I'm going to act like this is life or death, so this should be fun! Let's say that you have $50 and 24 hours to get a substantial amount of traffic to your website... The ultimate goal is to get new customers or retain viewers. If you fail, your life is over. How would you guys spend your money and your 24 hours?
Good question .... ummmmmmmmmmmm hmmmm hmmmmm cant find an answer - but if you get one I will have a fifty dollar crisis every day- Article Submissions to a bunch of sites is pretty fast though - you just need to know how - need some tips let me know The Crow
a CPM network would be the only way, that is if you are already a member and dont have to wait to be accepted. I vote to drink until the $50 is gone and come up with a better timeline for your next site...
Spend the $50 on making cold calls. Fantastic response rate once you get used to ppl slamming the phone down on you
It buys you a small but well targeted opt-in list that could give you ROI of a couple hundred %. Sending out a decent message to that $50 list with free mailing list software should be an option in under 24 hours. Otherwise, buy a gun, rob a bank whilst wearing a shirt with your domain name on it - should get you some attention...
I was tempted to make fun of you too, but I'll give you a straight answer. You're approaching this from the wrong angle. Turn around 180 degree and change your question from "what can i do to generate traffic" to "what can I do to make my site cooler/more interesting/more productive/a better resource/a place where people want to hang/a place where people can find what they're looking for. If you answer that question, the first question is no longer necessary.
your domain would become famous around the nation within minutes! If you are selling an ebook on how to rob banks then, you'll be a millionaire in no time. (ironic!)
Good advice- about the mailing list that is. If it's opt-in and the people are really interested in the subject, I'd imagine you'd get a very high response rate.
The idea of the thread was just for fun, I anticipated some hardcore guerilla techniques! I'll give you $49 more dollars and 24 more hours.... You now have 2 days and $99, how would you pull this off?
AdWords. 1 Day to set up (reasearch AND set up) and collect initial feedback, second day to pimp the ads and start getting that ROI.
Ok, hardcore ... Set up a bum-fight, with each wearing a brightly colored t-shirt with your domain name in bold letters. Place in front of busy shopping mall / train station / whatever. Anonymously call press to complain about exploitation of bums. Make sure video camera is rolling, preferably from different angles. Wait till press get there. Begin fight. Pay bums their $15 each. Go get drunk with the rest.
Start a contest - The $99 Giveaway Spend the 2 days promoting the contest on every site, forum, and blog that will post it. Put up a big visitor counter and give the money to the 100,000th site visitor.
find a hacker thats in debt and get him to hack some things major sites or into computers and redirect them to your webiste. if you find a good hacker let me know.
adwords is a great tool to get some traffic quick with 99 bucks. but depend on the niche of your site. you can get 1980 new visitor paying 0.05 $ a click but if you pay 0.5$ they are just 198. anyway for 99 bucks to get some traffic or die, adwords is the answer.