I got this email and I do not know if it is real or not. Is it some sort of phishing maybe? anyway if it is real what should i charge for a 1 year text link ad on my sites home page (a blog) site gets maybe 50 uniques a day in the finance/stock trading category...... I have not been actively writing for the blog, but starting this week and going forward will be more serious about it writing new content every day. so i expect traffic to start slowly increasing.
I received the same and did a search, and that;s how I came to this site and signed up to make this reply. I am wondering how many other web site owmers received the same e-mail.
I received a similar email recently. The first time i asked for nearly $400 and i never heard from them again. Then another one appeared so i replied to it and asked for $150. They said yes and i got the payment from paypal about a month later. So dont be too greedy and it could give you your first bit of income. festivalplanet.com golfv5.co.uk
Seems like a legit mail as long as they are not asking your financial information Always get the payment cleared first before dealing with strangers.
I'd stick a google text advert in that space for a month and see how much it produces, then you at least have an idea how much the space could generate elsewhere. That then gives you your floor price for direct advertising.
It depends on your PR and domain age as well. $150 for a year isn't very much at all for a text link in that industry if you have a decent PR and have been around for a short time plus the traffic. I would have gone with $250-$500 if you have what I said above. I know people who have PR3 with a domain age of a year and charge $40 a month for an entertainment niche.
It's difficult to say. 50 uniques is not going to warrant a decent payoff (unless they never ask you for your site statistics, in which case, you can attempt to make as much as possible). Try doing research on AdBrite ( http://www.adbrite.com/mb/dir.php ) to see what other similar sites are charging for placed ads.
I received the same email a few days ago, did a search and here I am... I responded back asking $250.00 but havent heard anything since then.
i received same email. asked them how much they normally pay for a year but i think $200 to $400 is ok for pr3
I was just proposed yesterday 200/year for a small text link ad. My blog gets about 3k visitors daily, around 10 or 12,000 pageviews daily. What should my counter-offer be?
If you have a website with good rankings, PR and / or traffic -- you'll get emails like this all the time. As other posters have mentioned, you should really consider if it's worth putting paid links on your site. Could you earn more from Google ads? Is it going to negatively affect your search engine positions / traffic. As long as the site you're linking to is a high quality website (with some PR and not banned from Google), then it should be OK if you limit the amount of paid links you include. For the most part, PR (Page Rank) plays the biggest role in how valuable a paid link is since most people are trying to improve their search engine rankings with paid links. I'd say PR2 is probably worth about $100-$150 per year. PR3 might be worth $150-$300. PR4 maybe $300-$600 -- and so on.
Ok so it's really all about the PR? Thanks Bigznet. Makes sense.. I hadn't really thought about it that way. I'm currently linking to small websites from people that are working for me (writing posts, doing graphic work etc.). These links are on my sidebar therefore appear on every page. Should I remove these links since they're most likely low PRs? Also, I need someone to help me out to rank for "streetwear" and keywords in relation to that...
I wouldn't necessarily worry about a few low PR sites -- especially if they're your friends and you're trying to help them out. You just don't want to link to a bunch of low quality websites. Most importantly, you want to make sure these sites aren't "flagged" or banned by Google. If they have any PR (Page Rank), you shouldn't worry too much (although there are other factors to consider). If they don't have PR and you search the URL on Google, it should show up. If not, I would worry about it... And just to clarify, the values I provided above are based on the PR of YOUR SITE. The more PR your site has, the more you can charge for a link (not vice versa).