Placing free classified ads is a very easy way to promote your products and services online, best of all, it’s free! Most of these free classifieds sites give you the power to smooth the progress of placing your ads with the classifieds submitter form. Placing your ads was a quick way to get your website noticed online at no extra charge.
You can find these sites simply by searching online for terms like “free classified ads, free ads, free ads, etc.” Many of the major ad placement sites do not require registration and only require you to verify your ad placement via email. My advice is to find 3 or more websites you are comfortable with and place an ad for each of your websites 4-5 days apart or once a week on each site.
Use your site’s keywords in the ad title. Many of the sites have a high pagerank on Google, which will help your ad to be noticed by more people. This is because your ad may end up on the first few pages of search results because your keywords are in the ad title. At Google, which we all know is the “Big Dog”; high-quality, major sites receive a higher pagerank based on a scale of 1 to 10. The more unique your niche and keywords are, the better your search engine results will be. If your ad is about search engine optimization, it probably won’t appear as high as if your ad is about embroidery. I hope you understand my point.
Three of my favorite sites to post ads are craigslist.org, backpage.com, and postaroo.com. All three require no registration to post their ads, and together they get a lot of traffic. As I mentioned earlier in the previous paragraph, websites with a high pagerank will help your ads get seen more. Just so you know, craigslist has a pagerank of 8, backpage has a pagerank of 7, and postaroo has a pagerank of 5. If you want to know more about what pagerank is, you can learn more by logging into Google.
The key to getting traffic with these sites is to post your ads every week, week after week. Your consistency will pay off. Don’t run an ad for a week and expect to get 1,000 visits to your site. But posting your ads weekly or every 4-5 days will certainly help you. It only takes a few minutes from your schedule and it will be well worth the effort.
These seemingly insignificant little weekly disciplines can get you big traffic over time. And hey, it costs you a few minutes a week and nothing more!