Please feel free to comment on my proposed marketing plan, here are the details of the website: - BRAND NEW website, with virtually no traffic yet. - the website is fully optimize and is SEO ready (ie. all titles, descriptions, meta tags, etc..are there) - the budget is a few hundred dollars, not over $1000. Here is my MASTER marketing plan and checklist. 1) $80 PR from PRWEB 2) $299 Yahoo Directory Submission and DMOZ submission. 3) Approx $100 to Submit 10 different articles using a DP forum services member. 4) Approx $50 to submit to a bunch of directories using a DP forum services member 5) ADD URL link to About ME page of your Ebay auctions 6) post to 5 forum topics per day. Not spam, just make a comment and have your URL in the signature. 7) Put a small 10 Word AD in the Classified Section of the National Enquirer, be sure to include the URL. A 10 word AD will cost $144, and give you access to 11 million. If only 1 out of 1000 people go to your site, thats 11000 hits for $144 dollars or $0.01 per visitor. THAN...on a Continual Basis: 1) post to 5 forum topics per day 2) $10 submit one article per week Am I missing anything....please add to my proposed checklist and master plan. Thanks!
I do not like the PPC route because the purpose of the website that I'm building is to generate revenue, on a small budget. Even a small amount of steady revenue, like $1 per day. I want to build up multiple streams of revenue income. So ideally, I will pay less than $1K for the inital traffic push. Than, I will spend about $10 per week for article submission and every day I will post to 5 forums. Eventually after 6 months or a year, I will easily generate at least $5 per day in revenue and my site will be almost on autopilot...with just me posting to the forums 5 times per day and 1 article submission per week. Forever. Keep doing this over and over and over. Eventually you have dozens...than hundreds of sites generating revenue...with very little work to maintain them. The key to this stategy is to build a good site with SEO....have a large inital traffic push....maintain a small but steady promotion program (ie. the forum posts and the weekly article) than just wait. Be patient. It sometimes takes over a year to get decent traffic. But when it comes, it won't stop..as long as you keep even the smallest promotion tactics alive. Please explain and elaborate...what is "social networking" and how is it done? Also, any other traffic suggestions?
this is similar to what I'm doing except without the high price to start. first articles aren't hard to write, then submitting them is cake, I'm not gonna pay someone to submit something that's easy, backlinks are a pain i'll pay for that. I have seo on my site, and I'm actually really new at it, finally understand it now. I am just starting to get the seo hitting my site as of today and so far have 600 uniques. That's a great rise from about 200 a day from just word of mouth. Soon it will be up to 4k a day easy. I plan to do this to about 100 other sites over the next year. my main thing is get title tags, meta description and keyword tags, and then h1-h3 but usually h1 tags. I then pay dp members to do submissions and give me backlinks. So far my site www.marsgamer.com is almost always on the main page for most wow search terms, and almost number 1 on at least half that i've seen, and between 2-5 on others. Once i get more backlinks indexed soon it will jump.
If you provide us with your URL perhaps we could say what we think which might think best. I wouldn't pay 300$ for Yahoo directory. I don't catch why do you pay 10$ per article, since ezine is free? I would buy some permanent or 1 year links from members of this forum for most of money....
yeah this is how I feel. The only thing about 300 in yahoo is i think big businesses have to pay it, plus it's guaranteed. Not like it's hard to get in a big search engine, they are like the giant brains from futurama they want all the info in the world.
Thanks for the responses. I am not an expert, and I just started this thread to give what I thought was a good plan for success at the cheapest possible price. 1) I can write articles no problem, I was talking about the $10 article submission service that some DP members provide for submission to like 100 article directories for $10....is there a better or cheaper way? 2) explain what you mean by, buying 1 year links from DP members...what is this and how much does it cost?
you can submit some articles yourself for free like ezinearticles.com but if you want a lot done it's probably good to get someone to do it, here is a list of directories you can submit to free. Here is a huge list of article directories: Website URL Alexa Traffic Rank www.ezinearticles.com 1,252 www.goarticles.com 2,697 www.webpronews.com 3,152 www.articlecity.com 5,813 www.searchwarp.com 6,729 www.ideamarketers.com 8,865 www.submityourarticle.com 12,262 www.isnare.com 16,414 www.articlesfactory.com 21,247 www.storebuilder.co.uk 23,195 www.constant-content.com 26,901 www.allthewebsites.org 29,644 www.valuablecontent.com 31,574 www.womans-net.com 36,368 www.jogena.com 47,138 www.family-content.com/articles/submit.shtml 47,790 www.family-content.com 47,790 www.articlesubmissions.com 52,266 www.certificate.net 55,910 www.theezine.net/archive/add.html 56,054 www.zinos.com 59,058 www.ebooksnbytes.com/articles/submit.shtml 78,457 www.freezinesite.com 86,829 www.linksnoop.com 100,445 www.articlefinders.com 124,459 www.authorconnection.com 140,274 www.businesstoolchest.com 152,254 www.connectionteam.com 172,067 www.e-zinez.com 173,582 www.uniterra.com/submit-article.htm 189,004 www.article-directory.net 199,038 www.internethomebusinessarticles.com 249,266 www.workathomearticles.net 265,687 www.sales-masters-world.com 285,315 www.smartbiz.com 294,152 www.ezypublisher.com/join.php 312,666 www.biz-ewomen.com 381,605 www.marketingpitbull.com 445,809 www.365articles.com/ 500,833 www.TheWebContent.com 528,300 http://Ultabiz.com 698,564 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/business_articles 966,868 www.top-web-marketing.com 983,209 http://www.dietandhealthinfo.com 2,142,742 www.midamericapublishing.com 4,472,924 www.mega-success.com 4,826,415 http://ez-work-at-home.net/articlelib/index.html 5,146,264 www.promotezone.com 5,242,282 CONFIRMED TO BE GOOD: http://www.ezinearticles.com/ http://www.goarticles.com/ http://www.articlefinders.com/ http://www.articlecity.com/ http://www.fresh-articles.com/ http://www.biz-whiz.com/ http://www.articlesforwomen.com/ http://www.articlesfactory.com/ http://www.addme.com/ (marketer articles) http://www.linksnoop.com/ http://www.zinos.com/ http://www.hamazines.com/ (not very many articles) http://articles.simplysearch4it.com (copy of ezinea.. ?) http://www.internethomebusinessarticles.com/ http://www.submityourarticle.com/ http://www.isnare.com/ http://www.articlewarehouse.com/ http://www.365articles.com/ http://www.family-content.com/ (few with no links) http://www.workathomearticles.net/ http://www.articlealley.com/
Thanks for this. This is what I mean, so if I hire someone for $10 to submit to hundreds of article directories it will be better and faster. See here is the key...low maintaince. I build the site with excellent SEO, I good nuts for an inital traffic push, than I regularly submit articles (ie. once per week) to keep the "flow" alive and it also multiplys the links over time. Than I just repeat, for dozens of sites. All providing a steady (might be small) stream of income, with low maintance. It will take lots of time, even years but...I feel this is the way for me to built an online empire.
