By popular demand…(well, sort of)
We have added a Services>>Travel subcategory. Please do not submit travel classified ads to the Services>>Small Business subcategory. The Small Business category is being inundated with travel classifieds and they are miscategorized.
Previously posted travel classified ads will be left alone (at least until they expire or are pruned from the database) but future ones will be deleted if posted incorrectly.
Sorry about the inconvenience – Mea Culpa.
In an ever-growing online classified ads market, FreeAdLists.com is gaining popularity with an easy to use site and upgrade Featured Ad options.
Increasingly people are turning to free online classified ads lists than traditional classified ad services for their buying and selling needs. Despite a proliferation of online classified adslists FreeAdLists.com, a free online classified ads list site, has captured the attention of this online classified ads market becoming one of the most popular free classified ads websites in the United States.
Since its inception in 2007, bringing buyers and sellers together through the best technology available has been the driving force behind FreeAdLists.com. Simply put, the technology and functionality behind FreeAdLists.com produces results. With a recently revamped look and an ad upgrade option with Featured Ads, it’s easier than ever to advertise products and services.
Sellers can post free ads listing an item for sale that will reach thousands of viewers. To sell an item even faster, however, Featured Ads presents a low-cost option that will reach even more viewers. For $2.99 advertisers can purchase their Featured Ad, which allows the advertisement to be seen throughout the website regardless of the country or city category which visitors are viewing.
The Featured Ads option also highlights the classified ad when displayed. Another benefit to upgrading to the Featured Ad option is that Google Adsense ads and banners do not appear in such adverting. This option has been so effective in the United States that 99 percent of paid listings come from U.S.-based customers.
FreeAdLists.com offers supreme functionality ensuring users get the best results from the classified ads resulting in an inexpensive way to get visibility throughout the world. An easy to navigate site layout allows users to browse by category, by city or state, country, category or search term.
“We strive to offer a convenient way for buyers and sellers to find what they need no matter where in the world they are located,” said FreeAdLists.com founder Roy Wood.
Users can browse the free classified ads to find everything from work at home opportunities to items for sale. Whether looking to adopt a puppy or buy a home, chances are there’s a classified ad for it at FreeAdLists.com. The site also allows users to put out a request for needed products and services.
And while FreeAdLists.com is popular in the United States it also has a global influence with listings from countries all over the world. Every state in the United States are listed on the website as well as more than 50 countries from around the world.
FreeAdLists.com is also one of the few classified ads websites that operates with a strict no spam policy, and offers a knowledge base of scam alert articles to warn browsers of the latest scams.
To find out more about selling your product or service to a worldwide audience visit FreeAdLists.com.
About FreeAdLists.com
FreeAdLists.com is a free online classified ads service that brings buyers and sellers together. Using the best technology available, FreeAdLists.com was designed to suit the varied purposes of a wide range of users whether they are selling, or searching for products and services.
I have been asked time and time again about the type of classified ads we accept. It is in the FAQs and Terms of Use, but I guess no one reads those things anymore (even though they acknowledged reading the TOU when they posted an ad).
Okay – Off the top of my head (this list is not all-inclusive)
–We do not accept credit cards or anything credit card related because 99% of these ads are scams. Most of these promoter are parasites and just making it harder for people to deal with the their credit issues.
–We do not accept pharmacy/drug/pills related classified ads. Frankly speaking, it seems pretty darn scary to buy drugs/pills online from an obscure website. That includes steroids.
–We do not accept stuffing envelopes or ad posting scams. These offers are pure BS, and most if not all, are illegal. If anything, report these useless promoters to the authorities.
–We do not accept gambling ads either. Most of those ads are scams.
–We do not accept loan offer ads. 99% of these ads are scams. If you received a “loan” from one of these promoters, you have been had. These ads are flagged and deleted on sight.
–We do not accept sites that promote music/movie download sites because we certainly do not want people accessing “so-call free” movie/music sites. These downloads were probably obtained illegally. As you know, nothing is free in life — except regular ads on FreeAdLists.com (just a little humor) — but again, you are investing your valuable time into the posting effort so it’s not really free.
–We do not accept hate/racist classifieds either. This is a private website, so we don’t have to accept that crap.
–We do not accept those Free Yorkies or Free Bulldog ads. Let’s be honest. No one is going to give you one of these exorbitantly expensive dogs. They are going to ask you for a bogus shipping fee or some other type of BS fee. Bottom line, you will never see a dog. However, you might see your banker because you just bounced a check. My advice — deal locally or go to the local pound and get a real dog. The majority of these scammers are from overseas. Frankly speaking, most of these scammers have never seen a Yorkie yet alone afford one.
–We reserve the right to delete any classified ad from our site that violates our Terms of Use/FAQ. That should be common sense.
–We accept ads from posters who are 18+ (adults only). This is not a site for minors.
–Posters assume all responsibility for their classified ad.
If you post these type of aforementioned classified ads, you can pretty much assure yourself of being banned for life.
classified ad
I have been queried several times regarding the status of the aforementioned advertisement. It comes up on the right side – paid search listings – when visitors type in “freeadlists.com” or “freeadlists” in the search box. The query from some readers/posters goes something like this: “Is this Google ad related to your classified ad site?”
Here is the ad:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=freeadlists.com&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1
No. This ad is not related to our website. Evidently, who ever is running this ad is trying to capitalize on explicit searches for our site. I am glad the sponsor thinks it’s worthwhile to pay for the term. Maybe we are doing something right. But I do not want our readers or posters to think that we are something other than a classified ads website – We are running a classified ads site, nothing else.
Repeat – We are not sponsoring this advertisement.
Hmmm…I wonder if they made any money yet.
