Who should advertise on Cape Town Daily Photo?
The ideal advertiser would be someone who has a Cape Town-based business that would be of some interest either to tourists, amateur photographers, or a web-savvy audience of young Capetonians. We would prefer to add value to our visitors by carefully selecting the brands to be advertised; this is obviously beneficial for both readers and advertisers. We would welcome enquiries from adventure operators, restaurants, coffee shops, accommodation establishments, internet cafes, clothing stores, sports equipment stores, bakeries, photographic supply stores, outdoor and camping stores, and… YOU, if you feel you have a product that might be suited to this platform.
Cape Town Daily Photo’s current stats
(updated 29 April 2009)
Alexa rank, worldwide: 104,452
Alexa rank, South Africa: 606
Technorati rank: 83,359
Amatomu rank: We have removed the Amatomu tracking code, as Amatomu is experiencing far too many technical difficulties right now. We were ranked 71 at the time.
Afrigator rank, Africa: 15
Afrigator rank, South Africa: 14
Absolute Unique Visitors/month, according to Google Analytics: 11,088
Google.com first-page ranking for key-phrase “cape town south africa”: #10
Search engine results
Our posts get consistently high rankings on Google (usually on the first page, and often the first result) for our chosen keywords. Here are a few examples, correct at the time of writing:
cape town photos = #1
graeme smith cape town = #1 and #9
nobu one & only = #1
bakers mini cricket = #2
uss theodore roosevelt cape town = #3
cape town storm photos = #4, #5 and #6
prime circle album launch = #3
seether at kirstenbosch = #3 and #4
Advertising options and rates
We have a limited number of advertising spots available at this stage.
Sidebar banners (size in pixels, cost per month):
125×125 = R300/month
125×250 = R680 /month
Specifications:
You will need to provide us with a banner of the correct size in jpg format, as well as the URL to which you would like it to link. If you prefer, we can design an attractive banner for you for an additional once-off fee. No animated ads will be accepted, and we reserve the right to refuse to advertise any product if we feel that it does not fit in with the tone and subject matter of our site.
How to be featured in a post
If you’d like your restaurant, guest-house, event or anything else featured in a post, contact me on 
. We don’t accept payment for posts, but we would appreciate it if you issue us an invitation to stay at your guest-house, eat at your restaurant, come to your event or take part in your activity at no expense. We feel this is a very fair exchange for the value you will gain by being featured on the blog. You will benefit in three ways:
- You will get direct exposure for your brand amongst our readership. Because we don’t accept payment for posts, our reviews remain honest and factual, giving them greater weight in the eyes of our readers.
- If you have a website of your own, the inbound contextual links from Cape Town Daily Photo – a site that is well-regarded by Google – are likely to positively affect your search engine rankings.
- Our posts rank highly on Google for our chosen keywords. For example, a post we did on Origin Coffee Roasting ranked at number 1 on Google for months for the key-phrase “best coffee in Cape Town”. The best part? In our experience it really is the best coffee in Cape Town.
