PayPal Verification Seal Solved
The idea behind the PayPal verification seal is to provide a would-be PayPal customer verification that the PayPal account is in good standing. Click on the verification seal, login to PayPal, and find out the status of the account. The instructions on how to put the seal on a website and how to use it have been obfuscated at PayPal.
The friends at Yahoo group NetBusinessSuccess have figured out how to do this.
1. Download the PayPal seal and put a link to it on your web page.
2. Make the seal clickable to the following URL (change the email address to your PayPal email address)
<a href="http://www.paypal.com/us/verified/pal=abc@mydomain.com"></a>3. The code should look similar to this:
<a href="http://www.paypal.com/us/verified/pal=abc@mydomain.com">
<img src="http://mydomain.com/images/pp-verification-seal.gif"
alt="PayPal Verification Seal" width="100" height="100" /></a>Note at this juncture that PayPal verification is only for United States accounts.
[addition 21 Feb 2007]
If you need to hide your email address from spambots here is a tool to do that:
Doug
January 29th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Hey that is an excellent tip.
I thought I would add that, to view the resulting page PayPal will make a user login.
This means that if my pay pal email address for login is xyz@mydomain.com and I click on the seal for abc@theirdomain.com I will be prompted to login with my email address and password and then PayPal will tell me if abc@theirdomain.com is a verified email address.
It does not take me into the secure account of abc@theirdomain, nor does it allow others into my secure account on paypal when I put the seal on my website.
Regards,
Brett
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