How to advertise you blog?

How much does it cost to have a professional advertise my blog?

• to do a good job, no spamming, how much does it cost per month? i understand besides paying their fees i might have to pay for links they buy etc. and does it work? can a professional really bring enough people to the blog, let's say, a hundred a month at least? anyone has experience? and will they agree to advertise a blog instead of a website?

• Answer:

  Paid advertising can be a quick money loser, don't know your situation but typically those selling products have to carefully tune their campaign through trial and error to make them profitable. Self serve pay per click advertising might cost you something like 50 cents per visit, though prices can be a bit lower or a lot higher depending on the ad system and what your are promoting. Google Adwords or Facebook paid ads are good places to start if you wanted to be hands on, there are first time user vouchers of $30 - $100 available to fuel your experiments. To illustrate how advertising cost can add up, those people selling items expect a .5% to a 5% conversion rate, that is the need 20 - 200 of those 50 cent clicks to make one sale. There are service that supply paid traffic for little money, an offer like 1000visotirs for $5 will supply fake robot visitors, only good for inflating popularity stats for a site about to be sold. If you wanted lasting "free" traffic from search engines, an SEO campaign would be in order. Most blogs I know of get free traffic based on the Merritt of their content, sites like online stores which lack a public value tend to rely more in paid traffic. I'm just guessing that most SEO services would be too expensive for promoting your blog, experts would probably counsel you on the importance of making regular updates, since that is the quality of blogs (having relatively fresh content) that search engines like. There are freelance backlink builders with standard packages you could buy, the process might require you to learn a bit more to oversee the SEO process , you can find useful packages on Webmaster and Marketing forums for about $20, there are some decent $5offers on Fiverr.com as well. It's best to add links from a variety of sources at a slow and steady pace, rather than getting one mega dose shot in the arm. A confusing note, links from other sites are the biggest single factor in search ranking a web site, particularly if your not doing on site optimization, search engines don't want people using paid links to manipulate the ranking system, they in fact introduced a special tag for paid advertising links, the NoFollow tag search engines say are to be used in paid ad links, (like with Facebook and Adwords) act as instructions to not include the link in rating a site's popularity, there is an ongoing game of getting links that do add to search ranking without their being detected as "unnuatural"