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Direct Advertising On Blogtrepreneur – 1st Month FREE!

So much time has passed here on the new and updated Blogtrepreneur without me explaining more about my new monetization methods. Since the kerfuffle with Google, I thought it best to really broaden my horizons so that the same feeling of being “stung” wouldn’t happen to me ever again. In the process I focused on a more in your face but lucrative form of making money online – Direct Advertising.

For those of you who don’t know, I would firstly recommend checking out Maki’s series on direct advertising which includes setting rates and marketing your ad packages.

On the site at the moment, my main money earners are TextLinkAds – which manage to make me consistent earnings due to the selling of text links. These links are above the fold mostly and will reap all the SEO benefits of this Pageranked 5 blog.

Now, due to the scrapping of Adsense and Adbrite in this new design, I wanted to fill up the spaces with something more aesthetically pleasing and with greater potential for the advertiser and for myself. Direct advertising was the obvious solution as it allowed me to set my own rates without any companies tucking into my profits, and I can totally customise the ads to suit you guys and the design of the blog.

The first thing that I should do, is to give you some statistical analysis of Blogtrepreneur, to show you what bang you can get for your bucks:

Statistics about Blogtrepreneur:
As of April 2007 –

  • Unique Visitors: 2,730 (figure is growing monthly)
  • Pageviews: 4,262 (1.56 per visitor)
  • Comment to Post Ratio = 5:1 (very high user participation)
  • No. of Articles/Pages: 240
  • Pagerank: 5
  • Alexa: 82,000
  • RSS Daily Readers: 280-320 (See sidebar for today’s figure)
  • Technorati Blog Rank: 9000

So, you can see that among various SEO and traffic benefits, your potential branding can be great due to our community of passionate young entrepreneurs and website owners. Please note that all advertisers will be screened before being placed on the site to make sure we have the highest quality of outbound links.

Now, introducing the 3 main packages – this is quote from the Official Advertising page, which you should check out in full:

Package 1 – Text Link Supreme
Cost: $40/month
Description: You get a text link in the Right Sidebar in the “Sponsors” section. Your link will be listed on over 240 pages and will reap the SEO benefits of a PR5 inbound link. There is a 50 character maximum limit and anchor text can be of your specification.
Available: YES

Package 2 – Feedalicious
Cost: $70/month
Description: You get the Text Link as mentioned in Package 1, and you get a text link in the Feed of Blogtrepreneur which has around 300 RSS Subscribers who read daily. Your link will be rotated using Feedvertising, and will appear to targeted entrepreneurs. There is a 100 character maximum limit and anchor text can be of your specification.
Available: YES

Package 3 – Combo Premium Deal
Cost: $100/month
Description: You get the Text Link as mentioned in Package 1, and you get the Feed link as mentioned in Package 2. However on top of this, you get the Premium Banner Ad Position which is above the fold and directly beneath the logo – great for clickthroughs.
Each image ad is 182 x 68 pixels which I know is a very weird size. That’s why, for no extra charge, my designer will design you your own ad – FREE OF CHARGE!
This package is the ultimate combo for branding, SEO and traffic purposes so get on it quick whilst there are still spaces left!
Available: YES

Please note that I am extremely flexible with packages, so feel free to contact me if you want something a little more refined or detailed – the power of direct advertising shines through! Also, funds can be payable through Paypal.

Finally, the big whammy. By any package mentioned above for 2 or more months, and you’ll get your first month of advertising COMPLETELY FREE! Yup, thats nada, zilch, libre! So email me quickly to make sure that there’s still room and to ask if you have any questions or queries.

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