Re: Free classified ads

From: Heather Ashley Wonderful <nitsug953_at_n2trouble.com>
Date: Mon 11 Dec 2000 15:00:54 -0500

TERESA WILSON <togoodtobetruelol_at_yahoo.com> WROTE:
> Hi! I just want your response about the free classified
> ads that you can put out there. I am starting a home
> base business and don't have much money to get it going
> so I thought I could use them to get the word out to
> people until I can do something else. I feel it is
> better than nothing.

TO WHICH JIM REARDON <jim_at_amusive.com> REPLIED:
> Classified ads are GREAT...
>
> if you like getting hundreds of useless and unsolicited
> emails that you can't unsubscribe from. If you're
> looking for traffic, they're not very helpful. One
> could get better results yelling out your URL at a
> local mall.
>
> (The same, I feel, applies for Free For All Links
> Pages).

Hiya,

I'll have to partially disagree with Mr. Reardon
because any advertising is good advertising. Maybe
FFA links and classified ads won't pull 100,000 hits to
your site a month, but they do have some benefits.

They are a link back to your site and with mass
submission pages you're submitting up to 20,000 FFA
links pages, and let's say that 500 of those are on a
search engine. Now you have 20,000 links to your site
that might not be seen by people, but atleast 500 of
those 20,000 links are seen by search engines, and that
does, in some search engines, help your rankings.

So, if your ranking improves, then so does your site
visibility...all due to submitting to FFA link sites
and free classified ads. I think the same is true with
guestbooks, but the added bonus with guestbooks is that
it's public relations. You're going to people's sites
and viewing them and then talking to them (via a
guestbook, granted). Then, some guestbooks are
registered with search engines and then you have
another link back to your site. The big huge
tremendous enormous pitfall is getting all that e-mail
back from using guestbooks, FFA sites and classified
ads, my suggestion: Get a free e-mail address.

Thanks,
Heather
http://www.awardforum.com





Received on Mon Dec 11 2000 - 14:00:54 CST