Girlandtheworld donates 50% of all earnings to charities supporting women’s empowerment in Asia. For more information click here
Thank you for your interest in advertising on Girlandtheworld!
This blog is targeted towards anyone with an interest in travel, and currently has a yearly readership of just over 62K. In particular my main audience consists of educated and employed women aged between 18-24, most coming to the site through search terms such as “travel,” “teaching English,” and “travel food.”
If you feel that your company offers something that could benefit my readers, or you think that my blog could bring targeted traffic to your website, then please consider purchasing advertising space and becoming an official sponsor of Girlandtheworld!
Since 50% of profit goes towards charity, by sponsoring Girlandtheworld you are contributing to making the world a better place! Girlandtheworld will also send you updates once a year from supported charities to let you know how your money is being used. For more information on my supported charities, please visit my charities page.
Now for the important stuff – statistics
| Nov 2011 | Dec 2011 | Jan 2012 | Feb 2012 | Mar 2012 | April 2012 | May 2012 | June2012 | July 2012 | |
| Visits | 755 | 5,607 | 1,899 | 2,682 | 3,465 | 4,498 | 4,384 | 4,689 | 4,806 |
| Page Views | 2,602 | 8,439 | 5,388 | 5,611 | 6,000 | 7,625 | 7,835 | 8,219 | 8,431 |
| Alexa Ranking | 2,216,898 | 1,957,487 | 840,465 | 893,227 | 1,088,112 | 1,377,021 | 1,609,401 | 1,128,214 | 731,425 |
| Twitter Followers | 89 | 165 | 337 | 387 | 411 | 403 | 419 | 436 | 472 |
| Facebook followers | 20 | 49 | 67 | 90 | 94 | 123 | 140 | 155 | 190 |
| Email subscribers | 10 | 12 | 17 | 22 | 24 | 29 | 35 | 39 | 45 |
| Aug 2012 | Sep 2012 | Oct 2012 | Nov 2012 | Dec 2012 | Jan 2013 | |
| Visits | 4,591 | 5,097 | 6,924 | 8,243 | 7,795 | 7,022 |
| Page Views | 8,155 | 9,042 | 11,939 | 13,591 | 12,575 | 12,996 |
| Alexa Ranking | 564,896 | 336,986 | 244,410 | 245,302 | 333,672 | 492,246 |
| Twitter Followers | 477 | 486 | 544 | 607 | 640 | 799 |
| Facebook followers | 200 | 213 | 234 | 262 | 287 | 430 |
| Email subscribers | 50 | 53 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 62 |
Main reader locations
1. United States
2. South Korea
3. United Kingdom
4. Singapore
5. Canada
Advertising options
Package #1 – text link in the sidebar (standard package)
These text-only links will be placed on the right sidebar, which appears on every page of the website. This is effective and cheap way to build brand recognition and to create backlinks to your site. I have room for up to 6 text links.
price: $15/month.
Package #2 - 280 x 180 image banner in sidebar (premium package)
Your image banner ad will be placed in my right sidebar, which appears on every page of the website. This is a more noticeable way to draw readers towards your website. The banner must be no more than 280 x 180 to fit my website theme. I have space for 4 of these ads.
price: $20/month
Package #3 – personalized 280 x 280 hand-drawn image banner in sidebar (exclusive package)
Girlandtheworld will hand-draw a 280 x 180 advert to suit your needs and this will be placed in the right sidebar, which appears on every page of the website. The benefits of this are that the advert will blend in more effectively with the content theme, and will be completely unique, thus better attracting the attention of readers. You will also gain rights to the hand-drawn advert and are welcome to re-use it on your own site, or wherever you see fit. I have room for 4 of these ads. For samples of Girlandtheworld’s artwork please click here.
price: $35/month
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Advertising guidelines
♥ All advertising prices are in USD.
♥ Payments are accepted through Paypal only.
♥ Unless you choose the exclusive package, you will be asked to supply your own banners.
♥ Animated banners are fine, but please keep them reasonable.
♥ Girlandtheworld reserves the right to reject ads deemed unsuitable for the site.
♥ All packages start with a 1 year minimum sign-up.
♥ Ads are non-refundable unless you contact me within 1 hour of placing your order.
Start advertising now! Use contact form below to get in touch.
Still not convinced? Here’s some more info to help you make your decision:
Why advertise on a travel blog?
♥ Tap in to a large social network with hardly any effort
The blogosphere is large and diverse, pulling in thousands of clients with varying interests. When you advertise on TV or in a newspaper, you reach an equally large crowd, but have no way of knowing if they are interested in your product or not. The beauty of advertising on a travel blog is that this field has already been specifically narrowed down by the blogger. You get the same large pool of potential clients, except that all of them actually already have an interest in your product, and therefore there is more chance that your product will be seen by your target audience at any time and any place.
♥ It’s cheap!
Advertising on a blog is a low-cost and easy option that will help you to create permanent backlinks to your own website at a fraction of the price you would pay to advertise elsewhere online. What’s more, the blogger – already working hard to promote their blog – does all the hard work for you. For sponsored trips, you only pay once to front the cost of the trip, but the blog post referencing your company stays online forever. As the blog grows in popularity and ranking, so will the link to your site.
