Using Classified Websites to Market Your Site


Posted July 22, 2020 by canadaclasifieds

f you're operating a small business or home based business then you know how important is to stretch your marketing dollar.
 
Whether you're running a home business or a large Fortune 500 company operating on the Internet the key to success is driving traffic to your website. One of the best ways to drive traffic to your website is by taking advantage of free classified websites. Listing your product webpage or website on these free classified sites can provide the further benefit of aiding in search engine rankings.

If you're operating a small business or home based business then you know how important is to stretch your marketing dollar. One way of saving money on your marketing budget is to take advantage of free advertising available to help sell your products or service. There are many ways to drive to traffic to your website. It's impossible to cover all the free advertising methods in one article. This article will focus on using classified websites to drive traffic.

The first classifieds website which you should use to post your ads on is craigslist. This site has an Alexa ranking of 49 and has 6,083 sites linking in. Alexa ranks the top 100,000 busiest websites on the Internet in descending order of traffic. An Alexa ranking of 49 means that there are only 48 websites which have more traffic than craigslist. As you can imagine craigslist has a lot of traffic. The advantage of advertising here is that your ad will be post for (1) free and (2) will be seen by many users. The disadvantage is that craigslist uses a "NOFOLLOW" tag in it's A HREF statements meaning that your hot link on craigslist will not be counted as an inbound link to your site by major search engines.

The next good place to place free classifieds ads is on kijiji. Kijiji is owned by eBay and as such benefits from the large marketing budget of a top publicly traded company. These advertisements appear on major search engines and high traffic sites. eBay already dominates the paid auction market and now they'd like to take over the free classifieds listings service. This is very good news for you as it provides you with another free high traffic classifieds website to post your ads on. Kijiji has an Alexa ranking of 9,290. Kijiji is becoming increasingly popular in Canada. The drawback of Kijiji is that (1) it doesn't yet have as much traffic as craigslist and (2) it won't let you put any hot links in your advertisement.

A third option for classifieds advertising is Find Newspapers classifieds. This website has a poor Alexa ranking and you likely won't see much traffic from your listing. The only reason that this classifieds website is mentioned in this article is that it has a Google PageRank ( PR) of 5. Your site benefits from inbound links found on high PageRank sites. In the Details section you can use HTML tags such as A HREF and place a link back to your webpage or main website. In this way Google will count the inbound link from FindNewspapers to your website and this will help your website ranking in Google's search results.

This list will let you get started on marketing your business for free using various classifieds websites. When you're ready you can search Google, Yahoo, MSN or other search engines to find even more classifieds websites to help promote your business. Local classifieds websites are another great source of quality traffic, for instance, if you live in Vancouver Canada then you might want to list your ads on Virtual Vancouver Classifieds to get local Vancouver traffic.
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Last Updated July 22, 2020