Advertising Chat
 

First off, if this is the wrong forum for this question please move and I apologize

I have some question about advertising. I have about 120-200 unique users, and 50-100 quests that are logged and any given moment. Normally `150 users logged into the site all the time. I am averaging a little over 5 million hits per month, average user is logged in 3-7 min. I think static ads are more valuable than ppc or banner ads. I am still pretty much a rookie at this, but thanks to this forum i am learning quickly. If this has already been discussed and kicked to death, i can follow links.

Thanks so much reading

Seaweed

Have you tried to canvass your members to see if any are willing to pay for adding a banner?? send them out an email to get their views and wait the replies, have a poll and a debate, some members absolutely hate adverts :eek:

I would of thought adsense would of done well for you, Have you tried static ads, ppc or banner ads???

You need to experiment, no one here knows what type of site content you have, so its a bit of a nightmare to try and guess at it, Some forums are destroyed by people putting the wrong type of advertising, or worst still TOO MUCH!!

If your forum covers a particular niche, then you could add related ads, either by members or google, but you really need to get the balance right, with the right type of ads, for it to work successfully, at the moment your not giving anything away about your site which makes it harder for people to help :rolleyes:

Thank you for your reply. The content of my site is fishing related. We have been approached by some members in the community to adverstise. The comunity seems to be behind the ads we have used to test the waters. I tried a couple of mods but finally figured out how to work with in openx. I guess i dont know how to put a value to the adds. My assumption is static adds are seen more so they would carry a higher value. Rotating banner adds provide for more exposure etc... I dont know maybe i was hoping for some sort of magic formula. :)

The Magic forumla is to Canvass, and Experiment. I don't think any one person can say use this, do this and you'll make money overnight from your ads.

Try a different form of advertising for 1 month at a time and the after you've exhausted all ad variations, weigh up the cost against the income, if you keep each ad to 1 month exactly, it should give you a rough idea of whats best, but most importantly, what will work better on your forum for both yourself and your members. ;)

Good Luck :D

Thanks Gerry/ UK
Appreciate it.

Seaweed

No worries buddy let us know how you got on, perhaps we can come up with other ideas to help :D

FWIW, I modeled my setup after Bamastangguy's site:

http://www.mustangevolution.com/

And never regretted it.

Brent (bama) definetly knows whats up, i took some cues from him as well....