There are many sites that offer classified ads services for those who need to reach those who need to learn how to make money on the computer at home. Some are paid and some free. One of the biggest things is that many don’t allow affiliate offers or that sort of “business opportunity” in the jobs section. I can understand this to an extent. If people are looking for regular jobs where they show up to trade time for money, they don’t want an opportunity. They are likely to complain about spammy behavior. That being said, some sites have business opportunity sections where affiliates are still banned, and that makes no sense to me. An opportunity is an opportunity. Whatever happened to freedom? There’s clever ways to get around this. Don’t link to the affiliate offer directly. Actually, you should be building your brand and bringing them home to you anyway, or at least to your own squeeze page or offer.
The other thing is never be afraid to help educate others in what you have learned the hard way. I prefer MLM so I don’t see myself in competition with my prospects. Join my team and let’s make it together. Why compete? The knowledge that I am relaying should have real value to you. Also, if you join under one of my MLMs then we are teammates and I further help you which helps me. It’s a win win for everyone. I much prefer that to the backstabbing mentality which is a karma loser anyway.
Back to ads. Craigslist is huge but kind of unfriendly to internet marketers these days. There are others, but you have to be careful what section that you post in, or be very creative so as not to break the rules. A list is here but check them out individually since they have different terms and not all may be great places for internet marketers. The point is that there are alternatives to the huge site. (but it’s on the list anyway) The traffic that you can direct from these ads can help determine in your mind how to earn money from website hits. Once you see the hits and some signups from the ads, you’re making progress. While paid ads would be a way to use money to make money, there are lots of free classified ads sites out there.
Also, some of these ad sites have affiliates of their own, so your classified ad can get duplicated elsewhere and more eyes see it that way.
1. craigslist.com– The most successful classified ads site ever.
2. Free classifieds – backpage.com The number 2 classifieds site. This is where all the escort and body rub ads ran to after 17 attorney generals pressured Craigslist into taking down their erotic ads section. It is estimated that Craigslist made $34 million per year with that section. Ouch! Village Voice owned Backpage.com told the Attorney Generals they were just fine with their escort ads thank you. Those New Yorkers have some major $#$@$!.
3. United Kingdom jobs, cars, property, free classifieds and more – Gumtree.com Busy UK classified site with weird name.
4. Oodle Dallas Classifieds – Search Dallas Classifieds and Post Free Classifieds Partners with ForRent.com in the US and Autotrader UK.
5. eBay Classifieds (Kijiji) – Post & Search Free Local Classified Ads. Ebay’s official classified ads site.
6. Classifieds, Free Classifieds, Online Classifieds | OLX.com Read this one in English or in Spanish.
7. Free Classifieds – USFreeads Popular. US targeted. YOU WILL LOVE THIS ONE!!! Big pet section.
8. Classified Ads – Free Classified Ads Online English speaking world focused classified site. US, UK, AU, and India.
9. Classified Ads – Free Classified Ads Online Great place to advertise your green products. Worldwide board.
10. Free Classifieds @ Adpost.com United States, Singapore,Canada,Malaysia, United Kingdom, Philippines, Ireland, Australia, India, Indonesia, New Zealand and Hong Kong are the areas serviced by this site.
11. Free Classifieds, Advertising And Promotion @ Adlandpro Very busy business opportunity and pet sections.
12. Free Classifieds, Free Ads, Free advertisement, Business Opportunity Worldwide and well organized.
13. Connect to Free Classifieds & post free classified ads They sell business leads as well as maintain a busy classifieds site.
15. TheFreeAdForum High traffic site which is getting serious promotion.
16. DomesticSale – The Effective Free Classifieds US classifieds site which allows car dealers and other heavy advertisers to bulk upload large amounts of listings. Not sure how useful this one is for our purposes.
17. Online Classifieds | PennySaverUSA This is the online version of the old Penny Saver newspaper which was a very popular print newspaper with discount deals and classified ads.
