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DirectLeads
- A solid lead generation network, DirectLeads offers a reliable way of
earning revenue for your Web site. DirectLeads offers many appealing offers
that pay you either per click or per lead. They have an excellent
administration center that displays real-time stats, so that you may quickly
see how much you're earning. We also like their banner rotation feature,
which ensures that the banners that you display never get stale.
Associate-it.com - The
largest roundup of its kind that we've seen yet, Associate-it.com rates and
reviews over 860 associate, affiliate, bounty, referral and revenue sharing
programs across the Web. A must-visit site if you're looking for the best
way to generate revenue for your site. The site is constantly updated and is
helpfully broken down into categories, ranging from advertisting to
marketing to shopping to travel. There's also a free biweekly newsletter
that you may sign up for that offers the latest news on associate programs.
Banner
Crafter - So you've joined a banner affiliate program. And now, you
want a really eye-catching banner to draw in traffic. Banner Crafter is the
solution. This advanced freeware banner creator has a fairly steep learning
curve (mainly because it offers so many bells and whistles). But if you
spend some time with it, you can create amazing animated (or static) banner
images. By far the best program of its kind. (2.5
megabytes). For Windows 98/95 and NT.
Websponsors.com - If you want to earn revenue with your Web site,
this is the place to go. WebSponsors.com is by far the most reliable,
competent and trustworthy Web site revenue program on the Web. Since
launching in April 1998, WebSponsors.com has emerged as the top
results-based Web ad network. The Free Site has been a member of
WebSponsors.com since June, 1998 and we've found them to be by far the best
service of their kind. (Highly recommended).
SiteRewards.com - Got a Web
site? Want to make some money from it? Here's an outstanding new directory
that offers a comprehensive roundup of the Web's various affiliate revenue
programs. SiteRewards.com offers listings and descriptions of over 600
affiliate programs, as well as a handy search engine to help you quickly
find just the right program for your site. (One of the
best directories of its kind).
Refer-A-Site - This free
banner exchange offers a new twist: you can add sound effects to grab your
visitors' attention. No plug-ins are required to hear the sound. The sound
clip is played when a visitor moves their mouse over your banner. For every
two visits to your site, you'll receive one free advertising credit. Your
banner here will be 468X60 pixels. Join now and you'll
get 1,000 free advertising credits.
The Net One - If you're looking to
build traffic on your site, this handy directory is an excellent place to
get listed. One advantage to this directory is that once you submit your
site here, it'll appear instantly. They also offer a free HTML mail
newsletter that features lots of useful Web site promotion tips, tools and
articles.
Cyberbounty
- A solid, free affiliate program, Cyberbounty pays you for displaying their
sponsors' banners on your site. There are plenty of good offers to choose
from here (many of which we've not seen elsewhere). Cyberbounty also
supports mailing lists and E-zines.
Click2Lead - Looking for an
affiliate program for your Web site? Click2Lead offers a good roundup of
programs that generate revenue, either on a pay-per-click or on a
pay-for-lead basis. Lots of categories are listed here, including
automotive, books, business, clothing, family, food, games, shopping and
more.
Animation Station - This site
will make you a free custom banner. There are over 600 templates to choose
from here. They say their turnaround is "under a day" currently.
If they make a banner for you, you're required to linkback to them somewhere
on your site.
ButtonXchange.com - A
new free link exchange service, buttonXchange.com makes use of 88-by-31
pixel buttons, rather than full-sized banners. Simply sign up and submit
your button and it'll be displayed randomly on other participants' pages.
buttonXchange.com offers real-time statistics, so you can see how your
button is performing. They offer a selection of blank buttons that you may
use (you'll need to add your own text, which you can easily do in any
graphics program). (No adult sites allowed).
The Pop-up Exchange Network
- With this unique free banner exchange, you can promote your site with
"Pop-up Internet Commercials." Your ads with this service can be
animated and can stream live audio and music without the use of plug-ins.
This is an innovative service and their "talking" banners will
definitely grab your visitors' attention. Currently,
they're offering all new sign-ups a free copy of Debit Express E-Commerce
Solution, "a $195 value," which allows your site to accept checks
over the Net.
BannerExchange -
Are you looking to drive extra traffic to your site? BannerExchange is a
solid new free banner exchange, with a 2-to-1 ratio, that offers
comprehensive ad campaign tracking and reports. Easy to sign up for and
implement on your site. You can store up to three banners in your account,
so you can switch back and forth to evaluate which is most effective.
AssociateCash.com - So
you want to make some money off your Web site, huh? Well check out Dan
Oakeson's good roundup of associate programs on the Web. These companies
will pay you to display their banners on your pages. Find out the details on
each program and whether they deliver here.
PowerExchange - A
promising new free banner exhange program to help you promote your site.
