Buying Advertising...Does it Really Help?

[Nattydomain]

Ok, as you may see in my link I have my domain portfolio out and ready to deal with domainers and end users alike. Here is my question....

So far I spent total on banner advertising (728x90, 468x60, 125x125 sizes) about $150 in the past 2 weeks. The sites are mostly blogs dealing with domains, web development, forums etc. Where else should I spend my advertising dollars?

Im trying to market outside of domainers and target more developers. But when they have my ad on their site is this beign counted as a backlink?

Also what are your thoughts on buying traffic, links etc. Is it worth it if not for actual people who will buy but for PR and movement in the search engines?

Also when you pay for bookmarks ie: "60 bookmarks for $5" should you buy from more then 1 type of seller OR once they bookmarked you do you stop? How many is to many or you can never have enough?

What would you do OR do now that I can take a look at for 2009

Thanx to all who reply!

 

[thebutler]

Banner and bookmarks

With the banner ads have you tried different ad copy or is the design/tezt the same. Change things up and see if something works better. remember there has to be a strong "call to action" in your text.

Also with the bookmarks the more the better for some sites. When you get more people bokkmarking your site it counts as a vote on some social bookmarking sites. But some social websites would never generate to many clicks for domain websites. the social site is not attracting the right audience.

 

[SEOFocused]

PPC advertising is one option which will drive targeted traffic to your site. you just gotta figure out the ROI to see it can be profitable for your site. whatever advertising you do, i would suggest it as a temporary method of generating traffic. SEO/Link Building should be the ultimate solution as you will get free traffic once your site is ranked high on SEs. bookmarking is only one way to get backlinks, there are lots of other ways to build backlinks which you should consider and lots of them are free methods as well

 

[weblord]

usually prioritize DIY, don't spend it all up on one day.
yes, it's counted as a backlink also go for dofollow site, i think i've seen a thread here with do follow blogs.

if you end up buying links versus buying ad spots it will sacrifice the listing of your link on google and be penalized, always opt in for free backlinks at all cost, if you need to buy then consider text-link-ads or adbrite.

 

[Nattydomain]

Thanx all...so so far it seems my first chocie for key advertising is adwords depending on my budget and next will be backlinks (via bookmarks, possible paying for them etc)

Should I quit the banner advertising with websites however?

 

[mdamin76]

I guess you might need to stay a while in your banner advertising and see if the result really meet your expectation.