I have 500 squid a week to spend on a new project. Which are the best engines to pay for submission to (Want to concentrate on a uk market).
Should I just pay form the home page or all / some of the url's ?
hope this is an ok place to put this up.
cheers
Dino
If you could be a bit more clearer, I may be able to give some advice from my experience:
1, What are you trying to achieve (Branding, Sales or Both)
2, Is the site B2b or B2c orientated
3, have you looked at PPC (Overture and Espotting)
4, Whats ort of searches are made on your chosen keywords (100s or 1000s)
this sort of info may go a long way to help you make the right decision,
Shak
1 mainly branding but we do have sales on the site
2 B2C
3 Have large campaigns in Overture Espotting and bidsmart
4 varies form books - thousands and thousands down to a few a month
I'm really trying to figure out if it's worth paying for submissions to some of the engines ie inktomi etc..
Depending on your conversion rate, I stronly advise using Google Premium Listings (not adwords) but the the top 2 listings.
Okay, minimum campaign will be around £3,000 but click through rate can be anything upto 20% and CPM rate of £30 > £50 normally works out a lot cheaper than PayPerClick engines.
I assume you are already in Yahoo and Dmoz, if not, this is where you should be looking at 1st along with your inbound links.
Shak
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Will be making my reservation asap.
Do DMOZ and Yahoo take paid submissions?
3000 grand! is that a campaign for one keyword or one url???
3000 grand! is that a campaign for one keyword or one url???
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You definately blagged to get that job didn't you :)
Dmoz is free, Yahoo is paid for.
£3000 for a campaign (not a url, or keyword, but minimum adspend for 1 campaign)
But to turn the table, I seriously think you should take a long read of the various forums, it will answer many of your questions.
Shak
blaged and lied a lot
Proper.
It's the English way ;)
What I don't understand is this: If they have big campaigns in Overture, Bidsmart, Espotting etc, why do they need you?
And why have they only given you a piddly £500 to throw at the wall?
Nick
They have given me 500 a week for 6 months for one campaign. I thought that was excessive!?! no
Iam learning as fast as poss but really need to nail this new campaign paid subs is still my main enquiry!
all help donated to "save dino's cushy internet surfing job" will be very appreciated.
With £500 a week as a budget maybe you should invest one weeks worth of your budget on some consultancy work to ensure your strategy works for your company. Every company is different, so the solution should be too.
As Shak says the information is available, but it's not a topic you can pick up and master in a short space of time. You can definately get a blaggers amount of knowledge quickly from this site alone. (and you are probably close to that to get the job in the first place.... either that or the person who employed you is a clown).
I'm sure a few beers at the PubConference and you will get all the answers, but that may eat into your 6 months. Use PPC as a testing ground for the site.
