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Where the Heck is my Confirmation Email? Perhaps…

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
We receive numerous emails each day from posters about not receiving their confirmation email. We noticed most of these “bit bucket” emails are from the following domains: aol.com, bellsouth.net, comcast.net, earthlink.net, netzero.net, charter.net, juno.com, sbcglobal.net, exite.com, verizon.net and lycos.com.
Apparently these email service providers are filtering your correspondence, so please use a different email domain.
The other alternative is to register and then no confirmation email is required.
We receive numerous emails each day from posters about not receiving their confirmation emails. We noticed most of these “bit bucket” emails are from the following domains: aol.com, bellsouth.net, comcast.net, earthlink.net, netzero.net, charter.net, juno.com, sbcglobal.net, exite.com, verizon.net and lycos.com.  Apparently these email service providers are filtering your correspondence, so please use a different email domain.  The alternative here is to use a different domain to send your email confirmations.

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Suggest to Add Your City to FreeAdLists.com

Friday, September 18th, 2009

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.

Delhi
Mumbai
Bangalore
Chennai
Kolkata
Indore
Hyderabad
Ahmedabad
Pune
Delhi
Mumbai
Bangalore
Chennai
Kolkata
Indore
Hyderabad
Ahmedabad
Pune

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FreeAdLists.com Adds a Latest Classified Ads Feature

Monday, August 31st, 2009

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.

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Why are you attracting certain visitors to your site or blog?

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

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)

How to spot a pet scam?

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South African Couple Offers Unusual Contract

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

I was perusing the site and found this very unusual classified ad in the clothes category of all places. There are a lot unusual ads on FreeAdLists.com but this one takes the cake — at least for this week. Frankly speaking, I was little surprised as to what this South African couple was offering to sell.

I have edited the contact info.

Posted on: 2009-01-16 02:56:08

You will not see this advert anywhere else in the world…We are a couple in our early 20s, White, Good Built, Hiv Negative, clean & neat…We are up for SALE, Yeah that’s right, we want to be sold as a couple to one person who is single, The right person will be, Mature, Hiv Free, clean & neat!! We want a guy, doesn’t matter what age, to buy us for two years or Five Years, You help us with our debt, which is R55 000.00($5,500 This will include, us living with you for two years, being intimate with you for 2years, etc.etc. Anywhere in SA, we are 3 years together now, stable, want to get married 1day…We are basically giving up our lives for the guy, who would do this….NO CHANCERS, We will conduct interviews with serious men only, We require photos and telephonic conversations before we interview someone. We will also sign a contract with the perfect man, so that he also have his own security…We don’t go after looks, weight etc….This is your choice,5/ 2years, 2Guys,R55 000 Paid directly towards our debt, 1 contract, your rules!!! We will however look for normal work, if approved by you…. We are not common or thieves, we are just very tired of the struggling, and we want to start over!!!! Thanks for the opportunity, and we hope we can meet the right guy/man for this big contract!!! Do Not Reply if you are a CHANCER, NO STR8 MEN, NO MEN WHO WOULD LIKE TO TURN US STR8, Only people who are SERIOUS ABOUT THIS….This is a contract for two years, and for 2 years, we are yours, and you do with us what you would like to…. Looking forward!!! WE ARE STR8 ACTING AND LOOKING!!! Cell No:00xx xx xxxx xxxx This is not a scam!!! We have ID’s and passports in South Africa

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Break out Website Pages From Enclosing Frames

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

I was reviewing my statistics at MyBlogLog and found a couple referrals that were coming via the link listed below. It appears the website below is using redirects and frames to display advertising panels that seem to be associated with FreeAdLists.com. They are not associated with us! I had a similar issue with Top Blog Lists a few months ago, and in that particular case, I wrote the offending webmaster regarding the enclosing frames (from the Netherlands) on a number of occasions but he never responded – no big surprise there!

http://webwarper.net/ww/~av/www.freeadlists.com/index.php?pag=ads&subcat=111&cat=51

By the way, here is a script to prevent this type of activity with your website pages.

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Do Not Play the Fake Check or Money Order Games

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Here is an astute seller. As I have warned repeatedly, DO NOT deal with persons who are not within driving distance, especially “buyers” from overseas. Why? There is a great probability that these distance “buyers” are low-life scammers. Don’t get taken by these fake check or money order scammers — do your own due diligence.

By the way, I received this particular email because it was inadvertently sent to the FreeAdLists.com no reply email system. 

