Rotating Switches
Newbie Project Of the Week

Voltar

Cloud Cash

We will be doing a couple examples of rotating switches for this weeks' NPOW, but do not stop at that and those. You will find many, many, many uses for them. So start with these and put another moneymaking tool in your webmaster utility belt.

What is a rotating switch?
A rotating switch is a page in your empire that when you go to it, you get a different page that it's linked to, with each visit to the page. They are simple and easy things to do and make. Not to be used on clean free site, if you want listed with the link lists. They are great little add-ins to drop in behind FPA's and as exit consoles.

First Example/Project
Go find your favorite sponsor(s) that have Pic Of the Day (POTD) programs. Get 4 different links to them. Using a simple java script text rotate script (NOT CGI or PHP or SSI) Place the java script in the middle of a page. Add the 4 Pic Of the Day links to the java script.

For the text, use the SAME text for all of them. "Click Here for my Free Pic Of the Day" Make this very large sized text. So the surfer always sees the same thing, no matter which one comes up. At the bottom of the page you place a Continue Here link just like a normal FPA. This link is static and does not rotate. Place this "after" a FPA in some internal linking that you already have existing. Before you let them get into an area where they can get free content.

Place an exit console on the super fast loading page. This exit console should load this page back again. So yes, you are launching the same page they just closed down, but they will be getting a different POTD link each time. Being as fast as the page is, this could last for hours. But they can click the continue link, you are probably thinking. True, but knowing this it becomes a tool for you to use that link.

Now we head into the realm of "dirty play". You got to love doing dirty stuff as a webmaster!

One way is to place this page at a dead end of some consoles or interlinking, and if you have targeted the traffic to a niche, you link the Continue Here link to a sponsor to match that niche. At this point you are effectively forcing the surfer to click into a sponsor of that niche they targeted themselves to, or be left there trying to shut down the thing for a few months or so. Here is what one would look like.

Second Example/Project
Often I'm asked about how to feed the AVS entrances that are built for free non exclusive sites With a Rotating Switch you can do that from your internal hubs and linking.

Take a free site you have already made. Grab the URL's for each AVS entrance you made for the site. You should have 3-4 of these, or you've been slacking on building free sites and not completing them. If this is the case, then complete one with several AVS entrances.

Place all the AVS entrance URLs in a java script text link rotator script. Have this all say the same linking link (text). Place this as a juicy link on a hub, or some place where you link to yourself.

This way traffic will get different AVS entrances and you can make some AVS dollars off of your internal traffic.

A brief blurb about the use of the javascript rotator.
First it's portable, without any other setup at all it's usable anywhere, on any server. It's also easy to set up. In way to help you understand, I'll briefly explain it in hopes newer newbies won't be scared to use it.

Grab an existing javascript for it first. You simple fill in two fields. The URL/links are placed in order in one section of it. The text link you want shown is seen you place in order, in a second section in the script.

For "each" URL you have a text link that must be there also. There is no server setup to do. All the javascript code is there on the page itself. And that's basically it. It's fast and easy to do, so don't think we are getting you into something overly complex.

There are lots of ways to use rotating switches. And now you will find many of them as you build. And profit from using them.

Voltar