Sponsor RF Cafe for as Little as $40 Per Month
*** Please note new terms effective March 2, 2019 ***

Advertising Options:

Please refer to the screen capture below for Banner Ad, Highlighted Ad, and Hyperlinked Logo formats and locations. Banners and Hyperlinked Logos appear on every page of RF Cafe as shown. Hyperlinks point directly to your website. Please contact me if you are interested. Web page layouts do change occasionally, but order of ad precedence is always retained.

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NOTE: I reserve the option to refuse ads which I do not feel are appropriate for the RF Cafe mission.

3rd-Party Advertising Options:

3rd-party advertising on RF Cafe is being provided by Google Ad Words, IHS (GlobalSpec), and Yahoo!|Bing Network. Please contact them via the provided hyperlinks for information; customer service agents are available for assistance if needed. Note, however, that the appearances of 3rd party ads represents only about 5% of the total.

If this page is still available by the time you click the link, it has a good synopsis on click-through rates (CTR) and cost per click (CPC). For the general Technology category, CTR is 0.85% an CPC is $0.20 based on ad impressions on websites like RF Cafe that might host Google Ads. Keep in mind that Technology includes everything from cellphones and televisions to power dividers and coaxial cable.

Website Traffic Trend - January & February 2020

ClustrMaps Record (4/11 through 5/24/2020)

I set up the ClustrMaps website monitor code to on RF Cafe to get another independent count of web page visits. It ran from April 11 through May 24, 2020 and produced the following data, which is in fairly good agreement with the traffic statistics I get from my web hosting server. The code was removed because it noticeably slowed down page loads since every time a web page was loaded by a visitor, an additional call was made to the ClustrMaps (and others) server.

This ClustrMaps data is for my AirplanesAndRockets.com hobby website during the same period.

Banner Advertising Features & Pricing:

Banner Advertising slots 1 through 5 randomly displays banners for up to four (4) separate companies*. Slot 6 is shared by typically five or more separate companies (a low cost way to have a banner ad). You provide the Banner, Highlighted Ad graphics as defined below.

• Contract Length = 3 months
• All Banner Slot Advertisers may have up to six (6) separate designs for your company, each with a unique URL to your website - all included at the rate shown. They will all share your impression ratio*.
• Banner Ad Specifications:
  728x90 - Width = 728 px, Height = 90 px
  160x600 - Width = 160 px, Height = 600 px
  File Format = JPG or GIF (static, no animation)
  File Size = 45 kBytes (maximum)
  Hyperlink = Your company website
  Content = Any combination of text & graphics
• Highlighted Ad Specifications (see screen shot):
  Width = 330 pixels, Height = 400 pixels
  File Format = JPG or GIF (static, no animation)
  File Size = 45 kBytes (maximum)
  Hyperlink = Your company website
  Content = Any combination of text & graphics
  Vendor Page Placement = Up to 5 pages
        related to your products and/or services.
        I will suggest, but you have final say.
        Additional pages are $5/page/month
• See 78x26-pixel Logo specs below.
• See other Notes below.

78x26-Pixel Company Logo Specifications:

• See screen shot
  Width = 78 pixels, Height = 26 pixels
  File Format = GIF (static, no animation)
  File Size = 1.2 kBytes (maximum)
  Hyperlink = Your company website
  Placement = Top of page border, displays on
                      every pageview
• See Important Notes below.

Standard Highlighted Ad Pricing:

• $40/mo. for up to 3 Vendor pages on RF Cafe, and $3/mo. for each additional page.
• These ads appear only on Vendor listing pages.
• Ads contain textual content and a company logo.
• Contract Length = 6 months
• Highlighted Ad Specifications (see screen shot):
  Width = 330 pixels, Height = 200 pixels
  File Format = GIF (static, no animation)
  File Size = 25 kBytes (maximum)
  Hyperlink = Your company website
  Content = Text only + company logo graphic
                                         (150x50-px max)
  Vendor Page Placement = Up to 5 pages
        related to your products and/or services.
        I will suggest, but you have final say.
        Additional pages are $3/page/month
• See 78x26-pixel Logo specs below.
• See Important Notes below.

Important Notes:

• Discounts are not offered at this time.
• Pixel dimensions and maximum file sizes listed are firm. If you have trouble meeting the file size, I will be glad to help - there has never been an ad I couldn't fit.
• I do not collect page traffic or link click statistics for advertisements. Your website server statistical analysis is a much better reporter of inbound links from RF Cafe than I or anyone else can provide.
• To the best of my knowledge the page layouts shown are representative of all pages on RF Cafe.
• I make page layout changes from time to enhance performance, but regardless of the layout, your ad(s) will retain relative location order.
• 78x26-px logos in upper right corner are provided at no additional cost, and are subject to size, location, and format change as deemed necessary for optimizing space usage. These appear on all pages with every page view.
• The rel="sponsored" tag is inserted into all coded hyperlinks.
• * Your banner(s) will be displayed at approximately a 1:4 rate in Slots #1, #2, #3, #4 & #5. I usually run third-party advertisements or my own RF Cafe software ads along with private advertisers in the banner slots, at a display rate of about 1:16.