Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Classified Ads for Free

Contributed by Alex Wu

You can find anything from a wedding dress to a lost dog in the free Classified Ads. Free Classified Ads have been around for centuries. "Classified" means "divided into different classes or categories". "Ad", of course, means "advertisement".

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 advertisements 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.

The Internet explosion with web marketers changed how you can advertise things. There are some free advertisement sites on the Internet where you can post your ads. In your community you will still find written ads at schools, churches store windows and bars,

There are still local call-in radio ads for people to buy or sell their treasures. There can be some strange things people sell and people buy them, too. Everybody needs 25 ice cream buckets, right?

Before this decade, marketers could use search engines that offered advertising on the Internet through sponsorship but the individual marketer could not set up their own campaign. The Internet is the mecca for free ad web sites The Internet is the top free advertiser. There are too many sites to mention.

There is also Craig's List that will advertise anything. Craig's List has everything and all the ad posts are free. Craig Newmark was the brainiac that started this site. Craig's List began in 1995 and it soon became very popular when the news spread that you could get free advertising. At first, Craig's List advertised social events and local businesses in San Francisco. Craig's initial intention for the site was for it to be a mailing list.

Internet advertising is here to stay. It is a big market. People with web sites will often partner up and advertise each other's products 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 AdWords system. With the development of AdWords, 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 paying for it. The first sale from an AdWord campaign sold live red lobsters.

Wikipedia could almost be considered an advertising site because the site writes about everything. It has definitions for products from all over the world. Wikipedia can be found in several languages. It is still possible to find a place to post your ad for free.

About the Author

Alex Wu is fascinated by numbers and trading in the marketplace. He wants to build a (http://www.Jihoy.com) free classified ads site that leverages the power of social networking to facilitate business hiring in his (http://www.Jihoy.com) free classified ads website.
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