I find this BusinessWeek article, “A Web of Classified Ad Rivals Challenges Craigslist,” somewhat encouraging, especially for us smaller ad sites. According to this article, Craigslist is finally getting challenged by some well funded players. Granted these players are dominating overseas online classified markets, not the US yet. But major classified ads services such as Oodle and OLX believe the US market is ripe for the picking. How will they do that? It’s one word – innovation. It forces change and that’s exactly what this space needs (a little 21st century) and a little healthy competition always benefit the consumer.
According to this article, OLX (now the #2 ad site in the world) aka “David” is expected to bring in $10 million next year. It is still a long way from Craigslist aka “Goliath” who is estimated to bring in $100 million in sales but everyone knows they leave a lot more on the table. But frankly speaking, I didn’t think anyone else could bring in that much with Craigslist’s stranglehold – just ask the other online classified ad sites and print newspapers around the country.
Here are some statistics from compete.com – it’s a bit dated though
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/craigslist.org+kijiji.com+olx.com/
I am surprised Craigslist had no comment for this article. Why not? Concern, arrogance or both?
They might want to recheck the speck in their rear view mirror – it’s getting a litter bigger – finally.
There are several posters (now less of them after being banned) on FreeAdLists.com that continue to post to the wrong categories – even after being warned. We don’t mind posters posting legitimate classified ads, but ads for jewelry don’t belong under autos. Also, pets don’t belong under clothes. These kinds of ads can ruin a site. On the off-chance you don’t understand the category, don’t post.
If someone is engaging in the aforementioned posting behavior, we consider them a low-life spammer and they will be banned from the site. And please don’t bother sending us silly emails complaining about being banned, especially if you are one of these spamming jackasses.
But all is not lost for these egregious posters. If they truly want to post to the wrong categories, please find another classified ad website that doesn’t give a crap about their ads or categories. There are plenty of them out there that don’t care about the quality of their site – BUT WE DO so piss off!
And by the way, we appreciate all the legitimate posters. Thanks for posting your classified ads.
If you missed it, here is a press release that we released a few weeks ago.
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FreeAdLists.com has just announced a major makeover of its website design and service offering in order to accommodate the growing needs of the advertising public.
(PRWEB) November 4, 2009 — With the proliferation of free classified websites inviting users to take advantage of their service offering, existing classified ad websites have taken measures to consolidate their market share and provide the advertising public with more features and improved service.
For FreeAdLists.com, a free classified ads website that has been in operation since early 2007, this revamped service offering involves a redesign of existing website which it has just announced and the provision of additional options such as the “Featured Ads” service.
The Featured Ads service allows people to have their adverts seen throughout the website regardless of the country or city category which potential visitors to the site are interested in viewing. It can be used by advertisers that want their classified ads to enjoy a wider reach in terms of audience.
Featured Ads are not free however but advertisers are only required to pay a $2.99 fee per ad. Some other benefits of this advert type include the fact that ads are highlighted when displayed and Google Adsense ads and banners do not appear in such adverts. These benefits make this advert type a lot more effective than a free ad listing.
Another change to the FreeAdLists.com design is the inclusion of a number of additional countries and states on the website homepage in order to allow for a better global reach. All the states of the United States are listed on the website and so are over 50 countries of the world.
Greater interaction with site members is provided through third-party updates from Twitter. This helps users with information on site updates and improvements as soon as they are implemented.
Improved ad monitoring services, fraud enlightenment sections and links on the FreeAdLists.com website also means that scams and spam ads are easily spotted and users can better protect themselves from suspicious ad offers which are a constant problem with sites of this kind, both established and otherwise.
According to Cynthia Wilkes, a ardent user of FreeAdLists.com who uses the site for everything from searching for bargains to meeting people “The new design is much more different from what was available before, the important thing for me is that these changes are subtle and helpful, not overwhelming and confusing as with other website services who try to improve things for users and end up scaring them away in the process”.
For better understanding of what the improved website design and service offering entails, please visit FreeAdLists.com.
About FreeAdLists.com
FreeAdLists.com is a free classifieds service that caters to a global audience of users in different countries and cities around the world.
Standard advertising services are provided for free, however users of the site can also benefit from paid advertising options for a better reach in terms of advertising coverage.
Contact:
Roy Wood
press_contact(at)freeadlists(dot)com
Lately, we have been receiving a number of requests to add cities for certain countries. Frankly speaking, we don’t mind doing that but we are looking to add cities that are over 1 million in population. Lately, we have received a few requests for cities under 10K. In these cases, please use the “other cities in state/country” option so we can keep the city database manageable.
Also, if you don’t mind, please help spread the word for your particular city.
At any rate, here are a few Indian cities that have been added in the past 2-3 days per request.
In case you have not noticed, we added a “Latest Ads” feature. The new feature shows the 20-25 most recently posted classified ads and gives you a quick preview of what is being posted on the site. Check out the latest classified ads today!
As always, if you see any questionable classified ads (e.g. pharmacy, ad posting scams, BS pet ads, loan ads, chain letter/Ponzi type ads, etc), please let us know by flagging or using the “contact us” form. We love bringing down the hammer on scammers and spammers.
I find FeedJit’s Live Traffic Feed widget useful – gives me a rough idea of who is visiting the site and WHERE they are coming from. But frankly speaking, every time I observe links coming from some of those African-based countries, I cringe. Why? Not all, but many of the pet scammers on the Internet are coming from those areas. Now these bums/scammers or their representatives are hanging out at airports. Here is one interesting story on the topic.
Pet scammers monkeying around with world’s busiest airport – what to watch out for
Another useful article below (6 steps and tips & warnings)