Advertisements - banners or sponsers

[yippiekyyay]

Hello,

I was wondering about advertisements on websites - not so much the programming, but how site developers approach companies in the first place. Is it worthwhile? (ie do they pay reasonably?)

I have several near-ready sites and if advertising can cover some of the costs (ie hosting and domain name) then I would definately consider uploading one of the better or more useful ones.

Thanks in advance,
-Sean

 

[Gatorajc]

I was kind of wondering myself.

What little I know about it is that unless your are a high traffic site you can expect pennies. I guess it depends on pay per click, or if it is flat fee.

Like on here on TT it looks like they use a flat fee(just look at the ad at the top) but this is pretty high traffic.

So getting money to help with costs of the site would be a better hope than to cover the costs of the site.

As far as getting ads. I havnt tried yet but I would assume you would have pound the pavement and ask people be a salesman. Its all about marketing as I am quickly learning.


AJ


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[yippiekyyay]

Thanks for answering AJ.

I'm going to look for a page with lots of advertisements and try to contact them (it won't give me and industry average though - I might turn down a great deal!). I'll keep you posted.

Cheers!
-Sean

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Unless you have a huge number of unique hits or your adverts are very highly targetted, it's not worth the time you will spend doing it.

Adverts also waste valuable space that could be used for actually providing useful information to the visitor.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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