Feb 16 2010

Use Free Classifieds to Increase Website Traffic

Many webmasters are using free classified ad affiliate programs to tap new markets and give their guests a reason to return. If you can give your potential customers a reason to return to your site, you gain additional opportunities to earn their trust…and their sales.

Here’s how to do it. You place a hyperlink to your classified ads site using appropriate keywords for your market (“Free Camaro Ads”, “Hot Rod Classifieds,” “New Car Ads,” etc.). Search engines just love these types of links, and including these key words will certainly improve your ranking for exactly the type of prospect you want to draw to your web pages. Greater visibility means greater site traffic.

Here’s something else. When your website visitors post free ads, they are presented with an offer to upgrade their free ad with enhancements (feature ads, color, bolded listing, etc). This sets their ad apart from the other ads and gains better exposure for them. Most classified ad affiliate programs will pay you a percentage (usually 10-25%) of the upgrade fee.

Do you have your own web site? Get this nifty WordPress classifieds plugin to create your own classifieds website and keep 100% commissions for yourself. Perhaps you’ll choose to give away free ads or charge a small fee as your site visitors post ads to buy and sell their services on your website – you set the terms. Simply attach a WordPress blog to your existing site, apply this theme, and you’re up and running. You have just added an additional revenue stream for your site.

By joining and incorporating a free classified ad partner program into your website, you create the ultimate win-win-win. You provide your visitors with a free benefit, you increase your rankings with the search engines by incorporating keyword hyperlinks into your site, you add additional markets to expose to your product, you create an additional revenue stream as they enhance their ads, and you provide your prospects a reason to keep returning to your web site again and again.

Join a classified ad partner program right now and watch as your business improves.

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