I offer advertising on my site for banners for a fee, but someone just inquired of me what I would charge for a text link - I've never run into this before outside of simple link swaps so please forgive my ignorance, but do you charge the same as you would for a banner or should one charge less for a text link? Thanks!






Eric Graham posted this at 16:05 — 11th July 2003.
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Most sites charge less for text ads.
However the real secret of text ads is the fact that they have much higher CTR (click thru rate) and they pre-sell visitors much batter than banner ads, so there is a higher sales conversion rate on the incoming traffic.
Also there are many search engine optimization reasons for using a text link over a banner ad.
Eric Graham
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