Free State Project Blogads

FSP Blogads

Blogads are an efficient way to deploy web banners to relevant opinion-makers' sites, which are frequented by people who take an interest. Blogads also give you the individual volunteer the opportunity to influence where and how the FSP advertises. We encourage anyone who wants to help to both design ads and deploy them to their favorite blogs.

Designing Blogads

Read the Blogad 3.0 design rules, but the basics are simple:

  • Format: jpg or gif
  • Max weight: 16kb
  • Title: Max 30 characters
  • Text: Max 300 published characters (including spaces) and 3 line breaks
  • No more than 18 continuous characters without a space (e.g. freestateproject.org would be too long, so put it into an HTML link.)
  • Dimensions (see examples):
    • Standard Ad, 150x200 pixels, 16kb file size plus 300 characters of text
    • Hi-Rise Ad, 150x600 pixels, 35kb file size plus 300 characters of text
    • Mini, 150x100 pixels, 5kb file size plus 100 characters of text
    • Classie Ad, 500 characters of text and NO edits after the ad has been submitted

    Most sites will accept only the Standard and Mini sizes, so try to use only them.

Good Blogad examples--these will give you some good design ideas. If we are going to invest money deploying a Blogad, it is certainly worth our while to invest effort into making a quality design. A touch of tasteful animation wouldn't hurt!

Deploying Blogads

Here is a summary of the Blogad advertiser guidelines:

  1. Select target blogs, using either Blogads' sucky order screen or the convenient Libertarian Advertising Network and related hive that Tom Knapp put together.
  2. Upload the image (from your hard drive) and enter ad text.
  3. Define its duration (you get discounts for longer durations).
  4. Pay with Paypal's secure forms.
  5. After the blogger approves the ad, return to tweak and optimize clickthrus, renew or order on new blogs.

Many sites use blogads; some well-known libertarian examples are Reason.com, TCSDaily.com, HammerOfTruth.com, and Rational Review.

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Come to the 2007 New Hampshire Liberty Forum, Feb 22-25 in Concord, NH, and hear Jack Cole (LEAP), Jim Harper (Cato Institute), Sharon Harris (The Advocates for Self-Government), and keynote speakers Michael Badnarik (2004 LP presidential candidate) and TV journalist John Stossel.

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