Abstract: A method and system for providing an advertisement using a minimum incremental unit are provided. The advertisement providing method includes adjusting a minimum incremental unit based on an initial bid price, an input bid price, and a maximum bid price bid price during an auction. The minimum incremental unit includes a minimum value of increment to be included in a current input bid price in addition to a previously input bid price.

Abstract: A charging method and system for determining an advertising cost according to a unit time are provided. The charging method includes checking a performance index numerically indicating performance of an advertisement; checking a priority index of a next-priority advertisement to the advertisement; and determining an actual charge per unit time of the advertisement based on the performance index, the priority index, and a predetermined weight.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable recording medium for holding an auction and imposing a charge in relation to a search advertisement are provided. The method includes receiving bid information related to the search advertisement from an advertiser calculating device, the bid information including a search keyword, a posted time of the search advertisement, and a bid price for the search advertisement, determining a posting position and/or a posting order of the search advertisement with respect to a predetermined time slot of the posted time of the search advertisement, based on the bid price corresponding to the time slot, and posting the search advertisement according to the determined posting position and/or the posting order for the predetermined time slot.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for managing quality of an advertising document. The method of managing document quality may include verifying a number of actual clicks corresponding to a number of clicks that may occur during a predetermined period with respect to at least one document that may exist on the Web, verifying a number of expected clicks corresponding to a number of clicks that may be expected to occur during the predetermined period with respect to the at least one document, and determining a quality management index by which quality of the at least one document may be numerically expressed based on the number of the expected clicks and the number of the actual clicks.

Abstract: A method and system for offering an advertisement by adjusting a bid price per unit time according to advertising traffic are provided. The advertisement offering method includes determining a bid price per unit time based on an average bid price input by an advertiser and advertising traffic, and determining a charge regarding the advertisement of the advertiser based on the bid price per unit time.