I've contacted a couple of sites about buying advertising space and the prices they've hit me with have been so outrageously high I've burst out laughing. So, I'm asking if there is an online guide regarding how much a website should charge for advertising based on its traffic. There needs to be some way of telling these idiots that their PR3 blog with 100 hits a day isn't worth £30 a week.
It does not matter. They still will not listen. Besides, many of them will still be able to sell those spots to the dummies out there.
Yeah, as an advertiser myself, I hear ya. You also have the ones who want to make money, but they don't even bother to reply back to an advertiser's e-mail. I don't get it myself, but that's just the way some people are. We have to get use to it.
I've tried pimping our affiliate scheme, but there aren't many takers. Then again, I run a couple of blogs in my spare time. One has a paid banner which earns me a £50 voucher per month to spend on stock with that shop. The other has an affiliate banner which earns me ££40 a month depending on affiliate sales (and if the affiliate database has crashed!) While the affiliate banner earns me more hard cash, I'd rather have the voucher. So I've been paying people with product in my business lately and it's worked like a charm! But there are still idiots who want lots of CA$H for next to nothing