Thank you for your interest in ADVERTISING on Travel Writers Exchange.
This page is about purchasing ads on our website, NOT about guest-posting nor sponsored content.
If you’re interested in pursuing advertising opportunities with Travel Writers Exchange, please read our guidelines and rates below, then contact us via email at Advertising@Travel-Writers-Exchange.com.
PLEASE DO NOT use this email address to submit Guest Post pitches nor to inquire about guest posting opportunities or sponsored content (please instead use our Submit an Article Page). Any guest post/article submission/sponsored content inquiries sent to our advertising email address will be deleted without a response.
RATES & GUIDELINES FOR PURCHASING ADVERTISING ON OUR SITE
We accept graphic advertising for our banner, sidebar, and end-of-content spaces.
We accept text links for our in-content, end-of-content, and footer spaces. At the present time we don’t accept advertorial (sponsored) posts.
We reserve the right to decline proposed ads for any reason. PLEASE READ NOTE #1 BELOW. Generally speaking as long as an ad is deemed by us to be of value or interest to our readers, and in keeping with the intention of the site, ads are approved. We do not promote travel suppliers or destinations with graphic ads, but travel sellers, CVBs and Tourist Boards may purchase footer links.
Please read the Notes section and be sure that your ad is approved before payment is made.
Currently our Advertising rates are as follows:
Graphic Ads:
- Sidebar: 125×125 ad: $65 per month for random placement – appears on all pages
- Sidebar: 125×125 ad: $75 per month for guaranteed placement in one of the top 2 spots of either column or top 4 spots of left column, your choice – appears on all pages
- Sidebar: 300×250 large ad: $350 per month – appears on all pages
- Top Banner: 468×60 rectangle ad: $500 per month exclusive use OR $50 per month for shared use (see note #1)
- Single Post End of Content Graphic (468×60): $45 per month per post (if more than one post is requested)
Text Link Ads:
- Single Post Text link – price per post (if more than one post is requested)
- In Content: $45 per month
- End of Content: (in “Related Links” section”) $25 per month
- Footer Text Link:
- Text link only, no surrounding unlinked text (may use keyword or very short keyword phrase as anchor text if desired):
- On Home Page Only: $45 per month
- On All Pages Site-wide: $55 per month
- Text link with surrounding paragraph of unlinked text, up to 15 words or 100 characters, whichever is less:
- On Home Page Only: $50 per month
- On All Pages Site-wide: $60 per month
Notes:
- ALL ads MUST be related to the business of travel writing, not other genres and not general writing. We may consider non-relevant ads, but the rate will be double the above rates, because a non-relevant ad would be taking the space of one that would be of greater interest to our readers (and thus should perform better).
- The top banner spot (468×60 rectangular ad) is filled with randomly displayed ads in any month for which no single advertiser purchases exclusive use of the space (thus, if you purchase that space, only your ad will be shown for any month purchased). Alternatively, you can elect to purchase shared use of that space for only $30 per month, meaning that your Ad will be randomly shown along with no more than 10-12 other advertisements at each page refresh (each time a page is served a single Ad will randomly be selected and shown on that page).
- All Ads must be approved before payment is made. Once approved, all Ad purchases are payable via PayPal only and must be paid in advance before Ads will be displayed.
- Discounts are available for long-term pre-paid advertising: 15% discount for six-month pre-paid ads, 20% for one-year pre-paid ads, and 25% for two-year pre-paid ads.
- Simple animation is allowed in graphic ads but no flash. Please keep in mind that if an animated graphic is too garish or annoying (as determined by TWE), it may be declined, as many studies indicate that site visitors dislike ugly animated ads, and we do not want to drive site visitors away.
- No JavaScript links – only straight URL links are accepted.
- Once an Ad is approved, both the creative (image) and landing page must not be changed without prior approval. If either the creative or the landing page are changed without prior notice, TWE reserves the right to remove the Ad without pro-rating the payment made (this will in almost all cases only be invoked if the changes are found to be offensive or contrary to the interests or purpose of TWE).
- TWE reserves the right to decline to accept any Ad. If payment has been made prior to Ad approval, a full refund will be initiated within five (5) business days (thus allowing time to modify an Ad to obtain approval).
AGAIN (repeated because we get a lot of people who submit guest post pitches to our advertising address) IF you’re interested in pursuing advertising opportunities with Travel Writers Exchange, please contact us via email at Advertising@Travel-Writers-Exchange.com. PLEASE DO NOT use this email address to submit Guest Post pitches nor to inquire about guest posting opportunities (please instead use our Submit an Article Page). Any guest post/article submission inquiries sent to our advertising email address will be deleted without a response.
- Text link only, no surrounding unlinked text (may use keyword or very short keyword phrase as anchor text if desired):