Thursday, January 8, 2009

Can classifieds be used to increase traffic?

By Fread Janhs

There are many ways to get high quality traffic to your website, some of which are better ways than others. A lot of the time getting good traffic to your website means paying a lot of money through online advertising campaigns or from advert placements via specific websites related to yours. These aren't the only ways to receive good traffic and infact there are ways that are cheaper or even free and a lot more effective!

Online classifieds is a form of advertising your services and products over the internet, this type of advertising consists of a link to your website with a description of the products and services you have to offer. You are then put into a specific category on the website and people search for products and services you offer, thus sending high ends of traffic to your website specifically interested in your products and services. This type of advertising is cheap and efficient for a webmaster, using other advertising campaigns such as PPC (Pay Per Click) usually only sends you visitors that get paid to click so your website traffic is basically spam that isn't interested in your content whatsoever.

The good thing about using classified ads as an advertising method is that you're targeting an online audience specifically in the country you want to interest, these people search for keywords on the classified websites and your page comes up, thus giving an edge over your competitors and if the visitors like what they see then there's a possibility already for a long term customer. These visitors only visit your website if they're truly interested in your services; this isn't a PPC method so you won't receive spam visitors that click on your website link then without looking at any of your content log straight off. When having a link to your website on the classifieds website also means an extra back link, which then means you are ranking higher in search engines already.

Classified ads are cheap and very suitable for many webmasters, using this method will not disappoint anyone interested in using this technique. Another method one might use is free classified ads, that's right, not only do these classified websites offer a long term paid featured classified ad but a lot of them also offer a free option. This isn't quite as good as the paid option because your ad isn't a featured one so you're not targeting the biggest amount of users, but it's a technique that you can easily take advantage of and should be used by any webmaster.

When placing any classified ads on a website be sure to include as much information as possible and try to attract the visitor as best as possible. The visitor is interested in your website but without a good description or title you're not going to get the visitors attention, so they won't visit your website, thus losing a lot of sales and traffic. Make sure you get the best out of your classified ads, create multiple ads on a range of websites so you get multiple visitors. Make the most of those free classifieds; there are many of those websites about. - 16747

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