If your business is related
to musical instruments and guitars in particular then jedistar.com might be a useful part of your
marketing strategy. It is not a commercial site - just a hobby - and has
been growing since early 2007. Jedistar does not artificially inflate
traffic with bulk search engine submits, pay for SEO services or advertise.
Free advertising
If you are a luthier, guitar factory, amplifier, effects or drum maker send me information on your brand, when you were founded, where your products are made, how you can tell where they were made, and some photos of brands/trademarks, serial number date codes, and photos of the maker/founder. I will create an entry for your brand with a link to your web site.
If you want to use jedistar as ad space:
It is easiest for me to put a banner ad 728 by 90
pixels at the top of the page to replace the google ad banner at the top. Am happy to link to your
image so you can update whenever you want.
Advertising rates
$20AUD set up plus minimum $20 per month for guaranteed 15,000 page views.
More page views at the rate of $1.50 per 1,000. I cannot guarantee you the
clicks though as that depends on how compelling and relevant the ad is.
Proof of page views from my end via Google Analytics.
There is a premium of $5 per month to be on my home page or $10 per month my
most popular page - low watt amps.
Payment via paypal.
I do not advertise alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, or adult content.
Jedistar gets 1,000 to 1,500
visits per day.
Average on site time is
more than two (2) minutes.
For reference my Alexa rank in September 2008
was around 3,916,441.
Google Analytics Stats at
13 January 2010 for the previous 12 months:
Visits 568,691 | Pages per visit 2.45
| Pageviews 1,395,864 | Time on site 2.43 minutes | New Visits 78%
Visits come from 109 countries. Please note
jedistar.com is not popular in North Korea but there were 852 visits from
South Korea. The top 10 most popular
countries visiting jedistar are:
USA (~22,500 per month), United Kingdom (~4,000 p.m), Canada (~3,500 p.m.), Australia (~2,400 p.m.), Germany (~1,500) p.m.,
France (~1,300 p.m.), Italy (~1,000 p.m.), Netherlands (~900 p.m.), Spain (~600 p.m.) Sweden (~500 p.m.).
"I was mind boggled by the work on
your guitar list, alone !!! Bravo!!!!!!!A very educational site,good for
guitar humankind" [SE, Guitar store owner USA Feb 2012]
Hi Paul/Jedistar: THANK YOU! for an incredible website.
A HUGE amount of work, no doubt. But, priceless to people like me and
thousands of others. [GM, Spokane Washington June 2011]
"You have an amazing site: keep up
the ground breaking work." [JE, April 2011]
"... great site. I've used it many times
researching guitars. I'm a vintage guitar dealer..." [SA, Nov 2010]
"You have the best guitar site
I
have ever seen in my 62 year life, I am a collector of rare acoustic guitars
and have been for 43 years" [Stephen, US, email Aug 2010]
"This site has a ton
of info listed on low watt amps, its a great resource." [Forum, May 2010]
"You have a great site ! Especially , the low watt amp is my fave . I am
very much into that ." [HD, Turkey, July 2010]
"That is a
great site and the first place I often go to when I run across some guitar I
am unfamiliar with and want a bit of info." [Z, Acoustic Guitar Forum May
2010]
"You have the most complete directory of luthiers i've encountered, I
thank you on behalf of the "industry", [B, Luthier May 2010]
"After 4 hours looking, I'm
impressed........... I don't get impressed easily." [D.J, Ashland,
Kentucky Feb 2010]
"Hi and thanks for
this site. What an awesome undertaking." [JS, Luthier October 2009]
"Ignore the strange name! Click through and you'll
find information about guitar manufacturers, including classical, on this
encyclopedic Australian website, from vintage to current." [D, UK guitar
teacher, Jan 2009]
"cool site man, I'd be honored to be on there" [T,
US Luthier Jan 2009]
"That's a great website you've got going there.
Very interesting." [KL, Australian luthier Nov 2008]
"wow, what an ambitious project." [US
guitar
historian Nov 2008]
"Wow- it's a huge collection- very nice work you
have done." [JL, US luthier Nov 2008]
"your site ...looks very comprehensive and useful"
[J, UK Luthier Nov 2008]
"You do the world a
great service" [DM, US Luthier Nov 2008]
"Just had a look at your website. Awesome work
man!" [Forum, Oct 2008]
"Good work fella... Starting to really take
shape..."[Forum, Oct 2008]
"Great site! " [Forum, Oct 2008]
"We liked your site and put a reciprocal link on our
site as well." [Forum Admin, 2007]
"I'd like you to work on that red star on your site. It looks cheesy!
" [Forum 2007]
"That's a bloody big list ya got there!" [Forum 2007]
