Careful Execution Boosts Contextual Ad Results
Contextual ad networks provide website publishers with the ability to place ads on their sites and get paid when people click on them. They also teach useful lessons about effective online advertising.
Ad networks track the content on the page where the ad appears and display an ad with a subject related to the content. (more…)
How to Build Online Rate Cards
A good rate card for online advertising is more than just the rates themselves. It is also about the presentation and promotion.
The most brilliantly devised rate card won’t deliver results if it is hard to read, confusing and overly complicated. (more…)
Online Advertising Rates: Guidelines and Best Practices
Scott S. Bateman is a former online general manager with Cox Enterprises and Media General. He has more than a decade of experience with managing online advertising rates.
Online ad 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…)
How to Sell Online Advertising: The First 5 Steps
Selling online advertising requires an organized and planned approach to finding customers whose understanding of online varies greatly.
Early adopters of online advertising have a depth of skills, knowledge and experience that will make it easy for them understand a product and a market. (more…)
Online Direct Sales Take Time to Deliver Results
Larger websites use direct sales to produce more online advertising revenue and increase profits.
Direct sales require the site publisher or another employee to contact potential advertisers for the sake of landing an advertising contract. It requires much more work than networks such as Google AdSense, which largely automates the process and takes a cut of the revenue. (more…)
Ad Unit Audit Increases Revenue Performance
A regular review of online ad unit performance will often lead to an improvement in revenue performance.
Site publishers who only place ad units on a page and report total revenue or results per advertiser at the end of each month are missing a major opportunity. (more…)
Online Advertising Models: CPC, CPM or CPA?
Online advertising models show up on websites in three important forms — cost per click (CPC), cost per thousand (CPM) and cost per acquisition (CPA).
Publishers and advertisers should know and consider all three depending on the situation. (more…)
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