How To Quickly Sell Ad Spaces?

by Ammar Ali on September 20, 2012 · 59 comments

If you have a blog or website have you thought how you can quickly sell ad spaces?

May be not! ;-)

After all, the whole idea of owning a blog or website is generate profit by way of advertisements. There might be days at end, where one can simply not get hold of a lucrative advertisement deal. If you are the proud owner of a blog or website then you must be on the lookout to quickly sell ad spaces and earn profit. After all more sale of ad spaces would actually lead to more cash inflow. Here I’m discussing 4 tips to quickly sell ad spaces.
Don’t just read go and implement them!

How To Quickly Sell Ad Spaces

4 Tips to Quickly Sell Ad Spaces

1. Sell little more than normal ad space!

There are so many blogs and websites. Each one sells ad space. The question that one needs to keep in mind is that what more can you offer in order to ensure that the offered ad sense actually sells quickly and fast.

The best way to ensure that your deal offers a little more that simple and plain ad sense is to ensure that you offer some special features to the people who show interest in buying your ad space.  Like one deal you can offer can be extended to the first five people who come to sign up a deal for ad space with you. These lucky 5 will get a premium website template along with the ad space. This would attract advertisers as they would like to grab the opportunity to benefit from 2 deals at the price of one.

This is a great technique for those who are new in this field. During the initial days, not many people would actually want to buy your ad space. This technique will help you then. Try this and do let me know in comments! :D

2. Run a Contest:

It’s easy! In order to attract more and more people to buy your ad space you can run a tempting contest. This contest would entail that on purchase of a premium ad space one would get a gift or raffle entry for the monthly lucky draw. The gift can be some extra features or simple ad space.

You can also tempt the buyers by offering them personal items like an iPad  and so on.

3. Discounts for ad Space:

Believe it or not. This works really great. ;)

All you have to do is by offer special discounts to your advertisers. Many a time, when you are suffering from severe lack of advertisers in this case, it makes absolute sense to offer discounts to people buying ad space. Not only would they be able to buy the ad space at a cheaper rate but might also get tempted to buy extra ad space.

Read : Your Blog Does Not Make Money? It is Matter of Karma!

4. Long Term Advertising Option:

Often, advertisers are on the lookout for long term advertising space. Here they may pay bulk amount and book the ad space for a couple of months or years. Naturally this offer ensures that you get the ad space sold for a few months at a discounted price.

Bonus Tip!

Advertisers always looks for easy way to buy ad spot. OIO Publisher Plugin for WordPress can really help you to sell adspot with ease.

OIO Publisher is an ad manager that enables you to maximize your revenue, save time, and keep you in complete control of your ad space. It will give you;

  • Complete control over your advertising, with fully automated sales.
  • Keep 100% of your revenue, forget middleman commission
  • Run 3rd party ad networks alongside your own ads

I hope above 4 tips to Quickly Sell Ad Spaces will generally work though the extent of affect may differ from one to another. Do let me know which one works perfect for you? And what’s your other methods to Quickly Sell Ad Spaces? :)

Rajkumar Full time SEO Consultant and Currently Working for bookgator.com which Provides wide range of online textbooks

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1 Usman April 5, 2012 at 11:50 pm

Giving discounts on long term advertisement contract is a very nice idea to gain more revenue. It is better to sell ad spaces at discounted prices rather than waiting for a customer ready to pay high tariffs. Nice tips really appreciated

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2 Rajkumar Jonnala April 6, 2012 at 4:08 pm

Thanks Usman for stopping by. I also prefer long term advertisers on my personal blogs, since these are the genuine buyers and are willing to pay good amounts for long term contracts. And moreover your ad space will get engaged for long term.

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3 fazal mayar April 6, 2012 at 3:41 am

thats great information, as a blogger you want to sell ad spaces for revenue so this can help.

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4 Rajkumar Jonnala April 6, 2012 at 4:09 pm

Thanks Fazal for appreciating my post. Earning is a main concern for every blogger. But we should always keep in mind that this should not distract our buyers and visitors as well. Happy blogging!

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5 Suresh Khanal April 6, 2012 at 6:49 am

Hi Rajkumar,

We are trying to sell ad space, isn’t it? So in this context, what do you mean by organizing contests? We’ll hold some contest and offer ad space as prize?

I think I should offer discounted Ad space for my guest bloggers. This way on one hand I’ll get more better guest posts and on other Ad space can be sold though a bit lower price. Hmm.. Like you idea. Thanks for the post.

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6 Rajkumar Jonnala April 6, 2012 at 4:10 pm

Hi Suresh Khanal,

Organizing Contests and giving one ad space for free in prize is not at all a bad idea Suresh as this can help a blog to get so many unique visitors and so many great posts. Thanks any way for stopping by and appreciating the post.

