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SSD Guide Pageviews Grow by 260%

Editor:- December 2, 2009 - 2.5" SSD pageviews on StorageSearch.com increased 85% in November compared to the year ago period.

But that wasn't enough for this subject to regain the #1 slot for "most viewed SSD form factor" by our readers.

The #1 subject was again - PCIe SSDs - which was 3.6x the level of the year ago period.

Pageviews for the top 5 SSD articles increased an average of 78%.

Overall site readership across the whole site grew too by 31% - despite declining interest in topics related to rotating storage.

The top 20 articles and subjects viewed - can be seen as usual on the market research page.

You can place classified ads in most of the articles published on STORAGEsearch.com.

Once you've got an entry level ad - the incremental cost can be as low as $250 per article placement / year. Then $500 for the top 11-20 most popular articles. And $1,000 for the top 2-10 articles / directories. And $1,500 for the #1 article - the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide.

Exclusive article targeting can also be arranged by discussion for some existing or most future articles. Cost starts from $5,000 per article.

Classified Advertising on STORAGEsearch.com? - typically cost $2,000 to $12,000 / year Scroll down this page to see prices
customer quote (reproduced with permission) "In the (many) years that TMS has advertised on StorageSearch.com, we've found it delivers high-quality leads without breaking our marketing budget." James Stinson Marketing Analyst Texas Memory Systems editor's note:- TMS sells the world's fastest storage which connects via SAN or Infiniband. Typical advertised systems cost in the range from $18K to $1.million. They have advertising here continuously since 2001.
Classified advertising (or featured advertorial) can provide the most cost effective advertising in any media. Classified advertising on ACSL's portals typically delivers qualified leads at a cost which is typically 5x cheaper than keyword advertising on search-engines and 10x cheaper than banner advertising. Our readers tend to have bigger budgets than those on other publications and are heavily weighted towards the enterprise and government markets. Many of our advertisers have successfully advertised products with selling prices in the range $10,000 to over $100,000. Pageviews for this type of advertising are unlimited and are priced on an elapsed time basis, and not by pageviews. So your ad budget doesn't suddenly run out part way through your advertising period just because your subject becomes more popular, or just because our pageviews have doubled and readership has grown another 27% / year. We can estimate the monthly or annual pageviews for most ads in advance and quote you a figure for minimum expected guaranteed pageviews based on our experience of running these web ads for over 10 years. We can take corrective action to ensure you exceed the agreed minimum. Corrective actions can increase your visibility by targeting more pages, or adding more featured products - or running your ad longer - depending what suits you best. But we never adjust your visibility downwards. So if you get 2 to 10 times what we predicted that's your gain and we're happy to be wrong. No design costs! Minimal wasted time! You don't incur any design costs. We design draft classified ads based on what we see on your website and inputs by email. You can correct or update text, images or links at any time by simply sending us an email - which can be as simple as "this product has been replaced / upgraded please substitute ad details from new model xxxx."
See also:-	PR Agencies which are Proven to be Effective at High Tech Banner Advertising on STORAGEsearch.com, storage history, ...ACSL (publisher) profile

Entry Level Ad Price for 1 year	Optional add-ons
$1,300 - includes 1 featured product in 1 directory page - and advertiser profile in the advertiser style . Your company is featured on our home page for at least 7 days each year, and for 1 week at the top of our high volume main news page.	These provide incremental increases in visibility - compared to the entry level option. You can be advised of what the average or suggested level is for your own market segment / product type. $300 - for each classified product page. For 1 year (or part of a year.) Product image and text link to a detailed info page on this site - which in turn links to the product page on your own site. This provides very high quality customer filtering while providing technical and branding data about your company in a proven advertorial style. Additional targeted pages / articles / directory pages / targeted profiles in which your classified ad runs. generally - $250 each top 11 to 20 articles - $500 each top 2-10 articles - $1,000 each. This includes any article which has been listed as a top 10 most popular article in the months predecing the ad placement. #1 top article - $1,500. In recent years this has been the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide. top 10 directory pages - $1,000 each. This includes any index page which has been listed as a top 10 most popular article in the months predecing the ad placement. For example adding the 2.5" SSD page to an entry level SSD package. banner style classified ads - these look similar to the classified ads - but instead click directly to your own web site (instead of to a detailed product page on our site). This costs 2x the amounts quoted above. The ad styles can be different on different targeted pages.
ACSL, the publisher of this directory was founded in 1991. We published our first enterprise server directory for Sun buyers as a subscriber based print directory in 1992. We started selling web advertising in 1996 (for our Sun site) and in the summer of 1998 for this site - STORAGEsearch.com. You'll find it hard to find another web publisher which has a better track record at serving the needs of high value enterprise vendors so successfully, and for so long. Advertising slots are limited, and we don't dilute them. The effectiveness of our classified ads actually increase as long as our readership keeps growing.

lower cost per lead, than banner ads:- typically 10 times lower

better reader hit rate than banner ads:- nearly every reader who is interested in your type of product will see something about your company. (With banner ads - the ratio of readers who see the ad in the target group is dependent on the amount of banners you have bought compared to the pageviews of the subject.)

unlimited visibility:- unlike a banner ad where your visibility is precisely counted by the impressions you order, the classified ad provides unlimited visibility for the period of the ad

better quality communication than a banner:- readers see much more information about your company / products than they can in a banner, and they trust the format. Information within the classified ads includes your company profile, company logo, product information...

Readers can quickly evaluate if your product is of interest and link to your site or contact you from the ad (the classified ad is the web equivalent of the entries which we started running in the print editions of our directory in 1992 - and has been a proven concept for millions of readers who have used our web directories)

less work for you:- if you've got a web site, we can typically extract the info we need to create your classified ad. If we need more we'lll ask you. You can change the text at any time by sending us an email. There's no set up charge for this service.

flexible:- you can add additional products at any time via a simple email. You can also add banner ads to run in addition at any time

guaranteed visibility:- we restrict the total number of classified advertisers, which means that as our readership grows you get increased visibility over time. That's in contrast to banner ads where, unless you manage it carefully, your banner is seen by a declining percentage of the readership over time as the readership grows.

All inquiries and orders to:- Megabyte@STORAGEsearch.com. You can pay by Amex, Visa, Mastercard, Check or Wire Transfer.

many of the world's Fastest Growing
Storage companies have advertised
on STORAGEsearch during the last year.

Our long term advertisers have ranged from small VARs upto multi billion dollar corporations. Our ad packages range from an entry level around $1,000 a year upto very high visibility for over $20,000.

Payment:- You can pay by credit card, check or wire transfer, whichever method works best for your accounting department.



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