Get your topic listed on the front page! (Paid feature)

Hello SWAPD members!

As previously discussed in this topic, we’re testing paid listings on the home page. If you would like to have your topic featured on our index, then the following information is for you.

Homepage listing pricing

Since this project is in the testing phase, we are setting fixed prices for the month of June. However, if the demand outweighs our limited three spots, we will issue the ad space to the top bidders for the month of July.

Price for the month of June is: 500 USD per topic.
Since we’re a few days into June we will go by a daily rate, which in this instance, is 16.66 USD per day.

Available homepage discounts

  • Premium Members get a 10% discount. That is 14.99 USD per day.
  • VIP Members get a 20% discount. That is 13.32 USD per day.
  • Diamond Club members get a 30% discount. That is 11.66 USD per day.

What can you expect by getting featured on the front page?

SWAPD makes no warranties as far as tangible results go. We can only promise you that your topic will be exposed to way more viewers. Here are our most recent traffic statistics:


What can you advertise?

All paid topics will need @administrators approval before going live. If you’re only promoting your sales topic, then approval will be swift. External services/websites/etc will require approval of staff before being listed on the front page.

What payments do we accept?

  1. PayPal
  2. Bank Wire
  3. ETH/BTC/USDT

Promotion rules

  1. A two week minimum for slot purchases.
  2. No external websites related to buying/selling social media properties.
  3. More rules coming soon, we’re in BETA stage so we’re figuring things out as we go.

I am interested, how do I sign up?

Simply contact @administrators to begin. First come first serve basis.

That would be all. For more information, please see our frequently asked questions.

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Two slots left.

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We’re most likely sold out, people. We will update this topic if anything changes.

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Wow, that’s fast!!

Sold out for the month of June. Sorry. As expected, the demand is high and the slots are limited. That’s why for July we will switch to a bidding system.

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Update: We are sold out for June. If you’re interested in July 2021 ad space, please see this topic.

Wow! Good luck guys! Very good news :heart: :fire:

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Update

We’re testing a new approach on featured topics, which are permanent pins. We are having performance issues with the previous model (the table above the topic list), so we will try this new approach that simply perma-pins the topic to the top of the topics list.

We’ve made changes to the PIN system, even when a user reads a post it won’t drop for him (as it did before). The pin is permanent unless the user directly goes to the topic setting and disables it. We want to give our regular members the option to hide things they’ve already seen. There is no need for regular members to see the same ad 100x of times, we believe the featured paid listings should be aimed at fresh leads. With this change we hope to:

  1. Increase performance (we don’t know why but the previous model seriously lagged loading times and caused multiple errors).
  2. Give our ultra-active members the option to unpin, so they don’t have to see the same thing over and over again.
  3. Expand this feature into particular categories.
  4. Blend in the paid topics with regular topics, to hopefully increase clickthrough rates.
  5. Make our website less ugly :smiley: (that thing above the category bar was hideous)

As mentioned before, this is an experiment. We would like to keep both sides of the spectrum (viewers/ad spenders) happy.

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interested!

We currently have a live bidding thread going on, the current prices hover already at around 1700 USD p/m. Still interested? If so, I will add you to it.

For any spot on the homepage?

We only have three slots on the home page. At the moment, they’re sold out until the 1st of October.