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Quick Custom Text Ad Placement in WordPress Blog Categories

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 21, 2007

“WordPress plugins abound for Google AdSense and other
third-party text ad brokers, but what happens when someone wants to
buy ad space directly from you, on a specific category page in your
blog? You can easily add static HTML text ads to your category
search result pages by creating category-specific page
templates.

“Because most WordPress themes have a single template for
archives, aptly named archive.php, it’s not immediately apparent
how to place a text ad on a specific category results page…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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