advertising advice
 

I'm not all that new to websites and forums, but what I am new to is advertising. I've always made pretty much just personal sites and a few small time sites for some customers, but never had to advertise them.

I'm wondering how I should go about beginning to advertise my site. Be it google ranking, ad networks, or whatever

what do you use? what have you had good experiences with, and bad experiences? any advice at all is appreciated, and the more details you give as well...as i'm planning on writing up a small tutorial on the subject possibly

no one has any advice on this at all?

I think you would get more responses if you posted this on vB.com.

thanks for that advise...maybe I'll try that

*ponders what his vb.com password is...* lol

I think at the moment your best bet is Google's Adsesne, as it is so far the top and reliable choice that there is. However with Yahoo's YPN and MSN's advertising system coming out soon, there will be more competition as each company will try to pay each person more to attract more advertisers for their sponsors.

as for myself, right now I'm using google's adsense, but I'm suppose to get an invite next week from yahoo's ypn. So far google's adsense has been good for my website, it's getting close to the point that I can just have it pay for my hosting and domain. However it is necessary for you, if you have a large site, to create channels for each ad so that you would no what part of your site the hits/money is coming from :). But like Marco said, the other site should be able to help you out even more.

good luck.

I vote for Google Adsense :)