Advertise On HowtoForge

Advertise On HowtoForge

HowtoForge is generating over 15 million page views per month from over 3.5 million unique visitors. It is the no. 1 resource for high-quality Linux tutorials on the net and provides free hosting for tutorials and discussion forums with a focus on Linux server administration.

We publish unique HowTos that cover the most interesting Linux topics, thus attracting a readership that is highly technology-aware, ranging from power users to developers and professional system administrators. It is these persons that are interested in the newest and cutting edge technology and that buy the most hardware and software and have higher-than-average spendings on hosting services.

• 15 million page views/months
• 3.5 million unique users/month

 

1 Advertising

If you are interested in advertising on Howtoforge.com, please contact us under:

Mr. Till Brehm, info@howtoforge.com

We are happy to find the best advertising solution for you (e.g. banner advertising, sponsorships, newsletter advertising, and other custom marketing solutions) and give you a quote.

Alternatively you can book your campain in the DoubleClick Ad Planner:

 

1.1 Placements

Currently, we have the following ad placements available:

• Front Page:
  • Leaderboard (728x90), top center.
  • Rectangle A (300x250), top left.
  • Rectangle B (300x250), middle center.
  • Roadblock: all of the above creatives (one leaderboard and two rectangles) are simultaneously used by one advertiser.
• Article Pages:
  • Leaderboard (728x90), top center.
  • Rectangle A (300x250), top left.
  • Rectangle B (300x250), middle center.
  • Roadblock: all of the above creatives (one leaderboard and two rectangles) are simultaneously used by one advertiser.
• Forum:
  • Leaderboard (728x90), top center.
  • Skyscraper (160x600), top left.
  • Rectangle (300x250), bottom right (the rectangle appears only on thread pages, not on the overview pages) .
  • Roadblock: all of the above creatives (one leaderboard, one skyscraper and one rectangle) are simultaneously used by one advertiser.
• Whole Site:
  • All leaderboards (728x90) above the fold (top center): this includes the leaderboard on the front page, on the article pages and in the forum.
  • All rectangles (300x250) above the fold (top left): this includes Rectangle A on the front page and Rectangle A on the article pages.
  • All rectangles (300x250) below the fold (middle center): this includes Rectangle B on the front page and Rectangle B on the article pages.
  • All ads above the fold: this includes the leaderboards on the front page, the article pages, and the forum, plus Rectangle A on the front page and the article pages, plus the Skyscraper in the forum.

 

1.2 Targeting

The following filters are available to target your ads to your desired audience:

• Geography (Geo-Targeting): You can target ad campaigns to countries, regions, metro areas, and cities. For example, you can target country=US AND city=Paris. You can also exclude places. For example, you can target country=France AND city!=Paris to target France but exclude Paris.
  
  
• Category: You can target ad campaigns to the categories and subcategories that are available in our navigation menu on the left side:
  • Linux, Android, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Kernel, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, SuSE, Ubuntu
  • Web Server, Apache, Cherokee, Lighttpd, nginx
  • Backup
  • Control Panel, ISPConfig
  • DNS, BIND, MyDNS, PowerDNS, djbdns
  • Desktop
  • Email, Anti-Spam/Virus, Postfix
  • FTP
  • High-Availability
  • Monitoring
  • MySQL
  • Programming, C/C++, PHP
  • Samba
  • Security, Anti-Spam/Virus
  • Storage
  • Virtualization, KVM, OpenVZ, VMware, VirtualBox, Xen
  • Other
  • FreeBSD
  • Commercial
• Browsing: You can target ad campaigns to a user's browsing environment:
  • Bandwidth: cable, DSL, etc.
  • Browser: Chrome, Firefox 3.0, Internet Explorer 8.x, Netscape Navigator x.x, Opera Unknown.Unknown, Safari 2.Unknown, etc.
  • Browser Language: Chinese, English, Italian, German, etc.
  • Operating System: Android, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, etc.
• User Domains: You can set ad campaigns to target ads only to the domains or subdomains of the Internet service providers (ISPs) your users use to access the Internet. For example, if you target stanford.edu, you are targeting students, faculty, and staff of Stanford University only. If you target google.com, you are targeting Google employees only. You can specify top-level domains, such as .edu, and .gov, and subdomains, such as stanford.edu, and usa.gov. Invalid values include services like http://www.psychology.berkeley.edu, and www.usa.gov.
  
  

Of course, all of the above filters can be combined.

 

1.3 Formats

Creatives can be delivered in the following formats:

• Third Party: A highly customizable, interactive creative. You can use any custom HTML and JavaScript snippets as well as tags from a third-party ad server.
  
  
• Flash: A creative containing animation, sound, video, or interactive features. Requires a Flash (SWF) file.
  
  
• Image: A basic image creative. Requires a GIF, JPG, or PNG file.
  
  
• DoubleClick Tag: A creative hosted by DoubleClick.