Monday, October 20, 2008

Free classified ads or online classified ad syndication?

By Jenny Bass

Over the last few years I have been postingmore and more online classified ads. The problems I have seen is number of ad views and being wrongly flagged. I decided to attempt the classified ad syndication stumblehere uses. Stumblehere.com has made ad syndication the primary focus of their site.

I am still learning about the ad syndication process. I did a search on google.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.

Enter your classified ad one time at stumblehere.com and they will post your ad for you to the top classifieds sites, online marketplaces, RSS feeds, and search engines. Yes, stumblehere does all the work. This is how stumblehere allows me to save time and money.

This is how they get hits and traffic to your ad. Not only is your classified ad on their site, but it is on all the top networks as well. And now I dont need to repost it daily cause a competitor maliciously flags my ad. Okay I am sold!

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.

The best way to explain betterpost is - An ad upgrade feature, for 7.99 you build a professional and attractive ad and then stumblehere.com syndicates that ad for you. They place and syndicate your classified ad for you so you do not have to make multiple ad placements yourself!

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

Wow ummm so I can test this out for only $1.20? I think I can afford that test. I placed the ad and paid my buck. My Ad is gorgeous. No really, it looks fantastic, not boring like most classified ads.

This is my first time paying for an online classified ad. After 9 hours I still had not received any response. I read the faq on http://www.stumblehere.com and it said how it can take up to 25 hours for syndication to happen. Now I need to wait it out.

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.

After a good night's rest I decided to check my email. There were already 2 emails in there about my car. Later that day I got call number 2 and set up some appointments to have people look at my car. Soo classified ad syndication does work?

5 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. - 15359

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