Comments on: Best practices for soliciting direct buy advertisers to your website or blog

By: jenstar (Jennifer Slegg)

jenstar (Jennifer Slegg) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:44:56 +0000

@sam_lucido This blog entry will help: Best Practices for Soliciting Direct Buy Advertisers to you Website or Blog http://tinyurl.com/7etm3t

By: surveys india

surveys india — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:16:32 +0000

Hi Jen,

good article, thanks :). I think it is better not to relay on google adsense.

Shan

By: work at home ideas

work at home ideas — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:11:09 +0000

Thanks for the useful information especially since I had been approached recently by a marketing agent acting on behalf of a client. I was hoping to read more information on the circumstances leading to Google penalty with regards to website advertising. Nevetheless, I have found the information here quite useful. Thanks

Peter Lee
Work From Home Business Blog

By: D Legal

D Legal — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:24:41 +0000

If you can get advertisers to advertise directly with your site, in most cases you will make more money. If your scared to give up your adsense revenue while adding advertisers; select a smaller adsense block; there’s a very good chance you’ll see your adsense CPM go way up. I switched from a big adsense block to a small adsense block which only serves two ads and I saw my CPM double; at the same time a created more space for direct paying advertisers who are willing to pay a real CPM.

By: Steve Hards

Steve Hards — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:29:34 +0000

[A few minutes later]

Just amended my footer - much better. Just shows you never know what you will learn!

Steve

By: Steve Hards

Steve Hards — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:21:05 +0000

Good article. I must make my ‘Promote your business’ link more prominent. I hadn’t thought about the footer…

My Telecare Aware site is an established leader in its tiny niche and I sell advertising space directly. I had tried to get ’sponsorship’ for ages (which is only a special kind of advertising, but it implies slightly over-the-odds rate and mutual endorsement) but failed to get any takers until I shifted from seeking 6 or 12 month sponsorship to monthly sponsorship. When I offered that, one company took up a half-price one month deal to get it going, then I had several companies wanting 6 and 10 month deals!

If you look at my ‘Promote’ page, you will see that (for good will) I suggest ways that potential advertisers can exploit my particular site for free before they get into paid stuff. This is important in my niche because some of the companies are small and do not have advertising budgets as such.

http://www.telecareaware.com/promote

Finally, if you visit you will note the form for people to sign up to be alerted to updates. I also offer to sell a simple text ad with link at the top of the alert emails. When I don’t have a paid advert, I use it to promote the month’s sponsor.

I hope these suggestions inspire someone. Direct advertising pays much better than AdSense.

By: Jenstar

Jenstar — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:53:58 +0000

One of those things a spell checker won’t pick up on! Thanks!

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:36:34 +0000

Just wanted to point out the first line on this page:
Sometimes is is nice not to have to rely on Google AdSense

I hate it when I do this and no one says anything!

Great article.

Jim.

By: Altaf

Altaf — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:45:01 +0000

Good advices! I am not an expert though I got to know:

How the advertisers will know my sites or blogs if it is not published heavily? I got over 150 sites and 35 blogs. Please advise what I may do to get good money as I am not happy with Adsense at all. Should I go for CPM or CPA or Clcik rates?

By: Sanam

Sanam — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:46:46 +0000

Here I have a small issues, To my mind, if you have google ads, they would not be counted as links, while if sell space for a static site, the same would be counted as a link. With link sales, PR of a page come s down heavily, or it least this is what ,y prog advised me after with sale of one link on my site, i got to pr1 from pr3. Once you lose page rank, you wont get good advertisers.

I am not a professional expert in site optimizing, please let me know if my question is wrong, or this is what i have been told