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    <title>Ad Revenue for Crypto Publishers, Without the Cut</title>
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    <description>Crypto ad networks take 10 to 30 per cent, and half do not publish the number. What direct sales looks like for a crypto publisher instead.</description>
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    <title>How to Sell Direct Ads Without a Sales Team</title>
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    <description>You can sell direct ads without hiring anybody. Which parts a self-serve portal removes, and which parts are still your job.</description>
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    <title>Flat Monthly Rates vs CPM: The Case for Selling Time</title>
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    <description>A flat monthly rate sells a slot for a month. CPM sells a promised number of impressions. Why selling time is safer for both sides when a site is small.</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Why Advertisers Stop Replying After Your First Email</title>
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    <description>Advertisers stop replying because of how long your process takes, not because your rates are too high. Where the delay comes from.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Where to Find Your First Advertiser</title>
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    <description>Nobody has emailed you asking about rates. Here is the list-building method that finds your first advertiser, starting with the ones you can already see.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Where Your First Ten Advertisers Actually Come From</title>
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    <description>Practical sources for a publisher finding their first direct advertisers, based on demand that already exists around your site rather than cold outreach.</description>
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    <title>Run an Inventory Audit Before You Sell Anything</title>
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    <description>An inventory audit counts every ad slot you have, its size, position and monthly views. An hour of work, and the table it produces becomes your rate card.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Selling Ads in a Vertical Mainstream Ad Tech Avoids</title>
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    <description>How publishers in crypto, cannabis, iGaming and other restricted verticals sell ad space directly when the big platforms refuse their advertisers.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>What to Say When an Advertiser Emails Asking for Rates</title>
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    <description>A practical template for responding to advertising enquiries in a way that converts, instead of starting a slow negotiation over email.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>How to Sell Direct Without Giving Up Your Current Ad Revenue</title>
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    <description>How passback and fallback work, so you can sell ads directly while keeping AdSense or your existing network running underneath for unsold inventory.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Direct Ad Sales vs Ad Networks: The Honest Comparison</title>
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    <description>An even-handed look at when to sell ads directly and when an ad network is the better choice for a publisher, including the case for running both.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>How to Sell Ads Directly on Your Website</title>
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    <description>A practical guide to selling ad space directly to advertisers instead of relying on ad networks, including pricing, placements and handling enquiries.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>How to Price Your Ad Space Without Guessing</title>
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    <description>How to set ad rates on your website from your actual numbers rather than intuition, including how to work out your floor and what to charge above it.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Your Advertise Here Page Is Losing You Money</title>
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    <description>Why the standard Advertise With Us page fails to convert, and what to put on it instead so interested advertisers can actually buy.</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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