YoLinux.com Advertising and Sponsorship Opportunities:

YoLinux.com:

Linux Tutorials

Why?:

YoLinux.com offers unique opportunities and benefits for advertising and sponsorships to the computer industry. Linux is the only operating system to be gaining rapid market share worldwide. The YoLinux.com web site is targeted to the Linux users, administrators and programmers. Our site caters to top technical people who are respected for their views and either make or are consulted on purchasing decisions.

Advertisers can be represented on our site through:

Top and bottom banner ads
Side banner ads.

Advertisements can be hyperlinked to your home page or a targeted URL. Advertisements can be targeted from out tutorials which focus on an even more specific audience. (Choose a YoLinux tutorial) Your involvement does not end with sending us a check. We are committed to long term relationships to a targeted market so you can maximize your return.

Note, we no longer offer sponsored text links due to Google page rank penalties.

Google Rank:

Search Rank:

When searching on Linux topics, users are likely to land at YoLinux.com bringing many top technical people to your advertisement.

Google search result positions as of 05/22/07:

"Linux tutorials" - Number three of about 54,900,000
"Linux iptables" - Number five of about 1,810,000
"Linux init" - Number one of about 1,890,000
"Linux web server" - Number one of about 254,000,000
"Linux Java" - Number four of about 294,000,000
"Linux C++" - Number one of about 78,600,000
"Linux networking" - Number six of about 164,000,000
"Linux video" - Number two of about 341,000,000
"Redhat installation" - Number three of about 16,500,000
...

Position does not count paid advertising links in the ranking.

Google Page Rank:

Demographics:

YoLinux.com has a high Alexa rating which shows our "reach" and "rank" on the internet. We are proud to have a reach of 0.002 to 0.008 percent of the internet traffic and rank in the top 100,000 to 30,000 sites on the web.

Percent of Internet Daily Reach:

Traffic Reach	Traffic Rank

Web traffic: (Based on March 2007 Apache web log statistics of all content pages.)

Over 600,000 Monthly Page Views
Over 400,000 Unique Monthly Visitors
Home Page get over 18,000 Page Views per month
Top Ten tutorials average from 15,000 to 57,000 monthly page views per page.

Demographic statistics reported by Burst Media show the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada to be the top domain visitors. Survey ads from Burst Media show our audience to be primarily (76%) 18-45 years of age and male. The Burst Media survey lists that the YoLinux.com visitor is in college or has a degree of which 24% possess a post-graduate degree. Compared to average internet users, the YoLinux.com vistor is a working adult (non-teen) and educated.

The very smart and very educated YoLinux.com audience:

Business Activity

While web traffic is from the computer professionals, students and hobbyists, this chart from Quantcast shows that YoLinux.com is a resource used in the workplace (US 57percent). You will reach corporate clients by advertising on YoLinux.com.

In the US people tend to visit this site
from both work and home.

Global

Globally people tend to visit this site
from both work and home.

General Advertising Rates:

Banner ads:

$95.00 per month for top (728x90 pixel max) and bottom banner (468x60 pixel max) ad placement on the YoLinux Home page.
(Six months: $500.00, One year: $1000.00)
$65.00 per month for top (728x90 pixel max) and bottom banner (468x60 pixel max) ad placement on any two of our tutorial pages.
(Six months: $300.00, One year: $600.00)
$55.00 per month for a single vertical banner ad (120x600 pixel. 160x600 accepted for some page formats) in a side column on any two of our tutorial pages.
(Six months: $300.00, One year: $600.00)
$30.00 per month for a single vertical banner ad (120x240 pixel. 160x600 accepted for some page formats) in a side column on any two of our tutorial pages.
(Six months: $150.00, One year: $300.00)
$55.00 per month for a single medium rectangle ad (300x250 pixel) on any two of our tutorial pages.
(Six months: $300.00, One year: $600.00)

We accept the following form of payment:

Pay with PayPal (accepts credit cards or PayPal account transfer)

or
A check may be made out to "Greg Ippolito" and mailed to:
1601 N. Sepulveda Blvd. #192
Manhattan Beach CA 90266-5133

Contact YoLinux.com:

For advertising and sponsorships inquiries, contact:

Contact YoLinux.com: Greg Ippolito

Advertising through ad brokers:

Directly advertising through us can place your ads on YoLinux tutorials which directly target your customer. You may also advertise on YoLinux.com through ad brokers Value Click, Burst Media, Tribal Fusion or Google AdWords.

Advertise through Google.com's AdWords system
Contact Tribal Fusion - technology targeted ads - (510) 250-5500

Google Adwords ad campaigns can be set up to target customers based on keywords, geographical location of the visitor, and/or specifically this website. Google can handle most common sizes of ads and allow text, image or video. Your most effective ad will be one targeted to a tutorial page. It will assure that those viewers will repeatedly see your ad every time they return to that page.