Advertising on Chat Family

We do not accept advertising from or for any website which contains any type of pornography, hate groups, racism, or illegal activity. We reserve the right not to accept ads from or for anyone or anything we, in our sole judgment, feel to be inappropriate for the Chat Family website.


Q. Why advertise on Chat Family?
We receive a lot of traffic due to our placement on Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL search engines for 9000+ key words. Your site can benifit from our placement because the traffic is already targeted to your content.

You do not have to be a chat site to advertise on Chat Family. With the subject matter being a vast array of topics in chat rooms, anywhere from parents looking for advice to people wanting points on auto/truck modifications. Your advertisement for just about anything could be placed right in the face of the people who need your service.

Q. How are ads displayed on Chat Family?
Banners are displayed on a fixed basis. That is, once your banner is placed it will remain in that position until the end of that 1 month period. If you choose not to continue the campaign, at that point your banner will be removed.

Q. How many people will see my advertisement?
During the quarter Apr - Jun 2005 Chat Family averaged 1,030,000 page views per month

Q. Does this mean I have to pay to be placed on yout links.html page?
NO, however the links page only receives about 20,000 page views per month. Most of the visits are from people like you looking to add your link or to see what we have linked.

Q. What does it cost to advertise on the Chat Family website?

Chat Family Website Rate Sheet Site-wide and targeted Banners/text links
All rates are per month (30 days) with unlimited exposures.
Home page (index.html) $125
Home page (index.html) 6 month run save $150 $600
Chat pages (line of sight banner) $125
Chat pages (line of sight banner) 6 month run save $150 $600
Chat pages (line of sight text link) $100
Chat pages (non-line of sight banner) $50
Chat pages (non-line of sight text link) $30
Discounts

Discounts are offered for site wide advertising purchases as follows.
Home page & Chat pages (line of sight banner) $225
Home page & Chat pages (line of sight banner) 6 month run save $350 $1000
Home page & Chat pages (line of sight text link) $175
Home page (banner) & Chat pages (line of sight text link) $200
Home page (banner) & Chat pages (line of sight text link) 6 month run save $300 $900
Home page & Chat pages (line of sight text link) 6 month run save $300 $750
Home page & Chat pages (non-line of sight banner) $150
Home page & Chat pages (non-line of sight text link) $130
Message Board 3500& pages all indexed in google (line of sight banner only) $150
Site wide bonus package
Home page, Chat pages, & Message Board 3500& pages all indexed in google (line of sight banner only) $300
Home page, Chat pages, & Message Board 3500& pages all indexed in google (line of sight banner only) 6 month run save $400 $1400

Q. What does Line of sight and non-line of sight mean?
Line of sight means your banner or text link can be seen without having to scroll the page with a monitor resolution of 1024x768, non-line of sight means your banner or text link will be placed at or near the bottom of the page. 50% of our site traffic use 1024X768, 40% use 800x600, the remaining use various resolutions above and below these.

Terms:
Advertising is not considered accepted and banners will not be scheduled for inclusion until payment has been received and cleared and ad graphics have been approved.

All rates are in U.S. dollars.
Chat Family reserves the right to approve the content and design of all banners prior to the beginning of the ad run.

To place your order for banner advertising, send email to admin@chatfamily.com

We accept PayPal payments and will tell you how to pay when your campaign is approved.

Graphics:
The goal of web advertising is not to annoy viewers but to get them to click on your ad and go to your website. Please keep that in mind when designing your ad banner.

Banners must be 200 pixels wide by 100 pixels high or smaller.

File size cannot exceed 15 kilobytes.

Graphics should be correctly sized in .GIF or .JPG format. If simple resizing is required, there will be an additional charge of $10.00 per graphic.

Use unique file names, such as:

yourcompanyname_1.gif

DO NOT NAME THEM ad1.gif, banner.jpg, or the like. If you do, they might get lost or overwritten.

Send graphics as an attachment to email to:

admin@chatfamily.com

Please use the subject line "Ad Graphics"

In the body of the email, please include:

  • the URL to which you want each ad to point.
  • Company name, address, zip or country code
  • Contact name
  • Phone number
  • # months to run the banner
  • Date to start displaying the banner if you do not want us to start it immediately.
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