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October 19, 2007 — 06:31 AM PDT — by Sean P. Aune

After all the talk we’ve done about designing a site, building it, and naming it, now you need to get the word out. Time to buy (or sell) some advertising! We’ve found 30+ resources and tools to help you do just that.

Ad Networks

AdBrite.com - Target by categories, keywords, geographically, or by demographics; offers up multiple ad formats for all budgets.

AdGridwork.com - Free advertising for your site. By placing ads on your site, your ad shows up on other network sites.

Adknowledge.com - Combines traffic from numerous venues and determines the best placement of ads for you.

AdMob.com - A network for advertising on mobiles everywhere.

Ads-Click.com - Let’s you advertise both on the web and on mobile devices, perfect for .MOBI sites.

AdsMarket.com - Offers four advertising channels which should offer something for everyone.

Advertising.com - An advertising network with about the best domain name they could have ever hoped for. Become an advertiser or a publisher.

Agendize.com - Works to make ads more interactive by widgetizing them.

Ask Sponsered Listings - Probably a bit high for most startups or personal blogs, (”If you’re budget is under $6,000 a month, click here…”) but still a well known name.

Bidvertiser.com - Select the sites you want to advertise on and bid for placement. Has publisher services for sites to sign up.

Bla.st - Advertise your new site for free, or pay as little as a few cents a day to get on the main page.

Clicksor.com - Choose your keywords and channels, and allow them to place ads on affiliate sites and in search engines. Websites can sign up to be affiliates.

CopaCast.com - Uses a mixture of value ranking and browsing habits to change ads on the fly for higher prospect browsers.

CPXInteractive.com - Offers performance-based targeting across their 20,000+ publisher’s sites.

Google AdWords - Would any list of advertisers be complete without the perceived king of the online advertising world?

Kanoodle.com - Uses multiple search engines to help you find the most effective homes for your ads. Publishers can sign up.

Kontera.com - Offers up in-text, relevant ads that generate pop-up windows to get your message across.

LinkLike.com - A metered link trade system to allow you to trade advertising with other sites.

LinkWorth.com - Offers a large selection of advertising options such as text ads, paid reviews, rotating text ads and more. Sites can also sign up to display the ads.

Microsoft adCenter - Pay per click advertising served up by Microsoft.

Pulse360.com - Offers you choices of contextual, behavioral, geographic, local, demographic, and site specific targeting. Webmasters can also join their network for placement.

TargetPoint.com - Advertising network with over 2.6 billion page views a month and offers sign-up for sites.

Text-Link-Ads.com - Over 20,000 publishers in their network for advertisers to get noticed on.

TMX.net - Let’s you choose the types of sites you advertise on and gives you a plethora of on-reciprocal links, and as a webmaster you can sell ad space.

Yahoo! Publisher Network - Yahoo’s pay-per-click advertising system.

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