Which is smarter to do with my $$$

[beks001]

So I really want to kick things up a notch this month with the blog network. I'm thinking I have 3 choices with what I want to do with $2500 this month. I can either:

- spend it on traffic and advertising linking to sponsors from ads

- pay someone to help me build out more domains and do hand updates

- leave the money in the bank to earn interest.

Which to do? I hate to lose the 2500 as its more than I make a month but I need to make a move or two or I will never make real money online. Any advice?

[BIGTYMER]

Leave the money in the bank.

[Roald]

option number 2.

Number one is risky unless you have a clue about what you do, number 3 is lame and not making your business grow. Investing back is the way to go if you want to grow. Just make sure you invest back wisely ;)

[Penny24Seven]

buy a domain name that comes with a pay site with semi-exclusive content that is not on any tube sites of a hottie doing hardcore and promote your own site.
Here is one to check out www.chaydin.com/main.html

[DBS.US]

Buy stock in KBH

[Farang]

Spend on traffic, build more stuff.

[beks001]

Originally Posted by Roald

option number 2.

Number one is risky unless you have a clue about what you do, number 3 is lame and not making your business grow. Investing back is the way to go if you want to grow. Just make sure you invest back wisely ;)

Thanks Roald. Spending day looking for someone for this

Originally Posted by Brian837

buy a domain name that comes with a pay site with semi-exclusive content that is not on any tube sites of a hottie doing hardcore and promote your own site.
Here is one to check out www.chaydin.com/main.html

The Chaydn paysite looks cool. I was going to ask if it was worth investing to build but the CCBill isnt active so I take it its not live yet?

Originally Posted by Farang

Spend on traffic, build more stuff.

With regards to the traffic, what's the best way to spend on the traffic for blogs? Any idea where to buy that is not shitty? And what's the best way to do it you think?

[DVTimes]

see my sig

[DVTimes]

http://www.plugrush.com/

[martinsc]

play the traffic game....

[beks001]

Originally Posted by martinsc

play the traffic game....

I'm going to try this....making it stick is another story right...

Originally Posted by DVTimes

http://www.plugrush.com/

Cool will check it out! Can't this hurt SE tho too?

[Presnus]

Buy massive amount of domains and building tube check my sig!

[Farang]

Originally Posted by beks001

With regards to the traffic, what's the best way to spend on the traffic for blogs? Any idea where to buy that is not shitty? And what's the best way to do it you think?

I use trafficholder / buy directly from guys I know. I don't deal with blogs though...

[London Banker]

Probably #2
It's always a good idea to reinvest the money back.

How much are you currently making from your blogs?

[freecartoonporn]

#2. is the only one going to make you money in the long run.

good luck.

if you are writing your posts then buy a premium domain, they are worth every penny.

[beks001]

Originally Posted by freecartoonporn

#2. is the only one going to make you money in the long run.

good luck.

if you are writing your posts then buy a premium domain, they are worth every penny.

I do write posts, I do pay for posts but everything I do is handwritten 100%.

Originally Posted by London Banker

Probably #2
It's always a good idea to reinvest the money back.

How much are you currently making from your blogs?

It fluctuates month to month. Not much really that much but doing part time and making enough to pay a few bills here and there a month.

Originally Posted by Farang

I use trafficholder / buy directly from guys I know. I don't deal with blogs though...

I have never used traffic holder. My only fear with buying traffic is the bounce rate that comes with it. Google may get upset and drop rankings.

[Brujah]

Originally Posted by beks001

So I really want to kick things up a notch this month with the blog network.

Split a portion between Option 1 and Option 2, if you have any good leads on buying traffic. Realize that Option 2 can take a few months before you start realizing the benefit.

[London Banker]

Originally Posted by beks001

I have never used traffic holder. My only fear with buying traffic is the bounce rate that comes with it. Google may get upset and drop rankings.

Do not buy traffic.
It will not affect your google rankings, but you will lose money.

Traffic sellers are a scam 99% of the time. They sell it because they can't make money on it. Everyone who tells you to buy traffic just wants you to use their ref code so they get their $1 commission.