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7 Naveen May 6, 2012 at 1:07 pm

Ok I Agree with Suresh Kanal. How this contests help to find advertisers. We can only give away some AD spaces to the winners.

I’ve had a big experience with selling AD spaces is,

Collect some list of advertisers from the ADs published on niche blogs and send them E mails (without spamming their inbox) will also work better.

Also deep link building with particular ‘Advertise with us’ page will also work effectively. But we need to validate right price for AD spaces, so that we can get advertisers. For example if for 10K impressions, we can fix $10 instead of more than that will convert more advertisers.

Thanks to the post.

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8 Julius from RoundNews September 23, 2012 at 2:42 am

Hey Rajkumar Jonnala,

I agree with you. Having a contest done is like having a twist on an old idea that used to make a lot of money. It works because not many people do it and usually if you do the contest OK then you will most likely end up with an advertiser that will come back many times.
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9 Ashish April 6, 2012 at 11:42 am

Really nice one buddy…. thanx..
btw i just sold one ad spot via BSA… :)

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10 Ammar Ali April 6, 2012 at 12:32 pm

Congrats Ashish :)

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11 Lakhyajyoti April 6, 2012 at 1:07 pm

Great tips.Offering discount is the one of best way to sell ad space quickly.Thanks for sharing Rajkumar.

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12 Ammar Ali April 6, 2012 at 4:38 pm

I am agree with you. Offering discount is a best way to attract advertisers and sell ad spaces quickly :)

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13 Rohan April 6, 2012 at 2:45 pm

nice share

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14 Ifham khan April 6, 2012 at 4:05 pm

Nice tips, specially the running contest for selling the ad space. :)

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15 Ammar Ali April 6, 2012 at 4:38 pm

You are right Ifham :D Thanks for your comment

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16 wasif April 6, 2012 at 4:11 pm

Thanks for such useful info , In my opinion Traffic is very important factor than PR to attract advertisers

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17 Ammar Ali April 6, 2012 at 4:37 pm

You are right Wasif. If your blog is getting good targeted traffic with good PR and Alexa. Than combination of all these can attract lots of advertisers

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18 Steven Alarcon March 7, 2013 at 9:55 am

please help me i wanna sell ad space can you guide me through the ropes?
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19 Ammar Ali March 7, 2013 at 1:22 pm

what kind of help you want?

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20 aatif April 6, 2012 at 11:33 pm

I think giving discounts will be great idea in all of them listed above . this was nice post rajkuma r. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience here

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21 Vikas April 7, 2012 at 10:06 pm

BuySell Ads is best among all. Selling Ad Spaces is easy there.

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22 Enzo April 21, 2012 at 8:45 pm

Giving discounts to long term advertisers…sounds really good. I think it can apply to other businesses as well rather than advertising. These tips are great help to me personally.

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23 Tara Woodruff April 21, 2012 at 9:27 pm

I have been thinking about this subject for quite some time! Thank you for your insight!

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24 Prayag Verma April 22, 2012 at 10:15 pm

I have just started offering Ad spaces on my blog and was a bit worried why they weren’t there any takers. I will surely apply all these tips and report back about the results

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25 tess April 23, 2012 at 12:40 am

Contest promo is a good idea ,actually all your tips are worth trying .I don’t have ad spaces yet on my blogs but i am considering it .thanks for the great tips.

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26 marri April 23, 2012 at 8:16 am

I really need to work this out…
making my blog site worth reading and earning
at the same time. Thanks for sharing such great ideas.

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27 Itsberyllicious April 23, 2012 at 8:39 am

great tips for bloggers who want to earn from ad spaces! :)

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28 Gautam May 6, 2012 at 12:52 pm

hi Rajkumar, nice information now a days bsa and many others are new income sources for bloggers.

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29 Ramsha Afaq July 30, 2012 at 10:27 pm

Running a contest seems a cool idea :) I see many bloggers adopting these strategies
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30 Khaja moin September 21, 2012 at 9:07 am

Very true and interesting way to increase ad space sales.
Offer a special discount or favoring them with a free review post can bring more benefits.

~@khajamoin1
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31 JZEEK September 21, 2012 at 12:39 pm

these are just 4 points but really helpful, i am going to use the plugin you mentioned above thanks for this great article keep up the good work….
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32 Juan September 21, 2012 at 7:02 pm

i dont know, but for me, it really hard to sell ad space, maybe i should implement the idea from this post, nice sharing
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33 Mukesh September 21, 2012 at 7:22 pm

How about introducing a bidding system??? …..just a thought!
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34 Ammar Ali September 22, 2012 at 3:22 pm

Can I get more info about it? :D

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35 Kamran Khan September 21, 2012 at 7:57 pm

very nice. i have all in my mind now. and will apply it in my New Blog.
i did not agree with more ad space. it should be normal, because have to care of users too!
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36 Jafar Dhada September 21, 2012 at 8:21 pm

At the end, I liked the bonus tip.

