For those of you who are lucky enough to have budgets for internet marketing, in the current climate, one has to ask where to get the best value for money. With prices for placements becoming more competitive, and budgets dwindling, money needs to be spent, but where should your cash go?

In the last year, much has been said about paid links. Google has cracked down on the use of such things like sponsored blogs, and web links, as it sees them as unnatural and unethical because of the way they have been obtained. But there are many other routes that you can take if you have been scared off by this claim.

If you haven’t already set one up, an AdWords campaign could provide the key to nailing those hard to reach terms whilst the natural positions come up the search engines. Although with Google AdWords you can spend quite a bit, if you choose the right keywords and use long tail niche terms, the campaign can be quite valuable. One of the benefits of using this tactic for search engine marketing is that you have the ability to choose what terms to bid for, what page they should point to, how long to bid for them, and what position you would like them to appear. If you have enough budget you can quite easily bid for the top position for quite a while.

There are numerous other paid advertising services out there, another, which is gaining respect very quickly, is Bing. Again, working along the line of AdWords, you pay for your positions in the engines and can choose where you would to appear if you have enough cash to burn.

There are options to have your website placed on industry related magazine sites, forums, directories and a whole host of other sites. But it totally depends on what industry you belong to and what you wish to get out of the link. At the end of the day, it is best to have a natural balance of different types of links. And as long as they are relevant and add some sort of value, Google will be drawn to the site and crawl it more often.

Nick Singh is one of the top Strategic Internet Marketers in the UK and is the Senior Search Engine Marketer at Netcallidus Ltd, that has helped Numerous Business increase their profits Online.