How to ad. to other webmasters?

Participate on bulletin boards and on mailing lists and include your site in your signature.

Pay for ads on websites that webmasters visit, such as commonly used software, webreference, et cetera.

How are you doing in the search engines? If someone is interested in putting an affiliated link to something like this they may do a search for either affiliate schemes or just the type of site they want to affiliate to.

Nice site BTW & welcome to TWF.

I would love to put my ad. on this site but it require 25 post. I guess I have to build up my post before I can post my site on here.

That's the point really -- you build credibility within the community by participating. The more you participate, the more people will decide if what you sell is worth their time.

This is a great way to draw people to post.

I will work on my post and try to answer as many question as I can. And hopefully I can reach that 25 post someday soon.

Anyways, anyone have good sites to do paid-ad for webmasters ?

Quote: Originally posted by FunkyJ
Anyways, anyone have good sites to do paid-ad for webmasters ?

This is a good one: http://www.sitepoint.com/mediakit

Yes,

going to go for that one. ANy others ?

Just want to let you all know,

I spend $250 for a week of ad on sitepoint.

I got about 100 impression show per hour, but only like 3 clicks per day so far...

=(

Sitepoint is a good place for webmasters. I have advertised one of my sites there but didn't get the results I hoped for. At the same time, I spent more moeny and advertised the same site on a different webmaster site which gets more traffic than sitepoint and got the worst results.

So,you need to do you research. Don't expect to get good ROI just by advertising your site on any webmaster site.

You need to check your stats and try to understand your visitor's behavior and what they do when they arrive at your website.

Also try to understand what kind of visitors and traffic do they get?

Make your self a list of questions and ask them before you spend that much money.

I would imagine that webmasters are a hard bunch to advertise to. What are your banners like? Are they positioned well? Do they sell your website well?

I am getting about 50 clicks now. So, $250 for 50 clicks , that is around $5 per click.

My banner position randomly on sitepoint's site on the very top. I believe I am expecting too much for just $250 that I paid for.

One of the advantages banners advertising have over many other form of advertisments is brand awarness.

I have looked at banners many times and never visited the website. But I had an image in my head of that banner and visited the website in a later time.

So, there is more advantages to banners than just clicks. That is also why there is CPC and CPM.

Yeesh, my mind has gone blank, I can't remember where I read this... the link might have been posted somewhere on TWF... or not...

Apparently, studies have shown that frequent surfers have developed an "immunity" to banners and adverts. If the page was divided into a grid, there are sectors in the grid - like the top header region, the bottom footer region, the right vertical column, and others where ads are commonly placed - that the surfers' eye naturally tends to ignore.

Since you're targeting webmasters, one can assume that they fall under the category of "frequent surfers", and banners may not be as effective as you'd like to a large portion of your target audience.

This is something I think is worth considering, especially when you're paying for space.

Good luck.

Quote: Originally posted by Abhishek Reddy
Apparently, studies have shown that frequent surfers have developed an "immunity" to banners and adverts. If the page was divided into a grid, there are sectors in the grid - like the top header region, the bottom footer region, the right vertical column, and others where ads are commonly placed - that the surfers' eye naturally tends to ignore.

yeah, it was posted on TWF, it's a psychology site on websties or soemthing, the url escapes me,

this post http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/images.htm ?

from this thread http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19823&perpage=15&pagenumber=2 ?

That's the one!

Sorry I couldn't remember. Thanks Busy.

I am actually using sprinks.com now.

I got quite a lot of hits from their ContentDirect. It is a very good way to promote (I think) because it's like putting ads on newsletter but it is CPC. It is a bit expensive tho.

I would suggest you to put more 'direct' ads on those pages if you're planning to put up an ad. there.

HELLO

? hello? did you have something to contribute to this thread?

I think that should be deleted as SPAM, please don't SPAM do increase your post count

I think there is something very important about all of this that I have not seen said by anyone. Having a steady stream of traffic is all fine and dandy but the most important queation is are you selling something? If so then the all the traffic in the world will not matter if you don't give your visitors a reason to buy from you. Which do you think is better a site that has 100 visitors a month and makes 65 sales or a site that has 1000 visitors a month and makes 60 sales? In my opinion the site with only 100 visitors is better and I don't say that because that site had 5 more sales rather I say that because that site sold 65% of it's visitors. Thats awesome. That tells me that site knows exactly who it's target audience is and where to find them. Now you may say that the other site has 900 more chances to make sales. You would be right but the question is if that site is targeting the right audience and if it is then the site needs to be redone because it's target costomer won't even buy from them like they should. Most webmasters probably won't agree with me and that is their opinion but the last I saw there were something like 95% of the sites on the internet are losing money. I would bet my left foot that the majority of those webmasters don't know where the heck to find their target audience.

I say that text links have more of an effect on me than banners. If I see an iteresting site name in letters I am more tempted to click-through than if I see a banner advert.

Quote: I say that text links have more of an effect on me than banners. If I see an iteresting site name in letters I am more tempted to click-through than if I see a banner advert.

Me too. I tend to trust text links that at least look genuine (not ">>> CLICK HERE FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE!!!! <<" typer links ).

Just a few thoughts.

I went to your site, and it was slow to download. Other webmasters will notice this. It's nice graphically, however.

Have you tried any of the Pay-Per-Clicks? They're geting expensive, but they might "jump start" your site. For example, you could open an Overture account for a few months while you look around for less expensive methods.

Roy
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I checked out your site FunkyJ and I am actually interested in your service but the requirments say nothing about the product being able to run on *nix servers? Do you provide this? If not do you know of anyone that does at the prices you offer?

Ronhollin, FunkyJ -- just a quick note to request that you respect the guidelines in these forums and keep business discussions to the MarketPlace or private. Thank you.

Quote: Originally posted by FunkyJ
I will work on my post and try to answer as many question as I can. And hopefully I can reach that 25 post someday soon.

Don't you ever say it aloud again, man
Webmasters are a suspicious enough lot when it comes to advertising to them. If you're helpful, well heard of etc. they might start feeling less suspicious toward YOUR ads, but that is unlikely to happen if you start to cry-out loud "I gona be nice and friendly all day to that in the eve I can become ad-y!"