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If I have X advert dollar, do I use it for Article or Link Submission?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by dito199, Oct 23, 2006.

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Should I invest in

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  3. Mix of both

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  1. #1
    A question which I have been pondering lately. What is the most effective way of spending the X amount of advertising dollar each month.

    An article today averaged at US$10 per piece, for the same price you can get submission to 100 link directories. If we are only concern with backlink at the end of the day, should'nt I just dump all my advertising dollar into link submission which can generate more backlinks for the same amount of $?
     
    dito199, Oct 23, 2006 IP
  2. Glen

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    #2
    do both

    "content is king"
     
    Glen, Oct 23, 2006 IP
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    20% article 80% to buy links .

    * remember articles can be copied , but links cant be .
     
    topaffiliateprogram, Oct 23, 2006 IP
  4. dito199

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    It is always good if we can do both.

    To help put the question into perspective, by X dollar I am looking at US$100
    : that's either 10 articles or 1000 link directory submissions every month, which has a huge gap between the two.
     
    dito199, Oct 23, 2006 IP
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    links will get your website known by a wider audience
     
    safronelectronics, Oct 23, 2006 IP
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    I dont think $100 can give you 10 article links only. It may give you 50 article links with that amount. And in case of submission service if you are doing one way submission or free submission then the statistics shows that only 10% to 15% of links will may be approved.

    SO now you decide which one is better.
    I agree.

    Thanking you.
    Ashwini
     
    Ashwini, Oct 23, 2006 IP
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    100$ / month ?

    If so, do one month 1000 links, then other months do articles. after 6 months, you can redo a link submission.

    If 100$ in total, I would do 40% articles / 60% links
     
    Camay123, Oct 23, 2006 IP
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    I say article submission,imho as it gives poeple something to link.The more valuable the content in your article the more visitors you will get.
     
    Dassie, Oct 24, 2006 IP
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    Use a combination of both. However Article submission is more effective.
     
    infonote, Oct 24, 2006 IP
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    If you are having $100 then you should use $70 for Dir. Submissions & $30 for Article Submissions.
     
    dhruv37, Oct 24, 2006 IP
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    30% on blog posts and 70% on the links(sitewide).
    I won't spend money on 'directory submission'.I'd do that myself.
     
    Richie_Ni, Oct 24, 2006 IP
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    depends on how good your article is
     
    affihq, Oct 24, 2006 IP
  13. dito199

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    #13
    Thanks all for posting. I have ended up with entirely different decision then the original intention of using it for link submission. I am now decided to invest the $ into buying articles and none in link submission, here's why.

    Granted, link submission gives you the quantity but the roi is linearly proportionate to amount of $ you put in. $100 gets you 1000 links, $500 gets you 5000 links and when you stop investing, the backlink will stop together.

    I'll do my own link submission (with the help of formfiller), at a rate of 10 directories per day to build up the backlink slowly. It is 20min-a-day routine that I can spare.

    On the other hand, articles provides you with content, a product that has much more ROI in longer term.
    1. 10 articles submitted to 100 AD sites give you equivalent of 1000 links
    2. content as a product - By clever re-packaging you can give it out as e-book to attract more traffic, or to the extend of selling it.
    3. content as template - You can easily rewrite and turn it into another article
    And probably more...
     
    dito199, Oct 27, 2006 IP