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Free Classified Submission – Should You Even Bother?
Guest Post From: By Bob

Free classified submission is tempting. I put it on the same level as free directory submission. If your budget is really limited, this is a quick and easy way to at least get some backlinks and get your site found by the search engines.

The one thing to remember is that these sites have lost a lot of their pagerank in the last year and won’t give you the kind of boost they once did.

So the question still begs itself, should you bother with free classified submission and free directory submission? That question is why I wrote this free classified post. Here’s what I think as a professional SEO.

Should you bother with free classified ad submission?

If you have a really limited budget and don’t have the time and money for things like article marketing and blog marketing, then I say it’s a good first move. Do as many of them as you can.

One of the things I learned about these free classifieds is that not all of them will allow free classifieds by businesses. For instance USfreeads.com will only allow personal or non-business free classified submissions. If you are a business or are selling something business related, you have to pay for your ad. However, the classified ad submission tools I tested both tried to submit to them.

At any rate, I’m not saying that paying is a bad thing but there are plenty of free classified submission sites you can exhaust before you start paying to place an ad.

Here’s an example of free online classified sites you can try manually just to see what they are like: Backpage

Classified Ad Submission Software Test:

I’ve tested two different classified ad submission software packages. One was Free Ad Traffic 1.0 and the other was The Classified Connection. Both of them claim to submit your ad to thousands of classified ad sites.

The actual experience is that they can actually only submit to about two thirds of them. For whatever reason, they seem to fail quite a bit. My guess is that it has to do with automation. Automation is a good thing but it doesn’t necessarily work perfectly.

At any rate, neither of them is going to get you to all 80,000 (so they claim) classified ad sites. However, two-thirds of them is still a huge number.

Big difference between these free advertising classified submitters:

Each of them has an internal list of the classified ad sites. Classified Connection starts you out with a wizard that guides you through the process of setting up a profile and an ad and a username and password that can be placed on each site. Once you’ve gone through the wizard, it automatically goes through it’s list and signs you up and places your ad.

Free Ad Traffic 1.0, on the other hand, also lets you set up your ad ahead of time. However, it has a pop-up window that sends you to each site to sign up manually before it can send them your ad. I can’t even tell you how annoying and time consuming that is. It definitely makes you wonder what the benefit of the software is (aside from the pre-programmed in free classified submission sites).

The best free classified submitter…

As far as I’m concerned, Classified Connection is the hands down winner. They each have a free or demo version you can check out for yourself if you want to download them both and run your own comparison. I believe you’ll come to the same conclusion I did.

• Classified Connection
• Free Ad Traffic 1.0

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Simple as Dirt Farming Internet Marketing Plan

Contrary to the puffery displayed throughout sales letters, email messages, videos, and audio sound bytes, you don’t need complicated software and elaborate training to make money online. Not that ever little edge doesn’t help…

Being new to Internet marketing, you should be aware of trying too much, too soon. My cunning method of not saying, “don’t bite off more than you can chew…”

If simplicity in business is: “Buy low. Sell high.”

For Online Marketing it’s:

1. Find out what people are already buying online.
2. Get some for the lowest cost you can.
3. Price it to make a profit.
4. Make offers to the people who are already buying whatever it is.
5. Collect their contact information during the selling process.
6. Make them related offers.
7. Repeat.

Simple. Naturally, there are a couple of effective strategies you can use to do the above steps. If I don’t forget, we’ll talk about them later.

Until then, may all your failures be lessons learned, and each of your successes make you a more understanding and thoughtful person…
Peace,
“Mr Ed”
“He who helps the most people Wins!”

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Would a reasonable person consider your Internet business a failure?

Are you spending more money on your business expenses than the amount of money your business is making you? Tired of making excuses and hiding credit card statements from your spouse? Have you actually started thinking you can’t succeed online? Are you real, real close to accepting defeat and slink away with your ‘tail tucked deeply between your legs’?

My fine friend, don’t do it! You will always feel guilty, and perhaps ashamed, if you quit now.

Assuming you haven’t wasted your online business time chasing after pipe dreams and searching for easy money, you may be one idea away from success. If you’ve worked consistently, while following basic selling strategies, you should become successful.

Of course you have to work long enough to build momentum for attention an traffic. Let’s assume you have done so. And, you’re still not making it. If this is the shape you’re in, we’re safe to figure you’re doing something wrong…

“The only reason you’re not making money online, is because you’re talking to the wrong people, about the wrong things, at the wrong time!”

This mistake is the end result of the group of people you choose to target with your Internet business.

You can pick your offer first, then work to attract prospects. Or, you can find a group of people who are already buying related products, or services. Then you get some of what they’re already buying, and slide your offers in front of their eyeballs.

It doesn’t take an Einstein to know it’s easier to sell people what they’re already buying. Or, that you’ll have competition for the money.

So what’s your answer? Everyone knows if you continue doing what you’ve been doing, your results will remain the same. Well, I don’t know it. And, I don’t accept this goofy definition of insanity.

There’s probably nothing wrong with your methods. You need to adjust where you’re aiming. You know, change your target and your ammunition to fit your new target. Because,

“The only reason you’re not making money online, is because you’re talking to the wrong people, about the wrong things, at the wrong time!”

BTW. I’ve bought three versions of Michael Brown’s “Niche Blitzkrieg” research course. I didn’t just buy them. I used them!

Here’s a link to the most up to date course: Niche Research Made Simple

That’s it for today. Until next time, may all your failures be lessons learned and may your successes make school reunions pleasures…
Peace
“Mr Ed”
Edward Thorpe  “He who helps the most people Wins!”

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