MY TOP 25 CLASSIFIED ADS WEBSITES FOR JULY ‘08

Posted on August 24, 2008 by freeadlists

It is that time again. I’m listing my top 25 classified ads websites. There hasn’t been many shifts but one constant remains: craigslist continues to lead the pack – no surprise there.

Congratulations to Michael Phelps (8 gold medals!) and Usain Bolton (100m-9.69 secs/200m-broke 12 year record set by Michael Johnson-19.3 secs) for setting new world records. The Beijing Olympics wrapped up today.

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

People Counts for July 2008: Source Compete.com

craigslist.org 39,867,528
kijiji.com 2,453,484
backpage.com 1,551,075
classifiedads.com 924,168
kudzu.com 751,909
livedeal.com 651,428
traderonline.com 635,511
olx.com 568,318
domesticsale.com 512,283
usfreeads.com 444,847
pennysaverusa.com 344,659
gumtree.com 258,333
recycler.com 237,943
buysell.com 227,779
sell.com 210,665
tnol.com 182,684
adpost.com 146,520
buysellcommunity.com 118,883
webclassifieds.us 102,077
inetgiant.com 84,867
adlandpro.com 83,966
epage.com 58,900
bargaintraderonline.com 52,172
locanto.com 45,582
adflakes.com 31,487
freeadlists.com (Oh yeah, here is a shameless plug)

ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES ON YOUR WEBSITE – REALLY?

Posted on August 10, 2008 by freeadlists

I received this email a few days ago. What really concerned me was that the sender and signed didn’t match on the messages, and they all used web-based email addresses. I did a quick search and found some more interesting discussions related to these emails. Here are two links: New Type of Spam – Partnership Proposal andFlooded with Link Requests. What are your thoughts?

By the way, there is another creative scam out there: Nigerian 419 Fraud Hits Bloggers Selling Advertising Links and Bloggers Beware: Nigerian Fraud Has Evolved Into Display and Text Link Ad Solicitations

At any rate, I have included two different email exchanges for two different offers. Note the difference between “George” vs “Goerge.” Also, note the differences in the email address, one has a “.” between the first and last name whereas the other one is contiguous.

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Here is an offer for FreeAdLists.com:

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 1:36 AM
Re: Website Partnership
From: “George ????” george????@yahoo.com
To: @freeadlists.com

Hello Roy,

A representative of our marketing department contacted you with enquiry about advertising on your website (your correspondence is below). First I want to thank you for your reply.

I will pay you in advance for 3 months – $15. If you do not agree with that price, please name yours, so we can proceed. I can pay you via Paypal, Moneybookers, google Checkout.

Our website is http://www.casino??????.com

Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you

George

Todd,

What’s your proposal?

Roy
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FreeAdLists.com.

— On Thu, 7/31/08, Richie Mcelroy wrote:
From: Richie Mcelroy
Subject: Website Partnership
To: “freeadlists.com”
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 12:34 PM

Hello,

I just came across your website - freeadlists.com and I want to ask if I can
purchase a text link on your website.

Please e-mail me back and I will send you additional information.

Best Regards,
Todd McGregor
Advertising Consultant
Business Development Department

If you do not respond to this email you will not receive any additional emails
from us. To permanently delete yourself from our list, simply reply to this with
a blank email and you will not receive any communication from us in the future.

UPDATE: Here is another offer for TopBlogLists.com:

Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:46 PM
Re: Advertising Opportunities on your website
From: “Goerge ????” goerge.????@yahoo.com
To: @freeadlists.com

Hello Roy,

A representative of our marketing department contacted you with enquiry about advertising on your website (your correspondence is below). First I want to thank you for your reply.

I will pay you in advance for 3 months – $15. If you do not agree with that price, please name yours, so we can proceed. I can pay you via Paypal, Moneybookers, google Checkout.

Our website is http://www.casino??????.com

Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you

George

Ms. Stevens,

What’s your proposal?

Roy
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FreeAdLists.com

— On Sun, 8/10/08, Tabby Shotts wrote:
From: Tabby Shotts
Subject: Advertising Opportunities on your website
To: “topbloglists.com”
Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 3:17 AM

Dear Webmaster,

My name is Sandra Stevens and on behalf of Promotion-onweb, I am pleased to advise you of a great opportunity for your website topbloglists.com.

I would like to introduce you with some of our clients that are interested in
advertising on your site.

If you are interested, please let me know and I will be happy to send you
further information.

I am looking forward to your reply at your earliest convenience.

Best Regards,
Sandra Stevens
Advertising Consultant
Business Development Department

If you do not respond to this email you will not receive any additional emails
from us. To permanently delete yourself from our list, simply reply to this
with a blank email and you will not receive any communication from us in the
future.

MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF SCAMMERS AND SPAMMERS

Posted on August 10, 2008 by freeadlists

FreeAdLists.com officially launched 15 months ago and has experienced substantial growth in the free classifieds space. But as with any growth endeavor, there are always inherently negative issues. One negative issue is the impact of these two low-life entities: scammers and spammers.

To mitigate this issue, we focus on the quality of classified ads being posted. There is a common belief with classified ad operators: more classified ads are better, right? Not really. If classified ads are deemed low-quality/scams, it is hurting the site’s integrity with the search engines and regular visitors.

Classified ad sites can become unruly and problematic if there is a blatant disregard to classified ad management. This is especially difficult if the screening process is lacking; thus allowing almost anyone to post without first validating the type of material being posted. FreeAdLists.com, however, is very active in screening for scam/spam classified ads. This screening makes the website much more useful to potential posters. Scheming classified ads such as chain letters, 419 Nigerian scams, typing ad forms at home, loan scams, etc. are routinely screened and managed by the site. Although this is a time consuming process, the positive results to the users of FreeAdLists.com are too beneficial to simply ignore.

As a result of stringent classified ad management, FreeAdLists.com has received numerous emails from posters inquiring about their classified ads that seemed to have vanished into the “bit bucket.” These posters were advised of the ad screening process, and in most cases, afterwards, they cease to spam or scam again. Obviously, if their activity didn’t stop, their IP and username were banned.

To increase the probability of persistent classified ad placement, FreeAdLists.comcustomers are advised to follow five basic etiquette rules when using the site.

1. Never use the same ad title more than once in a classified ad. This is not helping SEO as many wrongly believe.
2. Never use keyword stuffing in the classified ad description. Again, this is not helping SEO as many wrongly believe.
3. Never cross post your classified ads in different categories. That will turn off a potential buyer in a heartbeat.
4. Avoid posting classified ads that promote illegal/hate, warez, wallpaper, and splog links.
5. Go ahead and flag classified ads that are obvious scams but please flag with care.

HOWEVER, we can’t screen/monitor all the spam/scam ads – it’s darn near impossible – so use common sense when responding to free classifieds.

Remember the old US postal axiom: “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” Now that sounds like good advice. Caveat emptor!

SPAMMING NOT ALLOWED ON WWW.FREEADLISTS.COM

Posted on July 25, 2008 by freeadlists

We have a few posters who are spamming the hell out of the free ads site. However, once their ads are detected, they are systematically deleted by scripts. All that time they spent posting those ads are for naught.

If you are an overzealous poster, you might get one of these notices.

FreeAdLists Poster,

We appreciate your patronage at www.FreeAdLists.com. Unfortunately, we have not been able to use any of your classified ads because you are not posting valid links directly to the homes you are advertising. You are posting too many ads with the link to your homepage, www.______.com. If you can place links directly to homes you are advertising, then we can post your ads. Another option would be to buy a featured ad, then you could have the added exposure for your homepage.

Respectfully,

Debra
www.FreeAdLists.com

MY TOP 25 CLASSIFIED ADS SITES FOR JUNE ‘08

Posted on July 20, 2008 by freeadlists

I am a big fan of lists in general. I found this list on compete.com. It shows the top 25 websites on the Internet. As you can see, the highly ranked classified ads website, craigslist, is number 14 overall. Google finally overtook Yahoo in terms of people count.

Craigslist is like Fedor Emelianenko of the classified ad world.

Source: Compete.com May 2008

1 google.com 135,291,588
2 yahoo.com 131,844,268
3 msn.com 78,408,649
4 live.com 76,890,429
5 ebay.com 71,904,536
6 myspace.com 60,267,059
7 youtube.com 58,661,346
8 aol.com 57,565,091
9 wikipedia.org 57,041,540
10 amazon.com 54,954,103
11 microsoft.com 53,037,685
12 mapquest.com 50,621,534
13 about.com 38,373,275
14 craigslist.org 37,463,362
15 go.com 33,639,174
16 blogspot.com 33,564,166
17 nextag.com 33,129,936
18 facebook.com 31,948,779
19 irs.gov 31,726,828
20 liveperson.net 30,340,333
21 cnn.com 29,091,022
22 ask.com 27,643,652
23 walmart.com 27,002,116
24 target.com 25,515,763
25 flickr.com 24,187,845

MY TOP 25 CLASSIFIED ADS WEBSITES

Posted on June 18, 2008 by freeadlists

Here are my top twenty-five classified ads websites. The last time I did a survey was in Mar 2008. It appears the traffic for some of the sites have increased substantially. Of course, craigslist still leads the list by a phenomenal margin. Speaking of phenomenal margin, did anyone watch Game 6 of Celtics vs Lakers? 131-92 – Ouch!

