Submitted all over, now ready to spend money

[tmphuskers]

Where O where to spend my dollar. I got duped into signing up for trafficmagnet.com. Heavy spam company and I never got in and now have disputed their charge to my cc.
Anyway. I am very wary now where to spend my advertising dollar on the net. I started to dive into local radio advertising but since I am global why do that.
Does anyone have any good information to share? Everywhere and everything promises the moon but I want to be wise on where to spend my money.
I have submitted to every search engine known to man and am now ready to spend some money.
After submissions (which I know can take a while) and developing for 6 months, I have shifted gears and am ready to look into advertising.
Question is where to go. I went live a few months ago and things have been slow.
I am curious to hear how others in charge of their websites advertising have done so. Maybe you have been through the same things I have and have found your way.
I would like to hear you advice.
I appreciate it.
My site is

http://www.superiorbodysupplements.com

if it helps to target where to go.
Thanks ALL!
Todd

 

[mThomas]

I think that a pay per keyword search is your best bet.

http://www.content.overture.com/d/home/

is a great place to start. If you want to get your site listed on the sites that do not depend on pay per click or pay for inclusion like google, then you will have to do some serious tweaking of your site, like adding some relavent textual content.

mike

 

[foxdev]

As Mike mentioned, Overture is the current king of PPC. But Google's Adwords (those things that show up on the right side of results) are gaining popularity very quickly, especially since Overture raised minimum bids to .10.

I use both. Overture is cheaper for me (their ads appear on Yahoo, for example), but Google Adwords has the advantage of near-instant activation of new keywords (Overture requires human review, which takes 1-3 days).

There are other PPC vendors out there, like Brainfox, Kanoodle, FindWhat, Lycos Insite, and others. They are cheaper, but for most sites they bring in far, far less traffic.

For your industry, I suspect that keywords will be expensive.

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http://www.art-factory-outlet.com

 

[bethabernathy]

Hi - Another option is email advertising. You can easily set up a system on your site for $100 and then import your client list and create nice html or text email ads and broadcast sales pitches. The idea is to provide something meaniful/tangible in the email ad so it isn't just junk. December/January were really slow for me, so I blasted very informative email ads/newsletters with good information on Search Engine developments. I sent 1 a week to about 3500 members and Feb./March made $7500 in sales. Now I am too busy to even send any out. -Beth

beth@integratedresourcemgmt.com