Just launched an informational web site. I was planning my link building budget and just wanted to ask you guys. What would be the best way to use $2000 for link building. Directories, articles, etc.. ? Any comment greatly appreciated..
use all method of link building that you can use. Link building is not limit, you can do lifetime, your pocket may empty but link building will not stop, i mean you can spend as you wish. you may build thousand links or you may build millions links, it's depend on you.
If I had that much, I would allocate roughly $600 for in-content links (because they are natural, highly valued, and great for long term), around $400 for text links (because they are almost as powerful as in-content links), $400 for dummy blogs (link wheel or whatever that is alike), and the lest go to blog commenting 9for short temr boost, but can also work for long term).
Most people will 'buy' links for that budget. Directory submissions and article submission cost pittance.
It depends how link-worthy the site is. You say it is an informational site - if it is a great source of information that would be of interest to many people I'd divert the resources into link baiting and social media to drive traffic to the site and create more natural links. Obtaining these types of links will keep your link profile squeaky clean and will generally last a lot longer than paid links and article links. Directory links are OK if you stick to good directories and article links are fine too although you need to build quite a few of these links to gain any sort of rankiing power.
directory submission blog & forum links (comments and sidewide) article submission & bookmarking You can get good amount of quality links with $2000. Better get some software to identify where you want to get your links from.
You might as well spend the bulk of it for article writing. You can probably get a good return by uploading them to Hubpages. Hubpages allow monetizing through Google Adsense, Amazon, and Ebay. In this case, you will get links as well as passive income.
Spend $850 on a very good, compact laptop with great battery-life, windows 7, 2gb+ ram, and a processor with 3mb+ cache. That's it! With a nice compact computer you can take it with you everywhere you go and you'll get in an extra 1-3 hours of work in a day that you didn't even know you were wasting just sitting around. That amount of time will build up to getting you a HUGE amount of links if you know what you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing then I'd spend a little money and buy the SEObook at seobook.com. It doesn't give exact information in my mind but its a good overview of everything. If you consider the laptop to be a 1 year investment then you would just have to earn about $1.17/day in productivity to make the ROI positive -> I suggested 2gb+ ram and processor with 3mb+ cache because these are important for multitasking which you should really be doing. windows 7 is a must because its the most up to date OS that isn't pure crap.... DO NOT get Vista, its a major resource hog.
aah common suggestion from all other seo people , give me 1000$ and i will tell you a secret to get pr 6 to 7 within 2 pr dance , PR 6 means enough authority to your site to get sucess. but main success is depend on the service you provide
I would spend it on magic article rewriter + subscriptions to article distribution services (ArticleRanks, Unique Article Wizard, Article Marketing Automation, + Free Traffic System) so you can build up lots of "natural" long term links.
Use most of it to have unique articles created. Submt them to Ezine Articles. Then have them rewritten and use them with services like Unique Article Wizard.
Well you can do directories, article submissions, buy in-content links or blog reviews, link builders, and profile links.
Great Answers.. Regarding Article Submissions, I use isnare and they claim that they distrubute articles on many article directories. I was wondering if you have any other alternatives. ?? "in-content links" what exactly they are and how to get them ? Thanks
lol. That would be cool, I'd prolly do it too. $1.17/day isn't worth the work I would put in but it would increase my productivity so much too that I'd consider it Btw, I had a small typo. That would be a 2 year investment at $1.17/day, not 1 year.
The best suggestion would be, beware of unnatural link building, your money will go waste. Read more about how Google catches spam link building, before you spend for it. -Regards.
Well first directories, article submissions than forums & blogs but better don't spend more than $500 on these, spend the rest on high quality links from related websites!