Free classified ads websites is an awesome way to boost up your business promotion and online marketing. A classified published on the web is seen by thousands of visitors online. Moreover, the potential customers of your business might be searching for their needs in the classified sites. Posting a classified ad has so many advantages. If you are a newbie and do not know how to post free classified ads successfuly, read the tips below and you will come to know how it is done.
About Your Budget
Before posting classifieds on classified websites, you must know what your budget is; whether you would like to go ahead with premium account or you just want to post free classified ads. Actually, classified ads sites have mainly free accounts and premium accounts. If you register for premium accounts, you can avail a number of benefits that are not there in free ad websites. For example, you may be limited to post classifieds in the free account while you can post unlimited ads if you choose the premium account.
Choose Your Ad Category
Almost all the free ads websites have similar structure. It looks like a directory or online database with collection of various classifieds organized in categories and sub-categories. After you have specified your budget, you can consider choosing the category relevant to your website. Selecting the appropriate category is important or else your ad may not attract potential customers. Let us suppose, you want to sell mobile phones and interested in posting classified ads about your phone. You can choose mobile phones, electronics etc.
Choose Post Text Ads or Video Ads
There are different ways of posting classifieds. You can post textual ads word limit of which may vary from site to site. Some classified websites even have the option to post images along with the text ads. It has been seen that advertisements that are accompanied by images are more likely to be viewed and get responses from customers as compared to text ads without images. But textual ads are static in nature where the readers need to read. As today’s customers are more smart and prefer watching video ads than text ads. It has been observed that video ads are more effective than text ads. Also, some text ads include images and videos as well. While video ads are dominating, textual ads have not lost their values.
Posting Your Links
Do not forget to post your website link in the classifieds that would be give backlink to your site. Posting classifieds on high PR classified ads websites can drive more visitors as compared to lower sites. Some classified websites allow posting links in the description while some sites have separate option to enter website address.
Some Tips to Post Classified are:
Add an attractive title of classified ad; it should not be too long or too short.
Include keyword in the title and description of the ad.
Add anchor text (hyperlinked keyword).
Write your website address at the end.
Do include contact address including the contact person name, address, email ID and phone number.
Add Meta keywords or tags if the option is available.