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If you’re our friend in all three networks you get 45 EC (15×3)

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I guess you have seen the small, slightly animated corners in the right upper corner of some pages (mostly blogs) where an ad will show up if you move your mouse over the corner. If you haven’t then check out the right upper corner of this blog!

This is something called peel-off corner ads or peel away ads and is according to me an innovative way of showing ads (I just love to check out these ads, but that may be because I’m a geek ). I’ve seen sites selling the little piece of code doing exactly this for anywhere between $5 up to $137 (!!!!) when there are free alternatives that’s doing the exact same thing. John Chow for example tried to sell the script for $37 (!!!). OK he’s selling a little bit more advanced piece of code, but I guess you can find free scripts that do the same thing if you combine them.

How to add peel-off ads on your site

As I said yesterday on Twitter.com I’m going to tell you how to install this kind of ads on your own site or blog.

It’s quite easy to install and use (the hardest part is to create the actual ads ). The script I’m using is from donalyza.com, but you can find similar scripts on other pages too. Just search for free peel off ads script at Google. The beauty with this kind of ads is that you can add it on any page you like not just only your blog.

1. Download the files needed. Usually it’s a .js file (the actual script), two Flash movies (one for the animated corner and one for the big ad) and two images (one for the small corner and one for the ad).
2. Open the .js file in any text editor you like (I use for example Wordpad on Windows or Nano on Linux) and make a few adjustments (just follow the instructions ).
3. Create two images. One small (the corner: 75×75 pixels) and one big (the actual ad: 500×500)
4. Upload all your files to your web server
5. Add one line of code at your web site:
   

   <script src=”/pagepeel/PagePeel.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

6. If you can’t see the corner ad you need to make sure that you uploaded all images in the correct folder (that was my first mistake )

Now it’s time to let the creativity flow If you’re using peel-off ads on your site or blog, please post a link here so we can have a look at how you did it.

If there’s something you would like to know how to do, please send me a message and maybe, just maybe I’ll write a post on how to do it

I’ve installed two plugins to improve this blog.

• Twitter Tools - This tool lets you twitter directly from this blog. Check out the left sidebar of this blog and Twitter all you can Each day a digest of twitters (???) will be posted here in the blog :?) Check out the Xavier Media page at Twitter.com
• Popularity plugin - At the bottom of each post you can now see how popular a post is and you can also find the most popular posts in the sidebar. The more views, posts, trackback etc a post gets the more popular it will become.