Budget submissions

Submitting a site on a small budget

[johnhamman]

Hi all, I have a friend who is on a very small budget -500 and i would like to know what would be some good choices for pay for click or pay for submit submitions?
thanks
john

[agerhart]

Forget about Pay-Per-Click (PPC) if you only have $500.

- You could submit to the Yahoo! Directory ($299 annually)
- You could submit a few pages to Inktomi ($39 for first URL, $25 each URL after)
- You could submit a few pages to Ask/Teoma ($30 for first URL, $18 each URL after)
- You could submit to Fast ($34 for first URL, $16 each URL after)

What is the size of the site? How competitive are the keywords? Is the site optimized?

[johnhamman]

site is about 5 pages and is in a great nich field. It should be a breese to get it ranked. its compitition have poorly done sites that are not too search engine friendly.
and I have optimised it and would like to think im good at optimising.

[Marcia]

These show the overall picture for submissions:

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With a small site, I'd get some good on-topic inbound links, and read the guidelines carefully to submit to ODP. That'll get you found by most that count for anything. Yahoo's an option, though not too great with them currently showing Google results.

I'd hang on to the money for a bit, maybe do an interior Inktomi paid page if it's a decent search term and there aren't LookSmart listings pushing the Ink pages down. For some niches there are also good directories to submit to, some of them with some fee. Check those out carefully, including their PR.

Sites can do fine with concentrating on free promotion, so you can give it a while before spending any budget.

[jimbeetle]

Hi johnhamman,

Wish I had $500 to promo a five-page site. All above is excellent direction. The only thing I would consider is that IF your friend wants something to happen now, and IF the niche is as uncompetitive as you say, and IF the CPC is fairly low, then you MIGHT consider putting a few bucks to a CPC campaign.

What this might do is get some initial targeted traffic to the site and help you evaluate the pages: Do the visitors buy or not?

Other than that, yes, work on your links and content and they shall come.

Jim

[KevinC]

honesty I was in the same situation in november but I only had $100 to start site. I put the whole thing into overture and turned a profit within a couple days. This all depends on your product and mark-up ect. I have since expanded to Adwords and my sales have sky rocketed! I think overture is easier to work with and control your bids if you new to PPC, I would also suggest staying out of the number 1 spot. I get lots of traffic from being in the low spots too.

Submisions are great but I wouldn't expect see much of a turn around very quickly. I would say do some PPC get some cash flowing then start putting some money into PFI.

I dunno it all depends on the product and website but this strategy worked amazingly for me!

[johnhamman]

Well the company offers services of timing sports events. There is very little compitition online.
john

[KevinC]

I'm sure exactly what that means but if you can figure out your conversion rate you quickly caculate if PPC will be worht while or not. You gotta spend money to manke money!