Got 100 dollars? 7 Experts share budget website marketing tips
Need some ideas on how to market your website on a limited budget?
I contacted the biggest names in web marketing, branding, and search engine optimization and I asked them all the same question.
“What would you do,” I asked, “If you only had 100 dollars to market your website?”
It is very possible to get a healthy amount of traffic to your website even when your main asset is time, not money. Whether you are a single parent, a small business with a limited budget, or you are just a dreamer, there are a surprising amount of things you can do to make your website soar.
The first step is learning from the community who does this for a living.
I was overwhelmed by the great advice and humor offered for this article when I contacted “the big guns” of the search marketing world. Here are their answers to the following question.
“If you had to make a website soar but had only small chunks of money to spend on it what would you do? - (The “chunks” are 100 dollars, 250 dollars and 500 dollars.)
Aaron Wall
Aaron Wall of SEObook.com is one of the most recognizable names in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. His SEO ebook has essentially become the defacto game plan of profiting on the web through search engines. He is an aggressive and creative viral marketer who thinks of the Web in terms of how ideas spread and offers his consultation services for mid to enterprise level clients. Also known as a rather nice guy, he was kind enough to give a specific and detailed list of things you can do assuming you are starting with nothing at all (no website, no job, no nothing).
If one has virtually no money then presumably they do not value their time highly in terms of money…thus a lack of funds can be seen as a resource that helps make you more efficient in the longrun.
If I had $500 or less to work on marketing and was starting a website today I would:
- find an income source that can help me pay my living costs while I furiously learned
- spend $20 to $200 on books about the topic I am interested in, and I would get a few background books on marketing and the web including Purple Cow, The Cluetrain Manifesto, and Don’t Make Me Think.
- create a new word/phrase and register (myword).com or buy a .net or .org that was available for $8 from GoDaddy
- buy $7 a month hosting from Dreamhost
- Start a Wordpress blog on my domain covering whatever I am learning or am an expert at. Place no ads on the site and be actively involved in the community to help build up my authority.
- I would browse various theme browsers to find a theme that looked pretty good for the theme of my site.
- I would buy a logo for my site from a forum (for $10 to $100 dollars) or buy one from a logo design firm (for $100 to $300)
- Install a free analytics product to track progress.
- beg borrow steal barter etc to find at least a couple trusted link sources that are willing to link to my site.
- Use free keyword research tools and track the news to find subjects to write about.
- Create highly linkworthy noncommercial content and market the hell out of it, using email, social marketing, and perhaps adwords.
- Syndicate some of your content to well read channels. If I were starting today in SEO I would make sure my stuff was syndicated to WebProNews.
- Review related products and services and pitch their affiliate offers and / or place adsense ads on sites to test baseline income levels.
- As I started gaining authority I would look to reinvest into faster growth, doing things like buying quality links and building tools to garner more authority.
- As soon as I could afford to I would go to off line conferences for my industry.
- No matter how I was trying to make money or how I was making money I would also create at least one site about a topic I am passionate about even if it did not seem like it would be profitable…that will teach you more about the web than any guru can, plus that will eventually shield you from the feast or famine client services based lifestyle.
Andy Beal
Andy Beal is a blogging and search engine marketing consultant and is considered one of the world’s most respected online marketing experts. He is the author of the popular Marketing Pilgram blog. Andy has worked with many top companies such as Motorola, CitiFinancial, Lowes, Quicken Loans, DeWALT, NBC and Smarter.com.
Here’s some quick answers and I hope they help.
$100 = Not a lot you can do with $100. I’d probably use it to upgrade
my server so that it was on a dedicated IP address and the domain name was
registered for at least 3 years.
$250 = I’d hire a copywriter to create a great “Top 100″ list that
relates to my industry. By the time they do their research and put it together,
you’ve probably got at least 5 hours of work out of them. I’d probably
create a press release that highlights the key points and submit on PR
Web.
$500 = I’d get a $250 roundtrip ticket to my nearest SES, SMX or PubCon
conference. Spend $100 for a hotel for one night. Then blow the remaining
$150 buying drinks at the bar for all the SEO’s that hang out. It will be the best $500 you’ve ever spent!
