Text ad rates?

[HardDriver]

I've recently been contacted by an individual who wishes to post 5 plain text links in the global footer of my site, for a flat monthly fee. I serve roughly 1.8 million page views a month, and I am interested in the offer. How much money should I ask for them?

[sid egg]

Depends heavily on the position of the advertisement... in a footer I'd say they aren't worth that much CPM, but at a flat monthly rate (for SEO obviously) they might be worth a good penny...

[someonewhois]

5 text links, eh? Sounds like Co-Op to me (digitalpoint.com). The coop algorithm looks at toolbar PR and the number of pages indexed. If you provide us with those two numbers, we might be able to help you out.

[HardDriver]

The ads aren't static - I was given this link as a quick sample of some of the links displayed. My site has a PageRank of 5, and is tens of thousands of pages deep.

[sid egg]

The ads aren't static - I was given this link as a quick sample of some of the links displayed. My site has a PageRank of 5, and is tens of thousands of pages deep.

Yep, that's co-op... you can't sell weight anymore, but I guess selling links is fine.

5*10000 = 50000, I don't remember the exact formula but that's probably worth a few hundred / month to the weight bearer.

[HardDriver]

I see... Around $350 would be great, as that would cover my hosting costs. Does that sound like a fair price?

[someonewhois]

Yep, that's co-op... you can't sell weight anymore, but I guess selling links is fine.

5*10000 = 50000, I don't remember the exact formula but that's probably worth a few hundred / month to the weight bearer.

They changed it a few weeks ago.

I see... Around $350 would be great, as that would cover my hosting costs. Does that sound like a fair price?

If that's what you think it's worth, propose it to him. I've had people contact me about coop links before. I had about 25,000 pages indexed and a PR5, and I was offered $120 (which is pretty fair, I've come to realize).

[WealthStream]

$350 would be just under $0.20 CPM for all five links. That sounds like quite a good place to start.

Try asking $360 for an even $0.20 CPM (quite reasonable IMO), and see what they say to that. Hopefully you'll be able to land a quick deal.