What is the minimum budget to promote a site?

Re:What is the minimum budget to promote a site? by gscott on Friday May 09, 2008 @11:27PM (#186155)

I find low traffic sites on adbrite.com and use there CPM option to advertise on them. A website might have 500 visitors a day and cost .05 cents per CPM. So I can spend a few dollars (a month) and get full time advertising on a number of websites. For higher traffic sites use the fixed rate pricing if it is available.

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Re:What is the minimum budget to promote a site? by gscott on Friday May 09, 2008 @11:34PM (#186163)

Another idea

Step 1: Write an article between 300 and 500 words on your products target market, then suggest your product as the solution

Step 2: Submit your article to article submission sites such as articlebiz.com, crixi.com, electrictext.com, contentdesk.com

Step 3: Rework your article into a press release and then submit. PrLeap.com or PrWeb.com (about $120)

Step 4: Rework your article into a video. You can read your article over a slide presentation. Submit this to Youtube and other video sharing sites

Step 5. Turn your article into a podcast (audio only) and submit it to iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials

Step 6: Create a blog intro with your video code in it.

Step 7: Create a Squidoo Lens

Step 8: Social bookmark everything you have just done at propelier.com, digg.com, del.icio.us, stumbleupon.com, twitter.com, reddit.com, tagza.com, fark.com, newsvine.com, furl.net, swik.net, connotea.org, sphinn.com, blinklist.com, faves.com, mister-wong.com, spurl.net, netvouz.com, diigo.com, backflip.com, rawsugar.com, bibsonomy.org, folkd.com, linkagogo.com, indianpad.com, plugim.com, myjeeves.ask.com, jumptags.com, mixx.com, wirefan.com, danogo.com, ka-boom-it.com.

Repeat process!

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Re:What is the minimum budget to promote a site? by quellhorst on Friday May 09, 2008 @11:51PM (#186168)

Have you done this? What were the results?

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Re:What is the minimum budget to promote a site? by bluelu on Saturday May 10, 2008 @06:51AM (#186270)

I once paid a guy to write articles and submit them to these article sites. There were a few visitors coming from those sites at the beginning, but it didn't help much. (This has also been 2 years ago, things might have changed)

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Re:What is the minimum budget to promote a site? by quellhorst on Saturday May 10, 2008 @07:38AM (#186280)

It sounds a bit like a plans sold by get rich quick sites. Instead, spend time improving your site.

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Re:What is the minimum budget to promote a site? by gscott on Sunday May 11, 2008 @08:54PM (#187159)

This helps with inbound links and PageRank as well as some visitors.

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Re:What is the minimum budget to promote a site? by gscott on Saturday May 10, 2008 @02:19AM (#186212)

These are things we all "know" but never quite put together as a system. I just came upon this system myself and I have started implementing it, I am not much of a writer and so I had two articles written for me. I just started on this myself so I have not gone all the way from step 1 to 7 but when I do I will compile the results and post them.

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