» Eight Original “Advertise Here” 125×125 Graphics

Eight Original “Advertise Here” 125×125 Graphics

July 22nd, 2008
Posted in Business, Design, Photoshop, Website Promotion

One of the most popular formats for online advertisements, especially amongst blogs, is the 125px by 125px square ad. Who knows why. Perhaps the size makes it easy to use in both narrow sidebars in a single column and wider sidebars as well in two columns. Whatever the reason, it’s popularity is nice for both designers as well as advertisers. Designers because we can design around this block size when creating new designs. Advertisers because having a unified size means having to create less “custom” sizes for each new place they advertise.

Perhaps the easiest way to sell these spots on your website is by filling the unsold spots with mock advertisements which are linked to a page in which potential new advertisers can get more information about buying the spot. These “Advertise Here” graphics should be catchy, but not too catchy as to overwhelm current advertisers. Due to the constrained space, trying to provide any other information other than “Advertise Here” is probably a bad idea. Perhaps you could fit in a price, but that might be considered tacky and I would avoid it.

Here is an example of a bad “Advertise Here” graphic:

Better to be brief in your graphic, and let the image that it links to do the talking.

Freebies

Below are some totally original, nicer “Advertise Here” graphics. Classy, fun, hip, grungy… Use them for whatever you would like. At the bottom there is a link to a ZIP file containing all the original Photoshop files, for you own alternations.