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I'm new to the whole web page design, marketing business. And actually, I just built a page for fun. The thing is, my website is huge... I'm averaging over 7100 hits a day, and you can't even find it in Google!! One of my colleagues suggested I start selling banner ads to businesses.

Can anyone give me some advice on how to sell ads to companies or would they even be interested?

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A few practical notes that build on ’s point and clarify ’s situation: server “hits” count every file the server returns (images, CSS, JS) and therefore overstate audience size. Advertisers value monthly unique visitors (users/sessions), pageviews or ad impressions, and simple audience demographics (country, device mix). Those are the metrics to present on any pitch or rate card. (en.wikipedia.org)

What buyers typically request: a one‑month or rolling 3‑month summary of uniques/pageviews, average time on site (or engaged sessions), top referrers, device split, and screenshots of the exact placements available. Quality filters are now standard: viewability and invalid‑traffic (IVT) reporting matter to advertisers (industry baseline: display ≈ 50% of pixels in view for ≥1s; video ≈ 50% for ≥2s). Third‑party verification or clear reporting increases trust. (googledv360.com)

A short, useful workflow: verify analytics (GA4 or server tags) so sessions/pageviews and geo data are accurate; build a one‑page media kit that includes audience demographics, example placements, a sample report and a rate card; provide a spec sheet with creative sizes and delivery specs. Common pricing models are CPM, CPC or flat monthly; CPM is calculated as CPM = (Total Spend ÷ Impressions) × 1000. Start with simple offers (homepage/top slot flat fee or CPM with a short test run) and report viewable impressions afterward. (influenceflow.io)

Monetization options and caveats: direct local or niche sponsors (sports shops, leagues, event sponsors) often pay best for targeted inventory; programmatic via AdSense/Google Ad Manager is easiest to begin with; premium-managed partners (Mediavine, Raptive/AdThrive) can raise revenue but require traffic/quality thresholds and brand‑safe content. Because the site hosts fight clips — and may involve minors — expect advertiser sensitivity; major networks have explicit publisher policies that can restrict violent or exploitative content, so disclose content context and be prepared to offer placement controls or exclude certain pages. (mediavine.com)

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Could you give a little more info on your website? The amount of hits per day is rather meaningless. Pageviews and unique visitors are the major factors for advertising.

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It is a website where I post video clips of Junior Hockey fights. I don't know exactly what it all means, but here are the starts from March 1.05:

Monthly Statistics for March 2005

Total Hits 152030
Total Files 63017
Total Pages 4957
Total Visits 3227
Total KBytes 21653418

Total Unique Sites 6474
Total Unique URLs 149
Total Unique Referrers 87
Total Unique Usernames 1
Total Unique User Agents 420

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