How To Use Free Classified Ads Websites
Written by Alex Wu Saturday, 13 August 2011 07:21
The free classified ads websites on the Internet offer a free way to advertise your business' goods and services. However, if you don't know how to make money from these free classified websites, advertising on them can be frustrating and time consuming. Often you can post numerous free ads without results. Here is how to use free classified websites.
All free classified websites aren't the same. You only need to concentrate your efforts on some of the good websites and regularly post your advertisements only on these websites. To find them do a search on Google for free advertisements and free classified advertisements. You will find ten to 15 websites on the first page of the search results. Next, you should register on those websites. If think that any particular website is asking too many questions while you are registering, skip that website and proceed to the next website. There's no good reason for the website to have all of your personal information. The best websites will only ask you a few questions to setup your account that will allow you to renew, delete, and edit your advertisements. In addition, you should try to fine websites that will permit you to post your advertisement without any registration.
Write a precise advertisement that contains between 80 and 100 words. You should write about the advantages that your business' goods and services offer over others for the readers of your advertisement. You should concentrate on the advantages in terms of the things that will provide a good feeling when they use your goods and services such as improving a relationship or making extra money.
You should write an advertisement that is filled with key words that will catch the reader interest, and is concise. The title of the advertisement should be filled with action words that ask the reader to do something immediately. If you are promoting affiliate goods or services and there are many other advertisement that are also about the same affiliate good or services, write the title for your advertisement and then copy the advertisement differently than others so that your advertisement will stand apart from the others.
On free classified advertisement websites, the advertisements that are the most recent are listed on one of the first few pages of the advertisement search pages. Some free classified websites have premium advertisements that are paid which are shown on the first page and are followed by the free advertisements. You should avoid those free websites that accept postings for a premium. On those free classified websites, your advertisement will be listed in the following pages because more advertisements will be listed the same category. You should also renew your advertisement every few days in order to keep it on the first listing page and therefore fresh.
You shouldn't spam by listing your advertisement in all categories. You should only list your advertisement is a few categories that are relevant, preferably using different titles for you advertisement and different content. If the website has geographically sections, such as countries, cities or the United States, and you want to target all of the geographical locations, you should only list your advertisement in between ten and 15 areas. This will save you some time because you don't have to list your advertisement in all available areas for the search function of the website to pick up and display your advertisement.
You should always use banners or pictures in your advertisement. You need to ensure that the dimensions and the size of your picture files are within the website's acceptable limits. If you don't, the website might not display your images in your advertisement at all. There are some free classified websites that will allow you to use your affiliate banners or create your own banners. Before you upload the picture, be sure that you use a good digital camera and then convert the image to jpeg format and reduce the size of the image.
About the Author:
Alex Wu operates a free classified ads website that lets people advertise, build groups, and connect. He hopes to create an active environment for businesses to place their web ads.