Saturday, January 24, 2009

Using Free Classified Ads to Drive Traffic to Your Site

By Alex Wu

If you wanted to go into business before, you had to find a storefront, rent it, clean it up and stock it, and then of course you had to take out advertising. The web is a beautiful thing because now in order to have your own business, all you need is a connection and a computer. Pretty much everything else you need to get going is free, especially the advertising as you can take advantage of free classified ads and drive traffic to your site at no cost.

While I know a lot of people will not believe this upon first reading it, but yes, you can actually make money for FREE. All you have to do is take advantage of the multitude of sites that are out there that will let you post for free. Still not going for it? Pick your favorite search engine and type in 'free classified ads' and see what you come up with. That number that you are looking at has 8 digits in it and that is pretty impressive! Better yet, each one of those sites is a possible outlet for you to create business for you.

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!

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.

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.

Of course, you can also use this to work your own business. Say you are selling baseball cards. You are obviously going to have your own website up but you need to create traffic so that you can make some money. You are going to go to as many of these sites as you can and post your business to try and drive traffic.

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 have just touched the surface here but as you can see, free classified ads present an opportunity to make money in various ways. With one internet ad, you can literally reach hundreds of millions of people. A classified ad had come along way from being a 3 line write up in your local daily paper.

About the Author:

No comments: