Just because you work online doesn’t mean all your promotion needs to be done online! So why not try an offline method, and place a classified advert in a local newspaper to drive traffic to your blog. Depending on where you live and which newspapers you pick, the fee can vary a lot from free to big money, so pick wisely!
Or you could place classified adverts online. Now if you searched in Google for classified ad sites I’m sure you would have a huge list. So I would like to talk about 2 sites for classified ads that already receive huge amounts of traffic every day. Craigslist.org and Ebay.com.
Craigslist
It’s a free classified ad site that’s world wide, and in the top 10 most visited sites in the world (= lots of traffic). You just pick a city and place a free classified ad promoting your blog. It doesn't really have to be near where you live, as your directing them to a blog, so they won’t be collecting something they have bought (depending on what you are selling!). The only problem I see with this, is you have to submit per city - rather than countries (as with Ebay), so you would have to submit to a few cities to help get traffic - I presume. It also defaults to the San Francisco Bay Area site, so you have to pick a city from there.
Ebay
Again another site in the top 10 most visited sites in the world. You can place a classified ad on Ebay ($10 for 30 days). Now it’s not an auction, you’re not selling anything, but you can promote your business or blog in them and hopefully drive traffic to your blog. I know this service is available in the US, but may not be available on all of Ebay's sites, so use ebay.com (it gets the most traffic).
And that’s 2 ways to get your links onto high traffic sites and hopefully drive even more traffic to your blog.
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Friday, May 04, 2007
Classified Adverts - Online or Offline?
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2 comments:
Wow, great blog Mandy. I found you through GHC's ezine, which was found at the Golden Days giveaway. No matter how many books I've read on blogging, in about 10 minutes you answered all the questions and filled in all the gaps. You should write an autoresponder course with this, it would do very well. Thanks for the hospitality, I will check back often. Mike W
I'm enjoying your blog.
It's really informative about business.
I can't find classified blogs like yours.
Keep up the good work all right.
This is also be good way for represent our Business like metrospur.
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