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Last Update: June 21, 2012
Hello everyone and thanks again for the great answers after the near fatal meltdown I had a few days ago. I went a little crazy because I was trying to get a weeks worth of work done in one day. I know this entire week and most of my weekend are going to be taken up with paid work that I can not say no to. This made me feel like I had to spend as much time as I could in one day working on WA stuff.

After this melt down I have decided to take a step back and look at the issues I was having and am still having with the new things I am trying to do. This time I am trying to be smart about it and come here and ask very specific questions.
  1. I am not sure why but I can't seem to get pictures to upload at Street Articles. I had a picture I wanted to use but when it didn't work I tried about 5 random pictures and none of them worked. So I submitted my first article without a picture. Is it the browser I am using (chrome) or do the pictures have to be a specific size to start with?
  2. I want to link a few Youtube videos to my blog and I couldn't get them to show up. A lot of people seem to want to know more about pole dancing and I thought a video of a competition event would be the best way to do that.
  3. I am still not sure why my Amazon Affiliate links don't show up half the time. I tend to have to go search for a product and try each link out until I get one that Wordpress agrees with. Then it will usually let me do text links but I never seem to be able to do the entire product link and I rarely get the picture links to work.
  4. Should I start applying to for more specific affiliate ads now or wait until I have a few post on my blog. I have one already but some of them have an application process and I was not sure they would approve my site. I am just learning about this stuff so maybe the application process usually gets approved they just want to weed out people just grabbing links hoping to get paid.
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Amy Farr Premium
As far as the pics, I was having the same problem. I only use ones I bought from "clipart" and found when I cropped them, they were accepted. if I didn't crop, they were rejected.
BIS Premium
I'll answer question no 1. Always make sure that you have cleared your cache. If your pictures are too large or too small they won't upload to street articles. The optimum size is 200 pixels by 200 pixels. If you upload larger than that you can trim it. If you try loading up smaller it won't load. I always trim mine before I upload and never have any problems. I can't remember what too large is.

Beverley
veronica.l Premium
Hello,

Let me help you with the second question, your Youtube issue.

1.Go to the youtube video you want to insert to your page.
2. Click the share button
3. Click the embed button, copy the text, I make sure the old embed code box is checked.
4. Go to your website, click the html button
5. Paste the youtube code where you want it and SAVE the page

Sometimes if you switch over from html to text and do not save the code will disappear not sure why it does that.

Hope this helps,
Let me know if you have any questions,
Veronica
sundcarrie Premium
Tried that and it still did not work so I installed a plugin that seemed to take care of it. Thanks for the advice!
veronica.l Premium
glad you got it worked out
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