How Banners and Banner Exchanges Work

(You need to read all of this in order to better understand what the "Banner Links" on your Member Admin Page or used for)

What is a banner? A banner is an image (picture) that is displayed on a web site to advertise a website. The banner is a "link" in that when someone clicks on the banner it brings them to the advertisers site.

A banner ad has two parts:

1. The picture, or image, is the part you can see
2. The "website URL" which is the web site address you want a person to land on when they click on the image.

Banner exchanges are networks of web sites that trade banner advertising space at no cost. A Banner Exchange is a web site/service that provides the administration side of the exchange of ads between members. The exchanges handle the rotation of its members banners throughout the sites within the network. This makes it an automatic process for the web site owners that participate in the exchange.

How to join banner exchanges and add them to your Purchaseacasino site?

Joining banner exchanges is not a complicated process provided you understand what the banner exchange will need from you.

To do this you will first need to go to the Banners and select a banner you would like displayed for you on other sites throughout the Internet. (NOTE: The banner you use does not appear on your site, it appears on the other sites in a banner exchange networks you join. So, if you join three networks, you only need to pick one banner in that you can give all three the same banner)

This is important: As we mentioned earlier, you will need to supply each banner exchange with the banner you select. (NOTE: The size of our banners is 468 X 60.) There are two ways which banner exchanges can load your banner into your account with them. Here's how:

1) The easiest way is when they ask on their "join" application for the "Banner Image URL". This is going to be the website address you find right below the banner you selected from our banner page. You will note below each banner there is an URL. This URL is the address of that banner on our web site. Simply cut and paste the URL where they ask for the "Banner Image URL" (case sensitive and be sure to include http:// where required.). The banner exchange will retrieve the image from the URL you entered.

2) The second way is when they need your to "upload" the image to their server. To do this you first need to save the banner image you choose onto the hard drive of your computer. Go to our banner page, find the banner you want to use, put our mouse anywhere on top of the actual image and click the RIGHT mouse button once. You will see in the gray box that pops open an option to "Save Picture As…" Click on that. Then you will see it opens up the save box to save to your hard drive. Simply save it somewhere on your hard drive where you will remember. (Hint: Saving to the Desktop makes it easy to find your banner) Once you have it saved on your hard drive, it can be uploaded to the banner exchange.

Once you complete joining each exchange they will have your banner ready to go and next you must provide them the space on your site to place their banner (this is what you are doing for them in "exchange" of them rotating your banner on other sites). This is a very important step and you must get it right, here's how you do it:

The final step in the "join" process with each exchange will lead you to a page where they give you the HTML code you must put into your web site for them. It will be several lines, or more of code. You must copy this code by holding down your left mouse button and dragging over all of the code to highlighted it - get all of it - nothing extra, but nothing less than all of it. Once what you need to copy is all highlighted, let up on the left mouse button and click once on the RIGHT mouse button. From the gray box that pops up you will see "copy". Click that once. You will then go to your "Customize Site" page and will find the section "Add/Change HTML" you will click with your right button in the box and choose paste. Click on "Save Site Changes" and you have just added your first banner!

Click here to go back to the Banner Exchange listings to start joining some exchanges.