I am posting it here in the "for sale" forum, although it is free in fact. Yes, I offer high quality free advertisement on APNEA.cz.
At the beginning, a few years ago, I already previewed a banner space in the header of the APNEA.cz page layout, and placed Google Ads there, hoping that the income could help covering me the relatively high cost of the server. Unfortunately it turned out to be a big flop. Not only it generated practically no income at all, but the ads were often irrelevant, sometimes perhaps even irritating, and it also started to crash some browsers.
So I took them out, hoping that I find some advertiser who would be directly interested in the freediving community and would help supporting the website. Unfortunately that did not happen either, but since APNEA.cz has quite high visitor numbers, and most of the visitors do not land there just by hazard, it would be a pity wasting this promotional opportunity completely.
Hence I decided opening the advertisement space completely for free for anyone who is interested. If you have a freediving related website (personal or corporate), if you manufacture a product, own a store, provide a service, teach courses, or just want to promote your next competition, or another event, or have anything else that would be of an interest for the freediving community, you can place a free banner ad very simply and easily on the following page: APNEA.cz - Advertisement Statistics and Management
And if you do not have any banner ready, you can create one on the page with a very simple WISIWIG tool in a few seconds. I started testing the system in the last few days, and some of you already noticed it and created a banner, so although there are still functions incomplete, or possible bugs, the system works fine in principle.
On the same page you can also access the properties of your previously submitted banner, and can adjust the scope and other parameters - for example you can target visitors from specific countries, have the banner displayed at certain schedule only, on specified pages, etc. You can add as many banners as you want - for example several language versions.
And you can also follow impression statistics of your banner (and some global ones too) there too. You can see some of the stats already on the main ad page, and there are then more of them available for the banner owners, after they log in.
The ads are completely free, and I do not even ask any reverse links, as it is usually required in such cases. Of course, I will accept also paid advertisements (if it ever happens), and the banners will be then displayed with priority, but there will be always sufficient bandwidth available for the free ads too. Currently I have the capacity of 100,000 to 400,000 banner impressions to human visitors every month (SE spiders and bot visits are excluded from these stats - the number would be more than double with them), so there is enough space for everybody.
As I wrote, the system is still in experimental stage, so if you find some problems, please report them. And do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions. Two things that are not completed yet - the first one you will certainly not miss too much - there is a button for adding additional credits (above the offered free one), but it is not functional yet. And the second missing function is the emailing of access passwords for the banner administration for advertiser who do not have any account at APNEA.cz. Those who already signed up previously will be able to access the preferences and statistics of their banner by logging into their APNEA.cz account. The others can submit the banner without problems, but for will either have to wait till I complete the function for the admin access, or they can create a free ANEA.cz account before submitting the banner.
EDIT: ah yes, another dysfunctionality I am ware of: the WISWIG tool for editing banners currently does not work on some versions of FireFox. It works though with Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Explorer, and all other browsers I tested. However, you can upload an image file of the banner with all of the browsers.
At the beginning, a few years ago, I already previewed a banner space in the header of the APNEA.cz page layout, and placed Google Ads there, hoping that the income could help covering me the relatively high cost of the server. Unfortunately it turned out to be a big flop. Not only it generated practically no income at all, but the ads were often irrelevant, sometimes perhaps even irritating, and it also started to crash some browsers.
So I took them out, hoping that I find some advertiser who would be directly interested in the freediving community and would help supporting the website. Unfortunately that did not happen either, but since APNEA.cz has quite high visitor numbers, and most of the visitors do not land there just by hazard, it would be a pity wasting this promotional opportunity completely.
Hence I decided opening the advertisement space completely for free for anyone who is interested. If you have a freediving related website (personal or corporate), if you manufacture a product, own a store, provide a service, teach courses, or just want to promote your next competition, or another event, or have anything else that would be of an interest for the freediving community, you can place a free banner ad very simply and easily on the following page: APNEA.cz - Advertisement Statistics and Management
And if you do not have any banner ready, you can create one on the page with a very simple WISIWIG tool in a few seconds. I started testing the system in the last few days, and some of you already noticed it and created a banner, so although there are still functions incomplete, or possible bugs, the system works fine in principle.
On the same page you can also access the properties of your previously submitted banner, and can adjust the scope and other parameters - for example you can target visitors from specific countries, have the banner displayed at certain schedule only, on specified pages, etc. You can add as many banners as you want - for example several language versions.
And you can also follow impression statistics of your banner (and some global ones too) there too. You can see some of the stats already on the main ad page, and there are then more of them available for the banner owners, after they log in.
As I wrote, the system is still in experimental stage, so if you find some problems, please report them. And do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions. Two things that are not completed yet - the first one you will certainly not miss too much - there is a button for adding additional credits (above the offered free one), but it is not functional yet. And the second missing function is the emailing of access passwords for the banner administration for advertiser who do not have any account at APNEA.cz. Those who already signed up previously will be able to access the preferences and statistics of their banner by logging into their APNEA.cz account. The others can submit the banner without problems, but for will either have to wait till I complete the function for the admin access, or they can create a free ANEA.cz account before submitting the banner.
EDIT: ah yes, another dysfunctionality I am ware of: the WISWIG tool for editing banners currently does not work on some versions of FireFox. It works though with Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Explorer, and all other browsers I tested. However, you can upload an image file of the banner with all of the browsers.
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