free classified advertisingYou can effectively use free advertising to promote your website’s product or business opportunity, increase your sales and conversion rate, and boost your commission checks if you are an affiliate marketer.

Contrary to what some people believe, utilizing free advertising on the Internet is a worthwhile way of marketing. Over time it has been proven that free advertising will bring business to your website or business opportunity when other types of advertising will not.

Here are some of the forms of free advertising:

  • free classified ads
  • free traffic exchanges
  • writing informative keyword-rich and affiliate-linked articles
  • posting messages to different newsgroups and forums that are designed to promote free advertising

This article will discuss the use of free classified sites for marketing your business opportunity.

Posting your ads to these free classified sites is an excellent way to reach a multitude of prospective customers. In fact, its use on the Internet is so widespread because it gives global coverage at no cost.  While free advertising may require more of a time commitment than more expensive methods, when used effectively, it can productively grow your business.

If you haven’t been successful with free advertising in the past it may be because you haven’t found the best way to utilize this advertising tool.  It is worth considering again.

Email Address

To get started make sure that you create a separate email address from your normal email address to use to submit your ads to free classified ads. Most classified ad sites will require that you respond to a confirmation email prior to your being able to post to their site. The number of emails you receive will increase with notifications from the classified site and with responses to your ads.

Ad Placement

Place your ads in categories that are related to your business opportunity. It is a good idea to post your ads in more than one category if the site allows you to.  MLM, Work At Home, and Home Business Opportunities are good categories to use if they fit your niche.  And always include your website’s URL in any of your advertising.

Where to Post

Finding effective classified ad sites is not as easy as just typing in “free classified ad sites”.  You want targeted viewers to see your ads.  Think like someone who is searching for your website’s opportunity or product.  Use the key phrases that they would type in their favorite search engine to find your site or product.  Look for targeted classified ad sites that fall within your niche within the first couple of pages of your search engine results.

Frequency of Placing Your Ad

To determine how often you should post your ad on a particular classified ad site you need to learn whether the site is a high-traffic ad site or not.  Post more often to high-traffic sites, as often as several times a week, and less often to those that don’t have many posts so that your ads don’t show up as duplicate ads.

Manual Post

Although time-consuming, manual posting is the best method to use when posting your ads to classified sites.  These days all good classified ad sites have protection against automatic posting using submission programs. Submission software is useless because no real people visit the sites this type of software posts to.

Track of Results

Statistics are necessary for an effective ad promotion. For free advertising to be useful you need to track your responses and then concentrate your advertising efforts on which advertising produces the greatest results.  When your tracking shows that you are generating visitors from a particular site make sure that you make record of this. Find as many classified ad sites that are giving you surefire results and utilize those most often. What would you consider good results? A site that gives you a visitor every couple of days will make your ad promotion worthwhile. When you find that certain sites that you are posting to that aren’t sending your any visitors, eliminate using them.

Another important factor to track is the ads you are using.  Some ads will produce better results than others. Use the ones that work the best and dump the ones that don’t.

In time, by posting your ads to free classified sites and tracking the results, you can create a very effective marketing effort at no-cost.

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