Posts Tagged ‘traffic’
I actually feel kind of silly at times using free ads forum sites. They seem a little ridiculous. But the reality of it is that I’ve seen good amounts of traffic and sometimes even sales from posting ads.
Many of these place free ads sites get tons of traffic. So if you get in the habit of posting to them regularly, you ads will certainly at least get seen, and you just might be a little shocked at the results.
Other than writing killer ad copy, there are no big secrets to making it work, but here are a few little tricks I use to maxmize my results:
First of all, if the forum allows it, I always make a “mega-thread.” What I mean is that a make a thread with my ad in it, and then I keep coming back and replying with the same or similar ad to that same thread. This of course pushes it to the top of the forum which is exactly where you want your ads to be. On top of that, this type of thread will amass the most views and contain the most replies as compared with the plain old regular threads. It then has the appearance of great popularity.
Another thing I do is always give my own threads a five-star rating which provides instant credibility.
And lastly, I also reply to popular threads that others have posted using my own ads and gaining even more exposure.
I find that the only thing that it takes to be successful when posting to free advertising forums, is to come up with good ad copy and the just keep attacking the forums, posting my ads again and again whenever time permits. Another cool thing is that there is forum posting software on the market that automates the whole process. Otherwise it can be a little on the tedious side. However, if you don’t want to use software to post ads, you can used tabs in your browser and keeps a bunch of tabs open with all of your forums.
On top of posting ads at the forums, I also post to some the free classifieds sites as well. Like the forums, some of these classfied ads sites also have huge traffic. They might as well be looking at your advertisement.
There is also another thing to take into to consideration too. The backlinks from these classified sites and forums do count, at least a lttle bit anyway, when it comes to SEO. Of course these are not like links from the home page of some big authority site, but still, they do count as far the search engines go. The bigger ones seem to get spidered constantly. So giving a little thought to the anchor text you use for your links doesn’t really hurt.
Though I haven’t tried this last idea yet myself, I really think it may work out well. If you were to find success with some of your ads, you could then map out a little system and outsource the whole thing. Not only would you dominate the free advertising sites, but you’d free up your precious time as well. There’s no shortage of low-cost virtual assistants and freelancers eager to this type of thing. Food for thought anyway.