What Is Online Advertising

Online Advertising are different ways you could advertise your business on the web.  These methods include the following:

Banner Ads

Banner ads are advertising that scroll along the top of the screen horizontally.

 

You get to choose the size of the ad but the banner ad service provider decides where on your page to place the banner and what ads are ran in that space.  They control the rotation of ads in that space and hence are also able to use that space for paid advertising. This is why it is free to you.  They do so by placing a code in your web page. 

 

However, some banner services do charge a fee to place your banner ads on other websites.  In this case it is no longer a banner exchange, but a paid banner advertising service.

 

See a list of service providers below

Organization Cost
1800Banners Free
American Banner Exchange Free
Banner Ad Exchange Free
Christian Business Advertising Free
Carolina Banner Exchange Free
Exchange Ad Free
Extreme Marketing Program (M&A Computer Services)

$29.25 = 10,000 Banners

$149 = 150,000 Email

$39 - $129 = 10,000 – 50,000 Qualified Visitors

Free-Banners Free
Interactive at cost
Leaderboard Banner Exchange Free
ShowYourSite.com Free
Skyscraper Banner Exchange Free
The Banner Exchange Free
Traffic Express Paid service
Wham Banners Free
Worldwide Banner Exchange Free

 

Pop-Ups

Pop-ups: These are ads that pop-up in small windows in front of the current viewing screen.

 

Because of the growing unpopularity of this form of advertising it is not offered as a viable advertising method anymore.

 

Pop-Under Advertising

Pop-under ads are   advertising that pop-up in small windows behind the current viewing screen.  The viewer do not see the ad until they close or minimize their viewing window.  This ad is normally displayed in 800x600 pixel size.

 

 

 


See a list of service providers below that can generate this type of ad for you and place them on popular websites to bring you customers.

Organization Cost
Paypopup.com $3.60 - $8.00 per 1,000 views
Exit Exchange offers a free and paid service starting at $19.00
Traffic Wholesaler price depends on the service you choose
Xapads at cost
Interactive at cost
Need Hits range from $8.38 - $209.48
Marketing Solutions range from $49.99 to $99.99
 

Online Classifieds

Online Classifieds are advertising services on the web that lets individual and businesses advertise their products or services with a simple text ad as you would in the classified section of a newspaper.

 

Below is a list of online classifieds where you can advertise your products or services.  

Organization Cost
Ads Globe Free
Angie's List Free
Backpage.com Free
Craig's List Free
Classified Ads Free
Classifieds For Free Free
Free Classifieds.com Free
Frog Ads Free
Global Free Classifieds Free
Hoobly Free
InetGiant Free
Kingdom Classifieds Free
Loot Free
Sales Spider Free
US Freeads Free
Yahoo Directory $299 annually
ZooYaClassified.com Free
 

Pay-Per-Click Advertising

Pay-Per-Click Ads are advertisement that you placed on a web site or a search engine that you agree to pay the web site owner or search engine a fee every time someone clicks on your ad.

 

You can place Pay-Per-Click ads on other website as well as on your own website.

 

See a list of service providers below for placing Pay-Per-Click ads on other websites.

Organization Description Cost
Ask.com Promote your ads on Ask.com Search Engine. Also provides listing on the Lycos Search Engine. You determine what you will pay by stipulating your daily and monthly budget.
Bidvertiser Promote your website on the web through pay per click ads.  
Google AdWorks Promote your ads on Google and thru their online Advertising Network. You determine what you will pay by stipulating your daily and monthly budget.
Microsoft Advertising Microsoft Advertising lets you advertise using Pay-Per-Click on both Bing and Yahoo simultaneously. You determine what you will pay by stipulating your daily and monthly budget.
Submit Express Provides Email marketing services, Paid Inclusion, Search Engine submission, Pay Per Click services, etc.  Rent email lists and conduct mass emailing.  
Yahoo Promote your ads on Yahoo and thru their online Advertising Network.  You determine what you will pay by stipulating your daily and monthly budget.
 

Online Directories

Online Directories are electronic directories that are accessible over the Internet.  Allows for businesses to list their company information which can be searched and accessed worldwide.  Directory listings show up in Search Engine searches.  There are over 1,400 good directories on the web.

 

You can submit individually to each directory you can use a submission services to submit to multiple directories. 

 

To submit to multiple directories at one time go to:  Directory Critic.  They charge only $0.14 per directory.  This is a one time fee.

 

Below is a list of Directory service providers that you can submit to individually.  There is not fee if you submit to each directory yourself.

Organization Cost
BING Local Free
Directory of the Web Free
Directory Blog Free
Free Web Directory Free
Google Maps Free
iBeWeb Free
Intelligent Directory Free
Lifetime Links Free
Link & Think Directory Free
MasterMoz Free
Smart Web Directory Free
TajBoy Free
The Tortellini General Web Directory Free
Web Directory Free
Web Links Directory Free
White pages Free
Yellow Pages Free
Yeties Open Directory Free

 

Paid Search/Sponsored Advertising

Paid Search ads are when you pay a search engine to list your website in the top 10 ranking of most requested web pages that return a search result.  The ad appears in the top or right part of the results pages.

 

You pay for the ad based on the Pay-Per-Click (PPC) method.  Hence you get to determine how much you want to spend.

 

See below for service providers of Paid Search Advertising.

Organization Description Cost
Yahoo Reach over 30 percent of the US search population with Yahoo search advertising.  you set your budget
Google Google is the world's largest search engine and captures the largest share of the online advertising market. you set your budget
Microsoft Advertising Microsoft Advertising gets you on Bing and Yahoo paid search advertising simultaneously.  Together they capture 30 percent of the U.S. online advertising market. you set your budget
 

Insertion Media

Insertion Media is the placement of a video ad on a web page which appears in a small window as opposed to a static ad.

 

There are a number of software that you can use to create your video.  Click here to see a list of software that you can use to create your vide.