Re: Free classified ads

From: Michael Martinez <Michael_at_xenite.org>
Date: Tue 12 Dec 2000 14:11:12 -0500

HEATHER ASHLEY WONDERFUL <nitsug953_at_n2trouble.com> WROTE:
> 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.

The search engines have figured out the FFA trick so
getting listed on an FFA won't help you anyway. On
the other hand, assuming that some FFA's still have
value, any which are submitted to by the mass
submission scripts are still virtually worthless
because they have a torrent of people submitting to
them.

A few Web-hosting services provide FFA pages to their
clients with the promise that they won't allow the
mass submission scripts to nail them. Unfortunately,
it's starting to look like the mass submission people
have figured out how to get past the filters, so now
all those remaining halfway decent pages are burnt.

It's better to just stay away from the FFAs. At best
only a few of them actually generate any traffic, and
they may be so popular with Webmasters you'd have to
resubmit your sites 3-4 times a day. I've tested some
of the FFAs that are popular with submission scripts.
My sites all dropped off the listings within an hour.

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