Andy Hagans
Andy Hagans is known as the webs best “link baiter”. The ability to get links to your website is one of the most important factors of how well your website will do in the search engines, so his link baiting services are in high demand. He has been a consistent and professional source of information on improving your rank in the search engines for years. He is also the author of Tropical SEO.
>100 dollars,
good content & good links
> 250,
good content & good links
> 500, and
good content & good links
> 1000.
good content & good links
Sorry if it sounds asinine, but it is honestly what I would do!
I also think it’s impossible to be that specific bc every project is
different, but if you want specific examples:100: Maybe a listing in joeant.com and/or botw.org
250: Add $50 and get a listing in dir.yahoo.com
500: you could do the above things, and have $200 to pay a good writer
to write you a good link bait1000: maybe the above things, plus 2 more good link baits!
Kid Disco (aka CK Chung)
C.K. Chung is a professional, experienced force in the world of search engine optimization and marketing with an impressive history for a young man, but it is his alter-ego of “Kid Disco” that has caught the attention of the SEO world. The Kid Disco unique humor, over the top personality, and charisma is a welcome and humorous presence in the circles of the search engine elite.
I think a better phrase for what you are describing is “budget SEO.”
To answer your question, I am assuming that I have the same knowledge I do now, am starting a site from scratch, and we’re staying white-hat (maybe a little gray)…
With $100… I think I would buy some cheap hosting, put up a WordPress CMS, find some good affiliate programs, and start writing and optimizing.
I’m not sure I’d do much different with $250 and $500 other than maybe putting it towards an SEOmoz Membership
, and/or buy some links, and definitely buy some drinks.
I’m sure I would probably look at things a bit differently if this really happened to be the case, but it isn’t!
Lee Odden
Lee Odden is the founder of Top Rank Results online marketing and is a sought after speaker on the subject of search engines, social media, and online marketing. His online marketing blog is a widely respected resource where he publishes articles regularly.
That’s an interesting question and when I think of it, the thought that
money is only one form of currency when it comes to promoting web sites
comes to mind.I would certainly make sure the site hosting situation was well taken
care of, along with site design and functionality, so chunks of money
as necessary should be allocated there.Otherwise, I would make sure the standard site promotion tactics are in
place: Optimized content creation, link building and especially online
and offline networking. Do a great job of telling the story the site
has to tell and get the attention of journalists writing about that
industry. Become a trusted resource without demands for reciprocation
from the media and they will reward you with generous coverage, as will
the search engines.Also, attending a few conferences per year for education but
particularly for networking can prove to be a very worthwhile
investment. If you can’t afford the conference fee, try to get a press
pass.Regarding the currency comment above, I would also take a look at the
industry the site is in to see if there are opportunities to give
prominent individuals with significant spheres of influence something
they want that doesn’t cost you anything to give. With a blog, this
could be in the form of interviews, product reviews, aggregated
resources and company profiles. Also, referring on leads (good ones)
that are not a fit for you to others in the industry can serve as a
sort of informal currency to open doors to business relationships that might
not otherwise have been available. Doing this prompts those with
influence to give back in the form of links, referrals, partnerships,
participation in new networks and connections online/offline - the
kinds of opportunities that can make a business soar.
Neil Patel
Neil Patel is known as one of the most famous people on the web. His expertise is personal branding which he speaks of on his new site, Quicksprout.com. His clear and distinct advice on creating and expanding a brand is read and followed by the some of the most influential people on the web.
If I only had a small amount of money and wanted to make a website
soar I would leverage social media. You could potentially do it for
free, but if I had $100 I would try and create 1 great piece of
content and push it out on all of the social sites. If I had $250 I
would try and create 2 great pieces of content and if I had $500 I
would create 4 pieces. The overall goal would be to get these articles
thousands of unique visitors and thousands of links so that the site
could get some search love.
Patrick Sexton
Author of Feedthebot.com which describes the Google webmaster guidelines in layman’s terms. In addition to being the internet’s biggest Google guideline geek, he is also the founder of the Gadzi Gadget directory and has created many Stephen Colbert Google gadgets . He is widely regarded as the best looking man in SEO. [Editors note: The bio of Patrick Sexton may be slightly biased due to the fact that he is the author of this article.]
