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Death of Classified Advertising?

You may think that online classified ads are dead or maybe that they are just a place where spammers hang out, not true.

You just need to know HOW to use the right classified websites.

Online Classified Advertising can be a very effective method of generating real, substantial traffic to your website, any website!

Probably the biggest classified site is craigslist.org (eBay owns 25% of it).

Owner Craig Newmark first started the site in San Francisco. It has since grown to include all American states, along with many countries such as Australia, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, the UK and many more.

Once at the site you can easily select the area you want to focus on.

Millions of people are using craigslist EVERY day and so this makes for a huge opportunity, and the best part... many posts are free!

There is a charge for job postings in some areas, but for most of the site posting is completely free.

If however you do find a classified ad in a particular location is not free, simply try another location, you should eventually find a free area.

You cannot do just the one classified ad on Craigslist and then post it in every location for all and sundry to see, it just does not work like that. And if you start posting the same thing over and over adgain to multiple areas of Craigslist your ad will be removed.

You need to be a little smart about this... make sure your ad has useful content with relevant information that’s posted in the relevant location/section.

Obviously, if you are selling laptop don’t post your ad in Beauty Services.

Duplicate content is most frowned upon and is highly likely to get your ads deleted, that’s not to say you can only post once, far from it.By all means post to multiple areas, just mix your content up a little to make it different.

You could probably get away with changing just the subject and reposting, but it’s much better to actually change the main content too... when a potential customer reads both classifieds they wont see them as being the same ad and possibly report you (both classified ads are then likely to be deleted).

Most of the classified ads remain online and available for up to 45 days, meaning you get great value. The search engines love Craigslist, you will find that your website is indexed VERY QUICKLY after you post.

Craigslist.org has some important rules regarding posting and you need to make sure you are aware of these, read the help section to familiarize yourself with these rules.

Unlike most other classified Ad websites, Craigslist has NO LIMIT on the amount of space you can use for your ad. Be creative, use rich, compelling text to get people wanting to click on your link to find out more.

There are literally thousands of other classified ad websites but only a handful should be seriously considered:

http://www.ablewise.com

http://www.usfreeads.com

HPTE Classifieds

Don’t ignore classified ads, they can, do and will dramatically increase traffic to your site... any site!

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Greg.

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