Is it advised to market ONLY if you pay for it ? It seems like all the free marketing techniques are steady building other sites . YOU market your stuff through them but they get the PR and the traffic and your site is just that a site among the billions who are struggling. And being used as a stepping stone. what is your opinion is it better to pay for what you get or is there really exceptional ways that are not paid for marketing services that actually work in promoting your sites ?
The bottom line is, in a nutshell, those free marketing techniques simply do not work when it comes to getting good traffic on a consitent basis. I hate to be short, blunt like this, but.... If you want traffic, you are going to have to advertise.
The fact is,you pay your money,and get your traffic and order.I think it's not necessary to consider other things unrelated.That's so-called mutual advantage.
Maybe I'm biased, but I disagree... Back in my real estate days, my mentor would always tell me "it's not about ownership, it's about control." The idea is applicable to our game too: If you are getting what you want from the directories (link juice, targeted traffic, whatever) then it doesn't matter if you own the site. As long as you have enough control to profit from it.
Free traffic always seem to involve recruiting a bunch of people who will then recruit more people...only if you have the time. The only real free marketing I promote is article writing...if you can grasp a good understanding about how to succeed with article marketing then you will be able to generate tons of free traffic
you can win if you learn the ropes of gaining traffic,it could be free or paid for.if you don't know how to maximise them,you get nothing out of it