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…)
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, entirely Google AdSense (or possibly another network) or a combination of both. (more…)
Ad Viewability Standard Rises with Google and Yahoo!
Ad viewability has become a major standard in online advertising that impacts revenue and advertiser performance.
Google rolled out a new version of the AdSense partner revenue reports that make viewability a prime tracking number. (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 Unit Audit Increases Revenue Performance
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.
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