Classified Ads: What Are They And How Do They Work?

September 25, 2008 | By admin In Internet and Businesses Online |

Free classifieds sites are everywhere on the internet. What are they, how do they work and are they really a place that you should advertise in? A free classified website is just what it sounds like.

A place where you can advertise for free, and other people can see your ads. That sounds like a great idea, and it is sometimes. The people that are advertising on free classified sites don’t have to pay anything, and the people who run the sites get lots of free visitors that they would not have received otherwise.

The way they work is very simple. People come to the website either looking to buy a product or looking to advertise one (Most people just want to advertise). People who want to place ads can either do so directly, or they are required to log into a password system that gives them a free membership.

After you receive your free membership, you can place your ad. The webmasters who run the sites really have the best deal though. They can sell banner space in the site, or collect the e-mail addresses of the advertisers, and then turn around and sell them something else (Really a sweet deal if you think about it).

Think about it for a second. Most of the people who want free ads on your site probably aren’t going to be looking to buy things because they can’t even afford paid ads. Doesn’t that make sense?

That is why I don’t personally invest the time in using free ads. I’m not telling you that you shouldn’t use free ads, I’m just warning you upfront that you are going to have to place AT LEAST 100 ADS A DAY, for several weeks before you start to see any results, if even then.

But if this is the only means you have at this time, then by all means use it. Don’t pass up an opportunity to succeed just because a little work is involved. You will find that by using free classified sites you will become very aware of how to market on the internet. I just don’t want you to be disillusioned before starting out on this adventure.

If you are intent on using free classifieds then the first thing you must do is have a quality headline for your ad.

Now that we know what the content of your ads will contain we need to talk about where you can place your ads. I’ve listed a couple classified ad sites below, but these are by no means all that there are. I suggest you go to any search engine, whether it be HotBot, Dogpile, Yahoo, Overture, whatever and type in Free Classifieds. From that search you will get literally HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of places where you can advertise your ad.

http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/

http://classifieds.bmi.net/

http://www.classifieds2000.com/

http://www.1second.com/1america.htm

http://www.galaxymall.com/home/html/classifieds.html

http://www.becanada.com/

http://www.classifiedclub.com/

Some of you are probably asking me, Billy, I simply don’t have time to post 100 ads a day by hand. How can I do this faster? This is an excellent question. So what I did was use the search engine HotBot to look up FREE Classified Ad Submission software and I came up with thousands of links, but I only listed those below for you. You might try using a different search engine, or different words. I don’t endorse any of these sites, nor do I know what results you’ll get from any of these services or programs. As I said, I just spent a couple hours doing the research finding them. I haven’t used them and I don’t provide any support for ANY of these programs. The last time I checked, all of these links were good, but if you find any here, or in any of my courses for that matter, that don’t work please let me know.

http://www.net-promo.net/classify.html

http://www.marketingtips.com/classifiedad.html

http://www.becanada.com

http://www.pccn.com/freesubmission.htm

http://www.globalhighway.com/submitwolf/

http://www.wavget.com/adwizard.html

http://www.wavget.com/typeitin.html

http://www.mjmsoft.com/index.html

http://www.cbcreations.com/

http://www.ad-to-the-web.com/

http://www.webheadcentral.com/class.html

http://www.freewatch.bizland.com/freeclassifieds.chtml