I started with a veiw to get programming jobs as I know Visual C++ and some other programming languages. Eventually I have switched to internet marketing. Now I no longer offer programming as I can’t manage time for programming. At present I am offering online advertising, search engine optimisation and data entry services.

Although I started on ScraiptLance, now-a-days I get projects from various sources and I no longer participate in bidding on ScrptLance.

Craigslist ad posting service is the single most service which brings me a lot of fortune. I am trying to expand my services by offering new services day-by-day.

By this time my team has also grown. Initially I started alone. Then only a few guys started to work with me. Now about 10 guys work with me. I am considering to expand my team further.

I express my heartfelt gratitude to my valued clients who used my services. A lot of thanks to all who provided me valuable information and suggestions time to time.

I hope more young guys from Bangladesh will start working as a freelancer like me and earn some foreign currency for the country.

Google recently released “Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, Version 1.1“  which is published 13 November 2008. If you are new to the field of SEO then I highly recommend to download this 22-page PDF guide. It is full of useful information. This nice SEO guide is available  here.

Optimize your site for search engines. You will get a lot of business for free.

Following is a country-wise list of popular online free classifieds:

• USA: craigslist.org, kijiji.com, backpage.com .  More free calssifieds of USA.
• Canada:  craigslist.ca, kijiji.ca, Classifieds.Ca . More Canadian free classifieds.
• UK: gumtree.com, craigslist.co.uk, adzooks.co.uk, adoos.co.uk. More free classifieds on UK.
• Australia classifieds: gumtree.com.au, craigslsit.com.au, ozfreeonline.com
• India classified ad posting: quikr.com, craigslsit.co.in, kugli.com, webcosmo.com, locanto.com, vivastreet.co.in, olx.in
• Japan classified advertising: kijiji.co.jp, craigslist.jp
• Spain local classified websites: loquo.com, spain.franglo.com,
• New Zeland classified websites: gumtree.co.nz, auckland.craigslist.org
• Singapore free online classified sites: www.gumtree.sg, craigslist.com.sg, olxsg.com
• Italy classified advertising:  www.kijiji.it, italy.franglo.com, italyclassifieds.net
• French local classifieds: www.kijiji.fr, frenchclassified.com, paris.franglo.com
• Germany classifieds: kijiji.de, locanto.com
• South Africa classified sites: gumtree.co.za, orangepages.co.za, youpost.co.za
• China online classifieds : baixing.com,  shanghai.craigslist.com.cn, www.locanto.cn
• Philippines free classifieds:  manila.craigslist.com.ph, classifiedsph.com
• Russia : www.slando.ru, ru.anuncioo.com
• Poland : www.gumtree.pl
• Hong Kong:  gumtree.com.hk, hongkong.craigslist.org
• Thailand: craigslist.co.th
• The Netherlands: www.marktplaats.nl, amsterdam.craigslist.org
• Mexico: craigslist.com.mx, www.mexonline.com, mexico.zeezo.com
• Brazil: rio.en.craigslist.org, redeparede.com, brazzilads.com
• Argentina: buenosaires.en.craigslist.org,
• Switzerland : zurich.en.craigslist.ch, market.local.ch/en, www.kijiji.ch
• Belgium: www.kijiji.be
• Austria: kijiji.at
• Czech Republic: www.slando.cz
• Slovakia: www.slando.sk
• Hungary: www.slando.hu
• Ukraine: www.slando.com.ua
• Turkey: www.kijiji.com.tr, www.turkeyclassifieds.com
• Taiwan: www.kijiji.com.tw, tw.anuncioo.com

Feel free to share popular free classifieds of other countries here.

google search results for

Wow! I am #1 on google’s search results page for the search phrase “ad posting service“. It’s a great achievement. Click on the image at left to see actual search results on google.

Content is the king. No fancy design is required for SEO. Don’t bother for PR. Only a few backlinks form related sites are enough for reaching first position on SERP. I didn’t use any graphics on my site except my own photo. My site is also on google’s first or second page for some craigslist and free classifieds related search terms. I am lucky to get most of my visitors form search engines. And most importantly, conversion rate for the traffic from search engines (particularly google) is very high as compared to traffic from other sources.
So try to put related quality contents on your site and get some quality backlinks. Reaching google’s first page is not tough unless you are competing for some highly valued terms.

I am not offering full SEO service yet although I am learning SEO basics and offering link building service. Now I am confident that I can offer SEO service professionally. I was doing SEO for my client’s site  gotengines.com on experimental basis for last few months. It’s now on google’s first page for “used engines” (without quote marks).  I am preparing myself to offer SEO service very soon.

1. kijiji.ca : In Canada Kijiji is as popular as craigslist. In some cities kijiji is even more popular than craigslist. Kijiji has many more Canadian cities on it’s list than craigslist.ca
2. backpage.com : Although very popular in USA, backpage has only a few Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal
3. Red Leaf Ads: New but nice free ad site. Try it.
4. http://www.adpost.com/ca/
5. Tradepoint : Tradepoint is Canada’s free online classifieds network for used autos, cars, used trucks, boats, computers, Canadian real estate, antiques, furniture, electronics and much more.
6. Oodle free classifieds : free classified site as well as free classified search engine.
7. http://www.cdncc.com/
8. Classifieds.Ca a premiere free classifieds ad network of Canada
9. Adoos Canada
10. Canadaclassify.com Canadian Online Local Classifieds Service
11. BuyAndSell.Canada - Canada’s National Free Classified Ad Network.
12. btcanada.com - Free Ads - Canada Free Classifieds
13. OLX Canada
14. http://www.sellitbuyit.ca/
15. http://www.classified.ca/
16. Canada’s bargain city
17. Kugli local classifieds
18. Hoobly free local online classified site.
19. Locanto Free Canadian Classified Ads.
20. Post an AD is a FREE Online Classifieds Website for Canada.

