Posting your ad to classifieds will not get your ad or your site noticed...no matter what the owners of such sites say. I am the owner of such a site, and I am here to tell you that your ad won't be noticed!

The people that visit the classified sites are there for one of two reasons: 1) To post their ad or link, and/or 2) To harvest the e-mail addresses of those who do post ads and links.

Nobody is there to read your ad.

Now you are asking yourself why you would bother to post to such sites.

For one very good reason....for the people who are there to harvest e-mail addresses... they are going to spam you!

Yes, you will get spammed...a lot...after posting a classified ad. Count on it, and use it to your advantage.

The trick is to use your autoresponders address when posting to these sites. Then, when these e-mail harvesters go to the sites you posted to, they will harvest your autoresponders address along with the rest of the e-mail addresses that have been entered on that site.

Here is the good part. After harvesting your autoresponders e-mail address, they are going to send out bulk, unsolicited e-mail. In return, your autoresponder is going to send them your message. This means that by posting one classified ad, your message will get sent to about 50 or more people...the people who are harvesting the addresses.

It gets even better. After their bulk e-mail software lets them know that your autoresponders e-mail address works, most of these harvesters will then sell your autoresponders e-mail address to other bulk e-mailers, who in turn sell it to others, and so on and so forth...as long as your autoresponder keeps responding, it keeps getting resold as a "live address".

This means that by placing that one ad, over a period of time, your message will be delivered to thousands of people.

And that ladies and gentlemen is how you can take advantage of the classified ads. This does work, this does produce results.

Another effective way to use classified ad sites, is to offer your own classified ads. This will bring visitors to your site, to post ads, or to harvest e-mail addresses. When advertising your classified ad site however, make sure that the URL you use is to your main web page, then place a link to your classifieds on that page.

You can get a free classifieds site from here.
 

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