Online banners are the billboards of the World Wide Web. They provide a platform from which an online organization can market its services and products to the entire world. With online marketing, you can hope to achieve a massive audience. When you are planning on investing your company's budget on online marketing and advertising, the first thing that you need to ask yourself is what kind of online marketing do you require. There are a variety of methods and strategies used for internet marketing and these include PPC, banner advertising and Email marketing. Banner advertising has managed to stay in business for a long period of time even though the search algorithms for Google have continued to change. The placement and size of the banner ads might vary depending on the website on which the banners are being placed on.

The following text provides some useful tips and ideas which can help you with your banner advertising and marketing strategies. First of all you should try to find a way in which you can keep your business open for twenty four hours a day. You need to generate sales and make progress even if you are sleeping. If you place your banner ads in the right places, your business will start working on auto pilot and you will be able to generate maximum revenue working twenty four hours a day and seven days a week.

The first thing that you should know about banner marketing is the kind of audience you want to target. Secondly, banner designs need to have effective designs. The banner design should have a pleasant looking combination of layers, animations and colors. You can either design your own banner ad or have it designed from any freelancing website.

Another important aspect to consider about banner design is the size of the banner. For most website owners, wide designed banner ads work the best. Most people have 480x60 dimensions banners displayed. It all depends on the layout of the website.

Once you have done your banner design, it is ready to be advertised. But there are so many placement options and position ideas that one can get confused about which the best one is and which one to choose for the best price. Banner advertising and marketing is usually sold in the form of cost per impression or CPM basis. The prices of these purchase systems vary and you should choose the one which supports your budget range. There is also another purchase system called the monthly rate and new business owners should start off by sticking to the monthly rate so that they can make experiments and control certain factors to view its effect on the traffic.

Last but not the least; you have to pay attention to the placement of the banner ads as this is a crucial step which determines the clicks and engagement by incoming traffic. There is no hard and fast rule for determining the best position for a banner ad placement and you might have to try out a few positions to find out the one that really works best on the website.

Author's Bio: 

I work with BannerWeaver - a professional web banner design shop for all your banner design needs, specializes in designing custom Flash banner for your banner ad campaigns, specifically, Adwords banner campaigns in Google's Display network.
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