Comments on: Comment Friday for June 22nd

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:29:36 +0000

I would get some BAYB merchandise like hats or shirts or mugs etc and use them to help promote the site – maybe some sort of refer a friend competition you use the form to refer a friend and go into the draw.

Hope everyone is having a nice friday whilst I slave away in the office on a Saturday afternoon!

By: Tim Linden

Tim Linden — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:05:16 +0000

I would spend it on advertising in manual traffic exchanges. My blog posts alot about them so it would make sense to advertise it in them. The key is to advertise where your market is. So nude models might get people there, but they’ll most likely leave pretty quick if they aren’t interested in what your blog is really about.

By: Shark Fishing

Shark Fishing — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:31:29 +0000

I’ve spent $300 advertising my blog but only on 2 options.

1. $200 Wordpress Theme – Look for a post on my site in the next week or so outlining the MANY benefits I’ve seen in only 2 days of releasing my theme.

2. $100 Cash Giveaway – Whoa. 20 entries with 5 anchor text seo optimized links! Not that good for getting your name out, but once the googlebot drops by and you start ranking :O

So with another $100….Pull a Harpzon.com stunt and giveaway $1 for every comment on your next Comment Friday post. There’s no telling how many linkbacks he got for that.

By: Tobsy

Tobsy — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:21:22 +0000

$400? Hmm. I’d buy a cheap old car for $350, spend $50 for printing ads on both sides of the car:

Create your own blog with
[bold]bloggersjourney.com
[small]Blogging’s even cheaper than this car.

Then I’d give the car to some kid in a big city, who can’t afford to buy one.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:02:09 +0000

thanks everyone for the responses, funny rhys, we’ll see about those nude models.

ty for the compliment on winning the blogging tips thing. I am going to re-giveaway the hosting package.

By: Techsplorer

Techsplorer — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:42:56 +0000

Wow. That's a good question. While it doesn't fall strictly fall under the category of advertising, the first thing I'd do is buy my own domain name: there's something to be said about having a URL that people can remember. After that? Perhaps working on a way to get my blog presence "out there" in front of the most popular blogs in a way that they'd have good things to say about it (as opposed to tearing it down because I was pimping myself!) Oh yeah, and my Comment Friday post is up at Love All Books. Have a great Friday everyone!

By: Inga Oz

Inga Oz — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:31:21 +0000

$400 just for advertising? Hummm, well, I don’t think that I would buy review because my blogs aren’t so very good yet… But I would buy some Top positions in Communities like on BlogCatalog… (Bought for 1 month already)
Then I like Those ad spots like AdIcons, i would find blogs where they are available and buy some, as well as maybe some links form good known blogs…
I don’t use Adsense services for advertising, so rest i would use on Bidvertiser for promoting my blog…

By: Windy

Windy — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:19:04 +0000

$400, seems quite a lot of money just for the ad. Maybe I would use some for Google if it’s not too expensive. I think Jennifer’s idea of paying well-known blog owner to ask them link under their blogroll would be a good idea. Or maybe do something extraordinary to get TV programmes to interview you and your blog…

Have a good weekend everyone!

By: ryan444123

ryan444123 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:14:06 +0000

I would invest the $400 until it became enough to buy a 10,000 gallon fuel tanker and then distribute the fuel FOR FREE with HUGE banner’s depicting the site. Oh, and maybe get a sponsorship.

By: derek

derek — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:19:08 +0000

This is a great question. I’m not sure that I would go the route of buying links but LinkRain had a pretty thorough approach for that scenario.

I’d probably use some of the money to experiment with an AdWords campaign. Depending on that nature of your site, the money could be invested in prizes to be given away where people need to link to your site in order to enter the contest.

It might not be bad to reserve some money to make up a batch of t-shirts or something to be given away for potential offline advertising.