How to Attract Advertisers?

[Jimeous]

I voted....

None of the Above

Examining the Options
Low Prices
Most of us are members of sites that are charging around $20 per 1,000 Ad links, so it's not cheap advertising which is attracting visitors or sponsors. This helps of course but there needs to be other factors.

no bots
Irrelevant, IMHO, because the site owner is the only person whom can confirm that there are bots in thier userbase. Rather you want to have Only Unique IP's per Day, that way the Advertiser can be assured that the hits are genuine.

high security
Should be installed irregardless of Advertisers.

amount of payouts
The best way to attract and keep members, which in turn will attract advertisers.

design
Yeah that does help, navigation is probably the key to it, simple is best

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IMHO, The most important thing is a site with a large amount of Members.

An Example

You take out a 1,000 click Advertisement. which site would you want to put the Ad on?

A. Site with 200 Members
B. Site with 500 Members
C. Site with 1,000 Members
D. Site with 10,000 Members

Options A and B mean that your Ad is going to be seen at least twice by the same person
Option C, your Ad might be seen by unique people if all members are active
Option D, chances that 1,000 unique people are viewing your Ad is highly possible.

I think the common element of all PTC sites is that thier Members have a tendancy to take out Advertising to drum up Referrals, so I think that it's Member Numbers that have the greatest effect in attracting Advertisers.

[BRL]

Low Prices
Most of us are members of sites that are charging around $20 per 1,000 Ad links, so it's not cheap advertising which is attracting visitors or sponsors. This helps of course but there needs to be other factors.

Most (if not all) of these links are self-sponsored, so cheap advertising is a key.

[Jimeous]

Low Prices
Most of us are members of sites that are charging around $20 per 1,000 Ad links, so it's not cheap advertising which is attracting visitors or sponsors. This helps of course but there needs to be other factors.

Most (if not all) of these links are self-sponsored, so cheap advertising is a key.

I think you're confusing Member Click Earnings with Ad Click Prices. If Ads are self-sponsored the only thing that is affected is how much the Owner is going to shell out per click to thier Members. I can't see how Self-Sponsored Ads would affect Advertising Prices considering they are never bought by the public.

[BRL]

I think you're confusing Member Click Earnings with Ad Click Prices. If Ads are self-sponsored the only thing that is affected is how much the Owner is going to shell out per click to thier Members. I can't see how Self-Sponsored Ads would affect Advertising Prices considering they are never bought by the public.

What I mean is on sites that charge 20 $ (or 19.99) for 1.000 visits, normally the ads their member are able to click on are self-sponsored: not many (if any) "advertisers" are willing to pay such an ammount.

[lewi]

thankyou very much for this topic it made me realize what my site was lacking to encourage advertisers to buy ads

i have now added information about the security of my site
the members locations
checked all my pricing
told them how we stop bots
have not said anything about the amount of payouts but am planning on soon once we have more than 1 as 1 looks a bit stupid
design i kept the same but changed a few things round but is still simple to use

thankyou again and let me know what you think to the information i provided

[Catclicks]

All of the above.
Specials always catches the eyes
If you look at your ad prices, the lower end is to high,
100 hits for 3.50 is not worth it, for the advertiser.
and 15.00 for 6,000 is way to low, (If you decide to change it, let me get my ad in first  )
Your good at ad design, give it a mild make over, brighten some colors
ad packages, I like the Idea of the incentive of referrals
and most of all lose the timer on your credit me,
Sstash can tell you, the other forum, is full of the dislike on her site because of the timer.
You can't force anyone to look at an ad, either they are or there not, going to read it.
The green button is a distraction, many times, I am checking out a new site, seeing what
they pay, but my focus is always drifting back up to the timer.

[lewi]

if you are talking to me then thanks for the information

i cannot remove the timer because it is there to stop people from cheating

i will look at adding a special thanks for the idea

they are all the same prices for my ad packages but you just buy in bulk or not :S

the design does need to be freshened up so im going to make a full length header and hopefully make some littler graphics to place round the site with the same theme even if it is just converting text to nice artwork text it should make it look better

[Twysted]

if you are talking to me then thanks for the information

i cannot remove the timer because it is there to stop people from cheating

i will look at adding a special thanks for the idea

they are all the same prices for my ad packages but you just buy in bulk or not :S

the design does need to be freshened up so im going to make a full length header and hopefully make some littler graphics to place round the site with the same theme even if it is just converting text to nice artwork text it should make it look better

no she was talking to me, sorry to burst your bubble.

[Catclicks]

  Yea I was!
But that's Ok Lewi, I think Twysted is going to hit me over the head, If I don't stop bugging him about the little green button 

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Lewi, which site is yours?

[lewi]

oh okay

in response to your signature it is zxclicks.com

this thread is still great and hopefully has improved my site