Saturday, November 29, 2008

Does classified ad syndication work?

By Jeff Peterson

Lately classified ads seem to not be working as well. I do not know if it is all the flagging and ads are not staying up as long or if online classified ad traffic have diminished, but my ads are not pulling as well as before. I have decided to use the new classifieds syndication found over at stumblehere.com classifieds. I will give it a impartial review.

What is online classified ad syndication? Well, Stumblehere.com now provides an amazing 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 your staff to post 150 free 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 40 hours or less.

This is how they get 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!

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.

What is the betterpost Premium Ad Feature? The betterpost Premium Ad Feature saves you time and money! They help you create an attractive ad. For a small fee of $7.99, once you place your ad in stumblehere customized templates, they will automatically syndicate and post your ad. Yes, they post your ad for you so you do not have to make multiple postings yourself! This will save you hours upon hours of personal time.

I saw they currently only offer betterpost for vehicles classifieds, so i decided to try to sell my old car. They are offering 85% off through the end of October for anyone who wants to test their betterpost ad syndication. After posting your ad simply enter 'halloween' all lowercase in the promo code box.

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.

First time for everything, my first time paying for aclassifed ad online. It has been 11 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 26 hours. I guess I will have to do some waiting.

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.

The next morning I had 2 emails about my car. And later that day call number 2 came in off my syndicated ad. Is this classified ad syndication stuff working? I need to set up times for people to look at my car.

Now for some results after 5 days. 8 emails and 5 calls, not to shabby. To all the naysayers, I know classified ad syndication works! - 16035

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