18. http://epage.com This site has been in business since 1994. (pre-Google) It looks somewhat like Usfreeads.com but with less emphasis on business opportunities. They have an affiliate program with over 34,000 affiliates. This means if you post your ad here it goes out on a feed to over 30,000 other sites who run their ads. This means more exposure for you. Many of these sites have programs where other websites run their feeds. This gives you quite a bit more exposure.
19. Used Cars, Pets, Jobs, & Real Estate | Classifieds on recycler.com Simple easy to use classified ads site.
20. WebCosmo Classifieds – Post Free Classified Ads – Search Classifieds US focused but with opportunities for international ads.
21. Hoobly Free Classifieds Super clean no frills design. Over 15,000 people have clicked their like button.
22. Post Free Classified Ads – USA Classifieds – Personals, Real Estate, Pets Ads Free Ads They do it all: personals, cars, pets and they do it all over the world though they are US based.
23. Sell.com marketplace : buy and sell online : stuff for sale by owner They have been running online classifieds since 1999. Their advertising engine has been used by big business directories such as AT&T’s YELLOWPAGES.com, newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle, and niche online properties such as sellhomes.com. Sell.com is a part of a network of advertising properties. Again, if you advertise on many of these sites your ad will simultaneously run on thousands of other partner sites.
24. Online Advertising – Free Classifieds – Free Classified – Free Ads Claims to be the fastest growing free advertising site in the world. Probably not. They may not be the fastest growing site but they do get some good traffic and they have a nice classifieds site worth posting to.
25. Free Classifieds Ads – Internet Advertising to Sell Online A solid well designed board with a .us domain name. They seem to monetize their site quite a bit with Adsense which is good and bad. It means they include more features on the free ads, including free pictures and youtube video (many free boards charge for this) but visitors could be distracted by the Adsense ads, so be careful.
26. Family friendly and local Classifieds for sale at AmericanListed.com A family friendly US only board. .
27. US Free Classifieds. Lean easy to read worldwide board with non classified ads discretely at the bottom of the board.
28. Online classifieds with photos. For sale classifieds. Free text ads. Sell it with pictures. This is what they have to say about their service: “Place your classified ads with us and your ads appear not only on our site but also on over 70 partner websites — including over 30 classic car or vehicle related websites, as well as ISP’s, real estate, media, shopping and search networks. Each month, over 1 million visitors view tens of millions of our pages – making our Classified Network one of strongest in the country. Not only is our exposure the best but we also provide the best in value. ”
29. Online classifieds with photos. For sale classifieds. Free text ads. Sell it with pictures. Only US ads here.
30. Online Classifieds Housing, Employment, Vehicles, Rentals, Roommates They have quotes about connecting communities, building safe environments and how they are leaders of a “revolution of how classifieds sites see themselves as responsible citizens.”
31. Classifieds – Claz.org This site is actually an aggregator of classified sites within 250 miles with picture previews. They feature ads from most of the sites I mention here. It does not look like you can place an ad directly here but it probably will appear if you place it on any of the other sites listed here.
32. Free Classified Ads, Wanted Ads, Free Advertising, Free Classifieds, Post Ads These guys officially declare that their site is the best classifieds site in the world. Their site is worth posting to. Respectable traffic, and unique design. US based with opportunity for international ads as well.
33. Free Classifieds – Buy or Sell anything for free, freeclassifieds.com! No nonsense classified site which has their own Android application so you can post ads from your mobile phone. They even have their own QR code that you can scan with your Android phone to get immediate succinct info about freeclassifieds.com. Mobile friendly site.
34. Online Classifieds Listings by Bonqo Huge homepage showcase of photo ads.
35. BuySellCommunity Classifieds – Buy & Sell Locally : Free Online Classifieds They sell everything but it looks like they have a thing for Cocker Spaniels. US and Canada classifieds mainly.
36. Post Classified Ad | Post Classified Ad Form | Post Classified Ads Online | Post Local Classified Ads Straightforward US targeted classifieds site. All your ads are automatically tweeted to their twitter account. They also sell business lists, hence the name Businesslist.com.