Advertise with TrainWeb and drive more traffic to your site.

Advertise With TrainWeb

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TrainWeb operates the largest & most visited family of railroad related websites in the world with over 60 million page views¹ per year. TrainWeb gets more than 60,000 unique visitors² per day. TrainWeb has a very targeted audience of railroad enthusiasts. Visitors to TrainWeb are interested in rail travel, model railroading, railfanning, collectibles, railroad history, rail advocacy, the rail industry and many other aspects or railroads. This makes TrainWeb the busiest railroad related website on the internet!

There are four ways in which you can advertise at TrainWeb:

$995 per year for a 200x40 pixel banner ad in Ad Rotation throughout TrainWeb with more than 15,000 exposures per month.
$85 per month. Identical to the above, but the $85 per month is automatically charged to your credit card each month. Minimum term is one year and will continue until canceled.
$99 per year for a premium listing in certain areas of TrainWeb. These are areas where we normally provide a free listing, but will rank you ahead of others as a premium listing and provide enhanced promotion in that directory.
Google Ads. These appear on almost every page at TrainWeb. You can place this advertising directly through Google on line. Just click on the "Google Ad" link on the lower right hand corner of any Google Ad that you find posted at TrainWeb and follow the instructions provided by Google. You will have a great deal of control over how much you want to spend including when and where you want your ads to be placed.

With Options (1) and (2), your clickable banner ad will appear more than 15,000 times per month to a very targeted audience of railroad enthusiasts. It will appear throughout the TrainWeb family of dozens of railroad related websites. This includes such websites as PassengerRail.com, RAILmodeling.com, RAILfanning.com, RAILnews.net, RAILlinks.com, RAILcams.com, RAILforum.com, RAILchat.com, RAILclassifieds.com, RAILphotos.com, as well as dozens of others. Your banner ad will also appear in the header of more than 1400 independently operated rail related websites that are hosted free on our TrainWeb.org web server as well as appear on the main page of hundreds of rail related websites that participate in RAILring.com, the TrainWeb Webring.

What makes TrainWeb the best choice for your business?

Targeted Audience: TrainWeb is specifically targeted to the people who have an interest in railroads, rail tourism, model railroads and many other rail related services. We are an all inclusive rail site, the largest and most visited railroad website in the world with over 60 million page views¹ per year. We get more than 60,000 unique visitors² per day that have an interest in railroads. Your message gets to the right people you are trying to reach.
Maximum Advertising Exposure: When you advertise with TrainWeb, your clickable banner ad will be displayed more than 15,000 times per month on more than 1400 rail related websites. Other railroad websites will display your ad on a limited number of pages on their own website. TrainWeb has been in business since 1996. In that time we have created more than 50 comprehensive sites dedicated to varioius aspects of railroads. Almost since the year we started, we have been offering free web hosting to groups and individuals that wanted to create their own rail related website. That community has grown to more than 1400 independently operated rail related websites. We also invite rail related websites that are hosted outside of TrainWeb to join RAILring.com, TrainWeb's rail related webring. Your clickable banner ad will be displayed on this large community of railroad related websites, not just on TrainWeb.com. There is no other way for your rail related company to get this much exposure on the web to people interested in rail. Read more...
Thorough Indexing in the Rail Search Engine: If you become our sponsor, we guarantee that your website is thoroughly indexed in the RAIlsearch.com railroad search engine. It is the one and only true railroad search engine dedicated to the railroad sector serving rail enthusiasts and railroad industry professionals since April 2000. Read more...
Premium Listing with Fixed Placement: As a valued sponsor we offer more than a rotating banner advertisement to your company. You also get a fixed premium listing in all of the websites relating to your field. A Premium Listing appears at the top of the category listing. Sites listed at the top of the first page get significantly more traffic than sites deeper down in the listings.
TrainWeb Popularity & Recognition: So what brings TrainWeb so many visitors? Visitors to TrainWeb come from many sources. First of all, we run large display ads that promote TrainWeb.com in more than 40 rail magazines!. There is no other railroad websites that is promoted in 40 plus railroad magazines.^** Secondly, As per the Yahoo! search engine there are over 225,000 documents that link to TrainWeb. But don't take our word for it. See for yourself and compare us to other railroad sites. Finally, TrainWeb has always been in the news and receives accolades from many popular newspapers nationwide. Read more...
Flexible Plans for Your Budget: TrainWeb gives you the freedom to select one or many advertising plans suitable to your business according to your budget. Our basic plan starts at just $99/year per ad or get our most popular plan which comes at just $85/month per ad. Currently we have more than 50 comprehensive websites dedicated to the railroad sector. These are actual sites and not just sections or category pages that are offered by other railroad sites. Each of these sites have their own URL address and are thoroughly optimized and indexed with leading search engines such as Yahoo, Google, MSN, Alta Vista, etc. Many of these sites have already achieved a top 10 placement in the major search engines. This ensures tremendous traffic to these specialized websites. Read more...
High Retention Rate: We are proud to have a 98% customer retention rate! In fact, if we do not have a section related to our sponsor, then we create one for them and promote it throughout TrainWeb. Sometimes we go one step further, we even launch a new website on related subject matter just to promote our sponsors. We have over 300 plus rail-related domains reserved for the future expansion of TrainWeb. No other rail-related website offers this feature. We look forward to serving you soon.

