How To Market Your Articles: Online Classified Ads

The 2 best places for online classified ads are  http://www.yahoo.com and  http://www.aol.com

Online classified ads are very similar to offline classified ads except that they are available world wide. Think of your local newspaper being available in hundreds of countries! That is the power of online classifieds.

Suffice to say online classifieds are huge but are mostly full of people who are selling goods and services.

To differentiate yourself from the crowd why not post a classified ad for your free article. A small percentage of people do this and they get great results.

It is another fantastic way to get people interested in your articles.

If you post that you are giving away free articles when everyone else are using classifieds to sell something then you will attract lots of traffic.

The best place to start with classified ads is with Yahoo. Go to their site and click on the classifieds section. You will quickly see that it is possible to spend many hours there just reading through the classifieds.

People love getting stuff for free, and if your article is something they are interested in they will click on your ad.

You are offering a free article so they are likely to read it. They are under no obligation to do anything other than read your free article. You could have a marketing message in your resource box for something that you are selling but this would not be evident from the classified ad.

Use classified ads to get people to read your article. Then you can sell them something later down the track.

This will also differentiate you from the competition because most people are NOT giving away free articles.

There are 2 important things to remember when posting classified ads:

1.    Keep you ad as short as possible.

2.    Make your ad exciting. Use ‘Tips for Buying Real Estate – FREE Article’ instead of ‘Article on Buying a House’.

All you are trying to do with your classified ad is to get people to click on the link inside the ad or respond to the email address you give them.

If there is a link to a web page makes sure that page is the page your free article is on. If you are getting them to contact you via email, just send them the free article. Nothing else.