John Chow had a nice tip on his site today on posting an advertising link on your site and ensuring that it’s not indexed using nofollow. You can do this with a simple redirect page that John posts the code for.
I wanted to do this a little different. In my horizontal menu above, real estate is at a premium. I do have an admin link on there if I’m logged in… but for everyone else, that’s a blank spot. I decided, why not swap the content of that bar in the event it’s a visitor and not me? With WordPress, this is pretty simple:
get_currentuserinfo() ;
global $user_level;
if ($user_level > 0) {
wp_register('>li class="menuitem">','>/li>');
} else {
echo ">li class='menuitem'>>a href='/go/tla.html' title='Advertise on this Website'>Advertise>/a>>/li>";
}
?>
I haven’t made a dime with Text Link Ads yet but I want to give it a good shot. It’s pretty inexpensive for my site… $35 per month and I get over 500 visitors a day. I look forward to serving some of these up!
Cool idea!
Though I would I would revise the link it points to – now it asks you for your log-on details. Not the kind of page I wanted to be greeted with, if I were a prospective advertiser 😉
Thanks so much Martin! I was redirecting to the wrong page! Oops! I wasn’t going to get too many referrals that way, was I? 🙂
Surely this piece of code would be more efficient and have similar effect?
/* If a browser has a user ID they must be logged in */if ( $user_ID ) :
echo "I am logged in";
/* For everybody that doesn't have one */
else :
echo "I am logged out / not logged in";
endif;
Actually WordPress provides an easier way to check if the used is logged in or not, a functions implemented in WP by default: is_user_logged_in()
<?php global $user_ID; if( $user_ID ) : ?>
<?php if(current_user_can('level_10')) : ?>
<!– Things to be displayed for admon –>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
this will help