Saturday, January 17, 2009

Is online classified ad syndication worth it?

By Jeff Peterson

Over the last few weeks I have been placingmore and more online classified ads. The problems I have faced is lack of people seeing my ad and having my ad removed by flagging. I decided to try the classified ad syndication stumblehere uses. Stumblehere.com has made online classified ad syndication the primary focus of their site.

I am still learning about the ad syndication process. I did a search on yahoo.com and found out that stumblehere.com uses classified ad syndication. They have a service that allows you to create classified ads through a template process. Wow, the system is simple. And the ads look great! Once I created the ad then they submit it to all the highest traffic classified sites and list my ad with directories and search engines. This saved me sooo much time. I only had to create my ad one time and then they did the rest. My time is far tooo valuable to site on websites all day and submit my ads everywhere.

Stumblehere.com can save you time and money. Enter your listings once and watch them spread automatically to some of the highest trafficked search sites on the Internet. They automatically syndicate and post your ad to over 100 separate top classified ad directories, online marketplaces, search engines and RSS Feeds. This will save you hours upon hours of personal time. Once submitted, your ad will show live on the other sites within 24 - 48 hours.

Wow, so I can actually get traffic to my ad? I don't have to spend time posting my ads 750 places? I don't need to repost my ads every day due to being flagged wrongly? Sign me up!

What about paid ads and the stumblehere.com betterpost product? Betterpost is a way of posting ads using a walkthrough wizard. Instead of boring ads, betterpost classified ads are beautiful. And full ad syndication comes with all betterpost ads. After careful research I decided to test out betterpost. It will be a good test since I dont have web knowledge.

What is the betterpost Premium Ad Feature? The betterpost Premium Ad Feature saves you time and money! They help you create an attractive ad. For a small fee of $7.99, once you place your ad in stumblehere customized templates, they will automatically syndicate and post your ad. Yes, they post your ad for you so you do not have to make multiple postings yourself! This will save you hours upon hours of personal time.

Stumblehere.com is offering 85% off all betterpost ads through the end of October 2008 for anyone who wants to test out the betterpost ad syndication product. Simply start the betterpost process and then enter 'halloween' all lowercase in the promo code box after posting your ad. Right now stumblehere only offers betterpost in their vehicles section. I need to sell my car and am going to test it out.

This test is going to be really cheap. My total came to $1.20. And my ad looks amazing.

I had never paid to list an online classified before. 6 hours went by and no response. Grrrr did I just waste money? I went back to the http://www.stumblehere.com site and read how it takes up to 24 hours to have listings syndicated out. Whew, ok so I decided to just wait and see what happens.

After waiting awhile I got my first call from my betterpost ad. They really liked the ad and that was a lot of what they talked about. It caught their eye.

The next morning I had 3 emails about my car. And later that day call number 2 came in off my syndicated ad. Is this classified ad syndication stuff working? I need to set up times for people to look at my car.

4 days after my post I had 5 calls and 8 emails! To answer my above question, I know classified ad syndication works! It was sooo easy and I only needed to submit my ad once. And it was not brought down from someone flagging it cause they were selling a similar car, etc. - 15790

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