Advertising on ThereArePlaces

Overview

We are introducing advertising only in our new, Ireland Travel Guide.

We believe that our Ireland Guide is read by people who are interested in traveling to Ireland.  Advertising your hotel, resort, restaurant, attraction or service in our  Ireland Guide is a good way to reach this audience, when they are, presumably, beginning to plan their vacation in Ireland.  We offer several ad formats to help you convey your selling point.  The pricing of the ads varies by ad format and, in the future may vary by the geography described in the page on which the ad is placed.  Of course, you will always know the cost before placing your ad.

Our formats are a little unique.  We start with industry standard graphics and then let  you add  text to tell our users about your business or service.  Of course, we reserve the right to decline any advertising that we feel does not fit the theme of our site or the sensibilities of our audience. 

On each page, the ad space we offer, with the exception of banner ads, will be placed along the right edge of the page (see the text block on the right).  The 160x600 ads (if sold for a specific page) will be placed closest to the top, followed by the 160x240 ads, followed by the 125x125 ads.  If a particular category has not been sold for a page, the lower priced ads will occupy positions closer to the top of the page. Subsequent ad sales , for example of a 160x600 ad, may move smaller ads further down the right edge of the page.

If you are interested in advertising in our Ireland Travel Guide, please contact us at .

If you are interested in finding out about our demographics, we urge you to query our site at www.quantcast.com.   Enter our site name (www.thereareplaces.com) in the empty box at the top of the page and they will provide a time-based estimate of the traffic at our site.

We place Quantcast code on each of our published pages that allows them to estimate our traffic volumes.  The information presented on their site is based on their methodology, which is proprietary,  What that means is that we do not know how they derive their analytical data about our visitors or their demographics, nor can we vouch for its accuracy.

We prefer to make no specific representation about the quality of our traffic due to the problems of interpreting weblogs. Our website traffic appears to peak between January and June, declines in the late summer and usually begins to rise again in the fall.  During the spring of 2008 we peaked at about 330,000 pages served a month to over 100,000 visitors of which 60,000 were unique.   Note, these figures are for our entire website, not  just for the  Ireland section.

Since our Ireland section is new (July,2008), we do not know how it will perform, but anticipate that it will be popular.  However, if you choose to advertise with us in our Ireland section, we want you to know that we do not make any representations about the volume, quality, or constancy of the traffic associated with our site.

In addition, we make no representations about the availability of our site.  Although our serving host guarantees 100% uptime and has redundant facilities, we believe that it is impossible to warrant an uptime representation made by  a third-party supplier and will not do so.  We will, however, make every effort that we can to make sure that the site is as available as possible.