14.12.08

Banner Advertising is a Powerful Way to Generate Traffic

Banner advertising is different from search engine marketing and is referred to as display advertising because it involves placing your ad on other websites.

Lately, however, banner advertising has become more popular as people have learned how to make different sized banners and have gotten better with flash programming and graphic design. If you would like to know how to generate traffic with banner advertising, here are a few hints to help you out:

1. Just like text-based ads, you need to find advertising services that can target websites in your niche. A banner for a video game subscription service won't get as many click throughs if it is featured on a fashion website.
2. Do your best to get your banner advertising placed on websites that see a lot of traffic every day. It might be cheaper to advertise on websites that aren't yet very popular, but the higher cost will be worth it when you see just how quickly your traffic numbers jump. A banner ad that runs for a single week on an incredibly popular website will be worth more than one hundred banner ads running for three weeks on less popular websites.
3. Make sure that your banner itself is designed well.
This is an advertisement for your company. You want the banner design to reflect your business's brand. Something that flashes and gives people a headache probably won't get as many click throughs as something that is subtle and works well with the background of the site on which it sits.
4. No matter what anybody tells you, banner advertising that involves sounds or videos that play automatically are annoying and will not get clicked on. In fact, these advertisements are often the reason people click away from a website. Just because you know how to make a short video play in your advertising space doesn't mean you should put that knowledge into play.

CPM - Meaning cost per 1,000 impressions. This means that each time your banner is seen it will be counted as an impression. So if a visitor on another website sees your ad then that's one impression. If they go to another page on that website and see your ad again then that's two impressions. This could also mean that potentially you could have 1,000 people see your ad and even click on your ad.

On average though the amount of people that see your ad and click on it will defer significantly. It depends on where you're advertising, how well your ad performs in getting visitors to click on it and several other factors.

CPC - Cost Per Click - This is the most common form of advertising that most businesses are familiar with. This allows you to set prices for how much you will pay for each each click to your website. Using the above example -- on average each visitor to your website is worth $5 so as long as you can generate clicks for less then $5 you should have a profitable campaign.

These are just a few ways to generate traffic with banner advertising. Some simple research and a visit to our website will turn up even more hints to help you drive traffic to your website.

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