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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Online Money Earning Related Modules for Drupal

 

 

Like other open source shopping carts such as opencart, zen-cart, oscommerce, magneto, and prestashop, etc., Drupal, coming with Ubercart and/or e-commerce extensions, can also be configured as an online open source shopping cart system.

Besides to use open-source e-commerce plugins, such as ubercart or e-commerce plugin,  to create your own online shop, which features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, license fees, or limitations involved, there are also other online money earning related modules can be integrated with Drupal to help you make money online, here are five of them:

1. Your Own Affiliate Program

Affiliate
This module allows site owners to issue affiliate links to their partners. When anonymous users follow these links, the clicks are counted by affiliate, day, and optional keyword. When referred users sign up for an account, the account is associated with that affiliate.

2. Sell “TextLinkAds” on Your Website

TextLinkAds.com Integration
Simplified setup right on your site. All you need is your Website XML Key from Text-Link-Ads.com and you’re ready to start publishing ads. A built-in tool to customize the looks of the ads, including borders, background color, link color and font size. Access to your publisher statistics from within your website. See your site details, including how much money you’ve earned and how many links are being served. Cron-based updates of your ads. The ad links are kept up to date via Drupal’s cron functionality.

3. Paid Listings on your Drupal Website

Pay2Publish
Pay2Publish lets users publish basic versions of listings (nodes) for free, and later be able to pay to “upgrade” them to custom Levels (categories) to add more visibility (Views plays) and/or show more information (CCK fields). set up different “Levels” with different costs and properties (Silver, Gold, Platinum style). Each level will have its corresponding taxonomy (category) term. to upgrade a node, the user will have to buy the desired “Level” and assign it to one of his published nodes. The corresponding taxonomy term will be assigned to the desired node.

4. Sell Content Pages on Your Site

PayPal Node
Use PayPal to charge users to post a specified content-type. Costs are calculated based on combinations of taxonomy terms. Nodes can be set to expire (become unpublished) after a specified number of days. Use this module to create a custom classified advert system, or charge for hosting any content that users might categorize.

5. Ad Management & Tracking

Advertisement
The ad module is a powerful advertising system for Drupal-powered websites. It supports the random display and tracking of graphical (banner) and text ads. Ads can easily be displayed in themes, blocks, or embedded in site content. The module records comprehensive statistics about when and how often ads are viewed and clicked, including a plug-in module for generating graphical time-based reports. Ads can be assigned to multiple owners, each of which can be assigned their own set of permissions. Installation is simple by design. An API is provided allowing the development of additional functionality and integration with other Drupal modules.

6. Click Thru Tracking & Reporting

Click Thru Tracking
This module provides the ability for site admins to track clicks on their site such as advertising campaigns and newsletter click throughs. The clicks are organized into groups, so ad campaigns can be tracked if they involve more than one node.

In summary, comparing with those typical e-commerce shopping carts, such as opencart, zencart, oscommerce, prestashop, magento, etc. those CMS with ecom plugins, such as drupal with ubercart and joomla with virtuemart, has at least one more features: coming with online money earning related modules to extend these CMS's functionalities.

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