I hate editors
100 dollars - First off, have valuable, useful content. You will have to learn, and learn, and then learn some more. One of my favorite sources of information on SEO is not well known but I will share it with you, it is a blog called improvetheweb.com and is an extraordinary resource for good, clean, and risk free information. The author is Russian and speaks of SEO in a far superior way in English (his second language) than most native speakers of English do.
If you do not have a website yet, use this money to acquire a real web host. Use caution when you choose a webhost, there are many possible pitfalls. I like dreamhost, bluehost, and pear. Do not go with Yahoo, although Yahoo provides excellence in the many things they do, their hosting packages are severely restrictive and have some very basic problems that will affect your efforts negatively. (note to Yahoo people: If your hosting solutions have improved in the last few months, let me know and I will do a review).
A good webhost will provide stats, easy access, and other goodies that make it worthwhile. Your web hosting is an important decision, and should cost around 7 to 9 dollars a month. If a webhost costs 3.99 per month, there is a reason and the reason is that they do not offer the tools you need.
If you already have a website or blog then I recommend using your 100 dollars as follows: 79 dollars to buy Aaron’s SEObook. The remaining money should be spent on buying one of the available guides at SEOmoz
. Choose the one you know the least about and buy it and learn from it, worth the 29 dollars.
250 dollars - If you have this to spend do what I mentioned above and then add yourself to the Best of the web directory - BOTW.org and spend the rest of the money on becoming a premium SEOmoz Member
500 dollars - Do what I mentioned above and submit your site to the Yahoo directory (this costs 299 per year).
Todd Malicoat (aka Stuntdbl)
Todd is now and has been for a long time one of the most important voices of search engine marketing. His in depth knowledge of social media keeps him busy with clients seeking viral pushes for their online interests.
Firstly, this is a really great topic. The awesome glory of the
internet is the accessibility of people. It no longer takes thousands of dollars
to “meet” your favorite authors or personalities. Many times, they’ll be
polite enough to respond to your e-mails if they’re done so in the
right fashion. This same accessibility comes into play with business people.
The pitch may not always be money, but the point is you have the
accessibility when you come up with the pitch, and many people respect someone who is hungry with persistence (within reason) and a good work ethic.One of the true beauties of SEO is hearing the success stories of
bootstrappers (like your story with feedthebot). As a quick aside -
one great use of $10, would be picking up the “bootstrapper’s bible” by
Seth Godin, it has some fantastic rules and ideas for when you are in
bootstrapper mode. Personally, when I graduated from school, and knew
I needed a job, I KNEW that I wanted to do SEO professionally because of
the tremendous value I saw. I wrote up what I thought to be a fantastic
and eloquent pitch, and systematically tailored the e-mail to every local
marketing company I could find. I then followed up with phone calls.A few gave me interviews, and most turned me down. The few that gave me
interviews, I didn’t have a good enough pitch for to land a job. I ended up
landing a job for an IT company that was a fantastic place to start. I
parlayed the resources and knowledge I learned there to attend conferences
and learn more. Setting goals of WHY you are doing something, and the
metrics for that success are hugely important.I don’t think there is one sure fire plan based on the amount of money
you have, but the point is, that it shouldn’t take MUCH money to make more
if you do so strategically using the tools that are available to you. The
power of e-mail alone is amazing. The power of a great article and web
publishing is astounding. The power of good links and great rankings
is mind boggling. The power of your voice and your mind can help you to
up those chunks until you’re playing with much bigger pieces. It takes
some cajones, lots of dedication, and a workaholic mentality, but a lot can
certainly be done with a little. There is a lot of proof within this
industry that the “American dream” is alive and well.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Good collection of professionals, but you forgot me! As with Neil, I also preach about Personal Branding in my Personal Branding Blog. I think it’s the future of online public relations and relationship building.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Hi Patrick,
In the para: “If you already have a website or blog then I recommend using your 100 dollars as follows: 79 dollars to buy Aaron’s SEObook. The remaining money should be spent on buying one of the available guides at SEOmoz.org. Choose the one you know the least about and buy it and learn from it, worth the 29 dollars.”
Didn’t you mean the remaining 21 dollars? Or was this intentional?
