Business Advertising

[crochetmechanic]

What do ya'll look for in a website when you look to advertise your business?

Is it cost?

Whether they accept text, buttons, and/or buttons?

I ask because I have been offering $5 for a lifetime of advertising and haven't had any bites and I want to know what to do to make it more attractive to home businesses.

Sara

[Colorado WAHD]

So, what I look for is proof of targeted traffic to a site. For starters, I'll look at Alexa rank and then see if the site owner offers any kind of analytics for where their visitors come from.

That's just a quick starting point.

[alwayshome]

Traffic is No. 1 for me.

[maximumleverage]

I agree with the above post.

Its about traffic...the more traffic you can get the more attractive
you are to others.

There blogs out there charging $200 to $500.00 per month to advertise
on there website and there sold out.

When you have MASSIVE Amounts of Traffic, people will be begging you to place there
banner or text ad on your website.

[Jeremy Barker]

I mainly look for targeted traffic as others have mentioned. Price does come into play but if I pay even a low fee as $5 or $10 but not get any takers it does me no good. I would concentrate on your traffic and then promote your advertising space.

[bethtaylor]

For me it's not as much about traffic as targeted traffic. My number one rule of advertising is trying to figure out Return on Investment (ROI) ahead of time, then measure how close I get. This applies to website ads, Google Ads, SEO, radio ads, print ads. Without guessing and then knowing your ROI you don't know whether you're making a good ad purchase or a bad one.

[johnben1444]

What i am actually concern about when trying to advertise my site is the origin of the traffic. Some site claim to deliver thousands of visitors to a site and might end offering nothing at all in terms of real people landing on your site.

[Damion]

There are several factors for me. Target audience, traffic and avg time on page (does me no good to have traffic from exchanges which have no page stay), and whether the page(s) is/are indexed in google.

That being said, I have never paid $5 for advertising. Most of my ad space costs me a minimum of $50/month and I have paid much more. For $5, I would say that the only reason you haven't sold it is poor content or poor traffic.