I have available ads space on my site but I don't know how to promote it. What do you people do to promote ads space on your sites?
I put a contact to advertise here banner OR use various banner sites like buysellads, performancingads
I do very little actually it's always something I mean to do, but never find the time when online I do have a "click here to place your site" spot on our side column, but I don't have an advertising page like some do.
To be honest it is hard to sell direct advertising unless you are receiving a lot of traffic. I have even found with a few high traffic websites I own that direct advertising is hard to keep filled and I make just as much with a combination of Google Adsense and a premium CPM company.
Adsense was created for people like you... so they could fill adspace. Too bad the spammers are so heavily entrenched.
Yep I think Google even needs to take a stronger stand on adsense. I think they will end up loosing a lot of customers in the coming months due to their low clicks which is a direct result of so many low quality websites. I stopped using google adwords as much as well because of the low price per click as well.
The most common way is to sign up with a text link site or to advertise on webmaster forums and forum related to your niche. I found very little success selling directly from my sites. I have sold a couple of ads from advertise here but not near as many as if I search out business.
you need to actively go out and find advertisers. contact companys you feel would be interested in buying adspace from you.
Does it really work? The only thing I can think of is sending them emails but I'm not sure whether those companies will read those or treat them like spam! Did any one had luck with contacting companies/sites directly by emails?