How to Integrate Clickbank Hop Ads on Your Wordpress Blog to Show Relevant Ads Based on Tags or Title!

Perhaps the most challenging aspect of making money with blogs is automating the process of ad serving.

A such, I have been a big fan and user of Adsense over the years, most of my revenue generated with Adsense. Adsense is great for most of my blogs except some of my niche ones where the advertisers on Adsense simply don’t fit that niche.

In a continuous search for the next “big” thing and a fix for my niche blog that doesn’t make any money with Adsense, I recently happened to stumble over some ClickBank ads.

As many of you know, ClickBank is the affiliate bank for many of the digital products on market today.

ClickBank recently introduced a new feature called the “ClickBank Hop Ad Builder”.

Basically, the new ClickBank Hop Ad Builder lets you build Adsense-like ads with ability to pull digital products from ClickBank based on the keywords entered.

Well, this is a great feature except if you have a blog with numerous different articles, this tool might fall short as you can’t really specify all of ads with a set of static keywords.

With a little coding and hacking Wordpress, I figured out how to make these ClickBank Ads to show “relevant” ads based on your Wordpress tags.

If there’s no tags within the blog post, it will use the title as keywords.

Now, this could possibly make you more money than Adsense, due to the fact that you get paid on commissions, not clicks. Of course, this could also make you less money too, it all really depends on your niche and testing.

Another great feature of the ClickBank Hop Ad Builder is that you can customize the size to your liking. I have noticed that something like 600×140 pixel ads do really well and Adsense does not provide them unless you are a premier publisher with more than 1 million pageviews per month.

You might have noticed that I have temporarily swapped out Adsense ads on this blog to do a 1-on-1 analysis of how the new ClickBank Hop Ads perform. (Yes, I will have the results in about a week.)

But you can do this easily with ClickBank Hop Ad Builder.

If you already have ClickBank account, simply go to ClickBank and log in.

You will notice this menu button, click it!

clickbank-1

Then select the “Text Ads Builder” (I’d use this because the tabbed ads have proven to be less effective in a testing done by Chitika.).

You will come to a page where you can enter keywords (separated by space not comma!), your affiliate name, and add tracking ID. This tracking ID can be any word you want to use to track where your commissions later so simply enter the name of your website.

Click next and you will come to a new page where you can choose your ad size and various different options.

Don’t worry, you can easily edit the code itself later to change your ad so just click next.

Get the code and paste it on your blog for testing.

Now comes the fun part, you can change the values in the code to customize your ad.

For wider ads, (as seen on my site here) you can change the height, width, and number of rows values like this:

hopfeed_height=130;
hopfeed_width=600;
hopfeed_rows=3;

Now, you will get really wide, attention-grabbing ads like this:

clickbank-2

Why so wide? Well, based on my extensive testing, I believe these are actually generate better CTRs (Click Through Rates) than sizes such as 336×280 or 728×90. These are also the ones used by the top sponsored ads on Google search.

The problem for most of my sites have been that I couldn’t get Adsense to show at my desired size, which is something like 600×130.

By having the ads wider, it takes up less space vertically and readers can more easily read the ad.

Anyways, onto the rest of the code.

For the line:

hopfeed_keywords=’my keywords here’;

Change it to:

hopfeed_keywords=’<?php
$posttags = get_the_tags();
if ($posttags) {
foreach($posttags as $tag) {
echo $tag->name . ‘ ‘;
}
}else {
echo the_title(”,”);

} ?>’;

This will basically either use your Wordpress tags as keyword or the title of your blog post if no tags exist.
(Note: Please make sure you copy the correct characters when copying this code, sometimes they can get corrupted while copying and pasting.)

If you have tags on your blog posts, you will benefit greatly from this little code as it will pull real-time relevant ads from ClickBank, instead of based on static keywords.

There, I have just figured out so I don’t know how effective these ClickBank ads are but are pretty promising and I wanted to share with you before anyone else did.

If this helped you make more money with your blog, make sure to write a blog post linking to this blog post, I’d highly appreciated!

Okay, I gotta go back to writing my book, “How to Make Money with Blogging Business!”

You can catch me on breaks @zedomaxbiz.

P.S. Oh yeah, if you know any other “affiliate” programs that does something similar, please let me know!