Jeff
May 25th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Hi, yes you are correct, only 21 dollars remain after Aarons book, but the individual guides at seomoz are 29 dollars, so I stretched it to 107 dollars
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May 25th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Nice article Patrick, and some great responses from those guys. It’s nice to be be a part of such an open community. Try not to post too much this weekend so that all the people on holiday can catch this post when they come back.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
(darn broken tab got me again)
I have a feeling the answers are a bit hard to compare — is it “knowing what you know” and having $100 (ie assuming you lost everything except your computer, web-access and $100) or is it “starting fresh” with $100 (ie somebody who just got a computer + web-access, has never done anything online and has $100 to spare)?
It’s hard to invest $100 in content when you have no clue as to what you could be doing - similarly it’s a waste of $79 to get the SEO book if wrote the book yourself
May 25th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
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Take care, will be awaiting more quality posts!
May 25th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
John - Sorry about that I am dumb and am not sure how to fix the two issues you brought up, I am contacting the guy who designed it and asking him. If you know a way to do it, let me know and I will fix it.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Good question Patrick. Its always nice to get tips straight from some of the industry’s finest. I think if I only had a hundred bucks for Web site promotion, I would start by spending $27.59 on 1 week subscription to Wordtracker (I actually prefer KeywordDiscovery, but it would take too much budget for this scenario). I’m of the opinion that despite the dramatic evolution of search, keyword research is still the backbone of any successful Web site promotion strategy. Whether you are optimizing your site, writing a press release, building links, or creating link bait; you better be using relevant, moderate-high traffic, under-competitive keywords. I’d spend the remaining $62.41 on 1 or 2 under the radar permanent links from a topically relevant site (that doesn’t know any better) with good context and some nice co-citation! The rest of the promotion strategy would be carried out with my own blood, sweat, and tears (the grind, blocking and tackling, links and content, etc…).
May 25th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I would use the hundred to learn more in hopes I could make more to invest later. Many of my projects started on a shoe-string budget, but managed to succeed due to diligence and hard work.
No one ever said that the success of a site is measured by the marketing budget alone, however the general rule is, the more you can invest, the better the results will be. I have seen so many waste a bunch of time and money on things they don’t even need, it would be really cool to see some stories from the industry that reviewed some of the most successful projects launched with less than $500.00 or so dollars and the outcomes.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
For a person getting up at 4 am everyday to do some work on my sites and learn more about online marketing before going off to my day job for 10 hours and working with a minimal budget, this article is great. It has put a flame under my butt to keep up with the unique content and make it happen. This is a fantastic article for some one like me. Thanks!
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May 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Google guidelines state that paid links are a no-no. But several responders mentioned paying for BOTW / Yahoo Directory listings as one of the first things you would do. What gives?
May 25th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Jason, The Google webmaster guidelines actually state that you SHOULD list your website in Yahoo, DMOZ, and other relevant directories - so feel free to do so
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May 25th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Pat, great job on this project! It’s spurred lots of good discussion and the specific tips (I missed doing that) are great advice from the interviewees.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Thank you Lee for your comment, and for your participation. (I am afraid of my bartab at SMX after this)
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Excellent article! I have picked up some good tips from here for sure. It looks like link baiting is where its at
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May 26th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
It looks like the main element for making a website popular is time (spent on learning, creating, etc.). The more you learn, the more you can focus your content and networking efforts. Money is just the, important, facilitator.
Kudos to you.
That’s a good lesson to learn here
May 26th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Great article…. while we all may ahve different ways to spend the $100 what the article and commenst show is - you need dedication and perserverance… without them even $10,000 would not be enough.
May 26th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Excellent post Patrick, and some really good tips there. The only tip I don’t agree with is Andy Hagans tip “getting a listing in Yahoo Dir”, I believe getting listed in the Yahoo directory can actually be “bad” for your website. Depending on what website it is, if it’s a blog yes maybe but if it’s a full website, I wouldn’t. The second you sign up in the directory you wave goodbye to optimising your Meta Description. I’m a big believer of the importance of the meta description tag and would certianly not PAY $50 to give the chance to optimise each and every page meta description away.
May 26th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Im surprised that no one mentioned arbitrage…
1. Get a cheap $5/mo host.
2. Get a .info ($.99)
3. Drop Google Adwords onto some expensive keyword pages.
4. Find “matching” coupons for 7search, looksmart, and enhance
5. Advertise for less competitive, 2nd and 3rd tier terms at pennies per click.
6. Turn your $100 into $200.
Rinse, repeat.
