Comments on: CityPages.com Serves Local Ads to International Visitors

By: Joel Kramer Crunches MinnPost’s Visitor Data | The Deets

Joel Kramer Crunches MinnPost’s Visitor Data | The Deets — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:01:21 +0000

[...] to me, ties back to some of the stuff I wrote about CityPages in the spring. Newspaper websites are living a lie if they think someone from Romania visiting a [...]

By: Village Voice Media’s Bill Jensen Doesn’t Understand New Media | The Deets

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:10:38 +0000

[...] This will be for a follow up to this story: http://www.thedeets.com/2009/01/29/citypagescom-serves-local-ads-to-international-visitors/ [...]

By: How Village Voice Media Uses Digg to Game Their Traffic Numbers | The Deets

How Village Voice Media Uses Digg to Game Their Traffic Numbers | The Deets — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:04:45 +0000

[...] believe it does, and here’s why: Village Voice Media serves up local advertiser’s ads against this type of traffic. As CityPages’ Publisher, Mark Bartel explained in the comments [...]

By: Ed Kohler

Ed Kohler — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:47:59 +0000

Mark, it’s great to hear that CityPages is going start geotargeting advertising. It’s the beginning of February now, so when can we expect to see this change implemented?

By: Mark Bartel

Mark Bartel — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:49:55 +0000

City Pages writes great local stories and delivers a wide range of content. Users find them. It’s the world wide web, so yes all our traffic isn’t local.
A part of that surely are the thousands of transplanted Minnesotans still interested in City Pages stories, and there are thousands of Twin Cities
citizens who frequent national web sites.

For the month of January, at least 78% of our traffic to
Citypages.com comes from the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Traffic from digg.com represented 8% of our traffic over the last 30 days.
It can range anywhere from 1 percent to 10 percent in a given month.

Advertisers are most interested in two things. They want a quality
environment, and a great return on their investment. City Pages offers
excellent rates, primarily based on cost per thousand. But most
importantly, we consistently deliver high click through rates.

City Pages intends to increase response for our advertisers even more
when we launch geotargeted advertising in the beginning of February.