If you want to advertise your business, your services or hire some paid help, you probably want to use classified services. You don’t have to necessarily take out an ad in the paper and pay for it (although that isn’t a bad idea!)  There are some free ad sites that will let you post your ad and get word out that you have something you want or something you need. Here are a few options:

Craigslist

Craigslist is free and has some great features including the fact that you can decide how you want people to apply for or respond to the advertisement. You can put your information or have replies come to an online Craigslist address that you have access to. You could also simply refer to your URL and disable replies to the posting.

Kijiji

Kijiji is owned by the eBay folks and is a great classifieds website that allows you to post free classified ads. One of the great things about Kijiji is that you can also post photos unlike Craigslist so this site really lets you jazz up your ads to make them more appealing to viewers.

USFreeads

USFreeads has been around for nearly ten years and can be a great place to get high traffic.

Online Forums

Look at online community forums in your niche. Many will have buy, sell or trade sections that you can post in for free. Some sites have premium ads available that you can buy but you can find plenty of free online classifieds ad places to take advantage of.   Forum posting also has the potential of getting indexed for SEO value so consider posting ads in your signature section of your forum profile as well as individual posts.

There are plenty of places to get free advertising online. Social marketing is a great way to do so as well. We’ll explore a lot of social networking sites in the days to come on seanseo.com as well.