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.
