Ever wished you had another marketing outlet in Roane County that could easily target local, new customers? The South of the River Sports Network may just be your answer. SORSN.com is a local website, developed and operated by ThirstyPixelDesign.com, that focuses on the sports related life of the South of the River community and the Midway schools.

The site has been around since 2003 and is very popular within the community. We cover most all the various games and provide game write-ups, photos, stats and more. We also conduct player & coach interviews and lots of other light-hearted attempts of having fun with the South of the River community.

So why advertise on SORSN.com?

Exposure to Local Market

Without question Roane County residents, particularly Kingston & the Midway areas, make up the largest percentage of our site visitors. SORSN.com is a quick and easy way to get exposure to this niche area of the market. As stated earlier, the website is well known in the community and our web stats prove that.

Below is a snap shot of page impressions from the website from a recent 6-month time frame (Figure 1). The site averages about 4,000 ad impressions each month; counting impressions from the main site and from the galleries.

The galleries are very popular during football season and deliver a lot of ad impressions during that stretch. During the 2010 football season, the Galleries alone delivered more than 20,000 ad impressions.

Increasing your Company’s presence on Google with SEO

What is SEO? Search engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” search results, like Google, Yahoo! or Bing. SEO is extremely important, because the majority of online users utilize search engines to get to a website, even if they know the URL. Many small business websites receive as much as 90% of their traffic from a search engine.

Search Engine “bots”, also called spiders, rely on links to find new web pages. Essentially, these “bots” use links to crawl from page to page to find web content. Without incoming links, it can be much more difficult for the search engines to find your content, and therefore rank your site. Bottom line: Search engines like links.

So how can SORSN.com help? SORSN.com has over 600 articles & thousands of pictures – thus thousands of different urls – and your ad on sorsn.com will be found on each one of those. This creates an abundance of links back to your site. Inbound links to your site is one of the very important puzzle pieces in Google’s search algorithm in determining your sites popularity and improving your page rank in Google search results.

Advertising Options

We have 4 Advertising Packages; however, if none of these fit your needs, contact us to discuss other options.

Package A: Ad on the right hand rail of the main site (Figure 2)

Logo created by sorsn.com designers if you do not already have one.
Ad size: 160×90 pixels
On-click: Clicking on the ad could send users to the company site, company’s Facebook page, or to a separate page for a coupon or more information.
Also includes periodic appearances as the “Featured Sponsor” below the Cover Picture on the home page (Figure 3).
If interested, a coupon listed under our Coupon section at no additional cost.

Package B: Large Ad across top of SORSN Galleries site (Figure 4).

Logo created by sorsn.com designers if you do not already have one.
Ad size: 330×100 pixels
On-click: Clicking on the ad could send users to the company site, company’s Facebook page, or to a separate page for a coupon or more information.
Limited to 2 advertisers. Full ad (660×100) is available if both ad spots are open.
If interested, a coupon listed under our Coupon section at no additional cost.

Package C: Large Ad across bottom of SORSN Galleries site (Figure 5).

Located at the bottom of the galleries, above Google Ads.
Logo created by sorsn.com designers if you do not already have one.
Ad size: 330×100 pixels
On-click: Clicking on the ad could send users to the company site, company’s Facebook page, or to a separate page for a coupon or more information.
Limited to 2 advertisers. Full ad (660×100) is available if both ad spots are open.
If interested, a coupon listed under our Coupon section at no additional cost.

Package D: Coupon Only

Coupon listed under our Coupon section found under the main menu (Figure 6).
Coupon/Graphics created by SORSN.com
Click here for more information on Coupons.

With very affordable rates starting at just $70 for a full year, why not advertise on SORSN.com?