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We offer banner and text advertising opportunities at several strategic positions on our website at a very reasonable rate.

Why You Should Advertise With SabahForum.com

Maintaining a forum as large as SabahForum.com doesn't come cheap. It costs us a couple of hundreds US dollars per month on server fees alone to ensure the forum can handle the daily traffic and bandwidth demand. Our server is located in Houston, Texas, USA. Offering an advertising option helps us cover the server cost if only a little while keeping the forum alive and allow us to continue  to offer free forum service to everyone.

You should consider advertising your products or services here because

• SabahForum.com is the largest dual-language forum in Sabah allowing you to target both Malay and English speaking Sabahan
• If your target audience is Sabahan or Malaysian, SabahForum.com offers you the opportunity to target this particular demographic
• Our members are active and responsive to offers that interest them
• Buying an ad is cheap allowing you to test the response rates first deciding to commit on a longer ad duration.

SabahForum.com was launched in June 2004 and has since grown rapidly, attracting many new registrations daily. As of 13 October 2010, we have over 21000 registered members who have made over 583000 postings.

With a lot more potential for growth, your ad will continue to be exposed to an increasing number of interested visitors in the most cost effective way.

Here are some of the statistics for the site from 1 January 2010 until 13 Oct 2010. On average we get over 50000 unique visitors monthly and serve close to 2 million page views (pages) monthly. The data is compiled from the Awstats for accuracy.

Country Share (Top 25)

Banner Advertising

We accepts banner advertising at three different positions.

First Position: 728 x 90 leaderboard on the top pages

• Ad located at the top of all pages including the home page, videos, news, directory and all forum sections.
• Ad will share equal impressions with up to two other sponsors on the same spot
• Ad creative is 728 x 90 pixels
• 15Kb file size limit
• Animation ads (but not flash) are accepted
• Advertisers must create their own ads
• Ad rate is for a 14 days duration

This is how your ad will look like on the home page.

This is how your ad will look like on the forum pages

Second Position: 728 x 90 leaderboard on the bottom pages

• Ad located at the bottom of all pages including the home page, videos, news, directory and all forum section.
• Ad will share equal impressions with up to two other sponsors on the same spot
• Ad creative is 728 x 90 pixels
• 15Kb file size limit
• Animation ads (but not flash) are accepted
• Advertisers must create their own ads
• Ad rate is for a 14 day duration

This is how your ad will look like on the home page.

This is how your ad will look like on the forum pages

Third Position: 125x125 button after the first forum post

• Ad located after the first post of every topic in the forum
• Only one ad occupies any one of the six 125x125 slots
• Ad creative is 125x125 pixels
• 15Kb size limit
• Animation ads (but not flash) are accepted
• Advertisers must create own ads
• Ad rate is for a 14 day duration

This is how your ad will look like:

Text Advertising

We are able to offer text ads consisting of short paragraphs and links. You may choose to target specific forum or the entire forums. Your ad will appear above the posts.

Fourth Position: Text ad above the posts

• Text ad located above the post of every topic in the forum or any specific forum that you choose
• Text ad will share equal impressions with up to two other sponsors on the same spot
• Text ad must be no more than 60 words and include no more than two links.
• HTML code is accepted but no image is allowed except invisible one for tracking purpose.
• Advertisers must create own ads
• Ad rate is for a 14 day duration

Payment

All payments should be paid upfront at the beginning of the 14 days duration. Payment details which include our PayPal email and MayBank account will be made available once you have filled in the advertiser request form. Currently we accept payments via PayPal (in Malaysian Ringgit or US Dollar) and MayBank2u online.

Restrictions

SabahForum.com reserves the right to reject any banner that promotes pornography or that is obscene. Those that are considered unacceptable as to wording, appearance or for any other reason may also be rejected.

Current Availability & Ad Rates

There are ad slots available at this time, please fill in the advertiser request form for our ad rates and info on how to place your order. Feel free to contact us if you have any further questions.