I sold my first ad space today (a text link). The web site owner contacted me which was great. I researched what the going rate was for text link as for my site and offered a fair rate for the slot. He agreed and I sent the user a subscription link via paypal.
In that email I asked him to supply his URL, keywords and short description of his site. It went pretty smooth.
Now I am thinking maybe selling my ad space might be the way to go instead of trying to get all my income from affiliates. So I am going to start trying that route. I know it might be hard because my site has a high alexa ranking and a zero Page Rank in google but the content is great and the layout of the web site is nice so I have hope.
I have signed up for sites like linkxl.com but not having a middle man I made 30% more from selling the ad space myself instead of having someone else do it for me and take a cut.
Anyhow just wanted to post this for any other newbies out there. My site is under a month old, hopefully this is a good sign.
In that email I asked him to supply his URL, keywords and short description of his site. It went pretty smooth.
Now I am thinking maybe selling my ad space might be the way to go instead of trying to get all my income from affiliates. So I am going to start trying that route. I know it might be hard because my site has a high alexa ranking and a zero Page Rank in google but the content is great and the layout of the web site is nice so I have hope.
I have signed up for sites like linkxl.com but not having a middle man I made 30% more from selling the ad space myself instead of having someone else do it for me and take a cut.
Anyhow just wanted to post this for any other newbies out there. My site is under a month old, hopefully this is a good sign.