Anyways, here is the list of free ads sites. (Some charge for premium services)
People Counts for May 2008: Source Compete.com

craigslist.org 37,463,362
kijiji.com 2,723,057
backpage.com 1,499,986
livedeal.com 933,302
classifiedads.com 677,602
kudzu.com 568,554
traderonline.com 555,833
domesticsale.com 489,716
olx.com 474,444
usfreeads.com 412,780
pennysaverusa.com 324,881
recycler.com 297,978
buysell.com 265,841
sell.com 223,507
tnol.com 212,603
gumtree.com 206,859
adpost.com 158,527
buysellcommunity.com 112,284
webclassifieds.us 88,856
adlandpro.com 84,796
inetgiant.com 76,162
bargaintraderonline.com 71,621
epage.com 54,660
locanto.com 40,606
adflakes.com 23,856
freeadlists.com (Oh yeah, here is a shameless plug)

HOW CAN I GET A NATIONWIDE AD LISTING FOR THE US AND CANADA?

Posted on June 12, 2008 by freeadlists

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:22:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: “roy___AT___freeadlists.com”
Subject: Re: listing
To: Some_FreeAdLists_Poster___AT__yahoo.com

Some_FreeAdLists_Poster,

We used to offer Feature Ads/All Cities options but the spammers were killing the service. They would list their ad and then try to charge someone else’s paypal account. We got sick and tired of dealing with these low-life scum and the costly chargebacks associated with their “transactions,” so we disabled the options.

But we could do this on a case by case basis. We do have people (like you) who contact us personally and truly want to set something up.

“Featured Ads” option is $3 (will show up first in the category/and featured in the slow moving marquee) and “All Cities” is $3 (will show up for every city within a given state). And then there are static ads. They are listed in the “Classified Ads” (homepage) section and they run $5 for two weeks.

By the way, FreeAdLists.com is not interested in ads that are illegal, sexist, pornographic, gambling, home typing scams, mp3/movie downloads, pharmacy or racist in content.

Regards,

Roy

http://www.FreeAdLists.com

http://freeadlists.wordpress.com

“Freeadlists.com” wrote:

Email sent by: Some_FreeAdLists_Poster who can be contacted at: Some_FreeAdLists_Poster___AT__yahoo.com

How can I get a nationwide AD listing for the US AND CANADA?

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Please link your blog or website to us. It’s greatly appreciated!
Text Link:
FreeAdLists.com

MY TOP 20 CLASSIFIED ADS WEBSITES

Posted on April 5, 2008 by freeadlists

Here are my top twenty classified ads websites.

Craigslist dominates the classifieds space on the Internet and forecasted to make an estimated $80 million this year. A few years ago, they were making a lot less, but I guess they decided there was just too much money being left on the table. eBay owns a 25% stake in craigslist.

Ebay-owned Kijiji is much larger than I expected.

People Counts for March 2008: Source Compete.com

craigslist.org 32,737,264
kijiji.com 2,161,947
backpage.com 1,402,605
livedeal.com 1,009,433
classifiedads.com 816,245
traderonline.com 809,145
kudzu.com 575,726
domesticsale.com 518,078
usfreeads.com 413,153
olx.com 387,217
pennysaverusa.com 354,907
recycler.com 320,257
buysell.com 246,767
sell.com 243,458
gumtree.com 234,924
adpost.com 194,891
buysellcommunity.com 138,677
inetgiant.com 105,727
adlandpro.com 93,282
webclassifieds.us 92,132
bargaintraderonline.com 78,545
freeadlists.com 22,362 (Oh yeah, here is a shameless plug)

NEARLY 600 WEBSITES TO POST YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS

Posted on April 1, 2008 by freeadlists

Here is a list of nearly 600 websites. I found it while visiting my stat site. The source is listed at the bottom. If you have a classified ads site, add a comment and I will add it to the TOP of the list – No gambling, porn, pharmacy, illicit, splogs, or scam sites. Please only submit one classifieds website per comment/poster.

Please don’t forget to link back to FreeAdLists.com

Update: Here are a few more classified ads sites.

200 top classified ads sites

92 classified ads sites

LOST WEDDING RING IN TIKRIT, IRAQ

Posted on March 31, 2008 by freeadlists

I was glancing over the classified ads today. Yes, I do peruse the ads from to time to time. I found this particular ad most intriguing. It appears that someone lost a wedding ring awhile ago and the finder is trying to reunite it with its owner.

Here is the ad: Lost Wedding Ring in Tikrit, Iraq

Greetings to all, I am currently working overseas as a contract firefighter in Tikrit, Iraq with WSI. At Fire Station 1 in the weightroom there was a wedding band found 11 September 2006 @ 2253 local time. This ring has a engraving and is unique. I’m sure that the owner of the ring would like to have it back. Apparently, when it was found it was put in a drawer and forgotten about. Hopefully this will reunite it with its owner.

As usual, be aware when contacting posters.

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