Effective online banner advertising has two main functions — branding and response — but ads don’t always do both jobs equally well. Discover useful tips and tactics in building a banner for any online business.
Average Click Rates Reveal Best and Worst Ad Placements
The average click through rates for online advertising depend on the location of the ads and whether they are static, targeted or contextual.
Although publishers and advertisers may want to know the national rate, a national rate isn’t useful. Every website has different results. Publishers and advertisers should focus more on improving their rates. (more…)
Best Online Advertising Types Are Efficiency Machines
The best online advertising types are measurable in terms of their response rates and return on investment. They also are efficient with time and money.
Do they generate clicks, sales, signups, social follows, return visits or other measures of success? Does the result more than pay for the cost in labor and cash? (more…)
Use Pay Per Click Advertising Because It’s Cheap, But Beware
Pay per click advertising tactics have become hugely popular because PPC is cheap and efficient.
It’s cheap because it’s efficient. It’s efficient for the advertiser because it most often is used contextually at the major search engines — Google and Bing — along with their advertising partner sites. Hence the related term search
engine marketing. (more…)
Online Advertising Rates: Guidelines and Best Practices
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…)
Ad Placement and Prominence = Advertiser Value
The best online ad placement is an important consideration for any site with advertising accounts.
The site can have all direct sales clients or entirely Google AdSense. (more…)
Guaranteed Ad Viewability Builds Advertiser Trust
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…)
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…)
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