Internet Marketing Tycoon

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I did adwords and that's working OK.

Then I did 7search and bidvertiser. My opinion so far is these are scams. $3.50 for a click is ludicrous. Might as well get a bunch of models to wear shirts around at that price. Did anyone else have a good or bad experience with 7search or bidvertiser? I think the come-on is to get you to sign up and then once you've put some money in then you'll burn it on their nothing sites. And they are artificially inflateing the CPC either by free balances to some accounts or otherwise. I guess their scam is to scam $20 from each person and then they figure the persons will not complain. I've already sent notices to cancel my accounts and am planning to take the appropriate actions.

Am I missing something here? How am I supposed to promote my site? I'm doing other things (published a book and released for free on the web - The Business Guide to Free Information Technology) but I'm just not getting traffic. I'm only up to 100 people a day (optimistically) after almost two months. I've done about 40 blog entries but what do I need to do to drive traffic? Sourceforge quoted advertising at a minimum of $10k. Other sites do not have individual advertising so I have to get to them through Google. But from reading here it seems I have to get linked from the top sites for my product. Any advice or guesses?

Thanks,
TimJowers
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Tim,

I used 7 Search for a long time, and may use it again in the future. I got less traffic and clicks from 7 Search than from Yahoo Search Marketing or Google Adwords, but I was able to secure a #1 position for my most important keywords rather cheaply - from .25 to .35 per click. I think the problem I had with 7 Search is that it doesn't have the coverage that Yahoo and Google do. I could deposit $25 with 7 Search and it would last a month or two (not many clicks).

Bidvertiser - I signed up and took the free $20 offer for click throughs. Like you, I saw the recommended bids to get top positions and thought I had made a mistake even looking at this. However, since I had a $20 credit to play with, I set my max bid to just 50 cents for all the site categories. The top few listings had bids of $4 and $5 (business sites). I set a daily budget of $2 in clicks. So far, I have received clicks every day and have had several prospects come through directly from Bidvertiser ads. I use a tracking URL to verify this. So, you might try setting your bids low with a daily budget and just try it and see what happens.

Eldon

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IM sure you can get cheaper clicks than 3.50 a click