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Today Entrecard will stop rewarding site owners for displaying the Entrecard widget at their web site since only the person dropping will get credits as of now and not the blog too as it used to be in the good old days.

Since you as the site owner is not getting anything for displaying the widget it's just a waste of useful advertising space to show the widget on all your pages, and therefore it could be a good idea to only show the widget at your main page instead of site-wide.

If you use for example self-hosted WordPress as your blogging platform it's quite easy to only display the widget at your main page. Just open the WordPress template where you have the widget code (footer.php for example) and replace the widget code with this code instead:

<?php if ( is_home() ) { ?>
<CENTER>
<script src="http://entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com/widget.js?user_id=XXXX&type=standard_127" type="text/javascript" id="ecard_widget"></script>
</CENTER>
<?php } ?>

Replace XXXX with your Entrecard ID (can be found in your HTML code) and you're ready to go. Whenever a user is watching the main page of your blog they will find the widget code (the Entrecard scanner will of course too), but if the user is watching any other page the widget will not show up.

If you would like to have the Entrecard widget replace by another ad network (that's actually rewarding for side-wide placements ), then just use the following code:

<?php if ( is_home() ) { ?>
<CENTER>
<script src="http://entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com/widget.js?user_id=XXXX&type=standard_127" type="text/javascript" id="ecard_widget"></script>
</CENTER>
<?php } else { ?>
<CENTER>
<!– ADD THE CODE TO SHOW ON ALL YOUR OTHER PAGES HERE –>
</CENTER>
<?php } ?>

So now you can show the Entrecard widget on your main page and on all other pages you can show for example the code from a banner exchange instead. This is a much more efficient way of displaying ads on your site

About the author
Andreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.