Increasingly more and more often, there seems to be a bottleneck on some of the well known classified ad sites. With administrators scrambling to filter the spam from the legitimate ads, it can sometimes be days before an ad goes live, often to the detriment of the ad poster's time sensitive requirements. With so many small businesses relying on the internet and all of its capabilities for free advertisement, some of these delays have cost enough time and money that business owners have begun to migrate to other free classified advertising sites.
However, the point of classified advertising of any sort is to be posted in a place where significant traffic will browse your ad and consider your products or services. So, although there are literally thousands of free classified advertising sites, the ones with the higher views are going to be most lucrative for your business.
What Alternatives are There to Craigslist?
There are so many it would be impossible to name, much less browse them all in one sitting. However, there are a few that have lately been rising in rankings and garnering some of the business that hasn't had much luck on the Craigslist site.
FreeAdLists has begun to pick up in classified ads postings in recent months. This site also has a wonderful option for posting a single ad and having it show in every available US city, as well as Canada. Since most free classified ad sites and many paying ones do not offer this handy feature, this makes FreeAdlists head and shoulders above some of its competition.
Although Hot-Ads doesn't quite have nationwide coverage for the U.S. yet, it does have an easy to read and smooth posting format that is quite appealing. The ability to directly target small locales in each state may eventually make this site the go to site for trading post and quick sale types of ads for specific regions. This is the perfect format for a small business with services or products that do not extend to internet sales.
While Kudzu has been around for quite a bit of time, some of its perks are just now beginning to gain the attention of internet marketers. With free classified advertising as well as a method to submit and review small businesses online, Kudzu definitely offers something outside of the norm in online advertising.
How Can I Make Sure My Ads are Accepted?
Often mistakes on a classified ad posting can be rejected and most of the time the rejection will explain why, however, to avoid making a mistake and delaying your advertising plans be sure to follow a few rules to guarantee submission acceptance.
- Do not spin, automate or bot your submissions.
- Write clear and concise ads.
- Do not spam keywords, your url, or your product and services repeatedly
- Follow all posting guidelines
Free classified advertising sites offer a place to hawk your wares while also depositing a link, your keyword phrase and your products or services. The role of the administrators on the classified ad sites is to see that your ad rises to the top of their site as well as search engines, as when it does, it creates more traffic for their websites as well. Keep in mind if you do not follow the submission rules, you likely will just be wasting your posting time for an ad that will shortly be removed, or never approved at all.
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