If you only had $100/month to spend on SEO or PPC what would you use it for?

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If you only had $100/month to spend on SEO or PPC what would you use it for?

My question is what is more valuable if you have a limited budget. I could use $100 to get advertising on Facebook or Adwords or Microsof Ads Center.

Or I could invest $67 on Unique Article Wizard (UAW) and when I do my daily blog post I could write a good spun article and set it to a drip feed over the next month or year.

My question is what is a better plan, for the long run?

Thanks guys
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  • I would find an easy link building method and hire and train a foreign freelancer to do it for me for $3/hour.
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    • Curtis2001,
      thanks for the reply? Unfortunetly I have done this many times and have had bad experience with the quality of work and the honesty of the work.

      a month ago I actually hired someone with over 5,000 hours logged in Odesk with a 4.9 rating (basically perfect) and he was a backlinker. I thought for sure that it would work with his crudentials. Turns out that he was just building profile backlinks and that was his only skill set. Profiles are the weakest backlinks out there today.

      I have also hired "the best SEO service" on the WF and that didn't work either. I am at the conclusion to do the work myself.

      Thanks again
  • Learn the stuff by yourself and think about outsourcing in 2 years
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    • My first question would be... How much free time do you have available?
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  • I would buy Ahrefs account (to analyze competitor backlinks, to do some broken link building etc...)
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  • I'd save another $900 every month so I could build an unstoppable link magnet brand.
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    • Agree.

      Also, I'd stay away from UAW.
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  • I would spend it on PPC like 7search and a good CPA offer and build it out from there...
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    • thanks for your response. It was the most to the point and direct so far.

      I am not a newbie, been doing SEO, outsourcing, site building etc... for 6 years now. Some people act like they know everthing and just because you dont do what they do, you are newb or stupid...lol

      thx again.
  • IMO people don't get that outsourcing thing. It doesn't make sense to outsource tasks when you just dived into the internet marketing world. I learned everything by my own working my ass off some years before I thought about outsourcing. Learned a shit ton and wouldnt be there where Im at now withouth learning the stuff.
    I mean sure go ahead but Id highly recommend to know EVERYTHING and how the stuff works.

    ON TOPIC: I'd spend the 100$ buying quality links on niche relevant sites
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    • FYI
      im not a newb to the game. I have done most of my work the last 6 years myself. I understand that you should not outsource work to others that you don't know how to do yourself. How can you expect to get results this way.

      My problem and the reason for the question is, like many, all of my sites fell hard last April when Penguin hit. I had a nursing adsense site making $300 per month, an Amazon Toy site making $1000 per month, and a fitness site making $500 per month (all organic results). I do come with experience.

      I am sort of starting over again since Google is so hard to please these days, you know what I mean?

      Thanks for getting back on topic and suggesting spending the $100 on quality links.
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      Exactly this, it's easy & long term.
  • Given your budget you would have to go with SEO.

    Purchasing things like content, links, software etc. will help you more as $100 in something like Adwords is nothing (maybe 50-100 clicks?) if you're trying to make money in niches that are worth anything.

    This also assumes that you are spending the 2-3 hrs a day doing other forms of promotion or building your site etc.
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    • Thanks man and I am leaning a little towards SEO as well!
    • What do you think about competition keywords? Some of my keywords are $6-12 CPC but bidding on competitor's names is wide open at $0.10. You wouldn't get the full 1000 clicks but does the dynamic make it more worth it?
  • With $100 a month, I would forget about SEO because, your only going to get some really poor services and inevitably another slap from Google the next time an update is released.
    I probably wouldn't do CPC either unless you are a serious expert in the area as the budget seems too low also.

    I would however outsource to some good article writers and get between 10-20 decent articles to post each month. Targeting some long tail, 0 comp keywords. And probably do the little bit of linking needed to rank them myself. Manually and WH of course.
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    • thanks for the sound advice. Question, the articles you talk about, are these posts on my website and then do a little manual linking to get them ranked? Or are these for article directory submits? For me, content is not a problem as I am a pretty good content writer and don't mind it either. Its the tedious link building that I am not a crazy fan of.
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  • Depending on what you think your conversion rate is and how much $$ you would make per conversion maybe think about other media buys such as email marketing.
    It might make sense financially, let's say if you can find a blog in your niche with with an email list of 5-20k that is willing to sell an email or two. Of course this will only work if the list is very targeted and in the same/similar niche as you.
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    • thanks man, unique advice! I will consider this as well.
  • Buy 20 articles with it. Get your site ranking so you can spend more.
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    • Can you PM me some of the services/sites that you use? thanks
  • For a long term I would use it for SEO, but for a short term I'd use it for PPC (Adwords).
  • You know what niko has a good point. If you have a smaller budget its much better to outsource, then to do it on your own.

