Comments on: 22 Ways To Find Advertisers For Your Website

By: Charlotte Gatto

Charlotte Gatto — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:36:20 +0000

Thanks for the tips and advice. I wasn’t planning on selling ads on my website until I was recently contacted by someone offering me $25 to put a text link to his website on the sidebar of my blog. That doesn’t sound like a lot of money to me but as I wasn’t even looking for money that way, it’s a nice surprise.

Do you know how I can find out if his offer is far too low and if so, how much I actually should charge?

Thanks!

By: raybak

raybak — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:29:40 +0000

i have targeted buysellads for my site but they need a good amount of traffic first to approve your site..

By: William K Wallace

William K Wallace — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:41:01 +0000

I have personally never chased advertising money…yet. I’m waiting until I start getting over 100,000 unique visitors a month. I have had quite a few advertisers contact me this year and paid me $40-50 a month for adds and between $75-100 for guest posts. I have made over $1500 this year, which aint bad. I can see the huge potential out there in the long run for making serious money.

By: Tinh

Tinh — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:25:55 +0000

Great ideas but it seems still hard for new blogs too. Anyways, good to give it a try and see how it could help. Thanks

By: Budi

Budi — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:11:28 +0000

Walla..this is really a big secret which so many people are looking for. We know how to make money from our website by advertiser. It’s not easy to do, but it’s a must to try..

Very helpfull..

Thanks Daniel

By: Shahab khan

Shahab khan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:12:16 +0000

I Must say that tip no 14-18 are quite effective. I will try them for sure.

By: Hank

Hank — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:32:13 +0000

Great list! These are some ideas that I had not even thought of. Thanks!

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:49:47 +0000

Daniel – excellent post. Are ad rates mosty determined by total unique visits or average page views from those unique visits?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:30:34 +0000

Really great, thorough post. Really seems to cover everything.

By: Antoony

Antoony — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:11:01 +0000

Thanks for a great list of great tips,

I just realized that it’s not easy to find advertiser for our blogs even our blogs have good stats. Yesterday, I got a sponsor but I must decline him/her because his/her website is not having related niche with mine. For a long term business, it will just bother my blog topic. Is it right or wrong, Daniel?

By: Dave Lucas aka "New York's HOTTEST Blog"

Dave Lucas aka "New York's HOTTEST Blog" — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:47:11 +0000

Great tips! I’ll just add that if you can, leave your email address “hidden in plain sight” – last year I was contacted by an advertiser who fattened up my paypal account by $100 – I sold an ad that ran for 9 months, and I wasn’t even soliciting ads! The agent found me via my email addy, hidden beneath an image!

By: Ann Krebber

Ann Krebber — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:13:38 +0000

This is a great nutrition intake for me 🙂 Firstly, I intend to achieve 1k unique visitor a day before I offer ads space to advertisers directly (like your suggestion). But, before I can achieve that number, I still will monetize my blog through review program. How do you think about review program such you mention above on no.13 and 14, is it still worthy?

By: Akos Fintor

Akos Fintor — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:58:20 +0000

Hey Daniel,

Great post.The best so far I found on this topic.
Keep it up!thanks

By: Allureweb

Allureweb — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:33:24 +0000

Hey great post! Something i found challenging when i first started blogging is finding the right template to implement a sponsor ad sidebar. But this was quickly overcome by some crafty modifying of the wordpress pages written in php. However i do suggest that if you are not as technical savvy as some, then do your research on designs that will accomodate room for advertising as quickly you will learn that monetizing your site is essential when traffic numbers grows.

By: simon

simon — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:55:59 +0000

Thanks for the list tips sir.

My this blog is still new. According to you, if we want to offer ads directly, when ? I mean: Pagerank and alexa…

Because some people said, if pagerank 3, we could offer ads (banner/ blogroll) and so many advertiser will interest, and alexa must less then 500.000

how do you say about this?

For now, I only place adsense there, my alexa= 4.500.000 🙂

By: Hesham @ FamousBloggers

Hesham @ FamousBloggers — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:30:49 +0000

Nice list and very useful advice on your article specially the tips on how to find advertisers and contact them!

By: Lowell

Lowell — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:14:06 +0000

Wow, what a list! Thanks for the valuable insight!

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:57:12 +0000

Really great post – and I’m going to bookmark it for future reference. One question – what options are there to record and manage your clicks? Everything I’ve found through web searches is not really customisable as a “click counter” to manage private arrangements.
Thanks
Kim

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:04:22 +0000

@Jaydip, nope.

By: Jaydip Parikh

Jaydip Parikh — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:41:24 +0000

Hey Danial, Inline Text will be good option ?

By: shawal

shawal — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:09:04 +0000

Really good ways.

Thank you for sharing the very useful info.

By: Chester

Chester — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:17:17 +0000

Good point on `Advertise Here placeholder on all of your unsold spots, as this would send a negative message to advertisers (i.e., no one is buying any ads on your site, so why should they?).

