Sunday, August 2, 2009

Advertising on Diamond Dame

Diamond Dame is a content-focused, niche site aimed at people with a passion for living a vintage lifestyle - be it through music, fashion/clothing, dance, films or other ephemera.

The site is mainly aimed at a North American audience, but welcomes readers and content from all corners of the globe. The site was conceived of and written by myself, Sharon Blance, a well-travelled Canadian who currently lives in New Zealand.

Currently the top countries in terms of site vistors are:
1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Australia
4. Canada

Diamond Dame welcomes enquiries from advertisers – please take a moment to read our advertising guidelines below.

RELEVANT AD CONTENT
Diamond Dame prides itself on bringing quality content to its readers. Advertising on Diamond Dame must therefore fit into the same content guidelines as the general site content.

Generally speaking, acceptable content will relate to fashion/clothing, music, dance, film, culture/lifestyle and entertainment from or inspired by the 1920s, 1930s and/or 1940s.

GRAPHIC ADS, PLEASE
With the exception of Google AdWords, Diamond Dame does not support text ads. Advertising on Diamond Dame is available in the right-hand column in the in two sizes:

Example half-size ad (180x145 pixels)









Example full-size ad (180x290 pixels)
















Advertisers need to submit a finished graphic ad, however if you are unable to do so you can submit your text and logo/graphics and have an ad made up for you for a small fee. Bonus points go to advertisers who create an ad in a vintage style.

Diamond Dame reserves the right to approve the quality of all submitted graphic ads. Dynamic graphic ads are okay as long as they are either not too cheesy, or are cheesy in an acceptably vintage way.

AD SPACE, NOT PAGERANK
Diamond Dame follows Google's webmaster guidelines for paid advertising, and all paid ads must include the rel="nofollow" tag.

Advertising on Diamond Dame is not intended to inflate PageRank, it's about getting your brand/product/service in front of readers who will find your ad interesting and click through to your website.

STATS AND COSTS
If you're interested in partnering with Diamond Dame please contact me for an up-to-date list of website stats and ad prices. You'll find the rates are very reasonable and you can sign up for as little as 3 months to get started.

Please email all enquiries to sharon@diamonddame.com