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How To Display Firefox Referral Ads To Non-Firefox Users Only

By on July 14, 2007 in Blogging, Tools & Tips | Comments { 9 }

About 50% of my readers are Internet Explorer users and I’ve been searching for a while for a way to promote Firefox to only to these readers using Google Adsense Firefox Referrals which pays up to $1 for each conversion for a while, so that users already using Firefox don’t see the ads and so that the extra ads don’t distract from my current campaigns.

50% of my readers is about 3-4k people per day so I’m hoping that the code I’ve just added to display a Firefox referral ad ONLY to non-Firefox users works. I got the code from One Tip A Day and it’s really quite simple:

<?php if ( !strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Gecko') ) { ?>
<!-- Put the code you want to display to non-firefox users here -->
<?php } ?>

In the comments section you can add the Google Adsense Firefox referral code and anything else you may want to display to non-Firefox users.

I’ll let you know in a couple of days what kind of results I’m having. Even if I only get half a dozen a day or a 0.2% conversion rate, that would be an extra $180 per month, which wouldn’t be bad for a 30 second change! This would be around the amount that Martin is making from Firefox referrals (5% of his earnings). I’m hoping that I can make a bit more as I have more IE users than Martin.

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9 Responses to How To Display Firefox Referral Ads To Non-Firefox Users Only

  1. dEEPAK July 14, 2007 at 1:32 pm #

    Well even I was looking for this same thing…

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  2. Yael July 14, 2007 at 10:19 pm #

    thanks for the information

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  3. Vijay July 15, 2007 at 4:36 am #

    Personally, I have had very few conversions with the referral program and I do not use it anymore.

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  4. Vijay July 15, 2007 at 5:36 am #

    Personally, I have had very few conversions with the referral program and I do not use it anymore.

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  5. Shankar July 15, 2007 at 7:22 am #

    I dont have good idea on refferal ads, but doubt if they work good, as the visitor has to go from our site to download the software. :) I have never done download unless I really want some software.

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  6. FAYYAZ July 15, 2007 at 10:53 am #

    it is quite a nice idea. a tag line alone with it will help increase conversion

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  7. FAYYAZ July 15, 2007 at 11:53 am #

    it is quite a nice idea. a tag line alone with it will help increase conversion

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  8. Everton July 15, 2007 at 11:00 am #

    good idea – just added a tag line

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  9. Josh July 15, 2007 at 5:33 pm #

    Thanks for this tip! I haven’t had any conversions yet, but maybe this will help.

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