Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Running Free Ads *My Review*

I have several accounts set up to run free ads for my online businesses that I promote. I have been very excited about a service that I joined about a month ago. You can monitor your ads everyday, all day, if that is what you want to do. They tell you what page your ad is on, how many views you get and how many clicks as well. This is extremely important so you can see which ad is doing better. You can not place the exact same ad in different locations, but you can change them enough to get them run. This also lets you see which of your ads of the same product is doing better. Right now I have 5 ads running, I can't delete one of the ads of the same product yet, as they're almost equal. One thing that I have noticed and also read about is, if you put a picture with your ad,it is going to do better. So to test this out I did run 2 ads, almost identical, one with a photo, one without. You guessed it, the one with the photo received twice to three times as many hits and the one without.

Wow, that is very powerful information, this service is good for being free, equals GoogleADs in my mind for stats, and gets you a lot of exposure for Free. You can upgrade if you want, but for now I will run these ads for the next 2 weeks with monitoring everyday. I just added a new one today, and as soon as it went live I had activity.

For me this is impressive and I do appreciate how professional their site for running ad is. They let you ad photo's which many do not do. Check out Kijiji and see what you think.

Moving on to Social networking sites: This is fast becoming an active way to advertise. Some won't let you directly run ads, and frown on outright postings that are advertising. However you can get around this by reviewing what is going on in the site first.

I have joined a site that actually pays you to review others post, you can leave you reviews and they have a drop down list of things that would help to make the post better, if would chose to do so.

I think this is very good, I just started and my account is already up to almost $400
you can spread that money around to your sites as you see fit. They are tied to some very powerful sites, so this is an excellent way to promote your sites and collect money to run your own ads. It is Qassia, so if you want to see what it is all about, just click on the link in this site. I have already set it up for you, so just click on the link and it takes you right there.

I have a Facebook site, with them you can also connect that site with your Digg and Del.icio.ous site, as well as Stumbleupon, and Flickr. I will set the last 2 up today. You can never have too much advertising going on. Once you join these groups, Alexa and Google start seeing your sites and crawling them. This gets you more traffic and sales, and after all this is what it is all about.

I sincerely hope that I have given you some new ideas that you may not have known about to enchance your business.

When I first started out no one told me anything about any of these sites, and after much hard learning and searching, I came up with these sites. I hope they help you.

Please feel free to leave me any messages on any information for further details if you like. I will do my best to answer them and or direct you to what you need.

Best Regards
Terrie

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