pricing...?

[bigstack]

so what can I reasonably charge for a site(poker related) that gets 10-12K unique visitors a month ?
for banners of various sizes...just looking for a range here...

[LadyHoldem]

Selling affiliate accounts? Keeping them.. what are they worth etc.. I am not buying any sites, but those are some things you're likely to encounter

[bigstack]

sorry if i was not clear ... i was just talking about selling banner/ad space

not selling the site...

[SunPoker.com]

Where do your visitors come from?

Where does your site rank in the search engines?

Where do you get your traffic from?

Where would the banners be placed on the site?

How many players do you send to the poker rooms you promote on that site per month?

What is the site?

Kind Regards,

Mark

[bigstack]

Originally Posted by SunPoker.com

Where do your visitors come from?

70% USA
30% world wide

Originally Posted by SunPoker.com

Where does your site rank in the search engines?

unknown ... I get alot of traffic from google though... frankly i have had to put in special code to restrict how much the google bots pound my site.

Originally Posted by SunPoker.com

Where do you get your traffic from?

see above. (most of it i assume is just word of mouth. people posting links to it on forums to shrare with friends ... and direct from google/yahoo... )

Originally Posted by SunPoker.com

Where would the banners be placed on the site?

Anywhere the client is willing to pay for
my site aint exactly pretty to begin with. I ma jsut looking for enough money to pay the bandwidth that it uses and to buy a new database server so i can expand my offerings.

Originally Posted by SunPoker.com

How many players do you send to the poker rooms you promote on that site per month?

this is where i have a problem .. .most people that come to my site already have accts. thus the reason i am wanting to sell advertising for other poker related things etc... .

Originally Posted by SunPoker.com

What is the site?

i started this site about a year ago with the purpose of finding the best mtt player on fulltilt.. it has sort of turned into more than that now ... its not exactly a pretty site ... but the information is free and that is what people come for. its a little different than other sites in that it freely publishes all the results not just someones wins... . at any rate its http://www.bigstack.com

[cogger]

Originally Posted by bigstack

this is where i have a problem .. .most people that come to my site already have accts. thus the reason i am wanting to sell advertising for other poker related things etc... .

I hear you. This goes back to some of my earlier post about market saturation. Depending on how much you want to beat your head against the wall to promote aff programs to NEW sign ups or simply build a 1 - 5 page content site and optimize it to sell ads, PPC, etc.... Depending on the type of program you run ask what is best for you now to profit. Targeted traffic is the key to this. Most of your inquires will want to know your stats.

[bigstack]

Originally Posted by cogger

I hear you. This goes back to some of my earlier post about market saturation. Depending on how much you want to beat your head against the wall to promote aff programs to NEW sign ups or simply build a 1 - 5 page content site and optimize it to sell ads, PPC, etc.... Depending on the type of program you run ask what is best for you now to profit. Targeted traffic is the key to this. Most of your inquires will want to know your stats.

i run google analytics... i think that most people can look them up on that ... and i just installed quantcast(which are ranking me lower than i should be at the moment due to they have a half days worth of data since i installed and i had a temporary outage to fix some issues) with all that they still say i will have 10k+ uniques.


i also have awstats... but giving people access to that is a little trickier...

[PPP]

There is always a cart before the horse problem here. Selling advertising is a good plan, but if you have no idea how many visitors (not players, visitors) you'll send a cardroom, you really have no clue.

Format the site however you want
put banners and text links where you want them (it doesn't even matter if you have a deal with a cardroom or other site, just add banners)
track the clicks for a month (a week even)
make a sale valuing a click somewhere between $1 and $10

You really can't sell anything unless you have an idea of the value of what you are selling.

Don't be impatient. Find the value of what you are offering, then start making a deal.