Home and Garden Web Site Promotion and Advertising Media Kit - Advertising and promoting your home and garden related web site can be done quickly and very easily because of the user friendly options provided by our media kit. Your promotion will be effective.

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This is a Special invitation to sign-up for our T.E.R.A. Web Site Promotion.

With T.E.R.A. (Top Exposure Rotating Ads), for only 2 cents a day...and even less, you can place your ad listing in the most prominent location on any of the 44 categories in our Home and Garden Resource Directory....for 1 full year! This is not PPC, but is simply a one year placement designed to improve your web site traffic and promote your brand.

These ads run from Aug. 15, 2007 to Aug. 14, 2008. There are only 20 positions within each category and placement is first come first served, so it's best if you act quickly and before the Aug 15th start day while the premium category positions are still available.

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Home and Garden Web Site Promotion and Advertising Media Kit

Advertising and promoting your home and garden related web site can be done quickly and very easily because of the user friendly options provided by our media kit. Your advertising will be effective because Designing Online is a hub or portal for Home Decor, Interior Decorating, Interior Design and Gardening. This website and our subsidiary websites are designed specifically to attract a targeted audience and therefore increase the quality and effectiveness of our overall traffic.

Our Statistics (last updated - 2/1/2007)

Avg Monthly Unique Visitors to Website Avg Monthly Page Views of Website Avg Monthly Unique Visitors to Home Page Avg Monthly Page Views of Home Page Current Alexa Rating Current Home Page Google Rating
161,076 715,666 57,250 81,713 44,429 6

How Our Advertising Works

There are currently 4 methods of advertising within the designingonline.com domain. You can choose to let us take care of all the details of setting up your advertising by purchasing an Assisted Advertising package or you can save a few dollars and perform the tasks yourself by using online forms we have provided.

  1. Home Page Advertising.
    Promote Your Web Site and Brand Your Website right on our home page. Our combination of a Graphic Ad to catch the eye and a text link to catch the spiders...Guarantees you'll have wonderful results. These ads provide traffic and branding while increasing engine popularity.
    • Effective Branding with ad placement in highly visible area on our Home Page
    • Increase search engine popularity by securing a link from our home page
    • Place ads for multiple months and receive discounts up to 25%
    • Great Bonus Perks!
      • Ads are also now placed on our new "Home and Garden Search" pages. Randomly, 4 ads will be displayed on the search term pages. There are over 1000 pages in this search index.
      • As a Mega Bonus, ads are also now placed in our "Home and Garden Resources" area. Randomly, 4 ads will be displayed on the resource pages. This added exposure can increase your impressions by at least 10%...plus it's from established and targeted traffic.
      • The prices we are charging do not reflect the extra exposure from our Bonus Perks...so enjoy!
    • Take a look at All The Details and Benefits
       
  2. A link purchase or link exchange with the Designing Online Home and Garden Resource Directory
    • With one-time fees as low as $6.25, any quality Home and Garden site can afford a listing.
    • All pages are hard-coded html and are easily indexed by all search engine spiders.
    • All listings are included as part of our website search engine.
    • The two newest resources in each category are randomly displayed on dozens of webpages throughout several domains, including Designing Online, The Emporium Mall, Dreams Alive Magazine and Virtual Home Decor.
    • Take a look at All The Benefits
       

    Special Bonus - Sponsored search engine results listing

    • All "Express Inclusion" submissions get $20 of FREE "Sponsored Results" listings that appears at the top of the DOL search findings and will include your website information, plus a thumbshot image of your page. ($20 / 10¢ a click = 200 Free Clicks. After the free 200 clicks are consumed, YOU ARE NOT automatically billed or enrolled in Sponsored Results, but will be given the option to renew your listing.) You must have an "Express Inclusion" listing to use our "Sponsored Results" feature.
    • New - Sponsored listings also appear in our Gardening Center and Decorating Center and will also be in our upcoming Home Improvement Center.
    • After the free trial period, you will be provided with the option to continue your listing by using our PPC program (Pay per Click). Listings are a flat rate of only .10 per click.
  3. A DVA (Dynamic Vertical Ad) advertisement within our Dreams Alive Magazine
    Dynamic Vertical Ads, DVA's, are ads that are permanently placed near the top of the right-hand column on the most appropriate page within Dreams Alive Magazine. What makes them "Dynamic" is the ability to host the graphics on your own server and any time you update your image(s), your DVA automatically shows your updated information.
    • All DVA's are permanently placed on the appropriate page within Dreams Alive Magazine
      - This provides a solid base for traffic to originate from for several years. Since it is hard-coded into the page, you will also obtain extra popularity as with any link.
    • During the term of that issue (2 months), those DVA's will also randomly display on the home pages of Dreams Alive Magazine and Designing Online.
      - With over 77,500 monthly page views by combining the Designing Online and Dreams Alive Magazine's home pages, 15 DVA's being randomly displayed will average 5,166 displays each per month...10,333 displays each during the 3 month term. At the very minimum, you can expect at least 2% click-through or a total of 206 solid clicks. This can more match and even double your initial listing expenses as compared to PPC...meanwhile, you will also be drawing in traffic from the permanantly placed DVA within the selected issue(s) of Dreams Alive Magazine...for years to come.
    • Take a look at All The Benefits
       
  4. A shop listing within the Emporium Mall
    An Emporium Mall Listing provides a visually appealing presentation of your website that helps to attract prospective customers and improve your sales volume. Your site is listed with a home page screen shot and site description in a categorized virtual mall that only allows up to 24 listings per category...ensuring your listing is never buried.
    • All shop listings are randomly displayed on the Designing Online Home page, throughout the entire website and throughout the issues of Dreams Alive Magazine.
    • Take a look at All The Benefits
       

We have gone through many updates and revisions of our advertising options in an effort to provide the maximum coverage and exposure when you pay us to promote your business. Unlike a conventional newspaper, magazine or many online advertising opportunities, we have a genuine desire and interest that you benefit far beyond your initial expense to advertise with us. Our motto is "We get ahead by helping you get ahead first".

Placing your Ads

Depending upon your time restraints, abilities and budget, we have split our advertising into two formats:

For advertising options not covered here, please see our promotions page for additional advertising options

Please direct all additional questions or inquiries below:

You may call us M-F at (570) 788-0687 between the hours of 9AM & 5PM EST

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DOL Advertising
Designing Online, Inc.
P.O. Box 821
Conyngham, PA. 18219-0821