Advertising Information

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Solar Terrestrial Dispatch has openings for advertisements!

Who is Solar Terrestrial Dispatch?

One of the most accurate commercial space weather forecast centers in the world according to Space Weather Journal 2003 [1].
Source of the worlds official auroral activity watches and warnings.

Why would you want to advertise with us?

Each month we receive over 64,000 visitors who view our web pages over one million times.
35 different search engines (dominantly Google, MSN and Yahoo) perform more than 120,000 page views each month (this is in addition to the more than one million page views generated by human visitors).
Direct referrals to our site from these search engines generate 2% of our traffic

Who are viewing our web pages?

A uniquely targeted audience of:

Telescopic, night and atmospheric Photographers.
Deep-sky and planetary Astronomers.
White-light to narrow-bandwidth h-alpha Solar Observers.
MF to VHF broadcast Radio Engineers.
Amateur Radio Operators.
We have a dedicated audience of over 12,000 throughout the world who receive our auroral activity warning and watches.

During space weather storming, our web site receives more than double the usual number of hits.

What advertising formats do we have available?

Billboards (750 pixels by 60 pixels) poised at the top of the page and located on our most heavily used web pages, which include:
Buttons (120 pixels by up to 200 pixels) poised on our main web page to the right of our most recently submitted photographic gallery images.
Banner (640 pixels by 116 pixels) is imbedded inside the top portion of our real-time radio propagation map. The banner is heavily linked to many (perhaps hundreds) of other websites around the world to enhance their web site content.

What are we asking for advertising space?

All prices are per month and are based on either a one (3) month or a six (6) month contract period. We can guarantee the given number of page views per month. If your advertisement receives more page views in a month than it is allotted, the advertisement will not be removed, but will be assessed free bonus page views until the term period expires.

	Page Views per month	Number of slots available/month	Price for a 3 -month term	Price for a 6-month term

Billboards:	50,000	6	$500 USD	$1000 USD
Buttons:	50,000	8	$250 USD	$500 USD
Banner:	> 50,000	1	$250 USD	$500 USD

Each advertiser may submit up to 4 separate graphic advertisements at no additional charge. Each advertisement is then cycled through our web pages in a way that will maximize page views and customer response.

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Terms and conditions

[1] - Oler, C., "Prediction Performance of Space Weather Forecast Centers following the Extreme Space Weather Events of October and November 2003", Space Weather, August 2004, published by the American Geophysical Union. It is available on-line.