Can i add ad to my web site and will you pay for it?

Online advertising is advertising on the Internet.

Online advertising is growing in popularity for many businesses to promote their products and services on the internet. With more and more of the worlds population looking to the internet as their place to get news and information it is no wonder why online advertising is becoming a great place for businesses to advertise. It is cost effective and allows businesses a way to give more information to potential customers than most traditional forms of broadcast and publications. Online advertising technology advances are being made everyday that enhance what visitors would like to see.

Potential customers can find what they are looking for through searching keywords, categories, and browsing. Businesses can now interact with their visitors and make promoting their goods and services an enjoyable experience for potential customers. Businesses can also use the internet to keep in touch with customers through newsletters, chat, and promotions on their websites.

There are two sides to online advertising, a legitimate one and an illegitimate one. The legitimate side of online advertising includes search engine advertising, desktop advertising, online advertising directories, advertising networks and opt-in e-mail advertising. The illegitimate side is dominated by spamming.

Though the range of advertising options has expanded since in the commercialization of the Internet, the use of rich media and static images is extremely popular. The ever-increasing audience of online users will likely continue to be a major advertising market.

Payment conventions

Because of the ability to track results of online advertising at a more granular level than what is available through traditional advertising, varying ways have developed for the advertisers and publishers to do business. The three most common ways in which online advertising is purchased are CPM, CPC, and CPA.

* CPM (Cost Per Thousand) is paying for exposure of their message to a specific audience. CPM costs are priced per thousand.

* CPV (Cost Per Visitor) is paying for the delivery of a Targeted Visitor to the advertisers website.

* CPC (Cost Per Click) advertising is also performance based and is common in search marketing, where it is often known as Pay per click (PPC). In this scheme, an advertisement may be displayed (and assumedly viewed) many times, but the advertiser pays based only on the number of user clicks. This system provides an incentive for publishers to target ads correctly (often by keyword), as the payment depends not upon the ad being seen but upon the viewer's responding and following the hyperlink.

* CPA (Cost Per Action) or (Cost Per Acquisition) advertising is performance based and is common in the affiliate marketing sector of the business. In this payment scheme, the publisher takes all the risk of running the ad, and the advertiser pays for the media on the basis of only the number of users who complete a transaction, such as a purchase or sign-up. This is the best type of rate to pay for banner advertisements and the worst type of rate to charge. Similarly, CPL (Cost Per Lead) advertising is identical to CPA advertising and is based on the user completing a form, registering for a newsletter or some other action that the merchant feels will lead to a sale. Also common, CPO (Cost Per Order) advertising is based on each time an order is transacted.

* Cost per Conversion Describes the cost of acquiring a customer, typically calculated by dividing the total cost of an ad campaign by the number of conversions. The definition of "Conversion" varies depending the situation: it is sometimes considered to be a lead, a sale, or a purchase.