Advertising

You can advertise on this site from just $20 per month. Our Rates are listed below.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us for details: terence@guitarbench.com

Why advertise with us?

1. Very competitive rates especially compared to magazines. For example, Fingerstyle magazine, a bimonthly publication offers a small 2″x 2″ black and white space for $210. Acoustic guitar trade costs $150 for a 468×60 banner. We start at $20. See below for rates.
2. Pick and choose the right space for you. With other forms of advertising, you may not be able to determine which page/space your adverts appear on.
3. Front page features. As part of some packages, we can feature some of your guitars in our content….right on the front page!
4. Limited advertising content. We limit our advertising slots to provide you with maximum impact. No advert clutter or overload here.
5. Quality & Quantity of Readership. Our readers are discerning folk who have found this blog expressly for guitar content. Our articles are in no way written for bots or search engine optimisation- hence our hit rate is entirely from a real person. Our first months saw over 1,000 hits per week and traffic has been climbing steadily… we are now attracting over 20,000 hits a month!
   
6. International readership & appeal. Unlike other blogs we have excellent worldwide reader with just under half ~43% of our visitors come from outside North America. Of note is our relatively large reach into the Asia-pacific region. Below are the % of readers broken down into country of origin.
   46% United States
   12% Canada
   8% United Kingdom
   5% Singapore, Japan
   4% Australia, France, Israel
   Alexa is an online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the Internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings. Below are the Guitarbench.com Alexa rankings according to country:
   203,530 United Kingdom
   159,210 United States
   166,586 Canada
   58,668 Indonesia
   46,840 Malaysia
   33,250 Philippines
7. Powerful market penetrance. Widen your market. Here’s an independent analysis of our traffic stats by Alexa (lower score= better) and google.
   Alexa Traffic Rank: Top 0.296%
   Google page Rank: 3
   Alexa is an online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the Internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings. Guitarbench.com has an Alexa rank of 91,929 which is in the top 0.296% of all websites globally.
   Google page rank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote.
8. Powerful online presence. Independent analysis of our popularity by Technorati (lower score= better)
   Blog Ranking: Top 0.23 %
   Technorati is a popular blog directory service. It measures the popularity of a given blog as compared to all other sites that have been submitted to its system. This blog currently has a Technorati rank of 159,810, which puts it in the top 0.23% of blogs tracked by Technorati.
9. Advert optimisation. We take your business very seriously. So seriously that we will recommend the optimum placement for your advert when we analyse our webtraffic.
10. Image creation. Don’t already have an image? No problem! We can create one for you.

RATES

The advertising options from $20/ month are available. If you wish to purchase ad space or if you have any questions don’t hesitate to email at: terence@guitarbench.com

1) Sidebar advertisements.

• A- Present on the front page next to the loop [ie. right inner sidebar]
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• B- Present on all pages and posts: [ie. right sidebar]
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• C- Present on either tonewoods or instrument database [ie. left sidebar] C
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2) In article advertisements.

• In text advert: This banner will appear at within the content of an archived posts for the period of 1 year. $20 for a left or right aligned wrapped text 200 x 200 pixel linked image. There will be an additional text above the image “This guitarbench article made possible by:”
• Footer advert: This banner will be placed at the end of the content of an archived post for the period of 1year. $20 per advert for a 300 x 50 pixel linked image. There will be an additional text above the image “This guitarbench article made possible by:”
• Header advert: This banner will be placed at the top of the content of an archived post for the period of 1year. $30 per advert for a 300 x 50 pixel linked image. There will be an additional text above the image “This guitarbench article made possible by:”
• Don’t already have an image? I can create one for you.

Conditions: Ads run from 1st day of month to last day. Payment via Paypal only. Ads must be paid for prior to placement.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for details: terence@guitarbench.com