Category Archives: General Banners

Nov
23

Testing Design and Copy with Banner Ads

by Carly Hilios

Banner ads are a great way to get attention online. Online advertising is rapidly growing in popularity because it makes targeting specific audiences easier than ever at a good price. However, the fact that banner ads are so inexpensive makes it easy for companies to be satisfied with sub-par results. Neglecting to evaluate the successes and failures of banner ads is a big opportunity missed. Sometimes even the simplest design or call-to-action changes can make a huge difference in click through rate. Banner ads aren’t painstakingly difficult to change the way a billboard is and the process only takes a few minutes. If you take the time to test banner ad design and copy you will see huge increases in click through activity for your online advertising campaign. Here are some tips to test a banner ad campaign.

Nov
23

5 Tips for Choosing the Best Location for Banner Ads

by Carly Hilios

Banner advertising is a great way to get the word out about your website, online business and more. With millions and millions of websites accepting advertising, the options are seemingly endless for where to place your banner advertisements. Fortunately there are a few ways to hedge your bets and choose the most effective locations for banner ads so you can get the most traffic from your online marketing campaign. Here are 5 tips for choosing the best location banner ads.

Oct
25

5 Telltale Signs of a Good Banner Ad

by DesignPax

Banner ads make the world of online advertising go around, and if you’re a small business looking to amp up your advertising campaigns, banner ads are the way to go. With a small design effort and the right networks you can communicate your product and services to a huge, targeted audience for exceptional results. But first you need a good design. That’s where this article can help. The best banner ads around the web all have the same telltale signs. You should take note and make sure that your banner ads use these tools too – before you know it you’ll be seeing the results you desire.

May
20

Using Google AdWords Image Ads

by DesignPax

Google, the biggest and most well known search engine provides several options for advertisers including text advertising and banner advertising. Today, let’s talk about the banner ad portion of advertising with Google. Google runs a program called AdWords Image Ads. This program allows you, the advertiser to put image and animation banner ads on web [..]

May
20

Tracking Banner Ad Statistics

by DesignPax

As you get into planning your online marketing campaign, you will need a way to track the success for your ads. There are certain statistics that will help you decide where to place your web banner advertising and there are statistics that you will want to keep track of to help you manage the effectiveness [..]

May
20

The Five Pillars of Banner Advertising

by DesignPax

It’s pretty hard to think of a popular, public website that doesn’t contain banner advertising.  While people often claim that advertisements, don’t have any impact on them at all, and advertisers worry that consumers suffer from “banner blindness”, this isn’t reflected in reality.  A carefully thought out banner advertising campaign, increases brand awareness, increases brand [..]

May
20

The Advantages of Animated Banner Ads

by DesignPax

In banner advertising there are static banner ads and then there are animated banners. Today, we will talk about animated advertising banners. We’ve all seen them and there are some that can be, well I’ll just say it, annoying. But there are those that aren’t annoying and really do provide valuable information. With a good [..]

May
20

Text Ads vs. Banner Ads

by DesignPax

There is a lot of debate as to which form of online marketing is better, text ads or banner ads. In reality, both have their advantages and disadvantages. When you are deciding on what form of online advertising you want to use, you must assess your product and your budget to decide what will best [..]

May
20

Should You Run Multiple Banner Ads at a Time?

by DesignPax

We’ve talked in the past about targeting your banner ads to different audiences. There is demographic, behavioral, contextual and placement targeting. To create your online banner ads around these different targets will be highly effective, however, if you plan to run only one banner ad with the hopes of reaching all of your audiences, it [..]

May
20

How to Select a Banner Designer

by DesignPax

There are many ways that you can go about getting an advertising banner. You can try to use free banner creators, but if you want a professional looking banner then you should look for a designer. No matter where you decide to look for a banner ad designer, follow these simple tips to get the [..]