Online Classified Advertising - Top 4 Websites

Struggling to get on the first page of Google?

As an Internet marketer you must surely be aware of how difficult it is to drive traffic to your websites and hubs. You can spend hours, days and even weeks building a beautiful website with lots great content including text, pictures and video, but still struggle to get traffic to the site. You can buy lots of SEO software programs and write your pages exactly how Google supposedly wants them written for on-site SEO and still struggle to get on the first page of Google.

Using classified ad sites to drive traffic is an absolute must for Internet marketers

Whether you're doing affiliate sales, selling your own products directly on your website or selling products on eBay auctions you'll inevitably need to drive traffic to your hubs and websites. While the search engines might not always be there to give you the traffic you need using classified ad sites is a wonderful way and actually MUST to get traffic to your website.

Why classified ad sites work: They get crawled constantly by Google and Yahoo

As a small webmaster you will be lucky if the top three search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN come around and "spider" or crawl your website once a day. While you're sweating it out putting content on you may find yourself feeling extremely frustrated when your pages don't appear on the Google search. However, the main benefit of using classified ad sites to drive traffic is that these sites are spidered by Google for new content every few seconds. Thus, your classified ad has a huge chance of showing up on the Google search.

List of Best Classified Ad Sites

There are hundreds of classified ad sites on the Internet today. Each of these sites will give you different results. After having tested many sites over the past six months sites I've concluded that I get the best results from the following four best classified ad sites: USFreeAds, Craigslist.com, db88.com, Oodle.com.

USFreeAds.com -They welcome affiliate marketers - YES!

USFreeAds.com is one of the biggest classified ad sites in the United States and on the Internet. It is not free but by not joining you're really missing out on a HUGE opportunity to drive traffic to your website. For $9.99 per month you can put UNLIMITED ads. And, you can link directly to a site that has affiliate links. After Google and Yahoo natural search results I have derived a very large portion of my Internet traffic from USFreeAds.com. Another added benefit from USFreeAds is that the ads "stick" on the search engines, meaning the links generally don't disappear off of Google after a few weeks.

Craigslist.com - by far the biggest Classified Ads Site

Craigslist.com is the 8th top site in the USA and the 24th top site in the world. Go there and sign up for an account today. If your goal is to drive Internet traffic and you're using Craigslist it is absolutely crutial that you use what is called a "buffer blog". Simply put, they have a rule: No links to sites with affiliate links. So, what you can do is create an article on an article site. Link your Craigslist.com classified ad to your article, then link the article to your website. Just be sure that your article isn't too long. 300-350 words is good enough. Why do I say that? If your Internet user has to scroll down too much they'll hit the back button on their browser before they ever get to your link at the bottom of the page.

88Db.com - Classified ads site out of Asia produces GREAT results

88Db.com is a classified ads site that is based in Asia. Once you log onto the site you'll see that you have to pick a country to list under. You can pick Hong Kong, India or China - it really doesn't matter. Just set up your account and start adding your classified ads. Make sure you use their picture uploader and put up some nice pics. Note that only jpg files are accepted here. This website is rarely talked about on the Internet and has really yielded some excellent results for driving traffic.

Oodle.com - Another great classified ads website for driving Internet traffic

Oodle.com is another classified ads website that will give you wonderful results. Just like USFreeads, CraigsList and 88db.com you'll have ample space to describe your items and insert your pictures and links. Oodle has given me EXCELLENT results and I strongly recommend that you place classified ads on the site to drive traffic to your site.

A few last tips and suggestions to keep in mind for driving traffic with classified ads

When you use these classified ad websites to drive traffic to your own websites it's absolutely crutial that you DO NOT SPAM these sites. By that I mean if you're promoting a certain item or page of your website do NOT write the same exact classified ad on each of these sites. If you do that Google will see your ads as duplicate content. Your ads will get indexed and appear in the search for about one or two days then disappear from the search results. I strongly recommend to mix up the titles, content, picture image files and tags where applicable.

Submit your classified ads to social bookmarking sites

Also - one last tip. Once you have made your classified ads don't forget to submit them to the social bookmarking sites. Same spamming rule applies here too: Do not spam the social bookmarking sites. Submit a few quality ads to a few quality sites, such as digg or mixx. If you try to submit the same exact content to too many social bookmarking sites you'll surely see your links vanish in a day or two.

I sincerely hope this hub helps you to learn to use classified ad sites to drive traffic to your websites and I wish you all the very best of success in your online marketing endevours!

I look forward to reading and learning from your comments below!