Banner Ad Information
There
are several opportunities for your business to reach
the Gameops.com audience. Banners ads are available
on several locations on Gameops.com. We have built the site to feature the banner ads on the top of nearly every page to maximize exposure.
Our
ads feature a unique link to the specialized game operations
market, reaching from high schools to the professional
teams, across all sports and event marketing. We do
not bill for click-throughs, what we do offer is the
very unique chance to market, promote and connect your
product to our audience.
Over half of our current advertisers have
been with Gameops.com for several years, so the ads
are proving effective for many businesses and vendors.
Ad space is limited to keep our site clean and to enhance
the messages of our advertisers.
"Gameops.com
has provided Raymond Entertainment the exposure we have been looking for in such
a niche market.
Numbers
don't lie and the click thru hits we have been
getting on our website from Gameops.com have
been awesome!
Jon
is constantly delivering a better site and
Raymond Entertainment will be surfing with
Gameops.com the whole way."
-Mark,
Lord of the Deal
Raymond Entertainment Group
"This
was our first time advertising and we are happy
with the exposure."
-Brian
McLean
Sports Marketing |
Available
on a per month basis:
(3 month minimum, limited space available)
- Includes
banner, optional text, optional alt text designation,
and link to your web site.
- Sizes: 400
x 60 pixels, large top of page banners, like
the SCA banner atop this page.
Costs:
All
costs based on monthly placement.
Currently
we offer a 1/8 rotational position banner ad placement
(This banner rotates between 8 different banners) for
$100 (minimum monthly commitment may apply). This banner
is seen at the top of each page and measures 400 by
60 pixels.
We
also can meet any specific requests you may have, and
customize a presence on the site to meet your needs.
Ad
Creation:
We
can assist with creation of your ads if you don’t
have web-ready graphics. Please ask for more details. We
create many of the ads, banners and graphics you see
on Gameops.com.
Ad
Specs:
- Accepted
file format: .gif or .jpeg files.
- Banner
Dimensions: 400 x 60 pixels or 150 x (60 to
100).
- We
can not accommodate sizes larger than listed here.
- File
Size limits: Maximum banner ad size 16,000 bytes
(16k)
- Animation
Length: Less than 5 seconds. No flashing banners.
- Alt
Text (optional): One line of alt text (displayed
when mouse over graphic). Limited to one line
of text (Generally 5 to 8 words).
- Target
URL: Complete URL for the site to be linked to, for
example: (http://www.yourcompany.com/welcomepage.htm)
- All
ads are subject to approval of Gameops.com and Mark
Out Productions, Inc. We retain the right to
refuse any advertiser, text description, URL or graphic
for any reason.
- We
also now accept Flash Ads, with the same size maximums
listed below
Number
of Impressions:
Our
ads do not offer guarenteed click throughs or provide stats regading page views or hits,
since these are often difficult to track and a poor measure
of traffic related to your success (see below for details ).
We have a couple stats from the last couple years (from Awstats/Gameops.com) to show oeverall traffic patterns. Again, we track AD VIEWS for our advertisers, which is the most valuable number to consider your marketing success. For example: We had 19,958 ad views in December 2006 . Ads are cycled through a random selection of 8 ads, so each one received about 2495 impressions in that month.
Stats |
Unique
visitors |
Number
of visits |
Pages |
Approx
Ad Views |
Dec 2006 |
10191 |
16937 |
253791 |
19958 |
Dec 2005 |
9045 |
14322 |
180884 |
13072 |
Other notes:
We do not post ads on our store - We measure by the number of times you ad is seen. Some browsers will block javascript ads (which ours are). This accounts for about 5% of the web browsers.
- Be cautious with web metrics. Numbers can be irrelevant or misleading. We tell you how many times you ad was seen (top of the page) by viewers....which is what matters.
- "Pages" can be misleading. This web "page" you are looking at is actually made up of several "pages" put together (one page is actually the top, one page is the navigation on the site and the content is another page. Depending how your site is built, the number of pages can be very misleading.
- "Hits" is an even more misleading number. For example in Dec 2006 we had nearly 700,000 "hits". We don't list that number since it means nothing to our advertisers. People saw our advertisers banner about 2500 times that month. I can tell you we had 700,000 "hits", but that doesn't mean anything if you want actual visitors who actually see your ad banner.
- Gameops.com is the number one web site for our industry, established in 1998 and growing ever since.
