the pubID and custom cannel ID from the information entered by contributor (or the new user).

google_ad_client = "%pubid%";
google_ad_slot = "%custom1%";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//-->
</script>  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.c
om/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

I hope this tutorial help you to make your WordPress blog a revenue sharing blog. Meanwhile don’t forget to subscribe to WebGuide4U feeds and like on Facebook, so that you can manage and run your blog as a revenue sharing blog.

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