(ok, there is a little more too it, but there is much less insecurity involved than relying on SEO, LinkBaiting or Viral Marketing because you know exactly how much the traffic costs up-front)
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May 26th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Assuming you have a computer and a connection. Otherwise were talking about going to a library, borrowing a computer, leeching bandwidth etc, thats all another story.
With $100….Buy a keyword associated dot com domain (buy two for $5 each) for and save it for later.
Learn PPC and affiliate marketing / reselling by doing a lot of reading online, tapping resources, friends and forums.
Make the $100 turn into $200
Repeat. Maybe sell a spare domain on the way.
Get cheap hosting and put some content on your domain/site. Let it sit for a while, go back to the above steps.
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May 26th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
@ Lisa Ditlefsen
You might want to read this entry in the Yahoo Search Blog: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000418.html . With the NOODP and NOYDIR meta tags you can bypass the directory description of your website.
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May 26th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
With limited resources, as has been noted, your time and efforts will be your currency, not money. I’d second Aaron on getting a job to have the ends meet, then buy smth like SEO book to learn the basics and then read and learn from prominent SEO blogs (like those of the experts here) for a half a year at least.
The easiest and the hardest way would be to create valuable content for your audience and get noticed in your online industry community. However, it’ll still take time to learn how to do things right.
While it was said that it’d help to get experts on your blog, you need first to be able to offer something in exchange, be it your audience attention or something else (a guest post on their blog?). Thus, it creates a catch 22, which can only be broken by building great stuff on your website and getting noticed.
Ironically, you’ll be able to get what you want, when you don’t need it (so you need to work hard to get anything you want, anyway).
Btw, I heard (can’t find the link) that Yahoo doesn’t show dir listings in SERPs any more. Not that it matters with the right meta tags to prevent showing dir descs, though.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Great article, and some fantastic responses.
I would try to just read as much as possible about ONE subject and master it. Creating a niche is one of the best ways to attract the right people to you.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:41 am
By the way, I have written about building a website for free before, where I explained what I said in the comment before.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:39 am
Buy 7 bags of Starbucks Verona Coffee…… get a new Bunn quick brew coffee maker and consume all 7 bags of coffee in 7 days. Use your caffeine induced rants to fill your blog with really strange content. Send link requests to the top 50 or so coffee sites and try for some good ibl’s…. of course your writing style may be a bit hyped up which would certainly tip off the site owners that you are not a software program who “really loves your siteâ€. Make sure you have a friend at Starbucks who will start the viral process with internal emails – Subj line: Look at this Idiot…….. Watch your stats increase… Add a linkshare ad for Starbucks to monetize and see what happens. Ok…where did I put my cup of Folgers Half Caf???
Just trying to inject a little humor here…. please don’t get upset…
May 27th, 2007 at 3:40 am
what bollocks. get laid.
May 27th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Thanks Patrick for your informative and entertaining article, the info is much appreicaited. i have enjoyed reading and have taken away a valuable collection of information that will be put to good use in the marketing of my website. thanks
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May 27th, 2007 at 9:27 am
cool..nice tips..really speaking $100 is too low..
However if someoine has good knowledge of link baiting, seo and all then $100 is enough too..
May 27th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Great questions, great respondents, great answers and a great amount of questions to ask being from an undeveloped country trying to catch up and localize your tips:
- What does Aaron mean by localizing various theme browsers to find good themes…
- What does Andy Hagans mean with writing link baits.
Thanks!
Fer
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Great ideas on inexpensive ways to get attention to your new project. As I read through Aaron Wall’s response, I counted 9 of 16 suggestions already implemented with my blog. It is a PR5 now and it’s gained traffic, so I must be doing something right. I created two “101″ lists which helped out a lot with incoming links.
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May 28th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Got 100 dollars? 7 Experts share budget website marketing tips…
If you had to make a website soar but had only small chunks of money to spend on it what would you do?…
May 28th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Hah. After you leave me with that cliffhanger last week, then I end up with no access to the internet over the weekend; but just wanted to say that the wait was definitely worth it!
I think that, in part, the value of posts such as these might even be less in the individual tips than it is in the overall “get off your ass and do it now!” tones.