[Pink Misfit]

Put $1000 in the bank. Then split the rest between working on your current sites and creating a couple new ones. The only thing I would suggest doing when creating new sites is to not overwhelm yourself. You want to be able to devote the time and money needed to the current or new sites without overdoing it. If you have too much going on at one time then you will fall behind (learned from personal experience). Unfortunately leaving money sitting in the bank isn't going to earn you any real interest right now since its very low unless you have high xx,xxx or more sitting around.

[anexsia]

Originally Posted by beks001

I'm going to try this....making it stick is another story right...

Cool will check it out! Can't this hurt SE tho too?

I haven't seen it hurt my SE yet, got around 20 blogs plus a small 5 blog network using their mobile redirection and traffic has stayed the same.

[DamageX]

Sit on your money until you know better what the fuck to do with it and don't need to come to GFY to ask people who are broke and mostly don't know their ass from their elbow.

Basically keep researching and experimenting until you find something that works. Then use whatever funds you have to scale it up.

[B.Barnato]

Nice to see you making moves.

[peterk]

4. spend it on hookers and blow. you need to live a little.

[Sly]

#1 Great way to make money, but if you have a low tolerance for risk, this isn't you. You may blow $1000, only make $100, before you find a winning formula and if you can't handle risk you will be freaking the fuck out. Without experience, I would not touch this with $2500. You will need to lose several hundred dollars right off the bat and with that small of a bankroll it will really hit you emotionally.

#2 This will take time to bear fruit, so make sure that you are investing the money in a system that you know will pay off. Don't make guesses. Take a current working system and scale is larger.

#3 Do this if you don't believe in and feel confident about #1 and #2. Just because you have spare money doesn't mean you should invest it. Save it until you find a system/product that you really believe in, then go balls out.

[helterskelter808]

Originally Posted by London Banker

Do not buy traffic.

Traffic sellers are a scam 99% of the time. They sell it because they can't make money on it. Everyone who tells you to buy traffic just wants you to use their ref code so they get their $1 commission.

This. In fact as well as not pissing your money away on traffic, you should simply flat out ignore any 'advice' from anyone with a reflink to anything they are recommending.

If someone is giving genuine solid advice that they believe, and they're in any position of authority to talk about making money (ie, they have any), they won't be trying to make a buck from it.

Originally Posted by DamageX

Sit on your money until you know better what the fuck to do with it and don't need to come to GFY to ask people who are broke and mostly don't know their ass from their elbow.

And this.

You may as well fly to Vegas than randomly pick out of a hat something suggested by people who don't understand what you want to achieve or care about it. If you don't want to lose $2500, or can't afford to, then don't risk $2500.

Forget the idea of using it to get rich quick, just do what you're already doing, but more of it, while gradually trying out other different things. Things that don't cost or require much money. Risking money you can't afford to lose is nuts.

.

[CyberHustler]

Originally Posted by helterskelter808

you should simply flat out ignore any 'advice' from anyone with a reflink to anything they are recommending.

If someone is giving genuine solid advice that they believe, and they're in any position of authority to talk about making money (ie, they have any), they won't be trying to make a buck from it.

You are mistaken. All of us make money from referral links as webmasters, some of us go the extra mile.

[helterskelter808]

Originally Posted by CyberHustler

You are mistaken.

No I'm not. Thanks for playing though.

[beks001]

Wow, some really great feedback here. Thank you all. Truthfully, my objective and plan is to scale. Doing so is not possible at this time given the lack of man power and time.

I guess I've determined what I need...

1) part-time updater to physically help with updates.

2) find the time to grab more galleries for blog posts.

3) buy more handwritten writing posts.

4) buy more domains and build more blogs

5) .....move up to step 1 -> GET AN EXACT PLAN/PROCESS DOWN BEFORE DOING ANY OF THIS SHIT OR IT WILL BE A NIGHTMARE IN THE FUTURE.

[beks001]

Originally Posted by CyberHustler

You are mistaken. All of us make money from referral links as webmasters, some of us go the extra mile.

In the past I tried adding in ref links but to be honest, that's no way to make money IMO. Best way is to be honest, help people and if someone needs something just give it to them. I do this bc one day it will all come back to us that do.

[Best-In-BC]

Pay Sites, Pay Sites, Pay Sites

[Chosen]

Bank

[Colmike9]

If you decide to invest in hiring someone to do some work, then I'll do anything you ask with quality results. I'm just in a bad spot with cash flow, atm..

