Get started

Prerequisites

You must have a wallet address or payment pointer assigned to you by your wallet provider.
Each page you want to monetize must be served over HTTPS.

Step 1 - Get your wallet address

Get your wallet address from your wallet provider.

https://wallet.example.com/alice

Some wallet providers will issue a payment pointer instead of a wallet address. Payment pointers begin with $ instead of https://.

$wallet.example.com/alice

If you have a payment pointer, visit paymentpointers.org. Enter it into the Payment Pointer field and take note of the URL that automatically generates. This is your wallet address.

Step 2 - Web monetize your page

Create your Web Monetization link tag using the format below. Add your wallet address as the href value.
```
<link rel="monetization" href="your_url">
```
For example:
```
<link rel="monetization" href="https://wallet.example.com/alice">
```

Add the <link> to the <head> section of your page.

 <html>
   <head>
     <title>My Site</title>
     <link rel="monetization" href="https://wallet.example.com/alice">
   </head>
 </html>

Congratulations! Your page is now web monetized. Add the <link> to any page of your site you want to monetize.

For more information, visit the Monetization link element page.