Friday, November 28, 2008

Is online classified ad syndication worth it?

By Hal Johnson

Over the last few years I have been postingmore and more free classified ads. The problems I have faced is traffic and having my ad removed by flagging. I decided to try the classified ad syndication stumblehere uses. Stumblehere.com has made syndication of classified ads the primary focus of their site.

I wanted to find out what classified ad syndication is. Stumblehere.com touts their professional ad service. Their Wizard walks you through the ad creation process and then will automatically syndicate and post your ad to over 150 separate highest traffic classified ad sites, online marketplaces, search engines and RSS Feeds. This will save you hours upon hours of personal time. Is your time worth it?

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 40 hours or less.

No more having to repost daily to flagging. And the quantity of top networks provides an great traffic solution. Where do I start?

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.

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 7 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 19 hours for syndication to happen. Now I need to wait it out.

About 8 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 5 calls and 8 emails! - 16039

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