The WP Bankroll Plugin has been around for a while. It was released back in the first few month of 2007 and many bloggers have successfully installed this Plugin since. It is perhaps most commonly seen on contest blogs that advertise blog contests (at least that’s where I keep finding it).
With the recent Google mayhem regarding paid links selling from your blog via third party advertisers this Plugin might or might now be an alternative. The creator of this Plugin states on his homepage that “the only way to stay out of Google’s radar for selling paid links is via contextual links.”
So what is a contextual link, and how can it keep us safe from the almighty powers that are the big G?
Contextual advertising is nothing else than targeted advertising relating to the blogs topics. So if your blog is geared toward the golfing industry, then only golf related advertising can take place on your blog.
However, this sounds great in the first instance, but upon taking a closer look, there are a couple of issues that disturbed me greatly.
- Apparently there have been issue with contextual fraud that installed some kind of code on users computers that then lead to websites who didn’t pay for ads at all. You can read this on Webopedia.
- Most importantly, I couldn’t find any mention as to whether this Plugin allows the user to attach the “needed” no follow tag to all ads placed on the site. Why would I want this? Google doesn’t want unnatural link building activities on our blogs. Selling ads without no follow is just that.
Google will crawl your site several times a day if you update your blog regularly, so they don’t want to waste their spider power by having to crawl a paid link or an affiliate link for that matter and therefore they penalize blog owners who dis-obey these rules.
To use the WP Bankroll Plugin you have several options. You can choose to download it for free (it will require you to link back to the Plugin site), or you can pay for the service.
- Download Free Version
- Purchase Single License for $19.99
- Purchase Unlimited License for $ 49.99
See the screen shot of the WP Bankroll Demo Page. In the top right hand side of the sidebar you see the following:
| Buy A Blog Post (hyperlinked)Powered by WP Bankroll. Feature Posts:
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Your readers will be able to purchase links, blog posts, feature posts and more either as a paid version for whatever you set the price for, or else you can also offer these for free.
Once your reader clicks on the link ” Buy A Blog Post” (link can be named differently too) they will be lead to a new page were they make their choices and then pay via PayPal.
You will receive notification of the new “sponsor” and are then required to approve or reject the payment depending on quality. (If you reject, the buyer will get a full 100 % refund).
The following is the admin options page screen shot:
And the manage admin screen shot:
The WP Bankroll Plugin might be a great Plugin for some. I would love to get some feedback on whether it has worked out for you and also to clear up the issue of the no follow and whether this is actually possible.
Monika Mundell
Editor of Easy WordPress
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This sounds really interesting but scary since you mentioned the issues about advertisements being placed on the site that were not authorized?
Is this related to the plugin or to contextual ads in general?
And are there any other similar plugins like this that anyone would recommend?
theoiproject: As far as I’m aware, the issues with contextual ads are NOT related to this Plugin. But I did feel inclined to mention this anyway since people need to make choices based on what knowledge is available.
I heard of another Plugin that does similar things and has 100 % nofollow links since they advertise it on their site.
It is called OIO Publisher and here is the link:
http://www.oiopublisher.com/
Great post. I’d recommend this plugin:
http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/07/08/plugin-auto-hyperlink-urls/
You can also try out the link-a-dink plugin:
http://www.biggnuts.com/link-a-dink/
I don’t see many problems with these as they’re behind the scenes and are links right inside your content. Looks like regular links to me.
Mike: thanks, I’m sure these Plugins might be useful for some readers too.
interesting, but I’m wondering what’s Google stance on such plugins considering their dislike of selling links? wouldn’t it be a sure sign what blogs to ban/punish?
Does not work at all.
You can’t even down load the free version. When you attempt to do so, it takes you to some accounting software page or to a web hosting page.
hi, how can i download the plugin? it seems it is no longer available
@ John: did you try to click on any of the links above? I just did and the site looks updated and live to me.
this plugin wud b very helpful for the bloggers who sell contextual links on their blog posts … a very helpful plugin out here .. will surely recommend few of my blogger frds for sure