About two weeks ago Ryan McLean from SmarterWealth fame wrote an article discussing the importance of having banners. It was a brief article (a tad self-serving ) but overall got me thinking about some changes coming soon to Direct Sales Web Marketing.

I know it’s been asked and talked about before, numerous times; but not from me (I don’t recall) so here goes…

Main objective today is 2fold:

1. Which is currently better for overall sales - Advertising Banners or Text Links? Does “banner blindness” (or other pet names) REALLY exist?

2. Does the answer to number1 make a difference if it’s affiliate sales or private ad sales?

Reason I’m asking:

As mentioned above, I will be revamping the blog a bit; specifically the side bars for starters. 2009’s primary focus will be income production (not even on the list in ‘08). One avenue of this is inevitably blog monetization. However I would like to do it as classy as possible and genuinely helpful for all parties concerned (sorry Mr. Chow).

OK so it’s not FREE link love this time, but there’s plenty of time for that you know I love to do it.

No no, now I’m talking about probably being the last blogger on the net to give a go to the scratch-back “top spots” link tipper dohickey (I think that’s the official name), which you can find on the left side bar.

How do I consider mine a wee different? I’ve seen them for $5 per day, which isn’t too too bad, and more often then not I see them for $5 while using the auto-bump feature…..

What this means is, your five dollar link is there only until the next person buys one. To me this is a double-edged sword for the buyer, and a little greedy on the bloggers end…sorry but it’s personal opinion.