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wmac
05-26-2001, 09:28 PM
Hello

I am asking from myself : Is banner exchange useful at all.

These are recent results of testing two of them:

Linkexchange(bcentral)
Hosted: 6317
Exposures : 3159 Clicks in: 2 !!!!!!!!!!


Sitebrand:
Hosted:13420 Clicks Out:120
Impressions:6711 Clicks in: 17 !!!!

So you see the result of these banner exchanges is losing my visitors while not earning any.

Does anyone know any other banner exchange program that really brings traffic rather than loosing it!

Regards,
Mac
www.learnem.com
:confused:

determinist
05-26-2001, 09:43 PM
All banner exchange program works fairly on the same concept, so i don't see any difference between them.

Btw, where can see we see one of your banner?

wmac
05-26-2001, 09:48 PM
Hello again

If you are in doubt of banner quality, please see

http://www.learnem.com/ban1.gif


Regards,
Mac

determinist
05-26-2001, 10:13 PM
I did not doubt anything, since it's banner exchange programs you're referring to, i find it quite awkward without knowing how the banner actually look.
:rolleyes: Anyway, the banner is okay, nice one :)

anto
05-26-2001, 11:12 PM
Our company place a paid advertisement on a local
banner exchange (so that we don't have to display
other members' banners). The result is quite good.

I think the key is to place your banner on local
banner exchange. Do not place it on world wide one.
(You also may have a very tempting banner, as well)

Anto.

ksstudio
05-28-2001, 08:58 AM
We are using bCentral Traffic builder! We are going to terminate the services after this month when contract ended. We have a very little 0.1% CTR. Terrible !!!


:mad:

Honu
05-28-2001, 03:28 PM
Originally posted by sarmadys
Hello again

If you are in doubt of banner quality, please see

http://www.learnem.com/ban1.gif


Regards,
Mac

Aloha,
well not to be harsh
but try to redo the banner to have soem more contrast
there all fairly light colors
it is very yard to read the bottom part
some thoughts would be to show off the
FREE COMPUTER COURSES
do not worry to much about the url showing it off as big
make your "CLICK HERE" animated
we had very good click throughs on the top two ads here
http://www.happyfish.com/main/portfolio/careerairfairs/airfairs.html
(they are just over 15KB limit but we ran em in house so we were OK

go here also take a look at these
http://www.coolhomepages.com/html/banners1.html

you notice high conatrast and bright colors
you notice some have urls some dont ya really do not need to worry about em on a banner ad as much as ya think ya do unless you are building branding or name recognition such as Amazon
they want you to get used to the name so it is like asking for a coke when ya want a pop

best of luck also if ya can make it so the banner spawns a new window and keeps your site there ya did not always loose them just a thought some hate the new window thing

so small site promote FREE COURSES

INSTANT ACCESS these kinds of things

later