It all comes down to how much time you want to devote to the process of creating, posting, updating and deleting your classified ads. Depending on your business setup it can be time consuming to post ads on every classified site available online and that is why if you have a budget to invest into your business, I would highly recommend that you outsource this work to someone. You can find people on different forums or freelancing websites willing to complete this type of work for a very low rate: from $0.10/post to $0.50/post.
Here are a few benefits that you will get from Classified ads
- Instant traffic delivery to your site
- Instant posting
- Can save you money
- Opportunity to test your ad copy at no cost
- You can build opt-in lists of customers coming from these ads
- With plenty of free home based business classified sites there are also a few paid ones and when upgraded to paid membership you can get maximum exposure of your ads.
Here are a few tips on how to use classified ads:
- Use compelling headlines: This is the first thing any user will see, so make it appealing to ad visitors.
- Add a picture to support your ad: Adding a picture to your advertisement will increase the Click through rate of your advertisement resulting in lots of traffic to your site.
- Write short and descriptive ads: Don’t try to write everything in the ad itself, write concisely with a call-to-action.
- Place your ad frequently to get better exposure, updating your ads weekly will help your ad to be shown on top of the category
- Include keywords in your ad: Whenever you write your ads always include targeted keywords in your ads for better exposure and for targeted customers
- Don’t use classified sites to fool people, this will only hurt you. You may get a few visitors by doing this but in the long run it will be of no use.
Here is the lists of Home Based Business Classifieds
If your time is valuable and you want to maximise your rate of return on the time you invest, you may want to narrow down the list of classified sites you want to register with. You may want to choose the business classified sites by locality. If your target market is in Australia, it isn’t as much use advertising on Indian sites, for example. Bear in mind that they still count for page rank, though.
Some of the sites allow unlimited ads. Craigslist is one site that many people use to lodge business classified ads in volume. At the time of writing, someone on fiverr.com is offering to place three ads on it for five dollars.
Another advertiser on fiverr.com is advertising to manuallylist websites on a number of business directories for a fiver. I’d communicate first to find out which ones, myself.
There is also automated software for lodging your website on business classified listings. These should be treated with caution as Google has been known to ‘slap’ websites that list with the dodgy ones. If you stick to the high page rank, high Alexa rank sites listed here you will have nothing to worry about in that regard.
Click here to get the full business classified list
