Thanks for your helpful reply. Tomorrow I plan to delve into this project some more. I think by the end of the day we’ll see some ads on this site. Then I’ll post a continuation of the story.

I find the QuickAds service quite promising. It looks like it might add some important options for lots of people. I wish you lots of success with it.

Shirley

I am the product lead for Scribefire and found your blog post very informative. Your post has been passed around the office and we are looking to building tutorials which address each one of your issues.

In the meantime, I thought I’d provide you some quick answers.

In terms of where you need to put the snippet of code, anywhere after the tag will work fine. It should be the case for all these additional snippets that others want to add too. The one closest to the tag has priority, but in general, it doesn’t matter which comes first.

The reason why the add-on was unable to work automatically is because the permissions on your files are not set such that the add-on can make changes. If you change the permission on your footer.php file in your theme to 777, Scribefire will do everything automatically for you (Tutorial coming soon!)

In terms of the ads you are seeing, we are currently optimizing your tags to show what would pay out the most, but it is not contextualizing on every impression. This means that, while we are in beta, the display ads are not specifically targeted to your type of blog. When we come out of beta, expect better more targeted ads to appear on your site.

If you have any questions at all, please email me. If you run into any problems, you can also email techsupport@scribefire.com

Fred