# Ad question...if anyone knows

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**Created:** [April 19, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ad-question-if-anyone-knows/258014 "2008-04-19T17:21:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Theros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Theros](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Theros)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ad-question-if-anyone-knows/258014/1 "2008-04-19T17:21:21Z")

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Hey all!

I’m just curious on how do most of these web galleries get those banner ads (or square ads) on their sites? IE, like [Stylegala, [URL=“http://www.cssbeauty.com/”]CSSBeauty, or [URL=“http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/advertise/”]Unmatched Style](http://www.stylegala.com/). All of these sites have “advertising” pages, so I assume some of the banner ads actually go directly to the maintainer of each site to put their ads up.

Then there’s also sites like this: [I Hear Blogs](http://www.iheartblogs.com/). I think those smaller graphic ads are just affiliate marketing?

Can anyone like give me a short primer on how these sites go about getting these ads? I’m assuming the first step is to have a good amount of traffic?

Thanks,  
Eric Huang