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If you’re looking to place advertising that reaches a wide audience, I’d be grateful if you considered this site. And here’s why you might want to do so.

Why

Rankings

• Alexa: 145,000.
• Compete traffic ranking: 112,000.
• Google Page Rank: 4.
• #15 in Brendan van Son’s list of Top 100 Independent Travel Blogs.
• Listed in Christine “Almost Fearless” Gilbert’s Best of 2010: 100 Inspired Travel Blogs.

Traffic

• Daily: average for 2010 – 1200 unique visits and 2000 pageviews
• Weekly: average for 2010 -  8500 unique visits and 14k pageviews
• Monthly (from 10th July to 10th August 2010): 57k unique visits, 102k pageviews
• 6 Monthly (February to July 2010): 229k unique visits and 400k pageviews.

(as monitored by Wassup WordPress traffic counter)

Social media reach

I am highly active in various social media platforms and have enjoyed many “viral” hits where my posts have become popular and widely shared, raising traffic and audience reach.

• Twitter: 5250 Followers (with a Twitter Grader rank of 100 out of 100).
• Stumbleupon: 510 Followers.
• Facebook Page: 150 Fans.

Examples of posts reach and traffic: my 2-part series “The Human Scale of Cold” and “The Human Scale Of Hot” – combined reach of 50 Retweets, and 87,000 visitors via Stumbleupon alone. My post entitled “50 Achievable Things To Do Before You Die” was Retweeted 46 times and linked to by Lifehacker Australia and World Hum.

• LinkedIn: 135 connections.

How

I can accept advertising in the following forms:

• Sidebar banner ads (up to 255 pixels wide, ideally up to 600 pixels tall) – £25.20 / $40 a month, with a minimum 3-month term.

• Single sponsor ads for individual high-traffic posts, ideally 580 pixels wide and up to 200 pixels tall – £37.00 / $60.00 a month, with a minimum term of 3 months.

I do not use pop-ups, hover-overs and will not feature anything that can be construed as “spamvertising” and/or “advertorial”. I will not place sponsored links within content where it is contextually inappropriate.  Barring views expressed in guest posts, all the views featured herein are my own. Where I have reviewed products or services, I have striven to give a fair and honest opinion in my review, even if (in fact, particularly if) that review is sponsored.

I cannot place any advertising for pharmaceutical products, tobacco, alcohol, pornography or gambling.

Please direct enquiries to maximusowden AT yahoo.co.uk.

Thank you for your interest!