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I'm basically trying to create another medium for small companies to get traffic for cheap. It's much like http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ but I'm allowing companies to post their ad for free. Right now it's fairly simple, it's only the company logo and a link to their website but I will eventually add additional information. I want to first see if this actually works and I get enough companies registering.

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I'm still having a hard time understanding what I, as a company, would actually be getting from this. Is the 'ad' anything beyond the listing on your site? Companies are going to want to host banners that they can push elsewhere, not necessarily to send their customers to your site first.

A company would benefit by getting more traffic to their site if a user clicks on their link. Right now it's very minimal, it doesn't have anything I agree, but I plan on making it so you can upload some type of banner or something. I figured nobody would take the time to create a banner and upload it so that's why I just have their logo and URL, it's easy to enter that basic information for a company. If the site gets enough traffic, the companies at the top of the list would get the most visibility ofcourse.

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