Desty’s Gold Starred Articles September 21 2007
By Desty on Sep 21, 2007 in Online Marketing, Related Blog Articles
Blogging Tips starts off with How to Manage Your Blog Advertising. I also had Host Color inquire about advertising on Desty Online. You can see that they purchased the Home Page top banner. I had been throwing around the notion to create an advertising page for companies or individuals who wanted to advertise on Desty Online, so when I got the email, I wasn’t totally unprepared. I had based my own advertising along the lines of Yaro’s structure on Entrepreneurs Journey. If you or someone you know is interested in some affordable advertising on an up-and-coming blog, check out our affordable advertising page.
Along the lines of that article comes Just Sold 11 Text Links, 3 Banners and Reviews! - How to Sell Advertisements on Your Blog from Carl Ocab. Marketing and promotion are the key. You may have great stats that show you have lots of traffic, but even though you have several advertising options, if no one notices them what have you sold? Upgrading the visibility of your advertising options is always a good thing. It doesn’t hurt that he has a sale going on as well.
Must be an advertising special this week! Reality Wired brings us Text Link Ads: How to Find Post Level Ads That Will Make Your Traffic Soar. James goes over the requirements to buy post level text links from Text-Link-Ads. From a promotional standpoint, if you can buy some post level text links from some of the high profile bloggers such as John Chow, Problogger, or Shoemoney, it could really give alot of bang for your buck. The way I figure it, normal text link ads send out some PR loving while post level links could get you some nice traffic.
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Thanks for the plug.
Good article. You deserved it.
Nice articles you profiled here. I like reading about the topic of selling direct advertising. It seems like a rapidly growing trend on the web and something that we can all learn more about through the experiences of others.
My personal experience with direct selling of advertising has been one of excitement and 2nd guessing myself. I was thrilled by the offer. What concerned me was my thoughts on pricing. I didn’t want to drive the advertiser away by pricing myself too high, but I really didn’t want to leave money on the table. We’ll see how things go from here. If only Google’s public PR would update…