if you can get a hundred articles for 10 bucks get it. worth it since it can save you time. but i wouldn't pay 100 bucks for 10 submissions like some want. I think backlinking through artiles is good but you also need new content on your pages either manually or through rss or the search engine doesn't see it as new content and i think penalizes you for it. I plan to do this for 5 sites to start, 4 more now. THen work up to 10. With adsense just hitting 15 a day thats 450 per month per site x 10 is 4500 a month automatically for doing hardly any owrk. Eventually you get enough sites where you do some work everyday and you're raking it in with minimal maintenance after the initial build. I don't think it takes years, maybe if you count on articles, backlinks build your traffic fast. look at my site right now www.marsgamer.com last week it was like 3.5mil on alexa now it's at 2.3m. My site url is a few months old but I just got everything transferred to it last week. paid some dp guys for hundreds of directory submissions. they finally are done, some backlinks kicked in now and my pr is estimated to be 3 soon, traffic so far today has hit 700 uniques, and i've maid a descent amount from adsense, low for a gaming site since it's low paying but descent. all of that from backlinks and some basic seo in which i finally understand it. I just need more links, and then submit an article a day if possible, plus add weekly or monthly content. I estimate my traffic to be over 1k today in uniques, nice for doing little work and under 50 bucks spent on links to go from about 200 uniques per day.
also you must find a niche of some type. Mine is world of warcraft, it's real popular right now and I have 1 or 2 unique guides for it. The other guy I talk to all the time has the other. each lists one side of the game (good/bad) from level 1-60 plus we both have free guides which is like a niche site with good quality information and adsense ads.
$299 Yahoo Directory Submission and DMOZ submission Isn't that a waste? DMOZ normally has my sites in it and doesn't charge a penny and yahoo always seems to have them in search results etc, or am I missing something, seems very little bang for your buck.
Hear some good things aboutit but only if you have something really newsworthy I really do not think it's worth the $300. I'd rather spend it on link buying elswhere but it's personal For $87 you can buy a very good piece of software that does it all for you and you can submit to 385 article directories Look in the warriorsforum for a special about it. It's called Article post Robot. A member of DP has a great service....it's at lazyseo.com...$19 will do the trick and YOU are in control Sillent ebay machine...good thing Great way of getting traffic Never tried that so can't commernt on it but seems a bit optimistic...1 out of a 1000 ...that will mean that you asume that everybody reads the ad section...what if only 1 out of 5 reads the ad section and only 1 out of 5000 notices your ad and then 1 out of 2 is sitting in front of the computer and types in your url....don't know but just this is why I NEVER use advertisments in offline ways...it's to many if's and no way to track what is working. On the other hand it's only $144 so if it's burn money go for it If you take the advice about article post robot you just saved $10 a week Besides the points you mention -Build links with theme related sites -Comment in blogs (as with the forums say something meaningfull) -Answer questions in Google Groups and Yahoo answers -Try to get an article of yours in Digg and that kind of site -Social bookmarking -Write articles for other websites and gice it to them with the restriction of letting your link in tact Guess that will keep you bussy for some while
Maybe I am wrong about the Yahoo submission. My thought was that it is for the long-term. Picture this, you build a nice niche site fully SEO ready, you make a large inital traffic push...than you just submit one article per week as maintance...keep doing this...dozens each year...fast forward 10 years...(which is about 100 internet years)..these site will be generating a steady flow of income....for very little maintance. Thousands of websites are born and thousands of website are closed each day. Search Engines give huge weight to sites that are around for years. I feel that the internet gold rush is far from over.
That's not exactly a "marketing plan". I'd suggest you not even think about where you plan to spend your marketing budget until you've written out a full marketing plan, most importantly focusing on your competitors and income projections from the investment. Jumping in to spend money without proper planning is the biggest marketing mistake you can make. Jenn
Edynas offered some of the best advice in this thread, you can save yourself so much money by following that advice. The one thing I really picked out is the $299 dmoz/yahoo listings, that would be the worst waste of money ever, you can easily get a featured (and "more" relevant) link from 20-50 high PR directories for the same price. You might even be able to swing a long term link deal from some more focused sites in your niche.
Info on social bookmarking can be found here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Bookmarking some of the biggest social bookmarking sites include, digg.com and del.icio.us