I have about $250 to spend on some form of advertising for my site...

What would you all suggest would be the best method to advertise a personal finance related site?

https://www.clearcheckbook.com

 

Nice site. Id try a little adwords, stumbleupon, and MAYBE a press release of some sorts. What is the objective / goal of the advertising?

 

The goal is simply to get more users. It's a free service and I currently have over 2,400 active users, but could always use more.

I'm already in the top 4 for most of my keyword searches in google/yahoo/msn anyway though... so I don't know if adwords would really be helpful.

Do you have suggestions on where to release a press release?

 

prweb.com, pr.com, prleap.com, AP, and local newspapers (with a local spin) is a great place to start. You can also try advertising directly on websites as well (via adwords, banners, or links).

 

I would buy banner / text links on relative websites

 

I always liked press releases. Adwords can get pretty expensive and usually stay away from them. There's really a ton of places to submit free press releases to. Try and Google free press release submissions, or something like that.

 

Pressbox.com is a good one [free]. Also, might as well Digg your sight and throw an announcement on Craigslist.

 

Buy Links and get one of those $200 vouchers from AdCenter and a $100 from Adwords (cost $10 total)

 

http://www.text-link-ads.com. Right now they'll give you $100 worth of links in you spend $25 in your account. Good for a few months of quality backlinks.

 

Nice referral link, haha.

I use Text Link Ads, used the $100 worth of links deal too. It was pretty nice. I ended up spending around $200+ on 5-6 sites and only having to pay around $80 because of the deal.

 

I just signed up, and its awesome. Going to use it to keep track of spending/income on websites. Also submitted your site to digg, because it really is frontpage worthy.
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Move_over_Quickbooks_Keep_track_of_your_financials_online_for_free

 

I will go for Google Adwords and buying quality links to increase your SE rankings.

Stan

 

Maybe you should try some email notification advertising.

 

Good looking site. However, I think, with something like this, you need to win the trust of people because such services are already provided by some banking institutions as well as some big financial sites. You have to have the trust f people to store their financial details on your site, which is going to take some doing, I feel.

 

the best thing imo, if you already rank high for your keywords

 

i would suggest .....think long term. Would suggest hiring someone to submit to search engines / directories. These in turn enables getting free one way back links and this would help ur google listings.

 

it would be good idea if you send a press release. It would get some traffic plus some backlinks. here is a nice collection of PR sites.

 

press release's are good as i have heard,but if you can find quality sites and purchase banner space or text links that would be best.Especially if you can buy permanent space

 

There are many ways to get traffic and lots of it, for instance I just tried out a service yesterday which hand emailed nearly 20,000 people about my up and coming digital forum. Since that email was sent out, I have had several thousand hits to the forum. ( I should have Had Ad sense On It )

 

Try Advertising in a Business Directory that way you get targeted visitors, I have also PMed you!