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Article 45

Advertise Your Product or Service on ThinkVitamin

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03 February 2009 | Category: Uncategorized

Along with the refresh of ThinkVitamin you’ll notice that we now have four lovely new advertising slots available on the right-hand side of every page. 

Previously, ThinkVitamin was part of The Deck. While The Deck was great we wanted to have more control over which ads we published on the site. Also, we wanted to give you more than one slot to advertise in. Hence, our decision to create our new ad slots.

Each ad is 125 x 125 and the ads rotate around the four slots. As a launch special we are offering the first month at a discounted rate of $395 per month, per ad (usually $495). And we only have two slots left for February!

Just email editor@thinkvitamin.com to secure your place on ThinkVitamin.

Go to our Advertise page to find out more about our page views and target audience.

On another note, we’d be interested to hear your thoughts on this. Do you think it’s a good idea? Do you think the price point is right? As readers, how many ads are you prepared to tolerate in exchange for free content? If you’re a potential advertiser, is a 125 x 125 ad enough? What else would you be looking for?

We’d love to hear your ideas.

 

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    As a reader, I certainly do not mind seeing 4 square ads, they are not intrusive and hopefully they advertise quality software/services.

  • Janusz

    Hello, Seems like a good price for 160k users a month. Are these stats still up to date? it seems according to google your traffic has rock-bottomed – http://trends.google.com/websites?q=thinkvitami…

  • Janusz

    Hello,

    Seems like a good price for 160k users a month. Are these stats still up to date? it seems according to google your traffic has rock-bottomed – http://trends.google.com/websites?q=thinkvitami…

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    Whoa! That's not right. According to our Google analytics visits are up by 25.52% since we did the refresh. I need to look into why that graph is looking like that. I'll get back to you.

  • http://www.thinkvitamin.com Gillian Carson

    Whoa! That's not right. According to our Google analytics visits are up by 25.52% since we did the refresh. I need to look into why that graph is looking like that. I'll get back to you.

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    The placement of the four ads are just right, in my opinion. While they are not “in your face”, they are still very visible, which is an obvious plus for the advertisers. As for the price, all you can do is wait and see over the next few months to see how many advertisers there are. And, eventually how many will return to repeat.

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    Actually, our numbers have gone up (thankfully!) and we're getting around 187,000 page views per month.

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    I think it is a fair price point and when I get my product for this niche in shape I would certainly consider buying one of them.125×125 ads are effective and non intrusive IMO.

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    I think that works out at about $2.65 CPM (cost per thousand) which is pretty good value, I think (as long as you have that much traffic). $495 divided by 187,000 = $2.65 per thousand – hope my maths is right!

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