Friday, January 23, 2009

How to make money using free classified ads

By Alex Wu

Remember the day when the only way you could sell something was to place an ad in the paper and then sit back and wait for someone to call you? Those days are long gone. With the internet being the most widely used information service, you can not only sell the items in your garage, you can actually start and maintain your own business by using FREE classified ads.

I am sure there are many doubters out there as normally you would never believe when someone wants you to believe that you are going to get something for nothing, but in this case, it is actually true. All you have to do is a Google search and you will find that there are more than 10,000,000 sites out there that would just love to put your information out on the web for free.

All of this creates an opportunity for you to go into business. If you are worried about having something to sell, don't because you don't have to sell anything to have a business on the internet. Here it comes, "I don't have to pay anything and I don't have to sell anything to make money on the net?" The answer is yes and while I have your ears all perked up, let me tell you how.

Everyone likes to make money right? So you place a classified ad that states exactly that, "make money online, go to www.xxxxx.com". Now you have directed them to your blog. Your blog is about different ways to make money online or ways that you have made money online. It doesn't really matter, you have a niche blog that is now drawing traffic.

On your blog or social page, you can charge people for advertising space. From get rich quick schemes, male enhancement, just about every business you can think of is willing to pay you a fee to have a spot on your site. You can also post what are called affiliate links. These links track anyone going to a business from your site and you get a portion of what they spend. See where I am going with this? You have an ad in the free classifieds to drive traffic to your site in an effort to get these people to go to the other sites and buy something. The more hits, the more money you are making. You haven't spent one penny and yet you are making money!

Of course, you can also use this to work your own business. Say you are selling baseball cards. You are obviously going to have your own website up but you need to create traffic so that you can make some money. You are going to go to as many of these sites as you can and post your business to try and drive traffic.

No matter what you are trying to sell though, make sure you use the right keywords. Both the major and internal search engines on any site will not work to your advantage if you are not using the right titles and keywords for your service or item. Check other sites and look to see what the most popular ones are using and make them work for you.

We could go on all day about ways to use free classified ads to your advantage and to make a ton of cash but these are only a few. The possibilities are endless in making this tool work for you. You can either choose to sit on your couch and work for the man or get into the game yourself and start making some money!

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