Would you pay for a rotating text link?

Stax_Daniel

Apr 24th 2007, 4:03 pm

I'm toying with an idea...and was curious...

How much would you pay for a text link spot (above the fold in a prominent placement) that rotates with between 50 and 100 links?

Explain your pick if you'd like, and please if you pick no explain why.

mdvaldosta

Apr 24th 2007, 4:09 pm

Only if there was traffic and a no-follow on it. I really don't like rotating links, for SEO reasons.

Stax_Daniel

Apr 24th 2007, 5:02 pm

On average about 250 uniques a day (soon to increase :D)

007

Apr 24th 2007, 5:10 pm

It would have to be primarily for click through reasons and not for SEO. If it got clicks then I would pay. Probably not much though if there are 100 other links in rotation.

Mystique

Apr 24th 2007, 5:19 pm

Can't vote because you missed my option.

I would not pay but instead ask your for money if you want my link rotationg in your site since I would consider you would benefit with my pagerank everytime you display it :rolleyes:

Stax_Daniel

Apr 24th 2007, 5:32 pm

njoker555

Apr 24th 2007, 9:18 pm

rotating text links? well i can understand about banners so im not sure on this one, if i had to go i'd say i wouldnt even buy one, doesnt always look great

exponent

Apr 24th 2007, 11:11 pm

If you rotated only 5 links, and all of them were mine.. that might be a wonderful idea =)

Stax_Daniel

Apr 25th 2007, 2:59 am

If you rotated only 5 links, and all of them were mine.. that might be a wonderful idea =)

I could do that :) But it'd be a bit more than $6 :D lol

lol...i guess so far this brilliant idea I thought I had isn't very brilliant...

jg123

Apr 25th 2007, 3:03 am

It can work if there are guaranteed clicks otherwise there is no real value.

jquindlen

Apr 25th 2007, 3:06 am

Maybe if the site was in a 5,000+ uniques a day, but other than that no. A rotating text link is just a smaller, less noticeable banner ad. For SEO purposes it's worthless, so the only thing that would redeem it would be high traffic + low cost.

Stax_Daniel

Apr 25th 2007, 3:13 am

Thanks for the info jquindlen :)

Guess I'll have to go grab 5000 people a day then as again :D

ianternet

Apr 25th 2007, 1:32 pm

wow this is an idea I posted in YE forum, just today
http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18734

so far one person said no :(

w3bmaster

Apr 25th 2007, 1:43 pm

Rotating links are not good for SEO

And for seo you buy links not for traffic (mostly times)

Stax_Daniel

Apr 25th 2007, 2:24 pm

wow this is an idea I posted in YE forum, just today
http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18734

so far one person said no :(

what does that have to do with this thread?

andre75

Apr 25th 2007, 4:54 pm

Of course people would pay.
However it should be considered an advertisement (for traffic) and properly no-followed as mdvaldosta already mentioned.
Same as putting your banner on some other website in some rotation.
Basically payment would be calculated according to the number of impressions and not fixed per monthly basis.
If the site were on topic and the link in a prominent location I would certainly have no trouble paying $1 CPM (if only one link is shown at a time). So if my link shows 10k times per month thats $10.

Stax_Daniel

Apr 25th 2007, 4:58 pm

Gosh everyone...thanks for killing my spirit :D...lol....j/k...

guess i'll definately be waiting a while to do this type of thing...guess it's just back to normal link selling for me for a while..lol

andre75

Apr 25th 2007, 5:05 pm

I don't get it. Many people said they would pay for it.
I would also pay for a TV commercial if I'd think it would bring me a certain amount of visitors, even though its worthless for SEO.

Stax_Daniel

Apr 25th 2007, 6:01 pm

the majority of people said they wouldn't pay for it...

and at the moment...calculating what some people said they'd be willing to buy one...i'd make more money if i just sold regular links

emaz85

Apr 26th 2007, 3:31 am

It's worthwhile for me...these link doesn't give PR and doesn't give visits

kgrad

Apr 26th 2007, 3:34 am

People pay loads to Proxy.org :) They have 6000 links in rotation. :D

ichigo

Apr 26th 2007, 3:35 am

for backlinks no.
for traffic yes.

Stax_Daniel

Apr 26th 2007, 3:39 am

It's worthwhile for me...these link doesn't give PR and doesn't give visits

wouldn't that make it not worthwhile then?...

and it does give visits :)...just not a super big amount (yet) :D

/me runs off to look at timeline for site...

hmm...traffic...traffic...hopefully increasing May 1st...but we'll see :D

FrozenSolid

Apr 27th 2007, 4:16 pm

Ok, say you got 250 uniques per day... and 100 links rotating on a page: that averages out to be 2.5 unique page views per day, 75 per month.

Obviously it won't work out quite like that, but just go with me for a sec...

If you get that 5k uniques per day, with 100 links, that's 50 uniques per day - 1500 per month.

I can see people paying for 1.5k uniques per month, but not for 75. If you got the 5k daily visitors I would probably pay about $15-40 dollars per month.... depending on how targeted the traffic was.

If the traffic is very highly targeted and pre-qualified.... and it converts at 20% (lol) then I would pay you about $2k per month :)

Dave

Stax_Daniel

Apr 27th 2007, 4:29 pm

so you'd pay 15-40 per month for 5,000 but not .75(1)-$2 for 250?...works out to be the same thing...

though i could also set it up to have like 10 links, that pull from a pool of a couple hundred...

I figured this wouldn't sound very good with such low traffic...but when traffic increases...at least to 5K a day...most people would find it a more attractive offer you think?

FrozenSolid

Apr 27th 2007, 7:42 pm

Sure - more traffic = more attention.

Yep, I would pay $40 per month... if you get 5k uniques.... AND they are laser targeted AND convert on my sales page at 20% ;)

Dave

bochgoch

Apr 28th 2007, 8:38 am

Only for traffic ... Matt Cutts style links :) ... the site selling the link would need thousands of hits per day and be sending meaningful traffic my way for me to keep paying for the link!

Stax_Daniel

Apr 29th 2007, 7:19 am

Only for traffic ... Matt Cutts style links :) ... the site selling the link would need thousands of hits per day and be sending meaningful traffic my way for me to keep paying for the link!

How much would you pay? (On average per 1000 hits)

CraigslistGuy

Apr 29th 2007, 11:12 am

For short term traffic, its cool. But then, 50 is too much unless each takes turn about every other 10 minutes. I especially like rotating ads that will display your link with every other search.

tristanperry

Apr 29th 2007, 2:17 pm

I would, however only if the site had a lot of traffic (enough to ensure the link was actually shown :P)

Stax_Daniel

Apr 29th 2007, 2:23 pm

I would, however only if the site had a lot of traffic (enough to ensure the link was actually shown :P)

would that be a couple thousand a day to you? (that's what a few other people have said)...

8everything

Apr 29th 2007, 2:34 pm

Rotating? No.. very unstable and it isn't good for SEO. Rotating would only work great to image ads -> exposure and branding of logo.

Faltzer

Apr 29th 2007, 3:10 pm

I would if I benefited from it.

KC TAN

Apr 30th 2007, 7:55 am

Not worth paying...

Stax_Daniel

Apr 30th 2007, 9:55 am

Not worth paying...

could you possibly explain your reasoning? Same as everyone else?

now...what if there was 5000 hits per day?...worth it then?