    For 100 a month you'll get some decent Seo stuff going. It'll save you some headaches.

    I outsource most of my Seo for about 200 a month and it's worth it, 100 a month can get you some good stuff. Just shop around
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    • I understand what you are saying and I have purchased many SEO campaigns and packages througout the years. The problem is you never know what you are getting and most packages end up being crap (overpaid auto backlinking tools that "experts use for backlinks that I can do myself)
  • 1. Web hosting - $8 per month for decent shared hosting with cpanel
    2. Purchase 10 expired domains with OK backlink profiles, but no PR - $30 per month
    3. Outsource content research and article writing - $50 per month
    4. Purchase two experimental Fiverr gigs for $10
    5. Invest the remaining $2 in a lottery ticket or really cheap Adwords keywords

    Build 10 blogs or web sites with different html footprints, add articles from step 3.
  • PPC, STart in the lower bracket providers like MSN bing, 7search, first.

    For $100 I would use that and send traffic to a nice converting squeeze page.
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  • If i were starting out i will invest in domain, hosting, aweber, buy quality articles, get videos and keep the change if there is any..

    Most of my marketing efforts will come manually through article marketing, forums, press release, social media e.t.c.
  • A Month supply of Coffee for the late nights.

    Nothing beats doing it manually and on your own, and learning it the hard way.
  • I would invest this money in content development.
  • i would suggest you to start with PPC ads and you yourself can start building quality links till your site is ranked once your site is on top you can stop ppc and rely on seo..
  • It really depends on what you want. You could spend that on Facebook ads and try to get some targeted traffic to your site and build a list that way.

    Or if SEO is the objective, you could buy some high PR links or even start building your own network of PR sites. It's actually more affordable than one might think.

    If you're spending $100 a month and putting in 2 to 3 hours a day you're in a stronger position than a lot of people here though. What are your goals for the project you're working on?
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  • If i had just $100 a month, i would keep it and work my ass off building content for longtails.

    Create content that solves peoples problems in mass.
    Verify with authorship.
    Do some networking, build relationships, guest post (Free).

    This is hard work, but it will get you a much greater ROI than spending $100 a month on links.
  • There is a new service by Jonathan Leger for creating articles.

    He is calling it Article Builder and is built on a .net address.

    He is asking for $297 per year which fits your budgets.

    It looks like an automated, PLR article builder to me. I had high interest in it but does not fit to my current plan.

    Saw you mentioning UAW and thought about this service that may be useful to you.
  • I will do guest blogging that will not only help me getting high quality backlinks but also help me getting traffic from famous blogs that already have a huge audience.
  • Forget about Google PPC. With $100/m you won't go anywhere. Facebook PPC is cheaper still you have to know how to manage your campaign to get the best results.
    With that budget I'd go with SEO and almost only on-page. Go to iWriter, find and test good article writers. With that budget you can get almost one article/day. Schedule the articles with that duration on your website. Target long-tail keywords: For each article different keywords. Properly tag every article. Continue that and you will see traffic increase over time plus you create an internet property that is worth something.
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  • When a prospective client says they have $100/month or $250/month or whatever I tell them to pass on SEO/PPC for now and go to as many free Meetup networking groups as they can.

    Or find people who can send them business - when an event babysitter told me she had a $250/month budget, I told her to forget SEO and call every corporate event planner and wedding planner in town to tell them what she does.
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  • If you want fast result, PPC...
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  • If I had $100 extra to spend monthly on SEO, I would have purchased Facebook ad spaces. Personally I feel, it is much better to have paid advertisement on Facebook than on Adwords.
  • FYI to all,

    I really appreciate all who contributed to my decision on this forum question and I thought I would share with you what I have decided to do.

    I am going with SEO, since this is what I have been successful with in the past. I am going to use UAW (Unique Article Wizard) Social Monkey, and Social Adr. I have setup a lot of projects and will share my results in a few weeks. Stay tuned...
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    • May God have mercy on your soul.
  • Screw PPC all together - sucker's game. Spend that $100 dollars buying 2-3 really well written articles and post them on a Wordpress blog. Best investment you could make because those articles will make you a trickle for a LONG time.

    We spend $2500 a month on good writers now - worth every penny cause I can do other things, well they the sites growing.
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