Friday, January 23, 2009

Using Free Classified Ads to Drive Traffic to Your Site

By Alex Wu

Remember the day when the only way you could sell something was to place an ad in the paper and then sit back and wait for someone to call you? Those days are long gone. With the internet being the most widely used information service, you can not only sell the items in your garage, you can actually start and maintain your own business by using FREE classified ads.

I am sure there are many doubters out there as normally you would never believe when someone wants you to believe that you are going to get something for nothing, but in this case, it is actually true. All you have to do is a Google search and you will find that there are more than 10,000,000 sites out there that would just love to put your information out on the web for free.

Using free classified ads to make money is being exploited by everyone and there mother right now. The beauty of the whole thing is that you actually don't even need to be selling a service or a product to make money this way. You can use the classified ads as a way to generate traffic to a site that will lead to income!

It is no secret that we all need money right now. The economy is worst than it has ever been and everyone is trying to make an extra buck in any way that they can. This is where the free ads come in. You start up a niche blog about whatever, it really doesn't matter for this example. Then you line up some advertising and of course have some affiliate banners going on your site. All the while, you are posting free classified ads all over the web.

On this site, you have advertising that has been paid for on a monthly basis and you are driving traffic to your site that is now creating a higher rate that you can charge to the advertisers. You are also going to have affiliate links posted on your site that will generate money each and every time someone clicks on one of them and opens up an account or spends money. What have you sold? Nothing, yet you are creating income.

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.

The key to the whole thing though is good keywords. This is what drives the engines and gets your site at the top of the page. If you don't have the right keywords, you will number 12,000,000 instead of being number 1. The whole way to make money on this is to have the highest ranking page when they search. I am not talking about Google here either, all of these free sites have their own internal search engines that people use once they get there. You have to make sure your listing ends up on the top.

While we have gone into quite a bit of ways to make free classified ads work for you, we have not even scratched the surface. Remember, we are talking about millions of sites out there that are ready to work for you if you let them. Do a little research and make use of the opportunity that is being served up on a silver platter for you. - 15246

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