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Hi Everyone

I hope you are all ready for the holiday season when you can have some fun and rest.

I just wanted to get your opinion on advertising. How much do you charge for ad space on your site on average? For example, if you get an inquiry from an advertiser, how much do you tell them you charge? I just want to see if I am in the same ball park.

Thanks for your help.

PS: I will be working on putting together an official Yakezie Carnival starting in the new year. I will be posting in the forum shortly, how to sign up and the details of the carnival.

Miss T

It depends on the type of ad and the placement.

Hey Crystal!

Thanks for sharing.  You're such a valuable resource.  Keep up the great work!

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:

I charge between $50-$100 a month depending on location.  $100 is for the top of the left sidebar and $50 is for the bottom of the right sidebar.  The left is more expensive than the right since it is seen first – my prices go top, middle, bottom at $100, $80, $60 for left and $90, $70, $50 for right with a 5% discount for 3 months, 10% discount for 6 months, and a 20% discount for 12 months.  Good luck!

Up to $100 for a post and a bit less than Crystal's guidelines for the rest. Crystal from BFS has helped me out a lot here, and Financial Samurai's guidelines are a great place to start, too.

Hi,

What do you usually charge for text links? I have read a few of the posts about prices and discount for longer contract which all seem to be geared towards banners and I was curious about links. I am trying to get organized with prices and locations for different type of adds as I started to receive inquiries.

Thanks!

Post edited 10:57 pm – January 27, 2011 by JT_McGee

Paypal is used by most everyone.  I've accepted checks in the past, but that was actually more from the smaller fish than the big ones…it seems most everyone in the webmastering community prefers PayPal from top to bottom.  Good thing about a check, though, is that you save the 2.9% Paypal takes.

I've only had maybe .25% of my clients/customers ever want another option.  

As for text links, I'd demand quite a bit.  You have to look at it as every new link is less Google juice for your own posts.  Besides, a lot of companies that buy links are in "bad neighborhoods."  Make it worth your while, and I'd always shoot for long-term link deals.  Google is pretty good at finding out what is going on when you're swapping links in and out like its your dayjob.  Locking in people for 6-12 months at a time has another benefit: most people willing to front the cash will renew at the end of 6 or 12 months.  The monthly subs, at least for me, tended to be more "fly-by-nighters."

Thanks for the replies. Looks like text links are a different subject than banners. I am learning here and I appreciate all the shared information.

Text links? What text links?

is also an acceptable, offical response.

LOL that was funny