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HI,
Just wondering if anyone still uses classified ads as a means of marketing your business? If so, any place that produces better results than others? This is a very time consuming task which in my opinion, to make it worthwhile, needs to receive some results.
For those who do use this method, approximately how many ads do you place in a day? Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author winebuddy
    the only ad site that is creating good traffic today is Craigslist. The rest? What rest?
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    • Profile picture of the author RoniShwartz
      Originally Posted by winebuddy View Post

      the only ad site that is creating good traffic today is Craigslist. The rest? What rest?
      What about Gumtree ?
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  • Profile picture of the author MartinBuckley
    I place classified ads on Craigslist and Backpage and I also use TrafficSwarm to generate traffic to my offers, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author birddog200
    Craigslist by far is the best. I use an expensive software, here is my results breakdown over the last 30 days by % sending traffic.

    Craigslist- 89%
    All others (148 of them) 11%

    lol winebuddy
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  • Profile picture of the author fastlancer
    Currently doing nice profits promoting a dating site on Backpage.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rob Whisonant
    Classifieds work very well for me. Craigslist is my best producer by far. But, I use classifieds for recruiting and not selling. So my results are not typical.

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  • Profile picture of the author DotComBum
    I use gumtree to post my ads but they tend to get rolled off to the back pages pretty fast, so the exposure may not be so good.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesrich1
    Craigslist is definitely a huge traffic source. Unfortunately they do not allow make money online types of ads. That does not stop people from flooding the Craigslist job section breaking their rules left and right. If you get around the flagging and ghosting you can make some serious money on Craigslist.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketwarrior06
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    Don't even think of other programs. I am using Craigslist and that's the best one ever. Most of the traffics comes from there. You should take a look in Craigslist.
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  • Profile picture of the author raul714
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  • Profile picture of the author serpenabler
    I still use Classified Ads for my clients. One more benefit of classified ads is they get index very fast. Recently i started Craigslist posting service and Yes my clients are happy with results. Classified ads still work good. They not just promote business/services but also help to get positive SERP. Thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joan Altz
    Craigslist. Just a year ago I sold my truck on there in under 1 hour for the price I wanted. I haven't used it for any kind of online marketing sales however.
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  • Profile picture of the author milliondream
    Other than craiglist I have found that most free classified sites do provide a slight trickle of traffic but the visitors rarely convert. I think it depends on your niche and your offer though. I would suggest you try a few and test them yourself. You never know.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Craigslist is good for tangible items that you want to sell in your local area. They are the only classified ad site i recommend anyone using.
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  • Profile picture of the author datingworld
    I was getting thousands of visitors from Justlanded.com but unfortunately they have closed their Personal Ads Section since june 2012.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vasilev
    Originally Posted by heather42 View Post

    HI,
    Just wondering if anyone still uses classified ads as a means of marketing your business? If so, any place that produces better results than others? This is a very time consuming task which in my opinion, to make it worthwhile, needs to receive some results.
    For those who do use this method, approximately how many ads do you place in a day? Thanks.
    Depends on what your business is...

    If you wanna sell your bike, you would wanna use craigslist,

    for anything else though i wouldn't bother.
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  • Profile picture of the author idoitbigtime
    Classifieds ads could be great
    its depends on the Niche and on the sites that you use
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  • Profile picture of the author wilsonpaco
    It seems you can not find Craigslist results from Google search. Do the craigslist block the google to index their page. If the ads do not show in google, people hardly can find your ads.
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  • Profile picture of the author locke815
    I'd recommend Craigslist as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author kieljo
    For the people who are using Craigslist, are you promoting using the free or paid ads on Craigslist?

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author Rob Whisonant
      Originally Posted by kieljo View Post

      For the people who are using Craigslist, are you promoting using the free or paid ads on Craigslist?

      John
      Free only. I think the only paid ads are in the Job classification and only in a few major cities.

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    • Profile picture of the author locke815
      Originally Posted by kieljo View Post

      For the people who are using Craigslist, are you promoting using the free or paid ads on Craigslist?

      John
      Free indefinitely
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  • Profile picture of the author heather42
    THanks everyone. Sounds as if Craiglist is the biggest contender.
    Great to know that ads help with seo.
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  • Profile picture of the author commonjoe
    Anyone know how many ads you can post in a day from a single account.
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  • Profile picture of the author nadal619
    for me Craigslist is not working , I live in Sweden .

    I think only in the US it works perfectly.
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    • Profile picture of the author debtreliefadvice
      Could someone clarify this please? If I place an ad on Craigslist for a service that I am offering, am I limited to just placing it in one city or metro area? Would my account be deleted if I placed multiple ads?
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      • Profile picture of the author Theduke2011
        Originally Posted by debtreliefadvice View Post

        Could someone clarify this please? If I place an ad on Craigslist for a service that I am offering, am I limited to just placing it in one city or metro area? Would my account be deleted if I placed multiple ads?
        If you are planning to run a service, you will need to learn what PVA's and IP solutions are. It will take some learning and experimenting with Craigslist to figure things out. They change things almost every week or so, you have to stay on top of things. No they won't delete your account but your ads will possibly get flagged if they are similar or ghosted if your posting in areas where your phone number you verified your account with isn't from that area.

        Hands down, do some researching. I work for a large firm for Craigslist posting so I know the ropes. I do the marketing for the most part, but honestly been in the game for about 2 years doing it myself. I went though 1000's of PVA's and its tough but doable. I outsourced at one time and found it exhausting because of all of the foreign countries have a hard time getting ads to stick. I then started a business of my own employing people from the U.S

        That is how I landed my current job. I work for a company that does around 10k ads per day or more. They have 100s of clients and do the best work I know of. So if anyone is interested I would love to help you out with a marketing campaign on Craigslist. I have the best experience and so does every employee I work with.
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  • Profile picture of the author TimHutch34
    Yea I'm a craigslist fan. It ain't like back in the day though when you could hit the big cities and get 800 hits in two hours. Though I'm sure theres services that provide that
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