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my first successful online business entirely with free classified ads. If you follow these instructions you can do the same thing. Just follow the 4 simple steps to great free advertising!

4 Simple Steps to Great Free Advertising:



Follow these 4 simple steps and placing free ads will be easy and very profitable, no matter what kind of product or service you market:

1. Write and place your ads at free online ad sites.
2. Track your free advertising with your own simple gateway website and free statistics counter.
3. Organize your ad campaign with Adwizard.
4. Regularly advertise at the free ad sites that are generating hits to your gateway website.

With the exception of Adwizard, everything you need for a successful free ad campaign is available free on the internet including all the resources you need to design your own simple gateway website to track your free ads. Once you know which free ad sites are producing traffic to your gateway website, then it is simply a matter of regularly advertising at those sites to produce a steady stream of customers. It's really that simple.


Adwizard is a great piece of advertising software that will organize and even automatically place your ads. You can download it for a 60 day free trial. After 60 days it only costs $10 to purchase.

Track Your Free Advertising:

The number one reason that most free ad campaigns fail is lack of effective ad tracking. Your free advertising campaign will fail if you don't know which free ad sites are productive. The people who say that free ads don't work probably just recklessly placed ads all over the internet without tracking the results to determine which free ad sites are productive. To track your free advertising results you will need a very simple gateway website with a free statistics counter. A gateway website is a website that directs your prospect to your main website where they will make a purchase or sign up for something. A gateway website can be extremely simple or highly complex.

Your gateway website will be a simple lead-in, or click-thru, to the main website of your product or affiliate program. For free advertising, the main purpose of your gateway website is to enable you to actually see which ad sites are producing responses, or "hits", for your product. These productive ad sites are where you will want to regularly place your free ads. In other words, your gateway website will save you tons of time and frustration by separating the great free ad sites from the crummy ones. So your gateway website is really just a monitor for your free ad activity.

Once you have this simple gateway website tracking your ads and you start to see which ad sites are producing hits, you can then change the URL at those productive ad sites to direct traffic directly to your main or affiliate website. In other words, you no longer need your gateway website to track those productive sites because you know they are producing hits. This is explained in the Adwizard section where you move productive sites to their own group so you can then direct the traffic right to your main or affiliate site.

How to Find Free Classified Ad Sites:

There are literally thousands of free classified ad sites on the web. To get started just do a search for "Free Classified Ads" on any major search engine. I have found that Yahoo! and I-Won searches produce some great free ad sites. You can also narrow your search to fit just about any catagory. Just add your area of interest in the search like these examples: "Free Classified Ads - Small Towns", "Free Classified Ads - Automobiles", "Free Classified Ads - Outdoor Sports", "Free Classified Ads - Working Moms." Well, you get the idea. By narrowing your search like this you can find those free ad sites that attract the kind of prospect for your particular product or service.

Another search method that I have found extremely productive is searching by the type of classified ad form. For example, one of the most popular free ad software programs that people purchase and use on their websites is e-classifieds. You can do a search for
"Free Classified Ads - e-classifieds" which will produce many good ad sites that use the same form. I did this and made a group for them in Adwizard. It turned out to be one of my most productive free ad site groups. It's also a lot easier to place ads this way since the form that you fill out is basically the same at each different ad site.

Writing a Great Classified Ad:

Writing a great classified ad is easy because effective classified ads are very simple. The following is a classified ad I have been using very successfully for over 2 years to recruite new affiliates to a work-at-home program:

We Need Homeworkers!
Work at your own pace online. Free sign-up, training, and support. Work part-time and earn while you learn. Visit our web site and see why over 2,000 new affiliates join us every day!

You can see how simple this ad is, but you can also see that it's very enticing because it mentions a lot of benefits without exaggerating. Here are 3 simple rules for writing your own enticing ads:

1. Use a short title or headline that gets right to the point. A lot of free ad sites list only the titles. The viewer then clicks on an interesting title which takes them to the complete ad. The title or headline is the most important part of your classified ad!
2. The body of your ad should also be brief and most important of all, believable! Do NOT make exaggerated claims and try to stay away from promising how much a person can make with your offer.
3. Always ask for action at the end of the ad such as: Visit our website today!

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Richard Kipcak has been successfully using free classified ads since 1999. Visit his website for his complete Free Classified Ad Course - freeadcourse.bargainscout.net.

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