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By eschewing a software template approach, CornerStayAds is dizzyingly versatile.

In simple terms, if you can create a web page for it, then there is a strong likelihood that it can be turned into a CornerStayAd.

Below are just a few of my own ideas for using CornerStayAds.  If you have any of your own ideas, share them by posting a comment at the end of this article.

CornerStayAd Tutorials
Add a user-friendly dimension to your membership site by placing a list of available video tutorials in a CornerStayAd.  Your users can select and watch the video they need without having to leave the page.

CornerStayAd Alternatives
When publishing a review of a product on your site, use a CornerStayAd to promote a relevant alternative containing your affiliate link.  For example:  “Product B offers a similar experience to Product A.  It doesn’t have quite as many features, but it’s only half the price – Click Here”.

CornerStayAd Blogs
Use Feedburner to create a subscribe form for your blog’s RSS feed, and place this in a CornerStayAd on your main template.  Now, every page on your blog offers visitors a way to register for free updates by email.

CornerStayAd of the Month
Create twelve, small, CornerStayAd images, each advertising an “Offer of the Month” (eg – January Special Offer, February Special Offer, March Special Offer, etc).  Update the image and the offer inside the CornerStayAd at the beginning of each month, and even your most regular visitors will be willing to click your ad to see the latest deal.

CornerStayAd Tell-A-Friend
Put your “Tell A Friend” form in a CornerStayAd on your main website template, and every page invites your visitors to share what they’ve discovered.  Add an incentive to use the TAF form to make it more effective.

CornerStayAd For Sale
Create a CornerStayAd on a high traffic website with a message that says “Your Ad Here for only $x per month”.

CornerStayAd Space Saver
Fed up of having to make room for your contact details, privacy policy link, terms of use link, etc, on EVERY page.  Place the information and the links in a CornerStayAd to make it easily accessible, and free up space for more important things.

Did anything in that list fire your imagination?  Post your own ideas using the comment form at the bottom of this page.

CornerStayAds and Residual Income

If you’re featuring a CornerStayAd on a website that has a marketing theme, there is a good chance that some of your visitors will be interested to learn where they can obtain the software for themselves.

CornerStayAds is sold via ClickBank so you can promote it and earn commission on your sales.  Add your ClickBank link to the bottom of each CornerStayAd window that says something like:

Click Here to put CornerStayAds on your website

Rotating Multiple CornerStayAd Pages

Why limit yourself to one CornerStayAd, when you can add loads and set them to rotate automatically?

Step One: Get hold of a page rotator script or use Pageswirl’s free, page rotation service.

Step Two: Create a different web page for each different advert you want to display and insert them into the page rotator.  You should now have a page rotator web address or URL that will display a different advert each time the page is refreshed.

Step Three: Create a web page that automatically redirects the visitor to your page rotator URL.  You can learn how to do that HERE.

Step Four: Create a new CornerStayAd using the online form and when you are asked to enter the web page code, use the code from the “redirect” page.

The resulting effect is that when someone opens your CornerStayAd, the window that opens will automatically redirect to the page rotator web address and show whichever advert is next in the queue.

You can use this trick to keep the adverts fresh and encourage people to view your advert on subsequent visits.  But you can also use this technique to rotate different offers (or different versions of the same offer) and see which promotion produces the best conversion rate.

Rotating Multiple CornerStayAd Images

Of course, visitors won’t know that you rotate different offers unless they move their mouse over your CornerStayAd more than once.

To increase the likelihood that this will happen, you can simply rotate several different CornerStayAd images using a small PHP script.

You can download the PHP file and the instructions HERE.

Adding Your CornerStayAd To EVERY Page

If you’re using any kind of template for your website then you quickly and easily add your CornerStayAd to every page on your website.

If all your web pages are in one folder, it’s simply a case of copying the code into the correct place in your template.  Since you want the code to be placed just before the closing BODY tag, you’ll probably find it best to put in the file, or on the part of the page, that creates the footer.

If you have web pages in various folders (a Wordpress blog, for example), you’ll need to make a couple of tweaks to the CornerStayAd code to make it work throughout.

Remember the three files that you had to upload to your server (close.png, myCorner.css, showHideFunctions.js)?  The CornerStayAds code automatically looks for these files in the same folder as the webpage that it is placed on.  You could always add copies of these three files to every folder, but there’s a much easier way.

Take a look at the CornerStayAds code that you have copied on to your webpage, and you’ll see that there are three places in the code where these files are referred to that will look something like this:

All you have to do is change these three file names, to the full URL location of where you uploaded the files to.  So, for example, for my website www.thelucidblog.com, I upload the three files to the main folder, and then changed these lines of code to:

Now, no matter which page I place the CornerStayAds code on, it always finds the files it needs to function properly.

Keep in mind, however, depending on your template, you may still need to add the code to more than one page of your template.  For The Lucid Blog which runs on the Wordpress blog, I added the code to the bottom of the “Main Index Template” file (so it would work on the homepage), and I also added it to the “Single Post” file (so it would work on individual blog pages.

I hope you find these tips useful.  If you did, please consider linking back to this article.

If you have any questions, or additional tips of your own, please post them in the comments below.

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