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.
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
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Thanks Dana! Thought you might also want to know about a website that I run called Listasaurus.com, and instead of just free ads, we’re the first online classifieds site to pay users simply for listing their ads…so while recycling your old items or listing your cars, real estate, etc for sale, you can get paid to do it!
We also recently added video classifieds to our features, which is a wonderful way to show detail to showcase your product or service. We’re one of the first sites to include the video option.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your comment and contribution, Melanie. The more resources we have for self-promotion, the better. I agree with your comments about video marketing and actually, we’ve recently posted about that here: video marketing.
Cheers!
Dana
Hi, I Think the best free classifieds out there is
http://www.porkypost.com
Thanks for sharing, Alex
There’s a much more comprehensive list of free classified sites at http://www.freeclassifiedsites.net. Thought you’d like to know.
Thanks Jason!
Thanks Jason! Looks like a great list.
Dana