Here is the seller’s comment: “hi there the MGB IS STILL AVAILABLE WILL SELL IT FOR $4400 USD CASH IT RUNS GREAT AND JUST NEEDS PAINT ALL THE BODY IS COMPLETE PLZ DONT PAY THE FAKE CHECK OR MONEY ORDER GAMES. I AM REALLY TIRED OF ALL THESE PEOPLE SENDING ME FAKE CHECKS. I DO CHECK EVERYTHING OUT, THANKS”

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20 POSSIBLE REASONS CLASSIFIED ADS ARE ARE TAKEN DOWN

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Yesterday, I received this email from a FreeAdLists.com poster.  I am not sure, yet, what was the infraction, but here are 20 possible reasons for the classified ad removal.

Contact form on FreeAdLists: posting ads
Monday, December 1, 2008 9:20 AM
From: “Freeadlists.com” …@freeadlists.com
To: WEB..MASTER AT freeadlists.com

Email sent by: FreeAdLists Poster who can be contacted at: AdLists…poster AT gmail.com

I don’t understand why you keep taking my ads down. I am not over posting. Please advise.

20 possible reasons for take down of classified ad — not all inclusive list:

1.  classified ad has been over-posted/cross-posted
2.  classified ad is clearly adult but not marked adult
3.  classified ad is mis-categorized
4.  classified ad has been flagged as spam by community
5.  classified ad is related to online ad posting scams
6.  classified ad is a blatant keyword stuffing attempt
7.  classified ad has banned keywords
8.  classified ad is a 419 scams
9.  classified ad is electronic spam
10. classified ad is a data entry scam
11. classified ad is a pyramid/Ponzi scheme
12. classified ad is an online form filling scam
13. classified ad is posted by a known scammer
14. classified ad is an envelope stuffing scam
15. classified ad is a loan scam
16. classified ad is a duplicate
17. classified ad promotes hate or racism
18. classified ad title is inappropriate
19. classified ad is a typing scam
20. classified ad is threatening or harassing

As any reasonable person can surmise, classified ads related to the aforementioned list add absolutely no value to the site.

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COMPETING CLASSIFIED ADS WEBSITE ETIQUETTE

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Frankly speaking, I do not mind if other classified ads websites post their services to FreeAdLists.com. But I have noticed an annoying trend lately and it is happening routinely: I have seen this particular ad posted dozens of times. Not cool. I will ban the URL permanently if the activity does not cease.

“___post Classifieds ads is offering post FREE ads.

Buy, sell, new, used, advertise, promote your business or product by post free ads on ___post.com – Free Classifieds – worldwide local Classified Ads with photo, Post free ads, free classifieds

Post your ad today by logon to http://www.___post.com

http://www.___post.co.uk”

No one likes to see the same advertisement spammed over and over. Post it once and then move on. Be courteous. Thanks.

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MY TOP 25 CLASSIFIED ADS WEBSITES FOR SEPT ‘08

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

t is that time again…I waited to the last minute though. I’m listing my top 25 classified ads websites for the month of Sept 2008. Again, here is no big surprise who is at the top but a few changes in the middle. Chooseyouritem.com was added to the list and adflakes.com was dropped (for now). Also, I’m tracking http://www.classifiedsforfree.com at 42,834.

Here is the list of free ads sites. (Some charge for premium services)

People Counts for Sept 2008: Source Compete.com

  1. craigslist.org 41,794,694
  2. kijiji.com 2,169,090
  3. backpage.com 1,625,202
  4. kudzu.com 1,061,766
  5. classifiedads.com 961,845
  6. livedeal.com 522,668
  7. traderonline.com 518,529
  8. domesticsale.com 420,483
  9. usfreeads.com 409,445
  10. olx.com 377,486
  11. pennysaverusa.com 277,500
  12. gumtree.com 247,921
  13. buysell.com 243,447
  14. chooseyouritem.com 238,789
  15. recycler.com 232,976
  16. sell.com 200,835
  17. adpost.com 134,627
  18. tnol.com 129,225
  19. buysellcommunity.com 113,204
  20. webclassifieds.us 108,036
  21. inetgiant.com 96,445
  22. adlandpro.com 92,736
  23. epage.com 56,717
  24. bargaintraderonline.com 47,823
  25. locanto.com 46,541
  26. freeadlists.com (Oh yeah, here is a shameless plug)

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