Thanks
Sam

We did it and got very high traffic. That said, our site was particularly suited to their audience - males, 18-30, mainly US.

The critical thing is to write a good ad, and for whatever you are advertising to be interesting. Crap sites won't go down well. The community there have the right to comment on your ads, so beware of that. Also put your site name in the advert, so even if people don't click immediately, they may still remember you. Humour and women are the top priority there. Anything cool is considered good.

The price is $25 for a week and that puts you in front of anywhere between 70,000 to 100,000 people. Their individual visitor numbers are now around 400,000/months.

We got about 3,500 individual visitors, plus an increased ongoing flow. The community is interconnected, so if you site is good/cool it might get picked up and blogged/posted elsewhere.

I recommend this with a disclaimer - this is great if your site is relevant to a young, 'cool', males audience. Don't bother otherwise.
http://www.fark.com/ http://www.fark.com/classifiedad.shtml

For where to promote, check out the front page of VirtualPromote. Jim has all kinds of useful stuff there.

And check out the Search Engine forums. Done correctly, your pages will get decent listings in the major search engines, which is a prime source of free promotion.

Good luck!

It is just a massive community of people that want a bit of a laugh. Sort of your FHM or Loaded crowd.

As stated, just make sure your site is a good fit. Oh yeah, the guys that run it will give you advise on the text for the ad, so it has the best chance of being effective.

In answer to your other question.

'The word Fark doesn't mean anything. It's a word Drew used instead of saying **** in chat rooms and online games back in the early 90s. He became known for saying it at random intervals just for the hell of it, so one day in late 1997 he decided to go out and register the domain.'
http://www.fark.com/farq/about.shtml

------As of February 12, 2000, any secondary adcodes that are older than 45 days and have less than 2400 monthly impressions will be marked inactive. BURST! urges you to consolidate the traffic with other active adcodes to make the remaining even more attractive to advertisers.-------

Hope this answers the problem, if you didn't get the mail I suggest you contact Burst.

Where are you getting the statistical information?

That is their ad page, but the stats are a bit old I think.

'In October, Jupiter Media Matrix began covering Fark.com. They estimate that over 270,000 people visit Fark at least once each month. Today we average more than 220,000 impressions per day and 6.5 million impressions a month.'

I was told that they are now getting up around 400,000 to 500,000 per month.

My site (humor site) has received over 2,200 visitors, and the classified ad has been up a little over 24 hours. Not a bad investment, I must say. I'm wondering just what the hit count will be after a week.

Brian