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The Quest-Free Advertising-Part 3

April 3rd, 2009 |

Author: Nancy

Finding locations to place free ads is a continuing process. The Internet does not stand still. Sites that may work for you one day will be ineffective the next. New sites crop up continuously. The more practice you have looking for these sites, the more efficient you will become with the process.

The mistake a lot of newcomers make when starting free advertising is that they get a list from their upline and only use that list. Here is an analogy that I use quite often. I am a avid fisherman, I fish winter, summer, spring, fall. When I go on the lake in the early morning and see a bunch of boats in one location all with their rods over the side, should I go to that same spot or find a new spot that is not being over fished? If I go to the popular spot the fish look at my bait and swim on by; but if I pick a new spot away from the crowd the chance of that same fish taking my bait increases. Can you see the point of this analogy and free advertising?

It is all right to check the spots out that your upline gives you, but you need to find your own.

So how do you do this? It is really a matter of going to the search engines and typing in phrases like “free advertising sites, free classifieds, free ad sites” or any relevant words. Once you pull up a list write down (or copy and paste to notepad) all the sites on the first three pages. This is the list of where NOT to place your free ads on at first! Eventually you will place ads here but not at first.

Why do you do this? Two reasons. First, it will save you time in your search process. If you see you have found one of these recommended sites on your list, move on. You are not there to search for the small fish, but the big fish! Second, writing down these sites will save you countless hours of putting your ads on sites that are crowded with other ads for the same service and it might even save you from giving up on affiliate marketing. I have known too many would be marketers who come into this business place their ads all over the Internet on just such sites only to sit back and see no results and become so discouraged they give up. It doesn’t have to happen to you! I want you to put your first ads on effective sites, so you will know that affiliate marketing does work. It will take you some time to find these “hidden treasures”, but once found you will spend less time putting ads on the Internet and more time making money.

The task of coming up with search terms to use to find these “hidden treasures” is simply this: Put yourself in their shoes (the customer). What terms did you use when you were looking for a work at home opportunity. Write them down. Then go to every search engine you can think of and search for free ad sites using those terms. For instance, “work at home opportunities” place that phrase into Yahoo, Google, 7Search, Miva, and you will come up with some new advertising sites that are not listed on all search engines. Use terms that describe your particular skills. Maybe you have worked in an office before use the terms that best described your duties.

Now look at that free advertising list that your first made, you know the list of free ad sites everyone else uses, and see what ones are not on there. Those are your personal “hidden treasures”.

Remember the Internet is in constant flux; it changes hourly. New sites pop up every single day. So repeat the process to build your own list of free ad sites.

Nancy Kraska Owner of Home Work For You, Better Business Resources. Avid reader. A food-alcoholic. Sometimes Crafter.