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We offer some services not available at other providers, such as downloading your banner to our server and using our bandwidth to display it, as opposed to standard use of your server. Also, our bottom ads can be of virtually unlimited size. |
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Quick info and linksAds are displayed here. Everything is negotiable (please, be reasonable). Maximal top banner size 600x72. Maximal bottom banner 600x∞. No illegal or "adult" sites. No "popup traps". |
We can advertise your business by placing your ad on our page. Your ad can be a graphic image or some HTML code. When users clicks on your ad, they are redirected (hyperlinked) to your page.
When your ad is displayed on someone's page, it is called an impression. When user clicks on your ad, it is called click-through or click.
Efficiency of your ad can be measured by click-through ratio. It is calculated by dividing number of clicks by number of impressions. Click-through ratio is usually less than 1%, and depends on your ad, its location, and page it is displayed on.
There is only one top ad and one bottom ad on our page, so, it is not cluttered with ads.
Banners
Banner is a graphic image, usually in JPG or GIF format. Standard banner size, accepted by most banner advertisers and banner exchanges, is 468x60 pixels. We accept much larger top banner ads, 600x72 pixels. And our bottom banners can be 600 pixels wide and of unlimited height.
Most banner advertisers and banner exchanges require your banner to be stored and retrieved from your web server, and that your web server has to be 99.9% available. We can do this, but we can also, for some additional pay, download your banner to our server and use our bandwidth.
Sorry, we cannot design banner for you. There are many graphic artists that would be glad to do it. You can search the web for banners or "banner design".
HTML ads
Instead of banner, we can use HTML code that you supply. It might be especially beneficial for bottom ads. It gives you much more flexibility and requires less bandwidth. However, for HTML ads we are unable to count clicks.
Banner exchanges (not offered here)
Banner exchanges are programs that display your banner on other web sites in exchange for your web site displaying someone's banners. Normally they include many web sites, and banners are displayed randomly.
Each time you display someone's banner, you earn from 0.5 to 0.8 impressions, depending on the exchange rules. You are usually credited with 500 to 1000 impressions when you join the exchange.
Where does the difference (you make 1 impression, you earn less than 1 impression) go? These impressions are whether used by exchange organizers, or sold. Prevaling price is 0.2¢ per impression and up, much higher than our prices.
Banner exchanges have proven to be very inefficient. The ones who really benefit from banner exchanges are exchange organizers.
Services we provide
We can advertise your business by placing your ad on our page. Your ad can be a graphic image or some HTML code. When users clicks on your ad, they are redirected (hyperlinked) to your page.
There is only one top ad and one bottom ad on our page, so, it is not cluttered with ads.
We also provide you with link to web page that allows you to track statistics of your ad campaign, i.e. start and end dates, number of impressions ordered, number of impressions delivered, click-through ratio, campaign status etc.. You will be able to pause or resume your campaign.
General rules
We can reject your ad for any reason or for no reason at our sole discretion. When you place an order, it constitutes business proposal, and we are under no obligation to accept it.
Dimensions. Top banners can be no more than 600 pixels wide and 72 pixels high. Bottom banners can be no more than 600 pixels wide and of unlimited height. For HTML ads the rule is that they should not cause horizontal scrolling when browser window's client area width is 600 pixels. Top HTML ad should be no higher than 72 pixels when displayed in full screen window on 800x600 display.
Please, design your ad in a way that makes it clear where is your ad and where is our page.
Campaign start and end dates are approximate. We can be up to 7 days late delivering your ads.
We make no promise to deliver your ads evenly. For example, we might deliver half of your 30-days campaign in one day.
If you pause your campaign, we might, at our will, move the end date.
Terms and conditions
Content. These rules concern both banners/ads and sites they link to. No illegal content. No "adult" content. No hate sites. No bad words. No businesses that compete with ours. No ads that promote ideas contrary to our business, i.e. invasion of privacy, eavesdropping equipment, hacking tools,etc.. No sites that deem to be immoral at our sole discretion. No "popup traps", i.e. sites that generate more than 2 popup/popunder/exit windows, counting popups generated by popups.
Browser compatibility. Your ads should be fully functional in Netscape 6 and higher, and Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher. They might "degrade gracefully", i.e. be functional in Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 4. No DHTML. No banners or images in format not supported by these browsers.
You cannot make essential changes to your banner or web site while your ad campaign runs. Essential changes include, but are not limited to changing your web site and/or your ad in a way it might violate our rules, and changing banner in a way that significantly increases its file size.
Animated gifs are accepted, but they should not be too flashy at our sole discretion.
HTML ads will be inspected. They should be formatted for easy reading. We might reject HTML ad just because your code is hard to read and inspect.
HTML ads should not contain objects and/or videos. JavaScript is strongly discouraged. If you do use JavaScript, please, make sure that your code is very easy to read, and that it doesn't create too flashy effects and doesn't hog computer's resources. No malicious scripts!
If you use style sheets, please, make sure they don't affect anything outside your ad.
Refunds and exchanges
Once you paid, your money cannot be refunded, unless we are unable to deliver all or part of your order. In latest case we will issue a refund on a pro-rated basis. We are not liable for any special, consequential, indirect or similar damages, including any lost profits.
You might be able to make some changes to your ad while your campaign runs.
HTML ad guidelines
We recommend that you place HTML ad in a table with some light background, and that you center this table.
When writing HTML ad, remember, that we use style sheets that can potentially affect your ad. You can view our style sheet by going to our page and viewing its source.
Ad size is calculated as total of HTML code size and sizes of all images. Price depends on ad size, ad location (top or bottom), and where are images retrieved from (your server or our server). HTML ads are considered to be located on our server if they are over 2K or contain any graphics, and on your server if they are under 2K and don't contain images.
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To find out more about our banner advertisement, please, use Contact Us page.
You can place your banner ads order on Order page.
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