Friday, November 28, 2008

Will free online classified ad syndication take over craigslist?

By Nicole Johnson

Over the last few years I have been postingmore and more online classified ads. The problems I have run into is number of ad views and having my ad removed by flagging. I decided to attempt the online ad syndication. Stumblehere.com has made ad syndication the primary focus of their site.

What is online classified ad syndication? Well, Stumblehere.com now provides an incredible online service that enables you to develop professional-looking classified ads. These ads are then posted for you so you do not have to make multiple postings yourself. How much is your time worth? How long would it take you to post 100 local classified ads?

What this means is stumblehere.com saves you not only money but time too. The power comes from entering your ad only one time. After that they do all the work listing your ad in online marketplaces, classified directories, RSS feeds and the top search engines. And this is all done rather quickly, usually within 35 hours or less.

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 them daily cause a competitor maliciously flags my ad. Okay I am sold!

I am gonna test out the betterpost ads. Since I am relatively new to the web, I am excited to try their walkthrough and have my classified ad built for me. Then as part of the betterpost process the ads will have full syndication. I will let you know all my results on how thier process works.

The flagship product is betterpost. Betterpost is a premimum ad feature offered exclusively at stumblehere.com classifieds. For only 7.99 you can use their customized templates and build professional attractive classified ads. As part of the package stumblehere offers full syndication of you ad to the highest traffic sites.

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 really sharp.

First time for everything, my first time paying for aclassifed ad online. It has been 12 hours and I have not heard anything. I wonder if this will really work? I decided to go back to http://www.stumblehere.com and research it more. Their site says classified ad syndication can take up to 36 hours. I guess I will have to do some waiting.

About 7 hours later I got my 1st call... I tried to see what site they saw my ad on but, the gal couldn't remember. She just talked about how she was impressed at how my car looked in the ad.

After I got up the next morning I had 3 emails and got my second call about 2 hours later (does this classified ad syndication stuff really work?) I decided to have interested parties come look at my car over the weekend when I had some time off work.

To answer my question above, I know ad syndication works! It was nice to only have to submit my ad once. Plus my ad was not flagged wrongly. 4 days after i started this process response was great. I had 6 calls and 8 emails! - 15615

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