Is Paying to Kick start a Blog feasible?
The norm now for many who aspire to have a successful blog is to pay for the initial publicity that all new blog lacks. To what extent is this practise effective to give the blog a kick start? What are the ways some bloggers go about doing this? There are many ways if you are willing to fork out the money.
Press Releases.
A very popular way now is to pay for press releases. A normal press release will cost anywhere from $80 to $200 depending on the kind of publicity you want. Some are even willing to fork out $500 or more more a wider coverage. Through press releases, the blogger gets not only publicity but links to the new blog. he more you are willing to pay, the more blogs will be able to to write about your releases.
Buying Reviews
Go to the immensely popular portal, ReviewMe and buy a few reviews from those 4 or 5 star reviewers. They may charge up to $400 a review, but you can rest assured it will be a fantastic review because these highly rated reviewers have a reputation to keep. Most of these reviewers have at least 20000 or more visitors to their blogs daily, so if his review can send over half of his readers, you can rest assured of hitting the 10000 hits very quickly. On to of that you will also get linked by a highly ranked blog
Paid Directory Listings.
Also very popular with serious bloggers. Some directories lets you bid for a front page listing. The higher you bid the better are your chances of appearing in their front page. Of course you have to make sure the directories you are paying for is immensely popular by itself, else you will be just wasting your funds.
There are many more ways which you can pay to popularise your blogs, like buying links and so on, but I feel these 3 ways are the most effective on the shirt term basis. This is also a very new blog, but since I don’t have the budget to do these things, I shall stick to the more conventional way of just keep posting then hope and pray some of you will like this blog enough to keep coming back.
Are those Methods Feasible?
I would say YES, on a short term basis. Okay, so you have a 5 star reviewer do a review on your new blog and he did it very positively, giving you a glowing review. What you will definitely get is a big surge in traffic for the first day after the review goes online. Then it will slowly tapper off and eventually die after one week because by then, the review will be buried by his other posts. I can safely say that no blog readers digs into a blog’s archives to read reviews. How many readers you manage to hook on the initial surge will depend entirely on what your blog has to offer. If you manage to get 10% of what that review sent you hooked, then you will have a good start with a couple of hundred readers.
Lots of bloggers who are really serious does this on a frequent basis. That’s why you see them getting a few thousand hits within a short span of time, whereas blogs like this which does not spend a single dime will take years and years to achieve that.
We can look at this practise at 2 different angles. For those who intend to make money from their blogs, they might recoup their initial investment within 6 months. For those like me who does not like spending money to buy popularity will take years to see their first paycheck. Which would you prefer?
