How much you spend to promote your site?

**rockcasino** · 19 March 2006, 4:19 pm

How much do you spend to promote your site in one month? If possible, let us know also how much you earn from your spend, and if possible, my mean if possible, if you spend "0" to promote your site, tell us what is your "way"? Right Article? Banner exchange? Forum...

Thanks for sharing, wish you have a great day!

**bigbcasinos** · 19 March 2006, 5:07 pm

Internal Ad Spend is probably the way to go.

With the fall of bidding to be on google, yahoo, and MSN via the likes of Overture, it's now up to SEO, content, more content, link exchanges, more content... You get the picture. Not just any content, good content that is unique too.

So, whereas a webmaster may have spent say $2000 per month on Overture, that same webmaster may now be spending this amount on staff, and unique ad copy.

**JerryG** · 20 March 2006, 6:44 am

I have to agree with those remarks on content. I have an unadvertised site that I use to just store news stories and press releases for my own future use, sort of my private research library of sorts. I've never submitted the site or anything of that nature - don't even give the url out to anyone, but based purely on what content is there, I get 300-500 per day coming in from yahoo, mostly people on the extensions for Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, etc, etc (yahoo.com.sg, etc).

Now if only I weren't too lazy to throw some ads up, maybe I might earn a coin or two to pay for the hosting. lol

**rockcasino** · 11 April 2006, 6:59 pm

Interest to know how much the ROI for the level more than $10000...

**helpyou** · 12 November 2006, 3:27 pm

you speak about promotion : why don't buy a article from me.

yuu see this :
https://www.gpwa.org/forum/showthrea...310#post472310

**MichaelCorfman** · 12 November 2006, 5:17 pm

I don't believe ad spend is the way to go for online portal sites. Casino City probably has more total revenue that any other GPWA member, and our ad spend is $0 per month, so I put down none. But if you want to count staff work promoting the site, then $10,000 isn't even the right number of digits.

**VPJunkie** · 12 November 2006, 6:39 pm

I won't tell you how much I make every month (and I doubt anyone will), but I'll tell you that I do buy some traffic every month; I spend less than $200/mo on www.VideoPokerJunkie.com which makes 90% of my income.

I never spent a single penny on any advertising or traffic until I'd been doing this about a year & a half, and was already making mid 4 figures every month, and had already quit my day job. I've been doing this for 6 years now, so.....

Being a successful portal owner *is* about your content and your marketing skills on your website. I have players that have been with me now for nearly the entire 6 years, and that's my key to success.

**aksana** · 13 November 2006, 4:13 am

I spend Nothing every month

I think it's better when you promote your site by yourself. Of course, SEO!!!! I'm trying to optomise each page. Articles, news, casino promotions, a lot of content. Also directory submission, link exchange, mailing lists(NO SPAM) - all my subscribers subscribed to my newsletters by themselves. Everyday new, new, new content!

**james69** · 13 November 2006, 8:11 am

think there should be a fine balance between these things some on add words some internal

**helpyou** · 13 November 2006, 1:36 pm

I think that all depend

if you spend 500 $ but you earn 1000 $.

but if you spend 1000 $ and you earn 10000 $.

there is a big difference.

( you see this link : https://www.gpwa.org/forum/article-168531.html )

**worthy** · 24 November 2006, 8:01 pm

When I have good organic SE traffic I don't spend on ads, but time to time, I need some extra traffic and then I resort to some ppc.

**Badlands** · 30 November 2006, 5:27 pm

Cindy wrote:

"I have players that have been with me now for nearly the entire 6 years, and that's my key to success."

I have a similar situation myself. When I signed up back in 2002 with the affiliate program that eventually became Brightshare, that was a very good business decision. I still have players who signed up in 2002 each and every month.

Marketing your site properly is still the key to success in this business. Remember that people do not watch television to see commercials. People who click on our sites are looking for information, not a lot of banners that are not supported with rich content. Yahoo the seach engine just loves contentl, and to get ranked high there you need strong content related to your theme. You need to update your site regularly with the latest information relative to the theme of your site. If your site is about blackjack, then it might be useful to mention some of the new games that are introduced quite frequently by Microgaming. Remember that the average blackjack player (or prospective player) does not know about the new game releases. This is the job of the webmaster, that is, to convey this information to his/her audience. Once again, this is not effectively done by a lot of banners that are not supported with rich content.

**rockcasino** · 11 December 2006, 4:45 pm

Thanks for all my seniors and experts, thank for your words, it really help. Good day to all!

**nautikitten** · 12 December 2006, 12:56 am

Every now and then when I get a wild hair up my ass I dump about $25 bucks in PPC and surpisingly enough I usually get 3-5 sign ups from it. They might take advantage of a free bonus but in the long run I think it pays off. Besides on a boring Friday night it's fun to watch the stats just fly through the rooof. The life of a computer geek at it's best for sure.

**rockcasino** · 31 January 2007, 5:52 pm

Can you share with us which PPC you mention?

Originally Posted by nautikitten

Every now and then when I get a wild hair up my ass I dump about $25 bucks in PPC and surpisingly enough I usually get 3-5 sign ups from it. They might take advantage of a free bonus but in the long run I think it pays off. Besides on a boring Friday night it's fun to watch the stats just fly through the rooof. The life of a computer geek at it's best for sure.

**Puma** · 2 February 2007, 10:34 am

I tend to think with all thats going on right now it would be impossible to estimate how much i would spend on my site. Gambling laws, changing of payment methods, affiliate programs not tracking ect...why would I spend any money on sending people to my site?

If I recall, I learned a bit about affiliate tracking awhile back...if a player clicks on your banner after clicking on another sites banner, they ( the other site ) will get the deposit.

I am not being an ass, but why exchange links with a page if they will have an oppurtunity to get a potential players deposit even if they dont deposit via their banner or link.

Lots of factors, None that impress me much other than word of mouth.

**rob3786** · 23 March 2007, 7:05 am

I am currently considering pay per click at the moment the only outgoings for www.jackpotavenue.com are staff (seo and designer). I think like with any business whatever spent on advertiaing as long as it drives in business and pays for its self it is irrelevant how much the advertising is as long as yo can afford it.

**villa10** · 23 March 2007, 11:00 am

I'm not buying advertisement , but thinking in paid links in high PR sites and SEO.

1000's of small keywords out there.
For those with a PR5 site, the ability to add pages being spidered and indexed is endless.

**Nandakishore** · 14 April 2007, 10:00 am

We do not spend any many for promotions now. We did some PPC earlier, but that was a total flop. However we are 3 people who look for and write contents including SEO, altogether about 40 hrs/week.

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**WinYourWayKyle** · 15 April 2007, 6:54 pm

I agree with one of the other posters above me. I agree with everyone about having fresh content and SEO. But as Lori said, sometimes it is nice to see the statistics go up in a short period of time, so if I am really bored of working on my sites, I will buy some traffic and usually get 4-6 sign-ups, which is nice to see after a hard weeks work.

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