Saturday, January 24, 2009

Using Free Classified Ads to Drive Traffic to Your Site

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.

All of this creates an opportunity for you to go into business. If you are worried about having something to sell, don't because you don't have to sell anything to have a business on the internet. Here it comes, "I don't have to pay anything and I don't have to sell anything to make money on the net?" The answer is yes and while I have your ears all perked up, let me tell you how.

Like you, everybody in the world likes to make money. When you are looking to make money online what do you do? You type in 'how to make money online' into a search engine and you get about a bazillion hits. Look at how many of those hits are on free classified ads, pretty impressive stuff isn't it. Now you are going to create a social page or blog talking about this thing or the next. These are called niche blogs and once you have one, you actually have a business going.

Here is the beauty of the whole operation. Now you have done all of this for free. There are plenty of blogging sites out there that you can use free of charge and you are driving people to your site for free. Now with the increased traffic that you have created with these ads, you are getting people to open up accounts or buy things, all of which you get a cut of because you are an affiliate. And you are also getting money from the advertisers that are on your blog. The more hits you get on your site, they more they will pay. You haven't sold a thing and yet you are making cash!

If you actually have a business it is even better. Not only are you going to be selling your product but you are going to have all of this other stuff going on as well. This will actually enable you to absolutely saturate the market with free ads as you can list what you are selling and also whatever each advertisement on your site is for. The object is to drive as many people as possible to your site so that you either sell your stuff or they click on one of the links and buy something off of one of the sites that you are affiliated with. Regardless, it is a win/win situation.

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.

We could go on all day about ways to use free classified ads to your advantage and to make a ton of cash but these are only a few. The possibilities are endless in making this tool work for you. You can either choose to sit on your couch and work for the man or get into the game yourself and start making some money!

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