How Would You SEO If All You Had Was $100?
A blog that I recently added in my Feedreader and just added to my Blizzogroll is SEOish by Patrick Sexton, also known as Feedthebot.
Pat has quickly made a likable impression within the SEO industry with his recent participation over at SEOmoz and other industry blogs.
So, I urge you to make your way over to his blog where he offers some great, humorous, and instructional posts. His latest post, “Got 100 dollars? 7 Experts share budget website marketing tips,” posed the question:
If you had to make a website soar but had only small chunks of money to spend on it what would you do? - (The “chunks” are 100 dollars, 250 dollars and 500 dollars.)
I was honored and am humbled to be included with the experts:
Some answers are more detailed than others and I picked up a few great tips, myself. The only thing I would change in my answer, other than being more detailed, is to clarify my wording of “cheap hosting.” Obviously, dependable hosting is a must, but it doesn’t have to be expensive to begin with. There are a number of good, affordable hosting plans out there that others mentioned.
Pat also included his own well-experienced advice. When he developed feedthebot.com, he didn’t even own a computer. He did everything from the public library. Now, within seven months, the site is getting around 50,000 visitors!
Check it!
—kid disco
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May 30 2007 @ 10:41 am
Hiya Kid Disco,
Yeah read the blogpost on Patrick’s blog, very good! Some really good tips =)
Are you going to SMX in Seattle? I’m travelling from the UK on Saturday, really looking forward to it! Hope to meet you there if you are going =)
Cheers,
Lisa
May 30 2007 @ 12:53 pm
Hadn’t seen the post.
I really liked your response. I’d do about the same. Then I’d author my butt off on other people’s authority sites (cost to me: only time) all the time with links back to my site. I’d squidoo, forum, facebook, and otherwise social network my butt off.
Instead of buying drinks (although that is a VERY good choice), I’d read the blogs of all of the usual suspects (you, Todd M., Aaron, etc and so forth…), then comment intelligently and ask a few questions…
And the $100 (after the wordpress, and etc..would be for the Mt. Dew to keep me awake through it all!
Best to you. Great post!
Eric
May 30 2007 @ 1:54 pm
@Lisa - Hiya! Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it to SMX. My next conference will be SES in San Jose. Will you be there? I know it’s quite a trip from the UK, but it’s a big one!
@Eric - Great points! Depending on the type of site, social networking and becoming a part of the online community are great ways to start gaining exposure and mindshare. I would still recommend saving some of that hundo for some freshies, though.
May 31 2007 @ 6:14 am
You are right. Hard to beat the ROI on those!
May 31 2007 @ 10:37 am
I hadn’t seen that post yet, but there are definitely some great tips there. Even a few I haven’t thought of and haven’t tried (yet). Instead of buying drinks, you might actually try posting and contributing to others’ blogs on a regular basis.
May 31 2007 @ 11:02 am
@Bill - LOL… drinks sound so much better, tho!
May 31 2007 @ 3:13 pm
I’d go to Tustin.
May 31 2007 @ 3:30 pm
@kid disco: isn’t there some way to send someone a “virtual drink” or “virtual beer”? Seems to me there’s a site out there for that.
May 31 2007 @ 3:58 pm
@Bill Hartzer - Check out the “Buy Me a Beer” WordPress plugin.
http://www.blogclout.com/blog/.....on-plugin/
June 5 2007 @ 1:02 pm
If all I had was 100 bucks to seo a site, I would just keep the money and find good free directories to submit to and add a blog. Trade blog links with related blogs and keep on blogging myself. I believe that the best seo in life is free. And heck, if you have to be drunk to create some good link bait, blow the 100 in a bar and come back to your PC to get something good written.