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May 28th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Nice take by the big seven. I would ideally go for Aaron’s SEO Book and register myself to access Seomoz’s premium content section. Do lots of Social Media Marketing and take it from there…
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May 28th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Hm, 100 dollar is less. I should start with a good linkbaiting program.
May 28th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Excellent article, thanks! From my experience with hundreds of big sites, is focus on the content as much as possible, it will take time, but personally content is always the safest bet. you can invest enormous amount of time in linking strategies, and often, imho, it’s a short term because the search engines can change their rules whenever they want. Good content is timeless.
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May 28th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Interesting points made by all and the general message is the same throughout, get good content and lots of links. Unique article submissions are definitely one of the best ways to spread your links fast and furiously. Time spent on these things on the long run is invaluable, like seeding a lawn, it takes a while but eventually you have lush green grass.
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May 29th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
It’s interesting how none of You have really given any advice at all. I have a few domains that might not be the best in the world (yet), but I am getting there. After all I have only being doing this for four months. Anyway. It does not cost anywhere near as much to get the name out there. my latest site is only 2 weeks old and it is already on the social networks and had over 15000 visitors and has brought me some money. I haven’t spend anywhere near a hundred dollars yet. From what I am gathering from Your “advices” You are simply avoiding the question and are trying to get us to pay You to do it for us. Good marketing, but You have simply told me to stay away from You.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Yeah - kind of all rings true but (sorry if anyone’s already raised it) is has a couple of biggish flaws: yes you can buy a book for a few quid, but reading it, understanding it and acting on it is no small task. Assuming you earn a decent amount, that time don’t come for free. And certainly not for under $100.
It’s kind of like saying that the easiest way to make a million is to buy a domain name “and make a really good website.”
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May 30th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
wow! The information from the group you have assembled here is invaluable and arrives at a critical moment for myself and my business.
Thank you!!
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May 30th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
This is truly a very informative article. I must agree with the experts that though money will take you places for SEO, it is knowing how to use your money that will make the difference. A person with $500 may do better than one who has $5000 if the latter has no idea on what really matters.
Content is truly one’s best bet. With the way information runs freely on the internet, the challenge is to come up with something that people will find to be of value, either as a resource or for entertainment.
If I have less than a dollar for promoting my site, I will come up with quality content and market it like crazy everywhere. Making up for lack of money with creativity, hard work and time will definitely be rewarding.
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May 31st, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Great post! Even for someone who’s been doing this for a long long time, there are definitely some good tips here that I haven’t heard of and haven’t tried (yet). I love the tip about Web Pro News…cannot believe that I haven’t done that yet. Also, when it comes to domain names, you might consider looking at the expired domains…some already have traffic going to them and there are some pretty good names out there that people aren’t renewing. You might be able to pay $15 for a good expired domain name rather than trying to find one that hasn’t been registered before.
Also, you might consider writing (or having someone write) a press release about your new site…or wait until you’ve create a fair amount of content on it until you distribute the press release.
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June 1st, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Hey Pat, where did you go? Havent’ seen you anywhere for a while. Here, SEOmoz, did you fall off the planet?
June 1st, 2007 at 3:50 pm
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June 3rd, 2007 at 3:49 am
Marketing van je site voor maar US$ 100 volgens 7 SEO experts…
Patrick Sexton van Feedthebot.com en SEOish heeft 7 experts (inclusief zichzelf) gevraagd:
” Wat zou jij dan als je niet meer dan US$ 100 had voor de marketing van je website”
De 5 belangrijkste tips die ik uit de verhalen van deze…
June 3rd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
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June 3rd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Hello, Great Post.
That’s why I like to read blogs, you can learn and compare point of view. All these experts have different approaches when talking about web marketing tips, all of them are positives and interesting.
Excellent work!
Thanks for the good content.
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Hi All,
This is venkat from SGD Networks. Fine all experts talk about $100, $250,$500 and $1000
I agree with them and its a good stuff really when people look for marketing their website and revenue resources to earn living income or to promote the same for more revenues.
From my observation this( $100, $250, ) concept works but will take much time to get targeted visitors and revenues.
