Free Global Classified Ads Blog

Online free classified sites offer a risk free, no cost solution to promote your businesses and sell products and services. Advertising in free classified sites can be time consuming and frustrating if you do not know how to successfully profit from these sites. Knowing the right tricks and tips of online free classified ad will separate you from the hundreds who post thousands of ads without getting any results.

All free classified sites are not created equal. You should focus on a few good sites and post your ads regularly in those sites only. Your starting point is Google search. Go to http://google.com and search for “free classifieds” and “free ads”. From the search result pages, visit 10 to 15 sites and register in those sites. If a site asks too many questions during the registration process, abandon the site and go to the next site. Why should you have to provide all your personal information for the site’s benefits? Good sites will only ask minimal questions to setup your account so that you can edit, delete and renew your ads. Also, look for sites that will allow you to post without any registration.

Write a precise ad using 80 to 100 words. Write about benefits of your products and services for ad viewers. Try to think benefits in terms of generating extra income, improving health and relationships and providing a sense of good feelings when they use your products and services.

Write a concise, interest grabbing, key words filled ad title with action words that asks the reader to do something now. If you are promoting an affiliate product and many ads are also about the same affiliate product, write your ad title and ad copy differently than others so that your ad stands out in the crowd.

If you are selling personal items, like used cars, cameras etc., provide details description of the item, its selling price, and your contact information. If you are promoting an item to make a profit, do not try to sell your products or services in the classified ad. Use the free ad to lead to another site or your affiliate site where you can provide more information to make a sale.

In classified sites, most recent ads are listed on the top of the ad search or ad listing pages. Some free classified sites have paid premium ads which are displayed on the top of the listing pages, followed by the free ads. Avoid those free sites that accept premium listings. In free classified sites, your ads will be buried deep in the listing pages as more ads are posted in the same category. To keep your ads fresh and on the top of the listing page, renew your ads every couple of days.

Do not spam by posting your ads in all categories. Post only in a few relevant categories, preferably using different ad copies and ad titles. If the site has regional sections, e.g. US states, cities, or countries and your target is to reach every region, post in 10 to 15 regions only. For the search function of the site to pickup your ad for display, you do not have to post in all the available regions. This will save you time.

Always use photos or banners in your ads. Make sure that the size and dimensions of your image files are within the site’s acceptable limits. Otherwise, the site may not display your images in your ad at all. There are a few free sites where you can create your banners or you can use your affiliate banners. If you are using the picture of a product, take the picture using a good digital camera and then convert the image to jpeg format and reduce the dimensions prior to uploading.

Using the simple techniques mentioned above, you should be able to minimize your online free advertising effort and increase responses from your ads. Remember, your ad title and ad copy should stand out with action words and pictures. You should regularly post your ads to keep them fresh and on top the listing page.

Marketing online has 4 basic advantages.

These 4 major benefits have grown in importance as internet use has mushroomed in recent years.

Everyday millions are logging on for the very first time trying to make money online and gain their slice of the pie.

And more and more retailers and entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet to market their products and services as the limitless potential and power of online marketing become more and more apparent.

1) How Convenient It Is:

The first and most obvious advantage of marketing online is convenience.

If you have a computer and internet access, you can conduct your business from any location. And now, because of the prevalence of Laptops this is truer today than before.

Everyone wants better and faster access to products and services and there is no indication that this will ever change.

And now, with the power of Online Marketing you can conveniently transact business from anywhere and reach your customers wherever they are.

Now that’s convenience!

2) Cost Reduction:

Today marketing online has greatly reduced the advertising costs on the seller’s end.

A perfect example is email.

You can send costly postcards to thousands of people and may realize some profit a week or two later.

But with email you can contact the same thousands with your sales message and begin seeing profits within a very short period of time, all for free on your part.

In a related area, let’s say you’re trying to make money online but have little or no capital at all you may want to try an Affiliate Program – i.e. marketing a product or service produced by someone else.

With some online Affiliate Programs you can be set up in business within hours and be making a profit in a matter of days, for little or no capital output.

3) It’s Speed of Communication:

Suppose you have a brick and mortar business and just found out one of your products is permanently going off the shelf.

You want to run a sale to clear your stock, but it will take a few days to reach your customers with the news.

Now, your competitor up the street also has this product and has gotten the same news.

He, however, is marketing online and can send out one mass mailing and have his customers at his store that same day.

You end up being stuck with the merchandise while he has moved on to the new and improved product.

4) Market Reach:

The fourth basic advantage of internet marketing is your market reach. You can literally sell to the world, that’s why it’s called the world wide web.

When you’re starting a new business, you will always have a limited number of customers who can physically travel to your store.

But when you’re involved with online marketing you can reach just about every nook and cranny of the world.

If you’re marketing online your customer base is anyone with internet access—with a growth potential of millions.

Every day, more and more people join the online community. And as they are added to the internet, they’re also added to your potential customer database.

These are benefits you just can’t beat.

It is no big surprise that unemployment in the USA and around the world has been steadily climbing, especially with the ongoing global recession. There there are signs of recovery per the Fed. So it might be a good time to post a job related classified ad and update your professional profile/resume. There are a lot of online resources to help potential job seekers find a new position.

Here are 20 well-known job websites that I have used in the past or heard positive comments through the grapevine.

Here are two salary calculators – Salary.com and CBSalary.com

1. bestjobsusa.com
2. careers.com
3. careerbuilder.com
4. coolworks.com
5. craigslist
6. yahoo hotjobs.com
7. hound.com
8. indeed.com
9. job.com
10. jobcentral.com
11. jobcircle.com
12. jobfox.com
13. jobing.com
14. jobserve.com
15. jobster.com
16. linkedIn.com
17. monster.com
18. realmatch.com
19. simplyhired.com
20. USAjobs.com

And if all else fails, you can always post a job classified on globalclassified.net