SuperSmartSEO

To tell you the truth, I really feel sort of silly using free advertising forums, as they seem a bit ridiculous. But the fact is, I have discovered that they really do bring in regular traffic and sometimes sales and clicks as well.

Many of these free online advertising sites get tons of traffic. So if you get in the habit of posting to them regularly, you ads will certainly at least get seen, and you just might be a little shocked at the results.

Other than writing killer ad copy, there are no big secrets to making it work, but here are a few little tricks I use to maxmize my results:

First of all, if the forum allows it, I always make a “mega-thread.” What I mean is that a make a thread with my ad in it, and then I keep coming back and replying with the same or similar ad to that same thread. This bumps it to the top of the forum. Not only that, it accumulates the most views and has the most replies as compared to the single ad threads, thus making it look really popular.

Another thing I do is always give my own threads a five-star rating which provides instant credibility.

And finally, I reply to others’ popular threads with my own ads, thus increasing my exposure.

I find that the two main keys to success when posting to free ads forums is to use great ad copy and to just be consistent and keep coming back to post my ads whenever I have a few minutes to spare. There is automatic forum posting software that makes it breeze too. Otherwise it can be a little on the tedious side. Still, if you don’t like the idea of forum posting software, you can always use tabbed browsing and keep several tabs open with the various forums.

I also post to the free classfieds sites along with the free ads forums that I post to. Some of these classifieds sites also have huge amounts of traffic, just like the forums. They might as well see your ads instead of somebody else’s.

There is another thing to also consider. These sites actually do count for having backlinks as far as the search engines go. Of course these are not like links from the home page of some big authority site, but still, they do count as far the search engines go. The bigger ones get spidered constantly. So giving a little thought to the anchor text you use for your links doesn’t really hurt.

Though I haven’t tried this last idea yet myself, I really think it may work out well. If you were to find success with some of your ads, you could then map out a little system and outsource the whole thing. Not only would you dominate the free advertising sites, but you’d free up your precious time as well. There’s a lot of dirt-cheap freelancers and virtual assistants around. Well it’s something that might be worth trying.