Do you advertise your gigs?

[salidarvuelta]

Yup. Do you use Bing Ads, AdSense, Facebook Ads, Twitter campaigns? Is it worth trying it?

[salidarvuelta]

Hmmhmh??

[eoinfinnegan]

I have never used them and I suspect it may be against ToS to do paid advertising, I suggest checking it out before starting any campaigns!

[salidarvuelta]

Why should it be against the ToS? It’s bringing business to Fiverr.

[salidarvuelta]

Just checked it with Support, it’s OK to use advertising platforms to promote gigs.

[psychicbunny]

Twitter, popular blogs, etc.

[eoinfinnegan]

Really? I know some other platforms don’t allow it as they do paid ads themselves and the more who bid on keywords, the higher the price

[julipalmer7]

No I do not.

[mariokluser]

AdSense if for publishers. AdWords is the advertiser side of the game.

[mariokluser]

And btw: I do not advertise. My clients do.

[idostuff4u]

Ive tried a couple Fb ads, but fiverr themselves are better at it than I am so now i don’t bother. 🙂

[mariokluser]

Right, sometimes I see my gigs in FB-ads that are placed by Fiverr. They are our promotion engine.

[salidarvuelta]

Correct, sir.

[salidarvuelta]

Well, lucky you. In MY case, my market is much more narrow than yourse. And after two years of consistent 5 star ratings, replying to everyone in les than 20 minutes, delivering in one hour most of the gigs, overdelivering when possile, trying to give an honest and polished work, strugling with the keywords, videos, descriptions and so and so on, my gigs are stuck in the second page, whereas those of newer sellers with poorer rating, poorer keywords, no vídeo, are shown first, God knows why. So I’m looking for ways to find those customers that later on, hopefuly, will advertirse me. Because Fiverr doesn’t bring them.
Sorry for my English.

[amit98038]

That is because of your browser cookies. Try using another Facebook account in browser’s Incognito mode then you will know.

[mariokluser]

That’s right, didn’t think about that. However, I don’t care as I get enough orders anyway.

[fastcopywriter]

I don’t advertise. But what some sellers do is create a landing page with their Fiverr links (Fiverr can create links and web banners for you) and they might advertise that page.

Personally, I wouldn’t bother with it. Just create gigs, improve them, and the rest will work itself out.

[salidarvuelta]

Yeah, this is what I’m working at right now, a landing page with buttons that direct to my gigs. Thanks.

[eoinfinnegan]

I read from a TRS that he created a blog about his work and updates it regularly. He has his Fiverr link on it and he now gets something like 50% of his orders from the blog.
Planning to try it but just don’t have the time yet! It is probably a bit more of a long term investment of your time but it is essentially free to do.

[salidarvuelta]

I don’t believe on that, it relies too much on SEO, wich is the same as saying black magic. Los of work and MAYBE a very distant result. Unless your gig is fascinating, but I don’t see myself being fascinated by a blog about low cost logo design, translation, overvoicing…

[eoinfinnegan]

I think there is a lot to be said for having a blog that you regularly post on. Translation and proofreading are what I do, not exactly easy to blog about but I know that I can definitely give advice, talk about any interesting jobs I’ve done recently and speak generally about issues relating to these. While it is never going to set Google on fire with SEO, if I am posting regularly about this in my networks, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc then those who know me will see me as the “voice of authority” on the subject. This means that those people will come to me when they need the service.
If I am just sitting there with a link to my gig on my profile, then they will either never notice or perhaps not want to take a chance on me as they don’t know what my work is like.
To go back to your original point in the article, ads might have a chance on Google, but who on earth would like to like a page called “Eoin Finnegan Translation Services” or something like that?

[freelancemm]

Well my thought is, if they’re taking out such a huge % per sale, they better be marketing my gigs too. I got 99% of my orders all through Fiverr. Why spend anything when they market my services for me? I mean, you get occasional hassle buyers but in general, it’s marketed fairly decently although… occasionally when sales are probably down, I am pretty sure they market their Fiverr service to “less then reputable” as I would put it markets as at times… I seem to get surges of bad buyers almost always at the same time, and always from specific target countries.

[freelancemm]

You would focus on low competition long-tail keyword relevance. You wouldn’t focus on “translation services” for example, but rather something like, “low cost translation services” or “translation services for english to spanish” for example purposes.

[logo_desing]

it’s don’t work, because 99% gig order are made by through fiverr search! so i think it’s wast of money!!!