Hi, I'm researching some sites selling ads directly to advertisers or via buysellads. The thing i'm noticing is that some sites are always able to sell out their ad space, for much higher prices than other blogs in the same niche and with the same traffic. What's even more weird is that I doubt that these sites have high clickthrough on these ads. Take for example sixrevisions.com - 8 x 125x125 ad blocks sold out at $680 (http://buysellads.com/buy/detail/872) Now take photoshoproadmap.com (http://buysellads.com/buy/detail/1446) - which has 500k more impressions and price three times as low... and yet, it can't get all ads sold out. Both sites have equal professional design imo, so design is not the issue here I guess. What I also wonder is how these advertisers can break even... clicktru must be pretty low (especially with an audience like on sixrevisions) So what is it exactly that makes a blog attractive to advertisers? I thought of the following explanations, although they might be totally wrong... 1) Buzz: other advertisers are buying it, so it must be good! I better reserve a spot for many months! 2) Alexa rank: which is rather unimportant, as all that matters is the number of pageviews and clicktru's. Tech sites always get higher alexa rank because users have the alexa toolbar installed. Still, it seems advertisers have an interest in this rank. 3) Very high clicktroughs and product sales on particular blogs. But what makes one blog audience more likely to buy than another blogs' audience, if both have the same traffic sources (google, social media, twitter, facebook, rss,...) 4) lots of RSS readers - which I always thought as a disadvantage from an advertisers point of view... since many people don't even visit the blog and just read the posts from their RSS reader. Insights? Discuss
I think that is a combination of several different things. I don't think that one attribute of a blog necessarily means that an ad being promoted on the blog will be extremely expensive. A blog that makes a lot of advertising revenue, is a blog that offers unique and useful content for their users and also has a high page rank. However, advertisers have their own way of thinking when it comes to their marketing budget, so it is very necessary to adapt to the websites that do make a lot of advertising revenue. So in general, I think a more attractive blog does not just have one powerful attribute of a successful blog, but rather consists of several powerful attributes.
It may be the price factor if this is so. Perhaps when something costs more it projects a higher value to us even though the low cost item is the exact same thing. So when people see the higher cost perhaps they are believing since the cost is higher it must be better. The human mind can be a strange thing.
Did you even read my post or are you just posting crap to get your post count up? I gave a specific situation where it's exactly not like the 3 points you're giving.