Monday, February 2, 2009

Free Classified Ads

By Alex Wu

There are still somes place that you can post your ad for free. This service has been around for centuries People will buy and sell anything. Where can you post free ads?

A stone was found in Pompeii with writing on it. It is assumed that the writing on it was an advertisement for the community and is the first documented ad. Maybe advertisement went even farther back in history. The cavemen put figures on cave rock. Maybe they were advertisement too. It was not until the 15th century that written notes were placed in public areas for advertisement.

Suburbs or rural areas usually publish a small paper weekly with a page for free advertisements. These papers usually involve ads from several local area communities. These ads span large consumer areas. These small papers are about the only places for free ads that are left.

Web Marketing on the Internet changed the world of advertising. There are many Internet sites that offer free advertising. It sounds to good to be true. Maybe the advertising is free period aof time and after that they charge a fee. In communities you will still find ads plastered on bulletin boards in schools, store windows and bars. Even churches sometimes have ads in their bulletin.

Radio advertisement to auction things off in a community has been around for long time. The seller or trader phones into the radio station to tell the radio announcer what he has for sell or what he or she is looking to buy. People advertise anything from coin collection to a horse. This is a very popular venue for sales and it is free to post ads.

Before 2000, marketers could only advertise through sponsors but they could not include their own agenda. Soon after, the Internet became a huge shopping store. On line ads and pop ups are everywhere on the Internet. There are plethora free places on the Internet to place your advertisement. Sometimes they are only free for a while and then charge monthly fees.

Craig Newmark developed Craig's list in 1995. People can advertise anything on it from jobs to dating services. It started in San Francisco for advertising local events and Industries. He was trying to develop a mailing list and ended up developing this huge free advertising web site.

Internet advertising is here to stay. It is a big market. People with web sites will often partner up and advertise each other's product on their site. This is often done with multiple sites. They will not pay each other for the service and if the buyer first cane to your site to buy the product you will get revenue too.

Some engineers from Google developed the ad words system. With the development of Ad Words marketers can drive potential consumers to their web site. If you want to get on the bandwagon and try selling on the Internet there are many free classified web sites. You can start up with an Internet business and get some free advertising but that soon fizzles out and you end up payin for it. The first sale from an Ad Word campaign sold live red lobsters.

Wikipedia could almost be considered an advertising site because the site writes about everything. It has defiitions for products from all over the world. Wikipedia is a like the site nu pedia, but Wikipedia soon took charge of this venue. Wikipedia can be found in several languages. It is still possible to find a place to post your ad for free. - 21151

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