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Re:Ask YC: $1000 to advertise my startup by lpgauth on Monday January 05, 2009 @10:56AM (#420595)
"* Hire an Indian/East European company on eLance that specializes in internet marketing. Pay them $3-5 an hour x 10 hours a week x 3 months to do their thing. Or, you can pay them by the task."

Could you explain what their "thing" is?

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Re:Ask YC: $1000 to advertise my startup by il on Monday January 05, 2009 @12:14PM (#420703)
Their "thing" will be spamming blogs and forums with your links, which, unless done skilfully, will create severe negative backlash and get your site banned from Google. Alternatively, their "thing" will be showing your site as a popunder on spam domains and botnet computers, giving you worthless traffic that only drains your bandwidth. Don't risk it.
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Re:Ask YC: $1000 to advertise my startup by rms on Monday January 05, 2009 @03:45PM (#421074)
The better thing they can do is to email all of the websites that link to your competitors and ask those websites for a link. But you can do that yourself.
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Re:Ask YC: $1000 to advertise my startup by iamelgringo on Monday January 05, 2009 @10:03PM (#421534)
Why do it yourself when you can pay someone $2-5 a hour to do it while you work on building new features on your site?
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