How to Avoid Banner Blindness


Web Banner BlindnessHow do you promote a product or service online in a way that is effective to impact a market segment? You create and air a professional banner on a webpage. Great idea, but how to make customers view and click on the ad? Well, I guess you are going to have to read my words and follow some instructions: Don´t make your advertisement fall in banner blindness. Make it visually appealing with the proper strategies to make your banner successful in delivering the message.

To make a banner eye-catching you have to incorporate some elements in the equation and properly blend them in to obtain an effective mean of impacting an audience. Depending on what you are going to advertise you have to establish:

 

  • the banner´s size and shape

 

  • If it’s an animated or a static piece

 

  • Images you are going to incorporate

 

  •  Product information

 

Make sure you come up with a proper idea for your website´s advertising theme. Think of your add as a person talking to the audience with many different elements and tools you are working with: Pictures, content, corporate information and a call to action order like “click here” to direct customers towards your products. Make the best out of your banner by enhancing what you are offering. Make customers wonder with short questions that make people click to find out more.

 

Colors are essential in this process. You can use your corporate tones or add different ones, depending on your campaign. The purpose is to persuade your potential clients into your ad, cry out for attention. Have a letter font type and size that are proper for your banner´s size and campaign. If you are building an animated banner you are more likely to be noticed on the web page you post the advertisement. They are visually pulling towards the banners direction and the rest is up your creativity.

 

That doesn’t mean static banners aren´t effective, only that the human sight will be pulled towards colors and moving objects unconsciously. Static banners are also cheaper so that is another reason to take into account. Depending on your budget select your banner type. Your banner need to:

 

1. Be eye-catching

 

2.  Be Simple

 

3. But appealing

 

4.  Invite customers to click on

 

Also choose carefully where you are going to air your banner. In what websites you advertisement is going to be displayed, there are many websites that just have too many advertisements displayed at the same time. That will increase the chances of your banner being lost in advertising traffic. Be smart and know where to post your banner, this also has to do with budget issues, but having a banner in a website that has high traffic volume with eight more banners incorporated may sometimes not be the best choice.

 

Make the best out of your banner campaign. Be creative and see what you come up with to outshine. If you want experts take care of your professional banner creation visit us at Ilikewebsites.com.

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  1. #1 by CyberCelt at July 27th, 2009

    Stopping by for Click and Comment Monday.

    If you go to Google webmaster tools, you can view your page and see exactly where people click. If you are serious about advertising, this is a great help.

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