Please contact us if you would like to learn more about promoting your company on the most in-depth railroading website.
Tel.: 714-209-7223 or 660-616-4691
Fax: 714-459-7125
E-mail: info@trainweb.com

TrainWeb Advantages

#2 Maximum Advertising Exposure Contunuation...
TrainWeb guaratees a minimum 10,000 views per month per banner advertisement. Currently each sponsor banner gets more than 20,000 views per month. Unlike other sites, we do not put restrictions or lock banner views if it surpasses the minimum guaranteed exposures. The same goes for click-throughs. Our main goal is to provide maximum exposure for you. Back

#3 Thorough Indexing in Rail Search Engine Contunuation...
RAILsearch.com is a true railroad search engine. What we mean is that our search crawling robot collects documents from the internet to build a searchable index for the RAILsearch.com search engine. There is no other search engine just for the railroad sector that crawls for collecting rail-related documents on the web. You will come across many railroad websites that say "railroad search engine" but in fact, what they offer is just a search into their own railroad links directory. There are currently over 1 million rail-related web pages (and not just links) that are indexed by collecting data from over 10,000 rail-related sites which includes thorough indexing of all our current sponsors, member sites and many other useful railroad websites on the web with limited pages. See for yourself! Maybe we have already indexed your website as well ! Back

#5 Yahoo Documents Link Explanation...
Yahoo! - The largest online web portal and one of the leading search engines uses special keywords (Search Meta Words) that give you results unique to that special keyword instruction. You can enter these Meta words directly into the Yahoo! Search box. One of those keywords is link: which allows one to find documents that link to a particular url. Just type link:http://www.trainweb.com into the Yahoo! search box and hit "enter". You will be amazed to see that currently there are over 106,000 documents (as of 06/28/2004) that link to TrainWeb.com website. Now do a search on our www.trainweb.org site and you will see there are over 84,000 (as of 06/28/2004) documents that link to TrainWeb.org website. And when we count documents that link to our specialized 50 plus websites, the total goes over 225,000 (i.e. 106,000 from trainweb.com + 84,000 from trainweb.org + 35,000 from 50 plus sites) document links. Compare us with other railroad sites. Just replace www.trainweb.com with the railroad website name that you want to compare. There is no other railroad website that has been linked as much as TrainWeb. Back

#5 TrainWeb.com Print Media Appearances...
TrainWeb has always been in the news and receives accolades from many popular newspapers nationwide. We have been also asked to send our RAILnews network reporters to cover special events by various railroad industry organizations such as Alaska Railroad, Amtrak, VIA Rail Canada, etc. Click on any of the following logos to read newpaper articles that featured TrainWeb. Back

#6 Flexible Plans for Your Budget...
TrainWeb offers many ways to promote your company to our many visitors. The most effective advertising that we offer allows you to run a small clickable banner ad (200x40 pixels) throughout all of TrainWeb, including: (1) almost all of the pages of dozens of comprehensive rail related websites we have designed, (2) the header of all of the pages on more than 1400 independently operated rail related websites hosted at TrainWeb.org, and (3) the main page of hundreds of other outside rail related websites participating in RAILring.com, the TrainWeb webring. The above clickable banner ad costs $995 per year, or you can have $85 automatically charged to your credit card each month with a one year minimum term that will continue until cancelled. Alternatively, you can sponsor a specific section with a premium listing for $99 per year per section. Under this plan, your ad will be placed in the most appropriate section of our site. Back

^** Rail Magazines: Railroad magazines that contain a TrainWeb advertisement are shown first in alphabetical order with example cover pages. Click here to visit our website dedicated to rail magazines.

¹ Page View: A Web page that has been viewed by one visitor. Page views are often used in online advertising, where advertisers use the number of page views a site receives to determine where and how to advertise. Please note that TrainWeb gets over 60 million page views per year and not page hits which is described below.

^* Page Hit: The retrieval of any item, like a page or a graphic, from a Web server. For example, when a visitor calls up a Web page with four graphics, that's five hits, one for the page and four for the graphics. For this reason, hits often aren't a good indication of Web traffic. Compare with page view.

² Unique Visitor: When tracking the amount of traffic on a Web site, it refers to a person who visits a Web site more than once within a specified period of time. Software that tracks and counts Web site traffic can distinguish between visitors who only visit the site once and unique visitors who return to the site.

The above definitions of terms were taken from Webopedia - A free online dictionary for words, phrases and abbreviations that are related to computer and Internet technology.