Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Free Classified Ads

By Alex Wu

Have you ever heard the old adage that nothing comes free? In most cases, that is absolutely true but not when it comes to free classified ads. Not only are they free, but you can do more than just post a personal. The options that are available to you today can put plenty of extra cash into your wallet at zero cost to you.

Yes, I know you have heard this before and that it usually ends up being a scam but this is legit. You are about to find out how you can make money with absolutely no up front investment on your end or how to find a job without paying some agency to get you a spot.

While there are very few print outlets that will allow you to place an ad for free, there are literally millions of them on the internet. If you don't believe me, go fire up your machine and go to your favorite search engine and type in "free classified ads". You are going to see over 12,000,000 possibilities where you can post for FREE!

You can use these sites for just about any purpose you want, but the ones that you are going to want to take advantage of are selling items, providing a service or finding a job. Most of the time, doing any of these will cost you some cash. Not now, we are going to show you how to do them for free.

Are all of these sites legitimate and trustworthy? No, you would be a fool to think that they were but there are enough of them out there that you can trust that you can saturate the market with your listing and get positive results. The traffic that these sites produce will get you more exposure in a week than you would by running a print ad for a year.

Major social networks and marketplace sites all have loyal followings that will drive traffic to you on a national if not world wide level. This is not something that could be achieved easily or cheaply in print media.

Placing the ad is quite simple. Social networking sites all have tutorials or a help video that will walk you through the process of creating a page or lens. The marketplace sites are even easier than that. If you have ever filled out a questionnaire, you have the needed background to do a listing on one of these sites successfully. The one thing you are absolutely going to want to keep in mind though is that you must use good keywords or you are defeating your own purpose. Use them in the title, in the body and throughout your article to maximize your search engine hits.

I talked about this briefly in the beginning, but I wanted to put it out there again, this is a FREE service. Putting an item up for auction on a website will cost you 10% or more of the final sales price. You may think you are making a nice profit, but when all is said and done, you take a loss. And we all know how costly it can be to find a job. Making use of these services will allow you to get your resume out there for nothing or possibly even start your own home business for FREE!

I am hoping that you have come around and are now running out to the garage to see what you can unload or tightening up that resume and getting it posted. Remember, these are but two of the many possibilities you can take advantage of when using free classified ads. - 15246

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