This post is very helpful Daniel. I bookmarked it for future reference.

By: Vance Sova

Vance Sova — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:42:38 +0000

Hi Daniel,

I’m bookmarking this post for future reference because I see it as very valuable check list of things to be done.

Implementing what it talks about seems like a longer term project so coming back to it periodically will be of great help.

Thanks for putting it up.

Vance

By: Jewelry Secrets

Jewelry Secrets — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:40:44 +0000

Hi Daniel, yes, I totally missed that. “on a site that is not yours” so true! 🙂

By: Julia M Lindsey

Julia M Lindsey — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:22:38 +0000

That is a great list. I never thought about asking for paid ads on my site.
Is there a resource for what to charge for ads? I would imagine there is a link between traffic and price.

By: James Fisher

James Fisher — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:39:04 +0000

Thanks for a great list of ideas, Daniel. I had already implemented some, so it was nice to see I am on the right track. I find better results from affiliates than from AdSense these days.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:38:51 +0000

Thanks Daniel, This article really helpful.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:32:58 +0000

Great info Daniel
I’ve got a couple of affiliates on my site, but it would be great to have a few paid adds.

Got to read this one through a few times and sort out a little plan.

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:29:54 +0000

@Tony and Jewelry, clicking on an AdSense unit, on a site that is not yours, to discover what that company is all about should be considered a legitimate click. I doubt it would cause anyone problems.

But yeah it is also possible to figure the URL without clicking on it.

I am used to the days when the URL displayed on the ad could be different from the actual URL where it pointed 🙂 .

By: Jewelry Secrets

Jewelry Secrets — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:46:37 +0000

I agree with Tony. I wouldn’t tell people to click on their Adsense code. Even if you are saying don’t do it repeatedly. It’s against the Adsense TOS and I wouldn’t promote it.

Otherwise you have a great list here. Plenty I have not heard of. I like the idea of connecting with people that are leaving comments or linking to you. That’s a great source of advertising already. Good point!

By: Tony Lawrence

Tony Lawrence — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:51:58 +0000

You usually don’t need to click on Google ads.

If you right click and copy the link location, you’ll find it’s a long string of gobbledy-gook but buried within is the destination URL – just follow that yourself manually.

That’s also useful on your own site when you happen upon an ad of intertest but don’t want to tick off Google by clicking on yourown adds: right-click, copy the link, paste it into a text editor and look for the url. I think it usually follows “adurl=”

By: Shortel Guy

Shortel Guy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:46:42 +0000

What about improving your Google PageRank? I know a ton of people like to buy text links on sites with high PR.

By: Shahab khan

Shahab khan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:04:56 +0000

Great list of Ad networks!
Most of the ad networks are good but i really had a worst experience with ReviewMe!

By: Paul OFlaherty

Paul OFlaherty — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:20:16 +0000

Great list of tips there Daniel, some of which wouldn’t have immediately occurred to me, such as signing up with sites like sponsoredreviews, just to see what companies are using them.

Thanks for the list 🙂

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:14:51 +0000

@Jack, I would aim to reach 1,000 daily uniques before trying to sell ads directly.

By: JackNguyen.com

JackNguyen.com — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:10:29 +0000

Great list here Daniel.

For new bloggers, is there a minimum your blog has to get in traffic before reaching out to advertisers?

I’m sure you’ll need to build a decent amount of traffic for advertisers to even think about working with you.

By: Arun Basil Lal

Arun Basil Lal — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:25:12 +0000

I have a feeling most of them would really work, Thanks Daniel 🙂

By: Free Classifieds Blog

Free Classifieds Blog — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:27:08 +0000

This is an excellent in-depth article. Like it very much. However, I like having a menu item for advertisers (for example Advertising Info) rather than a banner.

By: Anil Gupta

Anil Gupta — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:34:09 +0000

This is the biggest list and useful list that I have ever seen created around finding sponsors for our blog. I’m using only few of them and thus I have more ways to get advertisers for my blog

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:13:24 +0000

@Dave, in my case the earnings from direct advertising and affiliate offers is very similar. But the advertising income is more stable, while the affiliate one comes in spikes.

By: Dave Higgs

Dave Higgs — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:06:09 +0000

Wow what a long list of homework 🙂

Thanks for the effort put into getting this info together.

Question: In your experience, do you get more money for directly sold banner ads than from affiliate link ads?

Thanks again,
Dave

By: Jorge Diaz

Jorge Diaz — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:53:18 +0000

Hey nice post. I had some challenges getting advertising on one of the blogs i created, thedailymac.com and it’s a little difficult you will need to actually get some press releases and post your site on BuySellAds.com.

I think that when your blog is popular the advertisers will come up to you and beg you to give you recurring money.

Great post and great source of info to check back later.

Thanks