The Worlds of Kaomaris

Now that the new site is running smoothly Im considering running a commercial banner on the main page. We deliver some 20k - 30k impressions a month and I have serious content providers that would give us banners to run there.

It would bring a steady flow of cash into WOK, although just a small sum. Please let me know your views on this.

I'd prefer them to be reputable companies, Amazon and such, that way theres a legitimate reason to click the banner. I have no problem with seeing a banner on the top.

Donut

Why not??? If there is a small amount of income coming in to help make WOK better then that would be great. Bring on the banners!

I agree, if it helps us out then it is a good idea.

Massieilta

No problem with a banner but try to pick a sponser with international links. I've had offers to try out a flat screen tv for free, lately, on various sites I've browsed, but its only open to American citizens

I don't see a real problem with it, but at least try to keep it to banners so we can avoid pop-ups. Granted my blocking software stops most pop-ups, but some still get through and it can be pretty annoying. As long as these sponsors aren't getting access to email addresses I see no harm in having them advertise on the page.

Im currently in talk with a few banner providers, paying CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) or CPC (cost-per-click on a banner).

Its clear that I want to avoid pop-ups, but of course the income with them would be higher. A real problem is also that most providers require a certain number of clicks/impressions in order to accept us. We currently deliver around 25k impressions per month, thats - usually - not enough to get bigger ad companies interested.

Ill see what i can do.

According to the answers I got from ad companies we simply dont have enough traffic right now to be "worthy" for their ad campaigns...

Well we can change that - there is a new, excellent traffic exchange that currently storms the net - TRAFFIC PODS. If you have some clicky time left please sign up for it (use the banner from main page).

Here is how we can use it to drive traffic to the site:
1. sign up with the banner provided
2. add the kaomaris link in the "URL Manager" and validate it
3. use credits from surfing to drive traffic to our site by adding a new "Campaign" with the WOK URL

Basically with TP you surf "Pods" where a Pod consists of 10 sites. You get credits for your own traffic for every Pod you surf. Every 10 Pods and 100 Pods you can win some extra cash and (traffic) credits. By buying your own Pod (which I did) you get traffic for everyone surfing in it (which means literally an avalanche of traffic).

Every pod has a "value" according to sites surfed by its owner and the people he referred. Every week all pods get ranked (we started as #325) according to how much we all surf. The better we rank the more traffic we get - according to a multiplier. #325 has a 1.5x multiplier, Top 50 would be 10x which means A LOT of visitors. So every site you surf will help us push up the ladder.

I believe we may need to work with some traffic exchanges like TP for some time to get us not only more players, but also good advertisers and actually good ad campaigns. Ive put up TP because all you need to do to help is to surf with it, no cash involved. Ill be paying the Pod this month just to see the results I can get from it and we may want to keep using it after that if it gives us good results.