Hello everyone... I didn't want to post this in the Advertising marketplace, because I just have a basic question first.. I want to start selling direct advertising on my Graphic Design / User Interface blog. But I do not know how much my advertising spots are worth? Can you guys please give me your input. Here is my site: 1. I am going to be selling 4 "125 x 125px" ads on the right hand column immediately below the feedburner chicklet (2 columns and 2 rows of ads). I will expand the width of the column if necessary. 2. I want to sell by monthly prices, because my blog is growing fast and need to be able to change rates quickly when ad subscriptions end. Information about my site: The site averages around 500 Unique Visitors per day (Google Analytics used to determine this number) The site accumulates over 44k pageviews/mo. at this point. Site is steadily growing. The site is updated around 4-6 times per day on average with new content. Basically, I don't know what amount I should ask for... I need to know how much I should initially price my ads at. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
You could probably start with $4-6 each a month for sitewide on a PR3. If you can't sell them right away you can always fill the spots with affiliate ads that your visitors might find helpful.
Yeah, that is what I had planned to do... I was hoping I could get more for my ads though. $4-$6 bucks doesn't seem worth the trouble. Yes, the site is a PR3 too, btw. Thanks for the info!
I would say about $15 per month at first then perhaps if you get a lot of interest put the prices up. Will.
You could charge anything between $10 and $15 for each ad. If you don't want to get into trouble with Google, you'd better not sell PR. Add a no-follow tag to the ads and make it clear to potential buyers that you are selling traffic and branding only.