Advice on selling advertising

by phsims

Posted: 13 years ago 10 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I have been contacted a few time asking about advertising on my site and I have no clue at all what to charge.

My site is
Making Money Ideas

According to Google I am getting around 100 unique visitors per day, Awstas says I get around 849 visits per day.

I have never offered advertising before so if anyone has any experience in this department it would be greatly appreciated.

One other thing... someone wants to buy a permanent link in my blogroll. what on earth should I sell that for?

#advertising #advice #selling

lotsofsnow 13 years ago

I am checking your site out... will be back in a few.

Looks like you are already offering blogroll links; at least you have several links there.
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phsims 13 years ago

at least one of those is mine and the others actually need to be removed. I have never sold a link there just traded a few when the blog was new
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BloggingPro

13 years ago

I don't know if its my connection or computer, but damn your site loads slow. Scrolling is a beast of a process!

As for advertising, it will be easy to charge a flat monthly rate. Your rate should be set by your traffic and what you feel the space is worth. On the other hand, if you have any PageRank you can sell text links.

Finally you could scratch the whole getting advertisers and simply promote affiliate products and make more money (again depends on your traffic). I used to be all about getting advertisers--now I just use affiliate marketing. Obviously if I owned a super high traffic site I would still entertain the idea of paid advertising lol.

EDIT: Actually your site may be perfectly fine. I use Google Chrome and sometimes it just doesn't want to play nice.

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phsims

13 years ago

Originally Posted by BloggingPro

EDIT: Actually your site may be perfectly fine. I use Google Chrome and sometimes it just doesn't want to play nice.

I thought that was just my PC. there are times when I have to re-load the same page a bunch of times, they just seem to get stuck, and thats for all sites inc google itself lol

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BloggingPro

13 years ago

Originally Posted by phsims

I thought that was just my PC. there are times when I have to re-load the same page a bunch of times, they just seem to get stuck, and thats for all sites inc google itself lol

Hmm... other sites definitely don't hang like your's does. Maybe there is something wrong with the code? I'm not that much of a tech guy (explains why I use wordpress lol), so you might want to have someone check it out for ya!

EDIT: Actually are you using Wordpress? How many plugins do you have running right now? LOL your pop-up about the "locked content" brought me to a crawl. Let me try in Firefox.

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phsims 13 years ago

Originally Posted by BloggingPro

LOL your pop-up about the "locked content" brought me to a crawl. Let me try in Firefox.

I forgot about that, I meant to remove that script ages ago. its gone now.
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richgrad 13 years ago

If you don't know what to charge, ask them for their budget and/or ask them to make an offer.
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AdWorkMedia 13 years ago

You could sell some of your space on buysellads.com or refer to them for suggestions on your pricing. Just compare your site to other sites with similar traffic.
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Onora Oz 13 years ago

If you are going to sell ad space on your website, I recommend you set up rules and limitations beforehand. I don't place ads, codes, links on my sites unless I have 100% control over them. I also want to make sure that ads do not affect my site's search engine ranks etc.
Btw, your site is still slow loading and there are missing images. You may want to check browser compatibility. (I'm using browsershots.org)
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phsims 13 years ago

thanx for the ideas guys .

Onora I will take a look, not sure why its so slow Unfortunatly my PC was killed when my bathroom flooded a few weeks ago and the PC I have atm is so old I cant really tell if a site is slow or just my pc
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