PowerExchange offers a 4:5 ratio and offers you the chance to target your
banners. They offer real-time traffic reports and ready-made banners, if you
don't have one made up already. Your banner here will be 468X60 pixels.
(They're currently offering 250 free exposures when you sign up).
ClickTrade - Popular, first-of-its-kind service that allows you to
set up your own affiliate program and reward your affiliates on a
pay-per-click or sale basis. You can browse through their large directory to
find sites that'll pay you by the click to link them. Over 30,000 Web sites
participate in ClickTrade, (now owned by Microsoft).
Palm Pilot Banner Exchange
- This free banner exchange is geared toward PalmPilot Web sites. They offer
a minimum of 30 banner impressions every two weeks. Your banner here will be
468X60 pixels in size (and under 10 kilobytes in size).
Eurobanner
- This is a free banner exchange service from Europe that offers a standard
2-to-1 ratio. Easy to set up. They offer Web site stats and a counter. With
this service you can choose your audience (i.e.: have your banner displayed
to European audiences only). Your banner must be 400 by 40 pixels and no
larger than 12K.
TeknoSurf
AdWave - Here's a fast-growing entry in the league of advertising
banner services that claims to pay Webmasters for displaying their banners.
TeknoSurf promises "up to 20 cents" per unique click and $5 for
each Web site you refer to them, who signs up, and is accepted into the
program.
WebSite Designs Banner
Exchange - Here's a new banner exchange that offers a generous 3:2
ratio (meaning that for every three banners shown on your site, your own
banner is shown twice on other members sites). Banner sizes here must by 400
by 60 pixels and no larger than 12 kilobytes. They offer 500 free banner
impressions (credits) for all members after thirty days.
AssociatePrograms.com
- If you're looking to make some money off your site, then pull up a chair
and spend some time at this comprehensive Australian site.
AssociatePrograms.com offers an excellent roundup of associate and affiliate
programs on the Web, as well as Web marketing tips, tricks, tools &
techniques.
Free custom made banners by
Alexandra Alexandra will customise one of
her banner templates for you or she will try and create the
style you would like if you e-mail her with the details.
Refer-it
- Refer-it is the Web's authority on revenue sharing programs. At this
search engine and guide, you'll find over 400 affiliate, associate,
referral, and bounty programs reviewed. A number of imitator sites have
emerged since Refer-it came online last year, but this site remains the
definitive resource of its kind.
LinkExchange
- This banner exchange service is the biggest and best-known of its type. We've used this
service since June, 1996, and have found them to be fairly reliable and
competent, (although service has deteriorated somewhat in the past six
months). You get one exposure of your banner for every two hits to your
page. Banners at one time here were 400-by-40 pixels, but LinkExchange has
phased these out in favor of the nearly-universal 468-by-60 size. Note: some
WebTV users report technical problems getting LE to accept their banners.
If you
want to make sure you're getting full credit for the banner impressions
you're owed, try LE
Check, a nifty freeware program that'll make sure that your
LinkExchange account is recording credits properly by simulating the
earning of credits.
LinkExchange
experienced some problems in the past few months with being late on
delivering sites the banners exposures that they owe them. We've had a
number of complaints from Webmasters saying that they are owed thousands
of exposures. TheFreeSite.com itself was owed several thousand exposures
at one point, although they eventually were delivered. LinkExchange says
the problem is the "result of sharp increases in traffic and other
compounding bugs which strained our system and impeded the smooth flow
of ads."
SmartClicks
- An innovative banner service that goes above and beyond most other link
exchanges in many ways in that you can target your banner to a specific
audience. We've used SmartClicks for two years and have generally been
impressed, particularly with their targeting control panel and stats. Along
with Link Exchange, SmartClicks
is one of the Web's most reliable banner services. Your banner here will be
468 by 60 pixels.
Safe-Audit
Banner Service - Safe-Audit is a reasonably reliable commercial
banner service. This British-based company offers complete and up-to-date
statistics, so you can see how your banners are performing at a glance. The
only quibbles we have with Safe Audit are the site's cumbersome interface
and the fact that it's not always easy to get a response to your questions.
Note: not all sites are accepted for the program.
Banner
Wizard - This freeware utility offers a spreadsheet-style program
that helps you to calculate the costs involved in banner advertising and
"to optimize your Web advertising strategy for best possible
results."
Four
Corners Effective Banners - Just signing up for a banner service is
only a small part of promoting your site. In order to draw hits with your
banner, you need an effective design. This site is the best we've seen for
offering tips on making a banner that people will want to click on. They
even display a list of the Web's most successful banners, so you can get an
idea of what works.
MagnaGrafix
- If you've signed up with a banner service, then you can get Brian to make
a free static banner for your site. If he creates a banner for you, he
requests that you link back to his site.
