Comments on: How do You Find Private Advertisers for Your Blog?

By: Armand

Armand — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:22:25 +0000

Great tips. Unfortunately, my traffic isn’t sufficient for hunting direct advertisers :D

By: Tevan Savage

Tevan Savage — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:41:12 +0000

I do not have access to banner ads, so I offer to place URL links all over my blog and websites. I think that is also very lucrative, but I am beginning to think that I am the only one who thinks that. My offer is to place links on the description boxes for my videos on YouTube, Metacafe, MySpace, and Dailymotion. All that I charge for that is $20 a month. Could you please help me market URL links.

By: Corey Freeman

Corey Freeman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:59:52 +0000

Super late response (I’m doing an experiment on my blog, so I’m obligated to comment) but this is a really helpful and insightful post. I refer some people to it on forums and in some comments, honestly. I think it’s important to really step up and take some initiative with your blog, because it’s kind of like a business. Statistically, somebody has to say “yes, I’ll advertise on your site!”

By: csib

csib — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:41:20 +0000

Very nice article, indeed, with thoughtful tips. Content is King, that’s for sure. And with content, traffic that is needed to monetize, will come.

By: fortunecookienotes

fortunecookienotes — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:20:52 +0000

Excellent article. I think that just as long as you have the traffic and show that you are taking direct advertisements, then the rest will follow.

It’s all about content and traffic!

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:56:15 +0000

Thanks for your advice. I’ve recently started selling 125×125s on my blog, and your guide really helped me find advertisers. I spent a few days contacting sites that advertised on other blogs, and lo and behold, I’ve already sold most of my ad inventory. Not bad. I may drop AdSense in a few months, after I hit the $100 payout (I’m 4/5 of the way there).

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:42:02 +0000

I would love to go out there and get direct advertisers but for now I need to get more visitors, I average about 250 uniques a day and that just isn’t enough for my niche. I hope I can reach 2,000 uniques fairly soon because blogging is what I love and doing well at it would be kinda nice.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:48:40 +0000

I’ve found a tact that works pretty well is to offer value-added services and exposure for advertisers (and typically the best way to get them is through direct contact and referrals)…for example, we offer ads on one of our sites called Dulles South Online (http://www.dullessouthonline.com) – and the advertiser also gets placement or text links across our other related sites and blogs, gets free SEO optimization of the ad, and a few nuggets of backlink placements around areas we feel will help. So he gets an ad PLUS a bit of SEO/SEM.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:22:56 +0000

As a newbie to bloging what would you reccomend as a jump off number to get started solicting private advertisers,

Can you reccomend a good start up book or program for the tech challeged but not to dumb blogger : )

By: Al-Kanz

Al-Kanz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:46:47 +0000

Thanks for this interessant article.
In France, earn money with his blog is a crime :)

By: Tibi Puiu

Tibi Puiu — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:00:42 +0000

Great post Danny. Selling direct advertisement is truly the most efficient and money-wise satisfying way of monetization, but it’s at the same time very difficult. It’s important to be able to “sell” your blog whenever your negotiating, other wise you won’t be successful.

By: Ty Brown

Ty Brown — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:56:35 +0000

How do you determine what your ads are worth?

By: Shams

Shams — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:24:40 +0000

Thanks for such good points.

By: AsiaPartTime

AsiaPartTime — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:23:50 +0000

I truly belive to search the potential advertiser from Google Adwords. The cost of advertise on my niche blog – Part Time Job is relatively small and very niche.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:00:08 +0000

Interesting stuff, particularly about the critical mass that’s required before seeking out specific advertisers.

By: Lily

Lily — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:52:48 +0000

Thanks very much for answering this question. Whilst I’m not yet quite generating the traffic to start actively looking for advertisers, this gives me some concrete ideas and figures to work with.

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:23:18 +0000

Guess I shouldn’t be bothered looking for one then (still on 100-150 visitors a day on a tech blog)

By: Pjammez

Pjammez — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:35:43 +0000

Very nice blog. Exactly what I was interested in reading about, though I would have liked to see some more stats.

By: Black Zedd

Black Zedd — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:21:28 +0000

Been wondering for some time regarding this subject. Although I’m not currently interested in putting ads, it might come handy in future. Thanks..

By: Andy MacDonald - SEO & Marketing Blog

Andy MacDonald - SEO & Marketing Blog — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000

Thanks Darren, i don’t think my blog is quite big enough, nor does it have the amounts of traffic you mentioned to be looking for advertisers, but when it does become of size, this is a post ill be referring back too. (saved to delicious).