Advertise on 7822+ forums || Over 450,000 Uniques || 3 TYPES OF ADVERTS

Hey all,

I am the co-owner of SMFNEW. We are offering advertising on a forum hosting network with over 7822 forums. Our network is rapidly growing and as soon as the users forum hits 100 posts your advert will show on it!

Our network, this month is on target to have OVER 450,000 uniques!. Our last post said 150,000, however, this was based on invalid stats. The 450,000 is based on our new stats, statcounter.com. Proof can be given on request.

We currently get between 15-30 new forums a day and when they hit 100 posts your advert will be shown on them.


Text Adverts :

Due to the success of our banner adverts and the interest in text links, we have gone one better and are offering text adverts!

These go in the same place as the banner adverts and are in a similar layout to google adverts.

Cost : $25/month
Need one title, and a small section of text around 30 characters long. This is the first time we have done text adverts so may do a little playing around with the lengths etc.

Banner Adverts :

JUST $50/month! - As a special offer we are doing 3 months for just $130!! ($20 saving!)


Under first post Adverts

We can now offer banners under the first post of every thread!!

This is just $50/month (like the banner advert), however, for one month only we can offer it for $40!


We can accept any banner up to size 728x90 so can accept 468x60 etc. The more appealing the advert the more clicks etc.

Due to the nature of our site, all advertisements must be minor friendly (no adult content etc..)

The advert will show just under the banner of all forums, and example is : http://www.t1ms.smfnew.com

 

Looking to buy one text ad and one banner spot

 

How much if i wanted a banner ad for 1 week?

 

same question^^^


can you send me proof

 

i would like to do a trial run to if possible or do you have to do a month

 

I have the same question

 

Sorry we do not offer trials, we did trials around 6 months ago and found no complaints, since then we have been pretty much fully booked each month and still no complaints. For this reason it makes sense for us to simply offer monthly or more than monthly offers.

 

Well you must be aware that those words mean nothing to us as those people that received the trials are not us. We have no proof.

How much for 1 week?

 

would to a review deal for you. It's hard to buy a brown bag deal not knowing what you may get!!

 

Since a lot of people have been asking for trials we will offer trials for 1 week for $15 (banner only)

This offer will end on the 7th of July. 5 Trials only!

 

ok i will take one. please send me stats of traffic and how much banner impressions/clicks are expected daily? my niche is a gaming related.

 

Guys, before I rate this guy, I want to ask you guys few questions so you know that I am being fair.

So first, I sent him a message about how many clicks I'm expecting, and he wrote this (I'm not altering any messages. You can check with admin).

150 clicks a day? That's cool. I know that webmasters can't control over that so I would be happy with at least a quarter (1/4) of that amount.

So we talked about what would be the best choice, banner size, then he suggested that the banner under the first post would be another great option.

Now if you read that, there's a good indication that your banner will be one of 2 rotations, so 50% exposure. I wanted to make sure, so I replied.

Everything looks smooth, right? 2 rotations for $40 on every first post, not bad.

And after I paid, he's been telling me that they didn't finish the code for them to put my banner under every first post of every forum. I had to wait about three days after the payment. After few replies, they finally said that their coding is done.

I say, if you're coding for advertising isn't done on your website, DON'T POST IT HERE LIKE IT IS READY TO GO, because it's a unpleasant experience for anyone to pay the $40 and wait three days for it.

But so far it's just bad. It gets uglier.
My banner is on third rotation instead of two. that's 33.3% exposure.

I asked him about it, saying that he never corrected me when I said "$40 isn't bad for 2 roatations". He says nothing about my banner being in 3 rotations. And this is the answer I got.

So, I've paid the money, wait for almost three days, never was told or corrected that my banner will be in 3 rotations, and no compensations for it. And 150 clicks? My tracker is telling me that so far there was about 15 visits within a day. 10% of what he told me.

I understand that this can be more of misunderstanding than scam, but seller still didn't handle many situations in a good manner.

So my question is, will it be fair if I give this guy a bad iTrade review? What do you guys think?

 

torchsonghq I can't help you answer your question, but I am glad you posted your post. I was interested in this offer until I read your ordeal.

I will avoid this..

Thanks for the heads up.

Jamie

 

torchsonghq - I told you there was 2 in rotation meaning you will be the third. You simply misunderstood.

We do not guarentee how many clicks you get we simply stated

'the last advertiser we added is getting around 150 clicks a day'

We have many long term advertisers and you are the first complaint we have had in 6 months, so although I wish to help sort through this with you, it is not an accurate representation of our service.

EDIT : P.s, you are correct the 3 days was unacceptable, the banner adverts and text adverts are extremely quick for us to add, the under first post takes us a bit longer. Unforationately my coder had a problem which meant he was unable to be online for 2 days, however, as soon as he was on it was added. Even now a under first post advert should be added within 3 hours.

 

Ok, let's try to resolve this rather than make a big bad ending. We all like happy endings, correct?
PM sent.

 

We have replied, issue dealt with.

 

Resolved by compensation of few more extra days of exposure.
Thank you.

 

i am interested m8....what offer and prices can you give me right now? i think i want banner

 

@ torchsonghq would appreciate a review of the ads served and the number of clicks and traffic referred by them to your website....

 

I would like to give a review and for more accurate numbers, I requested them for banner URL change for tracking purpose, but it's been 24 hours and still no change. Once they put my banner ad up again AND correct the size of my banner (468x60), I'll definitely write more about it.