7 Step Guide to Posting Free Advertising on Classified Ads

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Most people who tried doing free advertising claims that it is a total waste of time. This is not necessarily true. In fact, if you know how to utilise free advertising, you can grow your home business without spending a fortune. The only setback of doing free advertising is that you have to spent more time and effort than paid advertising.

Here are the 7 step guide to free advertising on classified ads:

1. Set up a business email

The first that you need to do before posting your advertisements is to set up an extra business email. This is because most classified networks will sent you an email to confirm your free ads. Imagine getting hundreds of emails per day from classified networks, it will be a hassle clearing up your inbox. You may even accidentally delete some important emails.

It is recommended that you use Gmail or Yahoo acount. Both are easy to set up, free and you can set up as many email as you want.

2. Post on the day and hour that has the most traffic

There are statistics on the net that will show the traffic flow in the different hours and also the different days. You need to compile these statistics and see which day and hour has the most flow of traffic.

I would recommend posting your ads on Tuesday 12 Noon CST.

3. Don’t get distracted

You have to be solely focus on posting your ads. Don’t get distrected by the advertisements that claims to be able to submit your ads to 1,000 websites for free or submit to 20,000 websites for just $10. Most of the time you would not get any response to any of your ads if you use these service.

The reason is because they submit your ads to dead sites which means that no one would
ever see your ads.

If the submission service is really effective, the owner would have use it themselves
instead of getting you to buy the service.

4. Post in a related category

Post your ads in related categories like Home Business, Work at Home and even MLM if they
have that category. If you could post to multiple categories then you should do it. If not,
just post your ads on the most suitable category. You want interested people to look at your
ads and not people who don’t care less. Thats the main reason to post in related categories.

When you post your ads, make sure to fill in your url. Some classified networks doesn’t need
you to fill in your url but it is recommended that you fill it in.

Post to as many classified ad sites as you possibly could. This is to ensure that you’ll get a positive result from some of the sites. As you keep on posting ads, you’ll notice that certain classified ad sites will bring in traffic but others might not.

So keep track and continue using those that are bringing in the traffic, and discard those
that does not yield any results.

5. Frequency of posting

I would recommend that you post your ads once a day to those classified networks that are bringing traffic to your site. Be careful not to post multiple ads in the same sites. You may get banned by the classified ad site. Some of your ads might stay for a few days or maybe weeks so check before you post your ads.

6. Finding classified ad sites

When searching for classified ad sites, do not go to the search engine and type “classified ad sites”. You will get a lot of results but most of the time it will not be the one you are looking for.

The best way to find classified ad sites is to go to the search engine and type “home business”, “work at home” or “MLM”.

Take note of the top 20 sites that appears in the results for every keyword. Use both Yahoo and Google’s search engine. You will find this time consuming but it is certainly worth your time.

7. Track your results

In order for you to know which classified ad sites are bringing in the traffic and showing positive results, you need to track your ads in the different classified sites. By tracking,you will know exactly how many people visit your website and where they came from.

It is easy to track your results online. You just need to add a HTML code to your website and you will be able to see the variety of statistics about your visitors. From the statistics, you will know which classified ad sites are sending you the visitors so that you can continue posting your ads there. You do not need to waste time on those that doesn’t work.

Discard the waste and mine the gold.

In summary, just remember to post ads during the period of high traffic flow, track your results, keep the good classified sites and discard the no results sites. As you do this,you will realise the power of free advertising through classified ad sites.

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