But no one’s better than BUYSELLADS. What say Ammar?

And yeah, I haven’t seen your articles on ABT from a long ago? I think you are so busy. Even don’t have time to write for your own blog ? ;)

I am missing you posts Ammar.
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37 Ammar Ali September 22, 2012 at 3:21 pm

You’re right Jafar! BSA is also good program to find advertisers!

Yes, Don’t have enough time to write here. Busy with my studies! :D

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38 Amar September 21, 2012 at 9:06 pm

Great article . I just installed OIOpublisher plugin. Hope i would get some offers
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39 george t mathew September 21, 2012 at 9:58 pm

Yes i too recommend oio publisher. No middleman commissions. Your writing style has become very attractive
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40 Magson Fernandes October 2, 2012 at 8:44 pm

Is there any other publisher without any middle man ?

Waiting for your reply???

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41 Nora Slavensq September 22, 2012 at 1:52 am

Thank you for sharing this post. I think the tips that you have shared on how to sell ad spaces are great, especially giving discounts to the long term advertisers, because then they will buy it off you for a larger period. I have tried selling them before, and I do find it quite difficult, so I am hoping that these tips will also work for me.

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42 Ammar Ali September 22, 2012 at 3:19 pm

You’re Absolutely right Nora! :)

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43 Krishna Parmar September 22, 2012 at 9:34 pm

Promotion is the thing which will make your Ad space to be sold very easily.
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44 Hamza Sheikh September 23, 2012 at 4:57 am

Running a contest is a cool idea, but at least not giving the ad-space in a contest unless you not become an authority. Giving out the ad space on discount is seems to be kinda showing you are running out of money? or your are standard-less.

In my career with BSA, I have noticed many advertisers declined to advertise just because the ad-space price is too low. :)
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45 Ramnadh September 23, 2012 at 7:07 am

Nice article. Giving a small idea about traffic is also a great idea to rush advertisers to your website. Thanks for sharing

Ramnadh
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46 Sneha September 23, 2012 at 7:30 pm

its very important article for me amazing

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47 The Secret Insider September 25, 2012 at 12:48 am

Hi Rajkumar , 4 excellent tips, I love the idea of running a contest. Tempt buyers with the opportunity to win a years supply of ad space is cracking!

Ammar, may I ask, what advertising plugins are you using?
Regards
SI
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48 Ammar Ali September 25, 2012 at 1:33 pm

I’m not using any plugin right now! But OIO Publisher is currently best to sell ad spaces! :)

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49 The Secret Insider September 30, 2012 at 1:30 am

Thanks for the reply and info :-)
Regards SI
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50 PJS Webmaster Blog September 25, 2012 at 12:59 am

I’m also trying to sell my ad space but no luck… I sell only 3 times till date… Maybe because of low traffic… I’m still working hard to increase my blog traffic… Thanks for the great tips Ammar…. will definitely follow your instruction… :)
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51 Ammar Ali September 25, 2012 at 1:31 pm

That’s great! :-)

You can read article about Increase Blogging Traffic too! ;)

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52 Michael Belk September 25, 2012 at 6:49 am

Great tips on selling ad space. An advertiser is just like most people they want more than their money buys and something free is a good start.

I like the contest option, I have used it before. It got some interest.
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53 Usman October 4, 2012 at 10:51 am

I prefer long term advertising offers and some special discounts to attract advertisers otherwise its really hard to sell advertising space on a blog.
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54 Ammar Ali October 4, 2012 at 3:24 pm

Exactly! I’m glad you liked the post! :)

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55 Katy Lawrence October 6, 2012 at 4:37 pm

These ideas are really great, appreciated but the question is how much visitors in single days you need to make initial startup with affiliated ads?
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56 Ammar Ali October 7, 2012 at 5:17 pm

You can start affiliate marketing from your first day after creating blog! :)

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57 Gagan Agrawal January 31, 2013 at 12:48 pm

I have recently started my website. It is around 2 months old. I have started earning around $3 per day. I spent around $1.5 Per day in its marketing. Can I sell this website? What should be the right price?
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58 Ammar Ali January 31, 2013 at 8:14 pm

Well, You can use this tool to find how much your site worth. http://www.webstat9.com/

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59 Shanta Dsuza March 9, 2013 at 1:22 am

I am extremely surprised to read this great post. i am always follow your tips which you are given in your blog. by following you i am already get lots of success in my blog. in this post i am very interested to know that is there any free ad publisher plugin for wordpress.
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