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Yesterday I launched Linkrain’s new category “Questions and Answers” and I already received the first question today. Matthew from Blogaboutyourblog asked me ” if you had 400$ to advertise a blog like this one, how would you spend that money? ”

This is not really a big amount to advertise a blog for, but it’s still possible to get some really good and permanent backlinks for it.

First of all I would visit the link sale section of Digitalpoint were you will always find some great offers, and than I would start to acquire some permanent links (at least for 1 year).

1) Permanent links from blog networks are a great way to increase the Technorati Ranking of a blog (which is important for websites like Reviewme or Text-Link-Ads). This would also inrease my backlink number for a certain anchor text and help my blog to rank higher in search engine result pages.

After a quick look in the link sale section, I would definetly buy:

• 200 blog posts for 15$
• 280 blog posts for 6$
• 44 blog posts for 10$
• 40 blog posts for 5$
• 160 blog posts for 17$
• 200 blog posts for 20$

That’s a total of 924 blog posts I would get for only 73$. Usually owners of blog networks allow up to 3 links, with anchor text, inside each blog post. That would be a total of 2.772 backlinks to my blog for only 73$!

I would also spend the same amount of money to publish some articles on blogs that are related to mine. Usually you can get a niche blog post on a PageRank 4 website for 5$ and a PageRank 5 blog post for 10$ or less. The total amount of money I would spend for articles on different blogs would be of at least 150$ (73$ on blog networks and 77$ to get some high quality niche blog posts)

2) Permanent links from Wordcloud sites. I know that links from wordcloud websites will never be related to mine because they usually accept every kind of website, but I had some great results in search engine results by buying a lot of these links.

Wordcloud sites are so cheap that you can get PageRank 4 links for less than 3$, PageRank 5 links for less than 5-6$ and even PageRank 6 links for 10$. There are some things you should check before buying a link on a wordcloud site:

• is it a real wordcloud site or was it built on an expired domain?
• does it have at least PageRank 3? (I would never buy wordcloud links on websites with a PR lower than 3)
• does this site accept porn, warez and illegal websites?

Once I have made a list of wordcloud sites that don’t accept illegal websites, have some real backlinks and were not built on an expired domain, have at least a PageRank of 3 and don’t cost to much, I would start to buy some links and spend another 100$ here (in average you won’t pay more than 2$ for a link) . This would be a total of 50 links acquired for ONLY for PageRank.

Here is a good tip on how to find Wordcloud sites:

Search Google for this sentence: (”total words available” “remaining” “sold”). Searching for the exact phrase in the parenthesis will give you a list of results containing most of all indexed word cloud pages. That’s because most of the word cloud sites include these 3 terms

3) Permanent links (at least for 1 year) from Paid Web Directories. I submit to free directories only if I have some time to waste. The quality of paid web directories is usually much higher than the quality of free ones.

I don’t remember the source but recently a directory owner made an experiment about this: he submitted 1 of his websites to 4 premium paid directories while he submitted another one to over 700 free ones. The website that was submitted only to the 4 paid directories got much more backlinks and a higher PageRank than the directory submitted to over 700 free ones. I don’t think that submitting to free directories can harm a website, but it’s definetly not worth the time you need for the manual submissions.

With the remaining 150$ I would get a few featured listings in high quality directories. With ” high quality” I mean directories that have lots of backlinks, at least a PageRank of 5, an Alexa ranking below 100.000 and finally none or only a few advertisementes on it.

I hope you will find this answer useful Matthew. All readers are invited to partecipate in Linkrain’s new category “Questions and Answers”. So please drop a comment to this post describing how you would spend 400$ in advertising.