How do I advertise my site?

How can I get businesses/people to advertise on my web site?

• I am setting up a web site for a cause. I thought perhaps we could advertise for people or businesses on our web site in exchange for some very small amount of money for each time someone visits the site, or simply for the amount of time we keep the ad up. This is sort of how a lot of other non-profit organisations raise money for their projects. This is also sort of how sites like freerice.com work. How could we get businesses into something like this?

• Answer:

  You may need to provide the company with some data about your site and it's visitors. How many people visit your website, what age groups visit your website, where you rank on the search engines. It takes time to learn about this data and you say it is a new website. Also, go to companies that sell things that relate to your website. Another option would be google adsense. You just need to choose the categories of ads you want displayed. There are also companies that let you apply to places to have them advertise on your site. These allow you to place the ads exactly how you like them. LinkShare is one of these companies. You can go through the list of advertisers, tell them your website so they can see it and they will let you know if they wish to advertise on your site. My personal link to LinkShare is http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=eRpsLz2cO8g&offerid=7097.10000024&type=3&subid=0