Trick to Make More Money with Firefox Referrals

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on August 19, 2007

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I hope you people did not miss my review of the wordpress plugin that helps you make money through firefox referrals. The plugin is good but it has a lot of drawbacks such as:

  • Interrupting Internet Explorer Users
  • Annoying Them while They Surf
  • Using Most of the Free Screen Space

This will not only kill your Internet Explorer user traffic but will also make readers hate you for your evil acts. So I have a better solution.

Make More Money Through Firefox Referrals

This simple little trick that I am teaching you does not require any plugin. It also does not require any scripts and is just a small little piece of html and css combined together. The good thing about this trick is that it does not render any annoying popups rather it displays a very little and well-blended message at the top of IE which can help you lure IE users into clicking the referral link and downloading the firefox browser (This certainly does not violate Google TOS in any way). This way you can easily turn all of your Internet Explorer traffic into pure cash.

Firefox Referral Money Case Study

I have done a little research to show you how beneficial your IE traffic can be for you and how can you use it to make more money.

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You see above a diagram of Sizlopedia traffic statistics as of July 1 - July 30. You can see that approximately 34 thousand IE users visited this blog in whole month. That is nearly 43% of all traffic that Sizlopedia received in the whole month. IE 6 and IE 7 remain the most used IE versions as you can see from the chart.

Now if we consider an ideal case where all my IE users convert to Firefox using my referral and keeping in mind that one referral conversion gives me $1 I should have made $34000 in one month just through Firefox referrals (Yeh! I do look insane here)

But the point here is that even if 0.1% of my IE users convert to Firefox using my referral then I can easily make $34 out of my referrals which is still a great amount of money.

How To Setup Firefox Referral for IE users

It is very very easy :) Just copy and paste the code below right after <body> tag of your wordpress template and make sure to test it in IE to see if it looks fine and does not break your template design.

Here is the Firefox Referral Code (only opens in firefox)

Make sure you replace Pub-ID with your own Adsense publisher ID. The comment conditional tags you see around this code are IE read-only which means that IE will render the HTML inside it while other browser will ignore it as a coding comment.

If you want to target version-specific IE audience to see your Firefox referral link then you can use the following tags

  • For all IE versions: <!--[if IE]><![endif]-->
  • For IE 5 only: <!--[if IE 5]><![endif]-->
  • For IE 6 only: <!--[if IE 6]><![endif]-->
  • For IE 7 only: <!--[if IE 7]><![endif]-->

Live Preview

Just visit Sizlopedia in any IE version browser to see the live preview :) and do share your comments

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  • http://www.bloggingtune.com Ramkarthik

    Good research. I’ll be trying this once I get a good readership because at this new stage of my blog, I should display much advertisements. Anyway, this is a great idea for making money. Thanks for the tip. :)

  • http://www.tecfre.com kanak

    Well !! i am also using this trick for , but till now for any conversion I have got just 10 cents, never got $1 which google normally say !! any idea why ??

  • http://www.sizzledcore.com Haris

    Great trick! I’ll try this as soon as I get over with my exams :D

  • http://blog.eches.net eches

    kanak @ I experienced the same thing too and I eventually learnt that the $0.10 was coming from Malaysian user clicks. Anyway I feel great when sometimes I got $1.00 :)

  • http://blog.eches.net eches

    Thanks DJ Flush :) I first came across this thing in liewcf blog but I never thought of finding how to implement that.

  • http://www.dailymoolah.com Dev from Daily Moolah

    Hey DJFlush,

    I implemented this code and it works fine on IE but now, it also shows up on firefox with the first bit visible for the world to see! Any fixes?

    Thanks!

    Dev

  • http://www.dailymoolah.com Dev from Daily Moolah

    Hey DJFlush,

    Looks like all you have to do is make sure the end tag is <![endif]--> instead of <![endif]->. Please make the correction in the main code whenever you can.

    Thanks for your hard work, and you’ve definitely got a great blog going here.

    Cheers

    Dev

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Thank you everyone once again for appreciating a piece of my research :)

    Dev Thanks for pointing it out. There is a problem with quotes in WordPress however I have fixed the code and it is now available as a txt file.

    Have fun :) and Thank You for appreciating my blog

  • http://www.findcollegecards.com Tom

    Great trick, I’m going to try it out on one of my websites :)

  • http://www.techdeep.in/blog dEEPAK

    I use its php version of this trick in my sidebar to display the referal button.. But most of my readers are from firefox.. so I haven’t had any success yet.. Will try your trick to display the top bar..

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    You can try all your tactics Dj but i am staying with IE .

  • http://blog.shankarganesh.com Shankar Ganesh

    LOL that’s a great way of making money :D I think I should try this.

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Madhur Kapoor Hehehe that really made me laugh lol :D

    Guys it seems to be working brilliant for me. $4 made alone from firefox referrals in one day wow! not bad :)

  • http://www.rishiraj.info/ Rishi

    Hey Awesome code snip DJ! Worked functionally with a charm! Any trick to do this for Opera users too? My 10% visitors come from Opera and 30% from IE!

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    For Opera let me think! Perhaps we can do this for opera users too but that will be more complex (really complex) because we will have to target the browser agent instead of using any conditions statements.

    I will look into it and will post it if I find it :)

  • http://www.sizzledcore.com Haris

    Doesn’t work on my blog :( . The layout breaks. Will try it on some other theme.

  • http://www.techdeep.in/blog dEEPAK

    @Rishi
    You can use php to check the browser agent.. It will show the referal button/link for all browsers other than Firefox…

  • Kara

    Will it work on a website? If so how? I mean where do I put the code? On every page or as an include? It would be great if somebody could help me here.

    Tom you said:

    Great trick, I’m going to try it out on one of my websites

    Did you try it out?