Link-Me
Banner/Reciprocal Links Exchange Database - One of the best ways to
promote your site is through reciprocal links. This resource is a good place
to start. This site also lists over 500 "free-for-alls," which are
basically bulletin boards that you can add your site to (and believe it or
not, they do pull in traffic).
Penny
Web - This is a banner service that claims to let you "promote
your site at no risk with guaranteed visitors" and to "generate
income by hosting banners." Our own experience with Penny Web was
disappointing. We get a lot of traffic here at The Free Site, but apparently
not enough to generate income with Penny Web. We never received a cent for
our participation with this program. Their "host reports" site
that purports to give you your account's current data was cumbersome and
difficult to get meaningful information from. Their tech support was not
helpful. Our advice: be wary of any banner service that claims to pay you.
BannerSwap
- This banner service also offers a 2-to-1 ratio. Our own experience with
this link exchange was disappointing. We often had far lower click-through
ratios that we've had with other link exchanges (using the same banner).
The
Banner Generator- If you subscribe to a banner service, you'll need
to make up a banner, which this site provides for free. Check out these
examples. This service works with WebTV.
TradeBanners
Network. - This service is similar to Link
Exchange. We tried it for several months and found them to be a
competent service. However, our banners consistently got lower click-through
ratios than on Link Exchange or SmartClicks (even with the same design!)
LinkTrader
- This banner exchange offers a higher-than-average 70-to-30 ratio. Banners
must be 400 by 50 pixels. Our results with this banner service were less
than ideal. Despite the higher ratio, we had few hits through LinkTrader
than through Link Exchange, using the same banner. Your own mileage may
vary. Incidentally, LinkTrader recently began offering free E-mail accounts,
as well.
Net-On's
Banner Exchange
- A growing Sweden-based link exchange that offers
you a generous 4:5 banner exposure ratio. Animated gifs are OK. They accept
banners of varying sizes, which can be a drawback, as you can't take
advantage of the HTML size tags to speed up loading of banner images.
Sometimes their banners don't load quickly which can hold up your page at
times. They still have a ways to go before they can be considered in the top
rank of banner exchanges.
Gowansnet Free Banner
Design They will create origional
banners for free with your ideas, or think one up for you.
Graphic Brewer Free
Services Send an e-mail with your name,
url, e-mail address and banner details to Graphic Brewer, and
they will tell you within 8 days whether they can make your
banner or not. Due to demand, not all requests can be catered
for.
LogoWonders Free custom banners in exchange
for a link back to LogoWonders
MagnaGrafix MagnaGrafix performs high quality
work, and are offering one origional static banner to every
visitor as a way to showcase their talents.
123Banners
- An up-and-coming link exchange with around 4,000 members. The concept is
simple: by joining, you agree to display advertising banners for other
members, and they agree to display banners for you. You can decide what type
of sites to advertise on and advertise for so you don't need to worry about
inappropriate material showing up on your pages. You get one exposure of
your banner for every two banners displayed on your site (similar to Link
Exchange).
Rad Graphics
- This site have
everything you need. Easy to navigate and very few ads. Find
backgrounds, buttons, animated gifs, circles, balls, squares, fonts,
bullets, numbers and a lor more.
Web Spider's Webmaster
Resources - This excellent site for webmasters features
tips, tricks, tutorials, resources, plus free custom-made animated
banners and buttons.
Aisha's Web Freebies Offers custom
graphics(banners/buttons/headers/etc.) for free. Requests a
link in return, but does not require one. Refuses adult
content sites.
Free Banners and Custom Graphics
Shop FREE custom banners and graphics
by CIMC. No graphics online at the moment. So just e-mail Mike
and let him know what you want him to make and he will do it
for free!
Adobe Online Banner
Creator Free online banner generator from
Adobe. Simply enter your text and choose from a variety of
fonts, colours and animation effects and your banner will be
created instantly.
All for Nothing At All for Nothing You can choose
graphics for free and ask to customize as you desire. You can
choose buttons, bullets, static or animated banner, 3D logo,
backgrounds, logo, bars and ask to customize color, size,
fonts or add special effects. Graphic will be emailed as an
attachment to you within one week of ordering. You can only
request one graphic per order.
Aniban Aniban provides free custom
animated banners to webmasters in exchange for a link back to
them.
Animation Station Over 650 blank banners to choose
from. Free site submit to 0ver 1500 sites. Free web page
templates and backgrounds.
APoint free services If you need a banner or logo,
APoint will visit your site and make one for you at no cost.
Atomic Arts Free custom made banners and
buttons usually made within 72 hours of your request. Only
text will be placed on graphics; images are not available.
Banner 4 U! Banner Creation
Services Professional banner creation with
the quickest turnaround. One Free banner creation w/ return
banner link to commercial/business sites.
Cool Banners Free animated custom banners. You
must join a free banner exchange for eligibility.
Banner4u This is a page where you can create your own banner.