Archive for November 26th, 2009

On Marketing Your Site Using Website Banner Advertising

You may have read the phrase “web banner” written a lot on the internet. This term describes 2 sorts of graphical imagery. First of all, you have the conventional advertising banner, commonly applied as a means to drive clicks to another website, as a click on the banner takes one to the advertised website. The second variety is discovered at the top area of a typical site - the site header area. This section commonly familiarizes an individual to the website with a title, possibly a secondary strapline, and even some images to serve in theming the website. Both types of web banner play fundamental roles in both delivering individuals to a site, and helping make a site keep each person for an extended time on the site - by teaching them simply with what the website is about, and influencing the visitor to browse further, utilising persuasive imagery / strapline text.

How do you go about making web banners? There are many services which can help you with this task. Also many provide you with banner hosting in addition. Simply key in a phrase such as make banner into Google and you’ll locate a number of banner maker services.

So what to put in your banner? If you have a shopping website, it’s a great idea to put the payment gateways your website utilizes for taking payment, as it gives the visitor a visual cue that your website is an e-commerce website and also lets the individual know how they can pay. Arrange some images of the wares you are vending as well, as this is yet another visible hint as to which variety of items you sell. Finally, the strapline text is primary as well. Make sure the strap line distinctly and briefly states what the website is about in only four or five words.

And as evident as all this may be, an error many sites make is to take for granted every visitor knows automatically what the website is about before seeing it. We should not take for granted that the visitant knows such information, so you need to hold every visitant’s hand in those crucial first couple of seconds they visit your website.

Published in: Advertising, Creative Arts | on November 26th, 2009 | Comments Off