♥ You can get up close and personal with your client base
With sponsored trips, the voice and information provided by the blogger gives readers an honest and dependable description of what your company is really like. Readers can get more of a feel of your company, and since they trust the blogger, they will trust their opinions on which companies are worth taking note of. As readers are also able to comment on content, you can use these comments to find out what people really think of your company, and learn more about your potential clients to enable better advertising in the future.
♥ It improves your SEO
The backlinks you will get as a result of advertising on an external website will help your own website’s google ranking to grow, therefore driving more traffic to your company.
Why advertise on Girl And The World?
♥ Large readership
Girl And The World only started running in November 2011, but it has already received over 10,000 views (true as of December 23rd 2011). That equates to 5,000 views every month from readers interested in what you have to offer. A figure that is constantly growing.
♥ Targeted content
Girl And The World is primarily about solo female travel within Asia. This is a niche subject, which all advertising content must fit into. If you advertise with me you get an extremely targeted audience of readers who are doubtless already interested in your product.
♥ Dependable reviews
Any sponsored trips or posts on Girl And The World are written impartially, providing completely honest reviews to readers. Since readers can trust the content of Girl And The World, they can trust that what is written about your company is honest too. My readers are my main priority, and I will never misinform them.
♥ Professional writing to improve your company image
I already work as a professional freelance writer in the travel and tours industry. I have written content for multiple travel companies in Sri Lanka, and am a published journalist, with articles in a number of international publications such as That’s Shanghai, Hull Daily Mail, Hullfire Magazine, and London’s Ribbed Magazine. If I undertake a sponsored trip with your company, you can count on me to produce a quality write up, with honest opinions and accurate information. I put a lot of time and effort into my posts, and will never produce any sloppy write-ups of trips.
♥ Your content will grow in popularity over time
Posts written about sponsored trips will remain on Girl And The World permanently. This means that your company will remain advertised on a blog that is continually growing in readership, allowing your content to reach a progressively wider audience over time. As of February 2012 I will be on the road full-time, with no other job to distract me for the entirety of the year. Blogging will be my primary priority, and I aim to increase the readership of the blog each month. Advertising with Girl And The World gives you the opportunity to jump on the back of a fledgling business and watch as it grows, allowing your company to grow with it.
All your photographs are truly amazing; I didn’t have my camera during my trip around Asia.
I especially like “beautiful graffiti on the way up Huangshan Mountain, China” because the rocks look like an Elephant
Thank you. Where did you visit in Asia?
Hi Natalie,
My name is Leslyn Kantner and I am the Co-Founder & CEO of uencounter.me. I am reaching out to a few travel bloggers who may want to grow their following by using uencounter.me in a unique way. After reading through your blog (I see you have a travel map so I think you will like uencounter.me) I felt we may be a good fit. First, a little about my company:
Uencounter.me is a relatively new Web application that was born from a curiosity of mine to see my life experiences ‘pinned’ on a map, to discover how I am connected to others, and most importantly – to create a venue where I can post messages to people in my life that have influenced or impacted me in a large or small way. Basically, it’s a SOCIAL PIN MAP. I created a team and together, we built and recently launched the site.
While it is fun and interesting to see our travels, perhaps our life – pinned on a map, uencounter.me is more than that. In addition to creating maps of places users have been, uencounter.me can be used to connect with people. Users at uencounter.me do not have to know the name of people they want to connect with. All they have to do is drop a pin on the map in the location where a meeting or ‘encounter’ took place and post a message. Our goal is that as the public learns about the site, they will read through the messages or search for encounters that took place at specific locations and pass the messages along to individuals they know. Our users are also using the site for travel planning… looking for pins in locations they wish to go and connecting with other users who are or have been there. In addition, uencounter.me offers options to find ‘missed connections’ by applying the same principles. We’ve recently opened the entire site to the public free of charge.
As a blogger, we know one of your goals is to increase readership! We have been partnering with travel bloggers who are interested in obtaining new readers by offering them our Partner level options free for one year! Our proposition is this: We would like to offer you our Partner level package for one year at no cost. Your responsibility will be to create an account in the name of your blog and add a UE badge to the sidebar of your landing page. We will create a “vanity link” for you to use so that when your readers click on the badge, they will be taken directly to your UE Map. Then, you begin adding pins to your map that coorespond to the blog post(s) you have written and will write! With each pin, you have the option of adding a hyperlink to your blog and photos if you choose.
Here are some examples:
http://travelwithkat.com/ ; http://www.thisgivesmehope.com ; http://theworldtravelwebsite.com
This is how it would look on the discussion page of the pin you post: https://www.uencounter.me/discussions/view/encounter/1205
In addition to the year of free Partner level options – we are currently marketing machines (!) and will market your pins as we promote our site. This includes Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, and will offer Klout if you use it. Moreover, I will occasionally add information about our Travel Blog partners to my blog postings. You can take a look at my twitter stream (@LeslynK) and our FB page to get an idea.
We are passionate in our mission and envision a premiere global platform for the expression of gratitude and the acknowledgement of random and/or meaningful encounters. I imagine that you frequently encounter people who make your trip more memorable and could therefore make use of that aspect of the site yourself. We are just beginning to build our site and are gaining users rapidly … it may take a little time but we are incredibly determined to achieve success and are happy to have you ride with us. We feel that this is a win-win opportunity for both you and uencounter.me.
I would appreciate your thoughts either way!
Best,
Leslyn Kantner
http://www.uencounter.me
leslyn@uencounter.me