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Banner advertising platforms. Which do you use and which do you prefer?



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Banner advertising platforms. Which do you use and which do you prefer?

A lot of us will use Adwords and Bing/Yahoos PPC platforms, but not as many of us have ventured over to the banner advertising platforms such as BuySellAds.

Have you ever tried BSA or are you sticking with the PPC type ads provided by the major search engines?

I've been using BSA and I haven't had any problems with them since I started. Sure, some of the ad spots and CPM spots are ridiculously expensive, but it's understandable. I've read that BSA inflates their numbers so that more advertisers pay for slots on the publishers websites, but that could just be the publisher inflating their traffic by using traffic exchanges or bots. I doubt that BSA would do that because if they were ever caught it would ruin their entire business.


One company I'm using, publicityclerks, to push my banners has around 100 publishers and they all boast some pretty amazing statistics. One of the ads I purchased was for around 750k to 800k impressions and it only cost me $20. I would have been stupid not to purchase this placement lol. I thought I was just extremely lucky and saw an opening right as someone else forgot to renew their payments. I bought the ad spot before I even had a banner made, that's how eager I was to get it. So after I got my banner and uploaded it, I almost immediately was getting impressions and clicks. I'm coming to the end of my first month advertising on this website and I have had 745k impressions and 16,516 clicks.

Banner advertising platforms.  Which do you use and which do you prefer?
I should be making like $3,000 to $5,000 a month off of this ad spot, right?

Well I've looked through my tracking and I haven't gotten a single sale from this website and I even looked to see if it was referred by the platform, and nothing shows.

So I came to the conclusion that this website is just inflating it's numbers to get people to purchase advertising space from month to month and they aren't providing any real value to it's advertisers.




Have you used any banner advertising platform?
What is you opinion on them?


Thanks,

Razzy

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idealmike
Interesting Raz! Who are publicityclerks then? Are they an Ionicware company? Is this a sneaky way of telling us about them you have done here and you are the owner of publicityclerks or you genuinely use them? And you say you paid $20 and got 800k unique visits? What category was that in?

I have not used them myself obviously. Just checked them out quickly. I see what you mean about the inflated numbers! Some of those sites I see are no way getting that much. Anyway, I'd try em out to get 800k u/v's for 20 bux. Just for testing purposes! Are you able to choose where your ad shows on the publishers sites?

I just purchased 10K impressions for $5 from a site that was in the marketplace showing 335.1k monthly impressions but we will have to see how the campaign fans out and whether my ROI ends up more than that or not!



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TommyCarey
I'm not the owner lol. If I were I would say that the services there are AMAAAAAZINNNNGGG!!!!!! but they're not from what I've found out lol.

I don't think they're affiliated with SeoClerks or Ionicware in any way. I think that they know of SeoClerks and thought it was a nice name to piggy back off of and that's why they have "clerks" in their domain name.

I'm paying for 800k impressions, not unique visits. I have had almost 17k clicks on my banner though... but 0 sales from those clicks.

I have multiple ads running on publicity clerks and none of them seem to be doing anything besides sending me crappy traffic Banner advertising platforms.  Which do you use and which do you prefer? I haven't generated a single sale from any of these clicks and my lowest priced item is $2.00 lol Banner advertising platforms.  Which do you use and which do you prefer?



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Lynne
Well that doesn't sound like such a great offer then Razzy is it? I mean we all want traffic and clicks but those mean absolutely nothing when you look at the fact that you have no sales from that traffic.

I have not really used banner advertising platforms before but I am keen to start with this method at some stage. I have been a bit nervous to get started with it though because like you have just pointed out, so many websites can inflate their numbers and make it seem like it is a great deal when in fact you make nothing from it.

I would love to heard what other members here have to say about banner advertising.



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procoder
I have never used any banner advertising platform to advertise my website, because I'm not sure what type of advertising will bring me more visitors to my portofolio site, another reason is because my site it's not monetized, and I'm not going to generate money from this, but at least I want to be sure that I'm advertising on right category.

I've never heard about publicityclerks, the name sounds cool and yes I'm sure that they should know about SEOClerks, also it seems that they have some good prices there, so I'm thinking to give a try.



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TommyCarey
I've still yet to get a single sale from any of my banners on there. I've had a spike in traffic for the $180 I've spent on there, but not a single sale. I have noticed a slight increase in sales, but I'm pretty sure it's due to different advertising and a few new affiliates I pulled from an internet marketing forum.



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Cristian
What about going directly to the seller of the banner space? You can find a lot of webmasters selling their banner ad space directly on webmaster forums and other types of related marketplaces.

I always thought their prices should be a lot cheaper compared with pay per click advertising platforms like Adwords. The only problem is finding the right websites with the right kind of real honest traffic that actually converts well for you. But once you find such a website, you can place your ads their long term and everyone loves a long term deal.



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TommyCarey
That could work well. In my experience, people who are on forums selling ad space on their websites usually ask too much for the amount of traffic they're getting. I've also checked out DP for some ad space on websites but they amount of traffic they get is extremely low and I don't want to risk $2+ per measure on an extremely low traffic website Banner advertising platforms.  Which do you use and which do you prefer?



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vinaya
The only advertising I have ever used is facebook ads. I used facebook ads to promote my product and services. I did get a lot of traffic for my product and service, however, my facebook ad capaign was unable to generate the desired sales. Therefore, I am thinking to try another platform. I am considering Adwords because I have $150 worth free credits. I have heard about buy sell ads but I am yet to try this ad network.



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Barida
I think I will have to stick to the PPC type since that has helped me made some sales. In as much as I like changing things, doing so at this stage is not what I think of.



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