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Banner Ad Rates & Exchange Policy
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Creativyst Docs Banner Ad Rates & Exchange Policy
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Information: Banner Ads on Creativyst.com We'd like to run your banner on a CPC or 1:1 exchange basis
Our traffic is still very low (chart), but has begun to slowly trend upward. So far we are in the learning stages and have not engaged or participated in any banner exchange or banner purchase programs beyond a context-triggered Google ad for a specific product (Creativyst™ Glossary). The CPC ("Cost Per Click") method seems like a good model for us to follow here for paid ads. It is the method we most like when looking for places to advertise as well.
Banner exchanges also seem like a viable approach to getting the word out and
we are very interest in expanding on exchanges as time permits. Anyone who
would like to exchange banners with this site, or has advice or comments is
welcome and encouraged to
contact us
or join the
forums for a discussion.
The following chart is updated once a day and represents our site's traffic.
updated daily For a complete explaination and discussions of these stats see our site statistics page.
Page Views counts the number of full pages
that have been sent to visitors and is our most important statistic. These
don't care how many or how few other objects are on the page. One page --no
matter how many requests the browser makes for graphics and scripts in order to
display it-- is counted exactly once.
We are open to reciprocal arrangements based on impressions and page location, please let us know if you have any wish to share banners on a one to one basis or hard link exchanges.
We are also exploring arrangements with national banner exchange services. If
you have any advice or comments about these, please contact us or open a thread
in the forums.
We are currently considering from among a variety of ways to accept paid, targeted advertising on this site. Some pages on this site, which provide tools to business owners and software developers, may provide great opportunities to target products, services, and community sites on the web. While most of these tools will be visited by developers and web designers, the targeting should be something that can be specified for each tool and page where it is displayed on the site.
Articles are currently all originating here (though article services may soon
be utilized as well). Room is available above and around each article page and
may be made available for banners and buttons. Again, the article content may
provide targeting opportunities as well.
Barring strong feedback in to the contrary, our intention is to structure paid advertising at Creativyst.com on a Cost Per Clickthrough basis. We would also like to offer advertisers the opportunity to perform very specific targeting based on the page content where the banner will run. For example, our CSV to XML converter page provides visitors with a facility to convert their CSV files (from say, accounting programs, or spreadsheets) to XML format. It permits them to do CSV conversion from this site for free as often as they'd like. A banner that runs only on this page would be a tightly targeted to developers and I.T. people. CPC rates will require a non-refundable minimum of $10(USD). Clickthroughs will be charged against this for up to one year. If the clickthrough rate falls below 2% the banner will stop running. Clickthrough rates between 2% and 10% will run at reduced rates (from 20% to 100% of the time normally allotted). Banners that are re-targeted or are changed to improve clickthrough rates will be set to a starting clickthrough rate of 10% (100% in rotation) once per week. If the ad has not generated enough clickthroughs to use up the entire amount paid in minimum in one year, the ad will be removed and the account will be closed. Any remaining amount in the account will not be refunded.
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