Sponsor botskills.sh
Flat monthly slots in front of people actively setting up bots. No CPM, no auction, no minimum spend. One sponsor per category. Every booked slot renders on every matching page load, so you are not sharing a rotation with anyone.
Send the message here
Tell us which placement and where it should link, and we reply from contact@thetestingacademy.com, usually within a day. Everything below is the detail: what each placement is, where it renders, and the impression maths so you can price it yourself. You do not need to read it first.
What you get, and where it renders
This matters more than the price, because the three placements behave differently and one of them only appears on wide screens.
| Placement | What it is | Where it renders | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rail card | Logo square, name, one line of your copy, your own call to action. The largest unit on the site. | Homepage sponsor column, visible without scrolling on desktop. | $99/mo |
| Marquee logo | Name in the scrolling strip under the hero. No copy, no CTA. | Homepage, below the fold on most screens. | $29/mo |
| Edge card | Flipping card pinned to the left and right margins. | Every page, including all 487 articles. Desktop only, at 1420px and wider. | ask |
Work out the impressions yourself
We are not going to hand you a number and ask you to trust it. Here is how each placement counts, taken from how the site is actually built.
rail card impressions = homepage pageviews marquee logo impressions = homepage pageviews edge card impressions = sitewide pageviews x share of visitors at 1420px+ No rotation. Every booked slot renders on every matching page load, so your share is 100 percent, not a fraction split with the other sponsors.
The edge card is the interesting one. It is the only placement that appears on article pages, and the articles are where search traffic lands. It is also the only one gated by screen width, so a mobile-heavy month shows it less. Ask for the current desktop share before buying that one.
What $99 costs per thousand, at each stage
A rail card at $99/mo against homepage traffic. Published developer display rates sit around $3 to $7.50 per thousand impressions, so that is the band worth comparing against.
| Homepage views/mo | Cost per thousand | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $99.00 | Far above market. You are buying position, not reach. |
| 5,000 | $19.80 | Above market for display, comparable to a niche newsletter. |
| 10,000 | $9.90 | Roughly the top of the published developer band. |
| 25,000 | $3.96 | Inside the market band. The rate would be rising by now. |
| 50,000 | $1.98 | Below market. Founding holders keep it for the full twelve months. |
Where the traffic stands today
Plainly, because you can check most of it yourself. The site launched on 25 August 2026. There are 118 bot listings and 487 articles. The sitemap is submitted and Google has read it, and nothing is indexed yet, which is normal at this age and also means the honest impression figure right now is close to zero.
So the founding rate is not a discount on a big number. It is the price of being early on a site that has published 487 articles aimed at people searching for exactly one thing: how to set a bot up. If that audience arrives, you hold $99 while it does. If it does not, you spent $99 a month and found out cheaply.
What is worth buying at zero traffic
- Category exclusivity. One sponsor per category, so no competitor sits beside you.
- The rate lock. Twelve months at $99 regardless of what the audience does.
- Referral traffic, not SEO. Paid placements carry
rel="sponsored"because that is the honest markup, so value the click and not the link. - Your copy, edited to the site voice and returned for approval before anything goes live.
How booking works
By email, deliberately. There is no checkout to click and no card form on this site. At four founding slots, a payment flow costs more to build and maintain than it saves, and a reply lets us edit your copy to the site voice before anything renders.
- Send the form above, or email contact@thetestingacademy.com directly, with the placement you want, your link, and one line of copy.
- We reply with the edited copy for your approval, and an invoice. Nothing goes live before you approve the wording.
- Slot renders within a day of payment clearing. The rate is locked for twelve months from that day.
House rules
No competing directories. No crypto. Nothing we would not put beside our own name. We do not place our own products in paid slots. Slots currently showing projects we like are marked free pick so nobody mistakes them for customers, and if we ever publish a slots-taken counter it will count paid bookings and nothing else.