Comments on: Selling Flat-Rate Ads on Your Site

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:45:24 +0000

Thanks to your help I’m now set up to sell flat rate ads on one of my sites! You’re the best Lisa!

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:01:20 +0000

Thanks, Lisa.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:46:14 +0000

Thanks Lisa,

I really appreciate your help with this (and all of the other website help I get from your site).

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:38:31 +0000

I missed this post, Keri. Sorry about that. Yes, I would recommend building up traffic first and then when you have a few hundred visits per day start soliciting for advertisers. I wouldn’t solicit until your traffic is built up. I am really not in favor of the manual method. It’s too much work, especially when your advertisers start adding up. With services like AdBrite, OIO Publisher, OpenText, etc. there are just too many automated options to choose from.

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:33:14 +0000

Chris and David, when you login to your account, select the Publishers tab and then “Manage Zones”. There should be a place to “Create a New Zone”. From there follow all the instructions and when you get to the Pricing Options (Step 4) that should allow you to set up flat rate pricing. There’s an option that says “I’d rather set my pricing myself”. Hopefully nothing has changed because that’s how I did it.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:24:57 +0000

Thanks David,

I thought maybe I was the only one that couldn’t figure out how to get to the Adbrite flatrate ads.

By: David

David — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:06:25 +0000

Lisa (and Chris),

I have the same problem. I just signed up with AdBrite, and I can’t find a way to either create or to change an ad to flat-rate. The instructions AdBrite gives in its help section don’t jibe with its site. Any suggestions?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:38:19 +0000

Hi Lisa,

I realize this is not a recent topic, but I have a question about selling Adbrite flat rate ads on my site. I was looking through your site when I saw a video of yours that mentioned flat rate ads and Adbrite and then I found this blog post about it.

I went to the Adbrite site with the intention of signing up, but didn’t because I don’t want to show cost per click ads.

I use Google Adsense on my site and so I’m only interested in selling flat rate ads via Adbrite.

My problem is that I don’t know how to sign up for ONLY the flat rate ads and not the contextual cost per click ads. I tried searching the Adbrite site, but couldn’t find what I was looking for.

I’m afraid to sign up for Adbrite because I’m afraid I’ll end up signing up for the wrong type of ads and then get banned by Google Adsense.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I get several e-mails each month from people asking to place an ad on my site, but don’t know what to charge and so I thought Adbrite would be a good option for me.

Thanks.

By: Keri

Keri — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:05:21 +0000

This is the blog I’ve been needing to read. My question, stemming from the ‘How Much Should You Charge’ section, can I market for an advertiser on my site (even without notification), build up my site stats (traffic, clicks, and demographic info), then solicit say advertisers to sign up with my site to advertise for them? Also, with ‘The Manual Method’ of ad hosting, is this difficult for a beginner to website management? Thanks.

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:07:33 +0000

Thanks Paul! I’ll have to check it out. Ironically enough I don’t do a lot of monetization on my blog so this is new to me. Appreciate it.