Earn more with Adsense’s Firefox affiliates
The idea that I am promoting the best web browser, and in the same time help to make internet a better place was always fascinating me. The bad thing when you promote Firefox affiliates from the adsense program, is the low conversions. First of all let’s try to see what are the reasons that cause this problem.
Why people don’t install Firefox from your site
- People usually don’t submit an offer because of a banner. You need more than that in order to convince them
- Some of your visitors already use Firefox, why display the firefox advertisement to them?
- Lack of motivation. IE users already use a browser that works for them. You can’t explain to the average user that IE don’t follow W3C standards. This is information useful only to web designers and web developers
How to promote Firefox
In my honest opinion in order to promote firefox you need to be intrusive. The first rule is that you don’t have to promote Firefox to any other than internet explorer users. To do this you will need to use a small fragment of code in HTML like :
<!--[if IE]>
Show the ad here
<![endif]-->
or if you prefer the php way, something like :
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE')!==false)
echo 'Your firefox ad here';
The second thing you have to think is how intrusive you are going to be. You can display a landing page to every IE visitor - instead of your regular content - and ask from them to install Firefox because IE has many security problems, etc.
This way works the best but you will lose a lot of loyal visitors that use IE. Of course this is your decision, and if you like to play with landing pages for IE users, then I will definitely recommend you to check the Explorer Destroyer, a web site dedicated to destroy Internet explorer 
Now if you want to be less intrusive, but yet having conversions, here is how you can do it. Open your template file and after the body add this line of code:
<!--[if IE]>
<div style="width:99%;border-bottom: 2px solid red;background:gray;padding:5px;color:#FFF;">
<strong>Warning</strong>: You are using Internet Explorer. <a href="http://getfirefox.com/">Get Firefox with Google Toolbar for better browsing </a>
</div>
<![endif]-->
Of course you will have to change the link code with your affiliate code. I’ve took this style from blows hard and it still has some good conversions. Bellow you can see how it looks like :
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those at the top with 1000’s of page views and 1000s of sign ups dominating the widget the small guy well his blog is no more seen then it was before all he done is promote the guys at the top.
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