[McAttack]

Originally posted by Mister X
I've been checking the going rates for banner placement on some of the bigger tgps and quite honestly I'm astonished at what they are charging. Paying 500 or 1000 bucks is just too damn much unless you are looking to do a little branding I think. Even the rates for a top spot in the gallery listings are looking pretty unrealistic. I've seen rates of 250 bucks for one day. That's just frigging crazy! I'm thinking that I might try a little gallery traffic from spotbrokers.com and see what happens. Has anyone tried them yet?

Well I don't believe in paying top dollar for the top spot. The #2-5 spots are still good and normally a fair % less in cost. As long as I'm top 10 on a TGP, it's great. I'd rather be #10 on 5 sites, than #1 on 2 sites.

As for the banner placement, I think it's important for branding, not so much for the standard cookie-cutter style of sites. If your banners sells something original, then yes.