300$ budget and 2 new websites, what should I do?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by AtanasYanev, Jul 29, 2006.

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    I have 300$ to spend right now,
    I'm looking for visitors, not sales or something,
    I have 2 websites, but I think that it will be better to focus these money on one of them right now:
    http://news.ayanev.com - latest hardware news (no reviews/articles/affiliates)
    and
    http://beers.ayanev.com - gallery of beer images, with option to upload your own photos

    I used this (45 dirs) for the first website, just got the reports from the person that he is done working on this,
    and this (100 dirs) again for the first website, but still I dont have a report.

    So the traffic is very low for the first one, almost only from DP members ;)

    The second one is not marketed in any way - I only gave the link to a few friends, they liked it, gave it to other and so I'm getting 10x visitors than news.ayanev.com, but 0 clicks on adsense ads...

    So, if you were me - what would you do, where would you invest your money and which site you gonna spend your time and money first?

    I do not want to do this marketing in my way, I want to hear something from you first :)
    Thanks and beers in advance ;)
     
    AtanasYanev, Jul 29, 2006 IP
  2. BrianJump

    BrianJump Active Member

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    Here it is-one cure-all:

    GOOGLE ADWORDS.
     
    BrianJump, Jul 29, 2006 IP
  3. cozmogeek

    cozmogeek Well-Known Member

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    if it were me I'd spend a few of those dollars buying a domain for each site.
     
    cozmogeek, Jul 29, 2006 IP
  4. 3dPrinting

    3dPrinting Peon

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    Before you go spending any money, find out how a successful website is constructed first. And adwords ain't going to do any good. You need to optimize your site and get it keyed then maybe you'll have a better chance.
     
    3dPrinting, Jul 29, 2006 IP
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    cj1223 Well-Known Member

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  6. Pozzy

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    Definetly get a domain.
     
    Pozzy, Jul 29, 2006 IP
  7. AtanasYanev

    AtanasYanev Active Member

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    Wow... I already spent some money for domains; I just want to set up everything before running them officially ;)
    So I'm looking for any advices except "buy domains" ;)
     
    AtanasYanev, Jul 30, 2006 IP
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    The money is in the list.
     
    3dPrinting, Jul 30, 2006 IP