[beks001]

Originally Posted by Colmike7

If you decide to invest in hiring someone to do some work, then I'll do anything you ask with quality results. I'm just in a bad spot with cash flow, atm..

Mike, you do all work by hand and not auto? Also, if your sites have lost the thousands they were making will it hurt mine if you do the same procedure? You are a great helpful guy but I need to proceed with caution here obviously.

[BIGTYMER]

Did I vote already?

save your money.

[Colmike9]

Originally Posted by beks001

Mike, you do all work by hand and not auto? Also, if your sites have lost the thousands they were making will it hurt mine if you do the same procedure? You are a great helpful guy but I need to proceed with caution here obviously.

Well, I haven't kept up on my own adult blogs since April so that hurts plus a few mainstream affiliates decided to not pay for bs reasons and tracking wasn't working for another one all summer.. A whole summer's worth of hookah and bong sales gone..

I can do any kind of work that you need for your network, but I understand if you find someone else.

[Penny24Seven]

but a paysite and get 30 dollars a join instead of 15 Chaydin.com is finished, I have not made it live yet because I don't know what I am doing with it yet. She wants to make videos again but doesn't look like she use to so I might give her a new name and just make another site. Depends on if someone wants the one I have. I wish there were more hours in the day

[BIGTYMER]

Buy stock: NG

[Barefootsies]

Originally Posted by Roald

Investing back is the way to go if you want to grow. Just make sure you invest back wisely ;)

Agreed.

One of the best things I ever did was investing in automation as you build out your empire. While it can be expensive building all of these scripts initially, all you have to do it start adding up the man hours over a year and see that it's a sound investment.

In the end, you are working smarter, not harder. You are able to scale much faster.

[Penny24Seven]

Put it all on red and 100 bucks on 0 and 00 odd in your favor like 55% chance you win. Hits red you have 4600, hits 0 or 00 and you have 3500. You can pay me later

[peterk]

Originally Posted by Brian837

Put it all on red and 100 bucks on 0 and 00 odd in your favor like 55% chance you win. Hits red you have 4600, hits 0 or 00 and you have 3500. You can pay me later

you pay him back of it hits black?

[crash_jackson]

#2 - Always figure out ways to expand while adding as little work on your plate as possible by hiring people to take care of tasks under you

[Barry-xlovecam]

I would spend $500 a month for 2 or 3 months in AdWords using your affiliate links to the sponsor as your sponsor's affiliate agreement allows.

Hold the rest of the money ($1000.00) in reserve for additional SEO work to your existing sites over a similar time period.

You will have time to tweak your plan if you need to this way ...

Bulk traffic will buy you branding but few sales ;)

AdWords and SEO referrals make affiliates money usually (in webcams anyway ...)

[lo0ni]

If you're already making money with blogs then you should go with the advice that the majority of people here are giving you, and go with the second option.

But If you're struggling with building your blog network i.e. not getting good ranking, or conversions etc..then you should definitely go with DamageX's advice. If you don't know what you're doing, it doesn't matter how much money you spend; you won't make much money.

It's ok to spend the money on your network, but don't spend it all; unless you know what you're doing. Trust me...I'm always spending too much money on content, scripts, traffic, and anything else I can find...I usually end up abandoning the project because I don't know what I'm doing.

Do you have any contact info?

[Colo_bitch]

Originally Posted by DamageX

Sit on your money until you know better what the fuck to do with it and don't need to come to GFY to ask people who are broke and mostly don't know their ass from their elbow.

Basically keep researching and experimenting until you find something that works. Then use whatever funds you have to scale it up.

I think this is smart

[DamageX]

Originally Posted by Colo_bitch

I think this is smart

I tend to agree.

[CurrentlySober]

invest in toilets... everyone in the world needs to poo...

[symtab]

If what you have is already profitable, then invest the money to do exactly the same and expand. So option 2 :-)

[BAKO]

Get hookers

[~Ray]

try to seo those blogs you are already working on. Try a different technique with each and compare the results.

~Ray

[DamageX]

Originally Posted by ~Ray

try to seo those blogs you are already working on. Try a different technique with each and compare the results.

~Ray

Translation: "buy hardlinks from me."