Do You Use Paid Advertising For Your Website?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by netmaster123, Feb 18, 2009.

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    Do you guys use paid advertising to promote your websites? for example adwords or buying banner ads on other sites?

    Is it really worth it, does the traffic come back after you stop advertising?
     
    netmaster123, Feb 18, 2009 IP
  2. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    Yes and sometimes yes.
    Depends what sort of business it is, but if it's the sort that gets repeat custom, thinking of your advertising as paying for long term customers, rather than just one-off sales, may make it worth investing in.
     
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    thefandango Active Member

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    It can work, it can also be a zero return money pit. You can get best results from using a mix of free and paid ads in graphic and text variations...
     
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    catanich Peon

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    We use AdWord on all of our sites but you must have solid On Page SEO to keep the costs down.
     
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    Of course. Duh.

    netmaster123, how do you think all of those big sites got to be so big, anyway?
     
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    jasontn Well-Known Member

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    Based on my experience I wouldn't use adwords. I would use organic SEO because you get free targeted visitors. For example, you might pay 75 dollars a day for 150 visitors a day (at .50 a click). You could get those same visitors for nothing via SEO. Of course it takes a few months to develop good rankings but it's worth it. I would spend my money on SEO books and not adwords.

    Of course some people have made money in SEO so I suppose it depends on the niche. But for some reason adwords is a waste of money for me. But it was a fun but expensive experiment.
     
    jasontn, Feb 19, 2009 IP