Buying Ad Space on Non poker related sites

[-w-]

Hello all,
I'm am a new poker affiliate, and have a question about banner ads on non poker related sites. I have the opportunity to buy a prime location ad on a webpage that gets 70K successful page loads a month. The content is constantly updated, and the viewing base is primarily 18-30 year olds.

My question is this: Should I send the $250.00 on the ad for a month and see what happens? I would set it up to where it went right to whichever poker site I choose to promote on there. I am thinking about either Party or Full Tilt, as they seem to be two of the more promoted, trusted sites by new players.

Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks,
-w-

[Kyle]

hmmm, that depends ... what is the site you are trying to buy ads on?

[-w-]

Local radio station. One of the sister stations (the one with 210K page view per month) already has somebody promoting poker on it.

[hoursurfing]

Eh, you never know. Banner advertising sucks imo.

[PPP]

You probably won't starve investing $250. Try it. See what happens.

[SunPoker.com]

I would definitely try it out. Advertising is a trial and error process and you will never know unless you try.

Mark

[Justin]

Originally Posted by -w-

Hello all,
I'm am a new poker affiliate, and have a question about banner ads on non poker related sites. I have the opportunity to buy a prime location ad on a webpage that gets 70K successful page loads a month. The content is constantly updated, and the viewing base is primarily 18-30 year olds.

My question is this: Should I send the $250.00 on the ad for a month and see what happens? I would set it up to where it went right to whichever poker site I choose to promote on there. I am thinking about either Party or Full Tilt, as they seem to be two of the more promoted, trusted sites by new players.

Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks,
-w-

If you're new and $250 seems like a lot, I wouldnt try it. When I started out I did some paid advertising on some sites for $150 a month and really got nothing for it. I basically bought a lot of paid advertising on sports sites and things like that and waisted around $700. I know thats not much money, but when you first start out it's a huge hit to someone who doesn't have much money in the first place.

This was all before I realized how to run a successful site. I say you should put that into SEO links on some good sites and build up your site's pagerank with it.

-Justin