| craigslist and kijiji are two most popular network of online free classifieds worldwide. Other popular free classifieds networks are gumtree, olx, kugli, locanto, franglo etc. backpage is very popular in the USA but backpage doesn’t has network outside USA except a few sites in Canada |
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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.
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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.
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Like craigslist.org in USA, craigslist.ca is also very much popular in Canada. Craigslist has implemented phone verification for Canadian cities too. So it’s time to seek other sites like craigslist for Canada. Following are some popular online free classifieds sites of Canada I frequently use:
- 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
- backpage.com : Although very popular in USA, backpage has only a few Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal
- Red Leaf Ads: New but nice free ad site. Try it.
- http://www.adpost.com/ca/
- 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.
- Oodle free classifieds : free classified site as well as free classified search engine.
- http://www.cdncc.com/
- Classifieds.Ca a premiere free classifieds ad network of Canada
- Adoos Canada
- Canadaclassify.com Canadian Online Local Classifieds Service
- BuyAndSell.Canada - Canada’s National Free Classified Ad Network.
- btcanada.com – Free Ads – Canada Free Classifieds
- OLX Canada
- http://www.sellitbuyit.ca/
- http://www.classified.ca/
- Canada’s bargain city
- Kugli local classifieds
- Hoobly free local online classified site.
- Locanto Free Canadian Classified Ads.
- Post an AD is a FREE Online Classifieds Website for Canada.
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| craigslist.org is the largest free advertising venue on the internet. Millions of people are doing trade on craigslist. It’s free both for the buyers and the sellers. There are a lot of ways to make money from craigslist.org. Some people browse craigs list to spend their leisure time, some people to find out home business opportunity, some other to find out their soulmates. You can make money from these floks if you can advertise properly on craiglist. |
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Following are some ideas for making money from craigslist.org:
- Sell your old un-used household items like old furniture, dress, toys etc. on craigslist.
- 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.
- Advertise your service on relevant section of craigslist to get some more clients.
- Collect emails from craigslist and email people offering your service. Be aware of being blacklisted due to spamming.
- 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.
- Make phone verified accounts and sell those. Only US residents can avail this option.
- Teach people how to post on craigslist successfully.
- 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.
- 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.
- Advertise on craigslist for fund raising for charity.
- …. [please list your craigslist money making ideas as comments] ….
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Three years ago I choose EstHost.com for hosting my website. At that time e-gold was the only payment option available to me. Searching the net I found that estHost is a big renowned web hosting company accepting egold. So I choose it. I was quite happy with their performance and hosting cost is also reasonable. But few days ago a big crisis arised. The EstHost was suddenly shutdown beacuse they failed to fight with spam and virus sites hosted with them. I was fearing that google may remove my site from their index if it remains down for longer time.
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.
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Marketing of a new website is not an easy task. A lot of new websites are coming into existetance everyday. Only a few of them can catch significant amount of traffic. While quality content is a must for an website to be popular, a good website with unique quality contents may fail to catch expected amount of traffic due to lack of proper marketing strategy.
Follow are some marketing strategey which should be considered to market a new website:
- Advertising on free classified sites like craigslsit, backapge, kijiji etc.
- Exchange links with relevant sites. Don’t exchange links with spammy sites.
- Bookmarking on social bookmarking sites like digg.com, stumbleupon.com, delicious.com etc
- Blogging on free blogging sites like wordpress.com, blogger.com.
- Comment posting on relevant blogs
- Posting on forums
- Directory submission
- Offering affiliate program
- Advertising on local newspaper, TV, billboard and other off-line media
- Submitting press release
- Article submission
- Sponsoring news letter
- Marketing through social networking sites like MySpace.com, facebook.com etc.
- Advertising on Google’s AdWord and similar other advertising network.
- Search Engine Optimization
- Publish RSS feeds and submit your RSS feeds on feed directories.
- Publish videos on YouTube and other video sharing sites.
- Promote on Yahoo Answers
- 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.
- Put a “Tell a Friend” feature on your site so that anyone can easily refere other people to your site.
- Promote on Yahoo Groups and google groups
- Offer free news letter.
- Buy traffic
- Participate in traffic exchange programs
- Put your website address on your business cards, brochures and flyers etc.
- Use twitter.com to send regular updates of your site.
- Make a lense on squidoo.com
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Following steps may help you to get maximum response from craigslist posting:
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.
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Both Bookmarking and Directory submission are acceptable way of getting one-way backlinks that helps in getting high PR and better position on SERP. Several years ago directory submission was the prime source of backlinks. Now it the social bookmarking sites are playing vital role in getting backlinks. So the question arises which one is now more effective : bookmarking or directory submission? The answer of this question is undecided.
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.
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Available methods of advertising on the internet:
- Pay per click advertising like google’s AdWords
- Buying text and Banner advertising on other sites
- Email advertising
- Social media advertising
- Advertising on free online classifieds
- Sponsoring news letter
- Search Engine Optimization
- Sponsor listing on SERP, directories, yellow pages etc.
Advertising on free online classifieds is getting popularity very rapidly. Online free classified sites are catching good numbers of visitors. So advertisers are showing more attention to advertise on free online classifieds. Since advertising on those sites are mostly free and yet giving good number of targeted traffic, there is strong competition among the advertisers to post ads on popular free online classifieds websites. craigslist.org is the most popular free classifieds site and pioneer in the field of free online advertising. Competition of advertising on craigslist.org is so high that some categories of the big cities like New York or San Francisco get thousands of ads. craigslist authority try hard and fast to reduce number of ads posted to acceptable limit. Phone verification is the latest attempt by craigslist to reduce number of postings.
The main reason free classified advertising is getting popularity is that posting ads on them are mostly free although some of those sites have featured listing option and these free classifieds produces quick and geographically targeted traffic. I guess in the future more and more advertiser will give more importance on advertising on free classifieds instead of expensive PPC advertising.
Every month, a lot of local free classifieds and specialized free classifieds are coming into scene. For example:
These sites will play vital role in the internet marketing field in the future.
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I frequently face a question from my potential clients whether ad posting on free classifieds sites will help in Search Engine Optimization. Well, before answering YES or NO to this question let’s examine what happens when ads are posted on free online.
Most of the free classifieds sites including craigslist.org and backpage.com allow hyperlink to other website in ad description. So getting one-way backlink from free classifieds advertising is quite possible. The problem is that those backlinks aren’t permanent. Each post has a certain life span ranging from 7 days to 6 months (popular sites have lower life span while new sites have longer life span for the postigns). Postings will expire after that time and the link will no longer exist. So one time posting will not be of much help in the long run. In case of continuous posting on a weekly or monthly schedule, search engines will always see some backlinks from those sites and will index those pages. So to get benefit from free classifieds sites for SEO, continuous ad posting is required.
Some sites like vivastreet.co.uk allows to reposting and the URL of the original post doesn’t change upon reposting. In such cases getting almost permanent link is possible provided the ad is renewed regularly.
Another option of SEO is also available. Although it is also transient in nature, sometimes it is highy effective. It is possible to post an ad whose body is filled up with targeted keywords in high density. Search engines like google picks the posting pages from popular free classifieds sites like craigslist within 24 hours (even earlier). And postings on craigslist and other popular free classifieds get very high position on SERP. So it is possible to reach google first page for some specific keywords within very short time with this method. But when the ad is expired, you loose everything.
Finally, it can be summarized that ad posting on free classifieds may be helpful in SEO but primary purpose of free classified advertising is not SEO. Getting targeted traffic quickly is the main purpose of free classified advertising.
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