How to set online advertising rates.
Online advertising rates are set through a combination of ad size, ad location, ad performance and market demand.
Optimizing this key ad sales tactic results in higher revenue, increased advertiser acquisition and increased advertiser retention. (more…)
An ad unit audit on a regular basis will often lead to an improvement in revenue performance.
What is an ad unit audit? It is a review of the results of different ad units, advertisers and locations to see which ones perform above average and below average. The audit should lead to changes in creative and placement that improve click rates.
The ad quality score of pay-per-click advertising on Bing and Google has a major impact on the cost, click rates and impression level for keywords.
Advertisers who buy ads on both search engines will have keywords ranked by their relevance with a score of 1 through 10. The higher the number, the greater the relevance. (more…)
Websites large and small benefit greatly from a good online sales report. It’s a high-yield tactic that requires little time and effort.
Even the smallest website will find useful insights from a simple report tracking sales performance. (more…)
Guaranteed ad viewability is another way to build trust with online advertisers. They will know that people are actually seeing the ads.
Websites like The Economist make a commitment to guaranteed views of display ads by putting that guarantee into rate cards. (more…)
Email advertising rates may find new life when publishers embrace the concept of visible impressions.
Visible impressions is a new online industry trend that says the value of an ad impression is based on being visible on a Web site without requiring the user to scroll down the page to see it. (more…)
CPM advertising is a pricing model based on cost per thousand ad impressions. It is especially common with online advertising.
With CPM advertising, advertisers pay a consistent rate on the number of times the ad is distributed, whether online or through traditional media. (more…)