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
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 Many Ads Per Page? As Few As Possible
The number of online ads per page is a critical strategy issue for any website publisher.
Like just about everything else online, Google set the dominant standard for many years. It announced in relation to its AdSense partner revenue program that it would allow three display ads and three textual link units. Any more would result in a penalty. (more…)
Guaranteed Viewability Builds Advertiser Trust
Guaranteed ad viewability is another way to build trust with online advertisers.
Websites like The Economist make a commitment to guaranteed views of display ads by putting that guarantee into rate cards. (more…)
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 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…)
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