Tips on Copying and Pasting Ads into a Website Page based on past Experience
I started by copying and pasting Amazon ads. At first, I didn’t know where to paste the HTML code for an advertising ad. I went to Step 5 (the place where you go to add content) using RVSiteBuilder and clicked on Edit for the destination page. I pasted it there using WYSIWYG. That resulted in seeing the HTML code where the actual ad is supposed to show up. When I realized my mistake, I deleted the code from there and added it to the bottom of the HTML code and moved the image to the correct location. Later, I discovered that I could have copied it with the WYSIWYG editor using the process described below for AdSense Ads. Finally, I encountered a problem copying and pasting the HTML for a vendor’s search widget (an advertising ad that allows one to search a vendor’s site for a product) to a page within my website. The ad would display but I couldn’t get it to link to the vendor’s site. It turns out that my problem was the fact that I was using Internet Explorer 6.0 which could not handle the more complex ad. I upgraded to Internet Explorer 7.0 and it worked.
After the site had been up and running for a few days, I copied and pasted AdSense ads. It took me a while to figure out how to do it. The process was similar to that used for Amazon ads but different enough to be a problem. I went to Step 5 and clicked on HTML in the HTML code column. I copied the code into a Word document and saved it just in case I screwed up and needed to restore the code for the page. I pasted the AdSense HTML code into what appeared to be the bottom of the body section. I thought I was looking at the actual HTML code. I could find a <tbody> but not a <body>. It turns out that it is code that generates the actual HTML code. Needless to say the AdSense ad didn’t appear and I had to restore the code. To see the actual HTML code for the page, I clicked on WYSIWYG for the page under the Edit column. I went to the top of the screen and clicked on view and selected source. It showed the actual code for the page which did contain a <body> followed by a </body> section. I couldn’t change the actual HTML code directly so I decided to use the WYSIWYG editor to make the change. I had to first put the cursor at the location on the page where I wanted to place the AdSense ad. I wanted to insert the AdSense ad at the bottom of the page but centered. To put the cursor in that position, I clicked at the bottom left corner of the page, i.e. just above the words design & source and then hit return a couple of times. Then I went to a tool bar at the top of the screen and hit the icon for centering text. The blinking cursor was centered at the bottom of the page where I wanted the ad to appear. I then clicked on Source in the bottom left corner of the page. The code used to generate HTML showed on the screen with the cursor blinking in the appropriate location to insert the AdSense HTML code. I then went to a tool bar at the top of the screen and clicked on Edit and selected Paste. The code was inserted in the appropriate place. I then used Preview to see if it appeared being careful not to click on the ad. It worked.
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