Should I Sell Full Page Ads?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by airraid81, Apr 4, 2008.

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    I signed up for AdBrite full page ads just to see how much I could make, and now I got an offer for $50 CPM. I don't think I'm going to accept it, but at some price, I need to start accepting them. Full page ads are those annoying things that you go through on some sites where the whole page is an ad and theres a link that is like, click here to skip the ad. They only come up once a day for each unique visitor on AdBrite, to keep them from being too annoying. Nonetheless, I think they will make me lose some visitors, so I would need a really high offer to accept. How much do you think is the min I should accept?
     
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  2. pipes

    pipes Prominent Member

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    As a visitor i absolutely hate those types of ads, sometimes they mess up firefox and close it, other times they dont cause an error but they delay things, they are quite intrusive, i can fully appreciate your need to make money, just as a visitor to a site with them they can be off putting.

    I often leave a site with those ads quickly, unless the site has something that i cant resist.

    If you do accept to go with them go higher i would say, to compensate yourself on any loss of visitors that return less or never again.
     
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    Try all other forms of monetization first. As pipes said, these types of ads are extremely annoying to the user. I know i've left more than one website because after every other link i'd have to wait 10 seconds while the interstitial loads.
     
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    Luq Well-Known Member

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    dont..every1 hates those ones..u'll turn down a lot of valuable visitors..it causes more harm than anythin gud at all..
     
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    usasportstraining Notable Member

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    I agree completely. I would avoid them. They're the new form of popup, if you ask me.
     
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    kentuckyslone Notable Member

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    It looks unanimous, these types of ads are very annoying and you will lose a lot of your visitors as well as repeat traffic. The $50 wouldnt be worth it to me. You were very wise to ask before going ahead with that.
     
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    airraid81 Active Member

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    Yes, I know they are annoying, but at some point, the cost from the ad outweighs the cost from lost visitors. $50 is too low, but $100? $200?
     
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    PlateFish Banned

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    Well how much do you value each unique visitor and what is the chance that they'd get turned away. If I get a full page AD each day I will be extremely put off of your website. I'd need to be paid a hell of a lot but would probably try and monetize in other ways.
     
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    chris265 Peon

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    I would not use them
     
    chris265, Apr 4, 2008 IP