What is ad publishing?Ad publishing is a revenue generating engine for website owners. Advertisers display their ads in various formats on your site and pay you to do so. As a website publisher, you have the right to deny any ad that does not appeal to your website visitors. On the other side, the advertisers may choose your website as their advertising platform based on the content of your site, amount of traffic, demographics of the visitors, etc. Advertisement rates depend on similar criteria as mentioned above. The advertisement rates have decreased significantly from the late last century due to the dot com bust, however, website owners can still make significant money out of ad publishing. | |
What is an advertising network?An advertising network helps to connect advertisers and publishers by buying and selling high volume of advertisements. Usually smaller websites or publishers with low traffic volume cannot attract advertisers with good ad rates. A network will signup these publishers to its network and then sell advertisement to these publishers in bulk from advertisers. Most of the ad networks provide untargeted advertisement because of the complexities involved. The networks often charge commission as high as 50% of all the sold advertisement to your site. On the other side, an advertising agency will represent your website and bring in advertisers for your website. An ad agency usually brings in targeted advertisement with better rates than an advertising network. Often an advertising network also acts as an ad agency to bring in targeted ads for a particular category in which your site is listed. These targeted ads provide better rates for the publisher. We will review the networks and agencies in the following articles. | |
How to get accepted into an ad network?Getting accepted by an ad network is often difficult depending on the network. Your site will be competing against millions of sites on the internet. Usually only about 3-10% of the applications are accepted into the network on an average. The basic criteria for being accepted into the ad networks are almost the same.
The other criteria that the ad networks consider when deciding whether to accept are:
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