Friday, January 23, 2009

Free Classified Ads

By Alex Wu

Free classified ads are a great way to generate income be it from your own business or if you are just looking to sell some odds and ends from around the house. The popularity of the internet actually gives a purpose back to classified ads. In the old days, you would spend a small fortune and have a one day ad in the local paper, not any more. Now you can put a free ad up on the net to a much wider audience that will stay there for weeks, month and possibly forever.

I know the skepticism is flying right now as this seems to good to be true, but it is in fact 100% true. You can set up and market your own business via the free network of sites that are available to you on the net. Still don't believe? Do a search of 'free classified ads' and see what you come up with. You are going to see millions of hits. Each and every one of these represents a possible outlet for you to do business.

The best part about this whole process is that you don't even actually have to be selling a product to make this work for you. Now I know I have your curiosity up there so let me go a little further into detail so you can make some sense of all of this.

It is no secret that we all need money right now. The economy is worst than it has ever been and everyone is trying to make an extra buck in any way that they can. This is where the free ads come in. You start up a niche blog about whatever, it really doesn't matter for this example. Then you line up some advertising and of course have some affiliate banners going on your site. All the while, you are posting free classified ads all over the web.

On this site, you have advertising that has been paid for on a monthly basis and you are driving traffic to your site that is now creating a higher rate that you can charge to the advertisers. You are also going to have affiliate links posted on your site that will generate money each and every time someone clicks on one of them and opens up an account or spends money. What have you sold? Nothing, yet you are creating income.

Of course, you can also use this to work your own business. Say you are selling baseball cards. You are obviously going to have your own website up but you need to create traffic so that you can make some money. You are going to go to as many of these sites as you can and post your business to try and drive traffic.

Regardless of what you are trying to accomplish, you are going to want to make sure that your keywords are as accurate and precise as they can be. This is what the search engines thrive on and what will get you to the top of their lists. The search engines on these free sites work the same way. Without having something that is what the common person will type in, you are hurting yourself.

While we have gone into quite a bit of ways to make free classified ads work for you, we have not even scratched the surface. Remember, we are talking about millions of sites out there that are ready to work for you if you let them. Do a little research and make use of the opportunity that is being served up on a silver platter for you. - 16069

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