How should I spend $400-500 for marketing my blog??

12 years ago

I'd go do some blog commenting to increase your links for free.

If you really want to spend money, try a facebook contest with a giveaway related to china travel. Post the contest on contest sites and watch the traffic and likes roll in.

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gclass

12 years ago

I would invest about $100 on content writing to create a high quality mini ebook about visiting China and put it behind a protected page in Facebook so in order to download it users will have to clike "like" on your page.
second, I would buy media (banners) on few relevant sites to send traffic to your FB page and site.

(and for free, I would add a "like" button on top of each article as well as on the bottom).

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fluffythewondercat

12 years ago

How does sending traffic to Facebook to download an eBook promote your blog?

What is the benefit to your blog of 100 Facebook likes vs 1,000 Facebook likes?

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freetraff

12 years ago

$200 - social media marketing - for exampe, a good group to start with.

$100 into SEO, for example, 10 unique articles published on 10 different PR 3-4 blogs.

$100 into buying some traffic from good sites with traffic in your niche.

$100 into video marketing

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lerxtjr

12 years ago

Guest blog posting. Costs nothing...Sells anything.

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Brendon L

12 years ago

Thanks everyone for your help so far

Originally Posted by JadeDragon

I'd go do some blog commenting to increase your links for free.

If you really want to spend money, try a facebook contest with a giveaway related to china travel. Post the contest on contest sites and watch the traffic and likes roll in.

Hi JD, I'm not sure that blog commenting, even on relevant blogs, is an efficient use of time but worth considering. A facebook contest is an idea and I've seen other people do this with travel blogs. May need more fans though.

Originally Posted by gclass

I would invest about $100 on content writing to create a high quality mini ebook about visiting China and put it behind a protected page in Facebook so in order to download it users will have to clike "like" on your page.
second, I would buy media (banners) on few relevant sites to send traffic to your FB page and site.

(and for free, I would add a "like" button on top of each article as well as on the bottom).

Hi Gclass, I write all the content for my blog so no need to pay for it. Making a quality ebook for facepage like you suggested is worth looking into.

Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat

How does sending traffic to Facebook to download an eBook promote your blog?

What is the benefit to your blog of 100 Facebook likes vs 1,000 Facebook likes?

fLufF
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Hi Fluff, blog post introductions can be fed onto a fanpage. More fans means more traffic to blogs and more sharing. Can be super effective once your number of fans reach critical mass.

Originally Posted by freetraff

$200 - social media marketing - for exampe, a good group to start with.

$100 into SEO, for example, 10 unique articles published on 10 different PR 3-4 blogs.

$100 into buying some traffic from good sites with traffic in your niche.

$100 into video marketing

Hi FF, Nice ideas.

I've looked at social media marketing (SMM). Advertising on individual sites like facebook would work but not sure if it is good value. There are mobs like SEOmoz that set up campaigns but i'm a little dubious about them. What SMM in particular have you used?

Originally Posted by lerxtjr

Guest blog posting. Costs nothing...Sells anything.

Done guest blogging for well regarded sites with alexa ranks as high as 23,000. Traffic ranged from 10 to 20 views for each post. Was very dissapointed by this.

Please keep these great ideas coming

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aspectiit

12 years ago

Register for PPC campaign in Google and also create advert in the Facebook. This is the better sites to get you value for money.

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bjking 12 years ago

Originally Posted by aspectiit

Register for PPC campaign in Google and also create advert in the Facebook. This is the better sites to get you value for money.

Advert in Facebook can be of good value. I would also invest in automated backlinking tools like SEnuke or Magic Submitter
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Nikolas

12 years ago

I think you should focus on SEO. With $400 you can do serious work (check the WSOs here there are a few cool offers)

Also be sure to use a part of that money for high quality content. After all content is the king right?

Social media marketing is cool, but you wont have much impact and the results will take time to come. I would prefer to start with SEM later when the site already has traffic and I will do it with some kind of contest like "post photos from your china trip and win a...."

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pedro gomez

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Nikolas

I think you should focus on SEO. With $400 you can do serious work (check the WSOs here there are a few cool offers)

Also be sure to use a part of that money for high quality content. After all content is the king right?

Social media marketing is cool, but you wont have much impact and the results will take time to come. I would prefer to start with SEM later when the site already has traffic and I will do it with some kind of contest like "post photos from your china trip and win a...."

Yeah i also think so $400 is enough for SEO. I you want to spend that much of money just spend don't take advice but you have to do little bit of seo alone and learn how these all kind of things are worked

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halcolenergy

12 years ago

Is your Blog setup to make money? I cant see many adverts.

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udyotsolutions

12 years ago

$150 own blog, facebook, twitter and other Social media activities

$150 SEO. Commenting on relevant blogs, social bookmarking, directory submission, etc.

$100 Content. Post the content on blog, ezine, etc.

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Brendon L

12 years ago

Thanks again everyone

Originally Posted by aspectiit

Register for PPC campaign in Google and also create advert in the Facebook. This is the better sites to get you value for money.

Problem with PPC is it does not improve SERPs or the site and all benefits stop as soon as you stop paying. Facebook is the same with the difference being you have increased fans which can be very beneficial.

Originally Posted by Nikolas

I think you should focus on SEO. With $400 you can do serious work (check the WSOs here there are a few cool offers)

Also be sure to use a part of that money for high quality content. After all content is the king right?

Social media marketing is cool, but you wont have much impact and the results will take time to come. I would prefer to start with SEM later when the site already has traffic and I will do it with some kind of contest like "post photos from your china trip and win a...."

Exactly what I'm thinking Nikolas

The WSO's seem to be very hit and miss so researching those. Any recommendations or ones that you have used with good results?

Originally Posted by halcolenergy

Is your Blog setup to make money? I cant see many adverts.

For the time being, I am signing up clients to advertise for them and not doing adsense or click based advertising. May change that soon though.

Originally Posted by udyotsolutions

$150 own blog, facebook, twitter and other Social media activities

$150 SEO. Commenting on relevant blogs, social bookmarking, directory submission, etc.

$100 Content. Post the content on blog, ezine, etc.

When you say $150 on own blog, what exactly do you mean?

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Nikolas

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Brendon L

Exactly what I'm thinking Nikolas

The WSO's seem to be very hit and miss so researching those. Any recommendations or ones that you have used with good results?

I am afraid I haven't used anything yet, but I am thinking to check this one for my next launch, but as I said I haven't used it yet so don't take my word for anything.

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high_plains_drifter

12 years ago

I would do the following

$200 - BuildMyRank submissions for 1 month, see how your rankings go with it, some keywords do well, some not so good - i can help you out with this, let me know

$100 - hiring someone to do manual blog commenting and forum posting on travel sites such as lonelyplanet etc

$100 - content creation/ebook creation to buff out your blog a bit more to offer some good value to your visitors

$100 - video marketing, if you are in china you can do this yourself, people love to watch videos of places to go etc when researching a country. I traveled china for 6 months in 2009, i would always check out youtube and google a city to see what it was like and if i would like it there.

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stellaandreapark

12 years ago

I would only invest for a good quality content. Content is King and website needs unique content these days.

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