How many banners and in which sizes ?

[casinorecommender]

Let's use casinosor.com as a sample site. In that site, how many banners and in which dimensions should there be for the optimum results. I mean, too much banners will cause banner blindness and too few banners or wrong locations will also cause the same. Can anyone has real life experiences ? Or tests ?

Thanks a lot

[Guard Dog]

For my taste, the site is a bit 'blinky'. Meaning, too many banners rotating through their images. It makes the site look like the content is lacking, IMO.

I always go by 'If I were surfing for casinos, what would I like'. It is by no means a great barometer, but hopefully steers me in the right direction when I look to 'bannerize' sites.

[online18casino]

Agreeded... I would use photoshop and freeze some of the images. I have found non-blinking images look less like 'Ads' and are more likely to look like information, increasing the chances for a click.

I try to make my images look more like links then ads... if that makes since? Like they are apart of my site, not outside ads. Take online18casino.com for example.

Just my 2cents

[lojo]

My critique would be one of balance. And I would agree with Andy but take it a step further and suggest a less liberal use altogether of flashing banners. An aesthetically pleasing site, well balanced in color and content, will draw the eye where you want it to go without sparkles. A mouseover animation can draw the click, no?

Primarily, the question shouldn't be how many banners - but where and how they are placed. Do they fit the scheme visually and more importantly do they make the person click or at least read the content you want them to before they click because it is not all SEO - it really does matter what a person 'experiences' once you have done the 'hard part' of getting them in the door.

I'm old-school, show me a site that pleases my eye and piques my interest and I will stick around more than .76 seconds

[Guard Dog]

Good post Lojo.

I agree. Here is a recent site I revamped from a banner farm to no banners:

New Casino Bonuses - Casino Bonus Farm

I purposely kept banners out of the mix here. I like the look and feel MUCH better.

[lojo]

Agreeded... I would use photoshop and freeze some of the images. I have found non-blinking images look less like 'Ads' and are more likely to look like information, increasing the chances for a click.

I try to make my images look more like links then ads... if that makes since? Like they are apart of my site, not outside ads. Take online18casino.com for example.

Just my 2cents

My internet is super slow today so I didn't get to read your post before replying. Agreed. Though your site looks very much like a template - is that what everyone is doing? Is the 'common clicker' today so accustomed to style sheets or w/e that they don't run from them and actually mosey around on a good looking site that doesn't come out of the box? No offense if you built that from scratch and are young and didn't see the great websites back when we used to use html as a magical code to get a look across

I hope critiques are welcome all around as long as they are constructive. I have a terrible bedside manner so please forgive me if I was out of line.

[lojo]

Good post Lojo.

I agree. Here is a recent site I revamped from a banner farm to no banners:

New Casino Bonuses - Casino Bonus Farm

I purposely kept banners out of the mix here. I like the look and feel MUCH better.

I like how it 'works', how clean it is for sure. I like your header big time and love the iconography on the left. From there it feels a little left brained (as in developed) and as a 'clicker' I would go more for a right-justified listing down the page with a flash animated 'swooping arrow' coming to the left inviting a click on second mouse-over. It would make the page finish it's started theme of "round" rather than "square" if that makes any sense?

Of course then the second and third page views would have to conform but that is do-able. Maybe a murky cloud for the last third with mouseovers highlighting the links? The middle part would take some work to imagineer but it is doable.

All in all I like it Andy. Crisp clean no BS.

[online18casino]

No offence taken.. Mainly because it is a template not made by me, I am the worst at web design but as far as the banner placement, it works for that site. I would really like to get something unique for my sites, but I would have to pay for someone to design them, design, colors ect. I just market...

But the banners get clicks, and more so then my other sites. I do believe it is just where they are placed as well as the fact that they dont flash, and look more like they are apart of the site.

[lojo]

No offence taken.. Mainly because it is a template not made by me, I am the worst at web design but as far as the banner placement, it works for that site. I would really like to get something unique for my sites, but I would have to pay for someone to design them, design, colors ect. I just market...

But the banners get clicks, and more so then my other sites. I do believe it is just where they are placed as well as the fact that they dont flash, and look more like they are apart of the site.

i hear ya. if ALL your links are certified I would be glad to push you some public.