Monday 19 May 2008

Ebay Partner Network and Blogger - Basic

I realised that I am too techy ad a lot of people out there don't want a techy answer to a techy problem. So I am going to explain how to change the code given by the Ebay Partner Network and make it work in Blogger.

1. Get you code from Ebay Partner Network

Looks like this

<script language='JavaScript1.1'> document.write("<sc"+"ript language='JavaScript1.1' src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/55956/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&mpt=" + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) + "&adtype=3&size=468x60&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc='></sc"+"ript>");</script><noscript> <a href='http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-7/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc='> <img border='0px' src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/710-53481-19255-7/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]&adtype=1&size=468x60&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc=' alt='Click Here'> </a></noscript>

2 . Remove the <noscript> section, leaving

<script language='JavaScript1.1'> document.write("<sc"+"ript language='JavaScript1.1' src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/55956/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&mpt=" + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) + "&adtype=3&size=468x60&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc='></sc"+"ript>");</script>

3. Copy the Hyperlink (highlighted below)

<script language='JavaScript1.1'> document.write("<sc"+"ript language='JavaScript1.1' src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/55956/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&mpt=" + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) + "&adtype=3&size=468x60&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc='></sc"+"ript>");</script>

The link looks similar to

http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/55956/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&mpt=&quot; + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) + "&adtype=3&size=468x60&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc=

4. Paste the link into the PUT YOUR LINK HERE section below

<script language="JavaScript1.1">

document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='PUT YOUR LINK HERE' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));

</script>

and end up with something that looks like

<script language="JavaScript1.1">

document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/55956/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&mpt=" + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) + "&adtype=3&size=468x60&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc=' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));

</script>

Now paste the <noscript> section remove above after this new section, to leave something that looks like.

<script language="JavaScript1.1">

document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/55956/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&mpt=" + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) + "&adtype=3&size=468x60&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc=' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));

</script>
<noscript> <a href='http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-7/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc='> <img border='0px' src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/710-53481-19255-7/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55956&customid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]&adtype=1&size=468x60&def=u7v&n3y=1&u7v=1&a3h=1&mpvc=' alt='Click Here'> </a></noscript>

Now just paste this into blogger and you should have Ebay Partner Network Ads on your blogger blog.

If you have any problems using this code, or need more help, just drop a comment and I will give you a helping hand.

4 comments:

The Camera Guy said...

Thanks for your blog, I can't paste the code into the html on blogger - I get this:

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The reference to entity "toolid" must end with the ';' delimiter.

Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks, Simon.

Sean J Connolly said...

You need to first paste your code into a text editor and make the changes there, then you shoudl be able to paste that into Blogger.

If you are still having problems, just let me know and I will do my best to help

mike1144 said...

thanks for the post my all quarries are solved by your post
thanks dude

Sean J Connolly said...

Thanks Mike for the words of thanks

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