    Thanks in advance

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Kara It will work perfectly on a website too.

    Yes the most easiest and simple way to use it on a website is to put the code as in include after the tag on every page of your website.

    Do try and let me know if it works for you.

  • http://nspeaks.com NSpeaks

    Your site does not load in IE 6. It opens a bit and then says, it can’t open Sizlopedia.

    I tried your firefox code but it completely messed the theme. SO will try some other code. But still thanks for the idea. Didn’t strike me!

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Yeh I know thats a bug with IE and I haven’t been able to figure out yet why sometimes IE shows that error for sizlopedia.

    The code will work for some themes and won’t work for some. You might have to tweak it a bit yourself still I am glad you liked the idea.

  • Kara

    Hello DJ Flush, You wrote:

    It will work perfectly on a website too.

    Yes the most easiest and simple way to use it on a website is to put the code as in include after the tag on every page of your website.

    Do try and let me know if it works for you.

    I tried it on my site but the problem is that it shows on Firefox also which it shouldn’t if I understand it right. Am I doing something wrong? (I took the code from the text file)

    All the best

  • http://nspeaks.com NSpeaks

    That’s because code in text file has one error

    In last line instead of
    <![endif]->

    it should be

    <![endif]-->

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Finally guys I have managed to fix the code :D and it will work on all sites and blogs regardless of the theme. There was a little typo in the end tag.

    Thanks to Daily Moolah and NSpeaks for pointing that out.

  • http://nspeaks.com NSpeaks

    Ok…I posted the correction at http://cl1p.net/nspeaks/

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Thanks once again :) I updated it for you in your comment.

    The problem is that the comment form recognizes HTML and when you put a tag it parses it instead of taking it as mere text.

    Its all done and working fine now :D

  • Kara

    Wow! It works ok now. Thanks all.

  • Kara

    I think I spoke too soon. The code worked on a trial page but when I put the code on my webpage there is a script error. I tried it on all my sites and the same thing happens.

    Any ideas?

    And of course thanks in advance.

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    I am still ready to help you. Please use http://cl1p.net and help me see the script error that you are getting.

    Or best is that you take a screenshot of the error and paste the image link here so I can see it for myself.

  • http://digitalorder.org KingJacob

    Not sure why its not working but maybe this will help
    http://browsershots.org/http://digitalorder.org/ for some reason the isnt closing.

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    The screenshot isn’t helping me to figure out the problem.

    I hope you copied the latest code from the text file? because I only fixed it yesterday.

  • http://digitalorder.org KingJacob

    Unless the text was changed before I posted that comment I believe I got the latest in those screenshots.

  • http://blog.butterflymedia.ro Chip

    Hey, you don’t have to put it at the top. It’s not compulsory. You can add it into the sidebar, like a big and colourful banner. Or inside an article. Anyway, great idea. I’ll set it up in my sidebar for my blog.

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    I agree with you :) I mean its not necessary that you should put it at the top. The main concept was to just introduce the IE Condition Comment tags but still for my blog I have noticed that the top position is giving me the highest referral clicks and payouts.

  • Strang3r

    Ok how do you make it work in blogger Dj

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Though it wouldn’t be much difficult to set up in Blogger too but to be honest I have no idea how to do so as I have no experience over Blogger blogs.

    You can just play with the steps mentioned here and see if that gets you anywhere.

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  • http://www.productinfodirectory.com Dean

    Another great tips, Thanks DJ

    It works perfectly nice on my website.

  • http://www.wpmix.com andrej

    Thanks for sharing this tip! Will try it. :)

  • http://www.bloggertoblogger.blogspot.com Ishaan

    Hi, I tried to make this thing work on Blogger (link) but this error message came up.

    “Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure that all XML elements are closed properly.
    XML error message: The string “–” is not permitted within comments.”

    I then removed the “” bit and it worked, but it showed up on firefox too.

    What should i do? The template uses XML (not really sure what it is)

    Thanks

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Isaan I am really not familiar with blogger templates so I am not sure what might be triggering the error. I suggest you to consult someone who is good with editing blogger templates and he can do the job for you in just a minute.

    I apologize for the late response.

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  • Brent

    I am going to try this, I looked at my stats for the last 30 days: 1.1 million unique visitors, 73% using IE. Even I only covert a 1000 of them, it would be a nice boost in revenue…thanks!

  • http://www.favbrowser.com Web Browsers

    Not sure if that’s Invision Power Board, but once I add IF IE tag, Safari 3.1 and Opera 9.5 displays a huge spacing in the top.

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    @Web Browsers

    The problem is basically not with Invision Power Board rather it happens on all sites and blogs. I will soon come up with an alternative trick or solution so stay tuned.

  • http://www.thoushallblog.com Yan

    Thanks, DJ for this great tip. I have it up and it works just fine.

    Just one Q though, with the script apparently force Safari to give a huge gap on the header. Do you have any idea why?

  • http://adsense4yoursuccess.blogspot.com tamilmani

    Really a nice idea…really you are great man

  • David

    Hey, I tried using the IE tags to show some ad copy text to only FF users. However, now, in firefox, there is a big white space in place of the text would usually be.

    Is there a way to display the ad such a way that in firefox theres no big white space?

    Thanks for the great article. :)

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    I am trying my best to solve the white-space problem in browsers other than IE but no luck so far :(

    I am still working on it and will publish a solution soon.

    • hindsbaboon

      HI i put the code in the header it shows but when i click on it nothing happen! do you know why ?

      • http://ww9.totalh.com JeLTv

        don't use it… very annoying… if you want referral just put an icon in you site much better…

  • hindsbaboon

    HI i put the code in the header it shows but when i click on it nothing happen! do you know why ?

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