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Creative Marketing for a website using blogs and a $100 budget

June 20th, 2007 by Kenric

My friend at Onboard Associates has asked me to help him get more Printed Circuit Boards Quotes for his site with a budget of $100 per month.  I found this as an interesting challenge because all this time I’ve been trying to figure out how to make money on MY blog.  Now I have to spend money on other blogs and am trying to figure out the most efficient method to do so.

The first thing I did was stick his site on my feature sites.  I should charge him $25/mo for it!  That would blow 25% of his budget in one link!

My thought was to use avenues that I was familiar with to start with.  For example, use Text Link Ads and pay for ads to put on other blogs.   Or sign up with Payperpost and order a bunch of paid posts about my friend’s site.  There are many paid directories that charge for links.  The prices of many of these are way too high to be efficient. If I spend $15 per link, I’m only getting 7 links. However, with brainstorming, the possibilities are endless. 

Using Google Adwords doesn’t fit his need here because he wants permanent inbound links.  I also thought about directly contracting a bunch of blog owners and asking them to add a link for $5.  At $5 per link, I can get 20 links.  But can I get even more than that? I think I can.

So what is the most efficient way to spend $100/mo to create inbound links?  I don’t quite know yet, but it’s a very interesting challenge to me.

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