If it all possible so easy all we can make much concepts with good content and make much revenues. I am sure intially just having a website never generate revenues and when we buy some quality links from good topic related websites we need to pay every month. Can it possible for $100 or $250, $500 to pay the regular fee to get quality backlinks from atleast 4 - 5 websites?
June 6th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Pretty sound tips even if you have more than $100. It sounds like nearly everyone feels that having a good host is very important. I currently use BlueHost for my blog and they are pretty good. They offer a lot of features and good analytics. But I do want to take a look at some of the other recommendations listed here for a new site. Less than $10 sounds reasonable.
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June 8th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
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June 12th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
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June 21st, 2007 at 3:41 pm
This is an excellent post, useful for all I dare to say. Regardless of whether you have $100 or $100,000 for marketing. You should read between the lines and understand that the most important thing is not money, but vision and dedication. Or at least this is how I interpreted all the advice. SEO and SEM have become so important these days and many rely on others to do what they should do themselves. As the old saying puts it, if you want to do something right, do it yourself.
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July 9th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
What a great article! really awesome unique idea, Aaron Wall’s comments have inspired me!
Thanks for putting this up.. i love the bootstrapping thang!
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July 14th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Really good site, and a pleasant suprise… Good Luck!
July 19th, 2007 at 3:50 am
Great article. The tips in this article are invaluable. This page has actually been my homepage for the last 2 weeks everytime I start firefox! …just to make me read the tips over and over again so they stick into my head. Great work.
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July 21st, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Ok it is inexpensive in dollars to build a website and host it. It is expensive in hours to build content and do the social networking stuff and SEO stuff. I built my website by had spending little money. Hosting was $2.77/mo. I was up and running for under $5.00. It has taken about 80 or 100 hours to build the content and do the SEO work.
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August 17th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Although $100 is not a huge budget whatsoever for starting a website, it’s still a workable amount. I’d of course register my domain for about $7. Next, I’d secure basic hosting to get started with. I know many question the reliablity of low-cost hosting, but there are plenty of reputable web hosts with starter packages for less than $25 a year. I’d then invest in a pre-designed web template that closely matches the look and feel I’m after. Just a few quick and easy mods and the site is complete, looking as professional as ever! With the remaining cash, I’d scour eBay for a good html reference guide so I could begin to learn what’s going on behind the design.
August 31st, 2007 at 6:31 pm
“- spend $20 to $200 on books about the topic I am interested in, and I would get a few background books on marketing and the web including Purple Cow, The Cluetrain Manifesto, and Don’t Make Me Think.” from Aaron
Just have to add — don’t forget the value of the old-fashioned library!
Love the info provided here!
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Yo Pat, where are you these days?
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November 23rd, 2007 at 2:35 am
Very useful article
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:39 am
.info domains are cheaper, id probably start with a .info, unless i really needed a .com
November 29th, 2007 at 11:32 am
what an awesome post that is ! I firmly believe that 100$ is not enough to start a new Internet venture but it is more than enough to learn how to build the foundation of the venture. Once the foundation is firm, money will automatically follow. So invest on your knowledge. Cheers !!
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February 21st, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Great article. Some very useful info in here! Aaron Wall on top form as usual. Two things seem to stand out: 1) study like crazy 2) create quality content.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Great Article-Really good pointers from some of the industry’s best. Thanks!
March 1st, 2008 at 6:13 am
If you have a friend that can build apps get them to create something interactive and useful that Facebook and other social networking users in your target market will be attracted to use.
For instance we are working on creating a mini gallery that pulls images from our online New Zealand art gallery for members to promote their artwork on their profile, or for people to support NZ art and increase the (usually unplesant) asthetics of their profile.
We hope this will increase brand awareness, drive qualified traffic and build links.
Creating a community via forums and blogs obviously attract your target market too, and are relativly cheap - involving your time to keep them alive.
March 23rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Well, read it and have tried it, done 99>99% of what is recommended but still not seeign the kind of traffic I want. PR gone up to 4 and feel my product is priced under virtually everyone else in the field, but not getting the traffic. Spent way over the limits here but took my time, started really low on $ invested, read a lot and know way way more than a couple of years ago. But enjoyed the read and good to validation of what I have been doing, next step is social bookmarking, this is a part time job and labor of love for me, thanks for the article am sure there are many more like me rather than the ones with great traffic, but that’s what makes it allinterestign and exciting.
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