Mutley Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Just interested how you guys advertise your site? It's for a music community, I like the idea of press release dispensing. I've looked at both Adsense & Adbrite - but are these really effective? Seems like you need to put in $50-100 a day for something that might not get you any visitors at all. Discuss! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skymanj Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 First I'd suggest using your HTML <meta> tag. Use this so anything remotely close to your site is searched on google, it will pop up. Also, id start by using free pathways, ie. Forums, friends, etc. You may get a huge fanbase just by doing that. I would not sink money into an ad program just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salis Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 I remember a long time ago there was a site where you create a banner, if you host some one's banner then you banner will also be hosted. I did a google search for "Banner Exchange" and found a few sites right off. May be this could be a way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noidea Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 There are thousands of ways to get your site noticed many believe in banner or traffic exchanges but these are not that successful and many obsolete. If i was you i would concentrate and put your energy into SEO (Search Engine Optimization) No matter what you do to advertise your site - if you dont have the basics correct then your wasting your time! The most popular form of advertising at the moment is Link Exchanging - Basically getting website to link to your site but preferably those with a high page ranking If you can master SEO you wont need any promotional gimmicks ... savvy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salis Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 many believe in banner or traffic exchanges but these are not that successful and many obsolete..... The most popular form of advertising at the moment is Link Exchanging Isn't that sort'a contradicting? Any way another idea is, if you're registered on forums maybe place a link in your sig. I'll probably be shot down for that, but every little counts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutley Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 I was thinking of more financial advertising, paying for adwords and online advertising. Free is simple, effective but rather obvious. I was looking past that. What do people think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salis Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 It really depends on how much you want to spend. The deeper your pockets the better advertisement. Google ads are all over the web, so that may not hurt. Also remember to place keywords in your <meta> tags. This will help with search engines.. so yeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I use addwords, and at $20.00/month, I receive a minimum of about 2 new users a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutley Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 I use addwords, and at $20.00/month, I receive a minimum of about 2 new users a day. Do you mean 2 people signing up or 2 hits? I was thinking of Adwords but heard it can drain your cash pretty quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 this month, I got 296 views 1,901,141 page impressions (You only pay per click not impression) $20/month within the 2 months I have had adwords, I have gotten around 60 - 70 registrations on my site, and that would be thanks to adwords. It really does help. The first day I stared using adwords, I got 2 or 3 user registrations. The more money you spend on advertising with adwords, the more hits you will gain. So... If I were to spend $40/month, They would advertise my site twice as much as they do now, and I probably would get 4 - 8 registrations per day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salis Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 this month, I got 296 views 1,901,141 page impressions (You only pay per click not impression) $20/month within the 2 months I have had adwords, I have gotten around 60 - 70 registrations on my site, and that would be thanks to adwords. It really does help. The first day I stared using adwords, I got 2 or 3 user registrations. The more money you spend on advertising with adwords, the more hits you will gain. So... If I were to spend $40/month, They would advertise my site twice as much as they do now, and I probably would get 4 - 8 registrations per day. Seriously?! 1,000,000 hits in one month off $20?! In some cases hits and view are more important than registration, in my mind any way. Are there plans with Adwords? I mean, you're paying $20 a month you said, so naturally you only get so many clicks right. So are there plans for advertising, like $40 for so and so, $100 for so and so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 not 1,000,000 hits, 1,000,000 page impressions... those are different, that is how many time your add shows up in a search, or on someones adsense advertisements. off of $20, you can get about 300 hits a month, (that doesn't include returning visitors) but that also depends on the key words you select. keywords range anywhere from .02 cents to .20 cents a click (It may be higher, or low depends on the keywords) any keyword with the word MySpace, equals about .20 cents every time someone clicks your link. but a keyword with the word image, may cost about .05 cents. you make your own pay plans, You choose how much you want to spend per month. (there may be a minimum) so you could pay: $10.00 $20.00 $50.59 $39.20 $13.99 you choose what you want to pay per month, and the will display them, and they will not display them all at once, like all the the beginning of the month, or the end, they will even it out through out the month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamgrowth Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 IMO, social networking sites are also a good free option to get targeted traffic for your site to get recognized in a short time. All social networking sites give you the freedom of creating a group of your specific category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutley Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 I'll try Adwords and see how it goes. I'm going to try a press release service too, I heard they work quite well. Word of mouth is defiantly the most effective method! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salis Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 If I had a reason to advertise I'd definitely try it as well. But I really have nothing on my site at all. I'm trying the Google Ads but in 3 or 4 months I think I've made $4.15.. all right... just $95.85 until pay out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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