Following are some ideas for making money from craigslist.org:

1. Sell your old un-used household items like old furniture, dress, toys etc. on craigslist.
2. Advertise your affiliate links on craigslist. Don’t forget to hide your affiliate link with free URL redirection or better with your own domain. Affiliate links normally will not work directly on craigslist.
3. Advertise your service on relevant section of craigslist to get some more clients.
4. Collect emails from craigslist and email people offering your service. Be aware of being blacklisted due to spamming.
5. Post ads for other people. Craigslist posting service has good market demand. You have learn the tricks of craigslist posting first very well to offer ad posting service.
6. Make phone verified accounts and sell those. Only US residents can avail this option.
7. Teach people how to post on craigslist successfully. 
8. Write eBooks and sell on craiglist. You can write eBooks on a lot of subject like Photoshop tutorial, how to make money online, affiliate marketing, credit repair etc.  Quality eBooks are sold well on craigslist.org.
9. Search gigs section of CL. A lot of people post ads on this section for people to do specific tasks. Contact them for the jobs that you can do.
10. Advertise on craigslist for fund raising for charity.
11. …. [please list your craigslist money making ideas as comments]  ….

So I take quick decision to switch to another hosting company although I have some balance money with estHost. After discussion with my friends I decided to host on hostgator. My hosting cost will increase but I will be quite happy to pay this extra fee for the shake of more reliable and fast service.

Now this website is hosted on HostGator.com. Now I feel more secure. If you are planning to start your own website, I shall also suggest your HostGator.

Follow are some marketing strategey which should be considered to market a new website:

1. Advertising on free classified sites like craigslsit, backapge, kijiji etc.
2. Exchange  links with relevant sites. Don’t exchange links with spammy sites.
3. Bookmarking on social bookmarking sites like digg.com, stumbleupon.com, delicious.com etc
4. Blogging on free blogging sites like wordpress.com, blogger.com.
5. Comment posting on relevant blogs
6. Posting on forums
7. Directory submission
8. Offering affiliate program
9. Advertising on local newspaper, TV, billboard and other off-line media
10. Submitting press release
11. Article submission
12. Sponsoring news letter
13. Marketing through social networking sites like MySpace.com, facebook.com etc.
14. Advertising on Google’s AdWord and similar other advertising network.
15. Search Engine Optimization
16. Publish RSS feeds and submit your RSS feeds on feed directories.
17. Publish videos on YouTube and other video sharing sites.
18. Promote on Yahoo Answers
19. Make a custom 404-error page so that you don’t miss any traffic. You can provide a link back to your main website or directly redirect to your home page.
20. Put a “Tell a Friend” feature on your site so that anyone can easily refere other people to your site.
21. Promote on Yahoo Groups and google groups
22. Offer free news letter.
23. Buy traffic
24. Participate in traffic exchange programs
25. Put your website address on your business cards, brochures and flyers etc.
26. Use twitter.com to send regular updates of your site.
27. Make a lense on squidoo.com

1) Put all necessary details in description but keep it as short as possible. Use short description with phone number, if applicable. But don’t use your personal email address. Use anonymous email feature if you need to receive email queries from the visitors. 

2) Use image whenever possible. In the categories where you can’t use external image and need to upload the images, image size is restricted to 300×300 pixels. If you upload images more than this size, craigslist will downsize. So it’s better to use image not larger than 300×300 pixels.
3) Use attractive titles which clearly describe what you are offering. Avoid using excessive symbols and capitals. Lenght of title is limited to 70 characters only. If you title is more than 70 characters, craigslist will discard the extra characters which may make your title meaningless. Be careful not to use titles longer than 70 characters.
4) Use your webpage URL in description, if you need traffic to your webpage. Use multiple domains if required. Free URL forwarding services like tinyURL.com will not work. So you must register your own domain to redirect visitors to your webpage.
5) Post the ads on appropriate time. Proper posting time varies depending on service or product.
6) Post the ads under the appropriate category and appropriate locations. Posting ads under wrong category or location may compel the visitors to flag your ads.

Directory submission still works nice for increasing link popularity of an website. But it has some limitations over bookmarking. Bookmarking is more versatile.  For example: if you have a blog on blogspot.com or wordpress.com you can’t submit it on most of the web directories. There are only few blog directories which may accept your free blog. Still you can easily promote your blog or blog posts on bookmarking sites. Similarly most of the directories accepts only homepage. Inner pages aren’t accepted by most of the free web directories. If you have an important inner page you can easily promote it on social bookmarking sites.

I like social bookmarking over directory submission for another reason: it is getting traffic. Free web directories rarely send traffic to the sites submitted. On the other hand popular social bookmarking sites like digg, stumbleUpon can send thousands of traffic.