Monday, February 2, 2009

Whatever Happened to Free Classified Ads

By Alex Wu

There are still somes place that you can post your ad for free. This service has been around for centuries People will buy and sell anything. Where can you post free ads?

The first written ad for a community was found on a stone in Pompe. In the 15th century hand written notes were posted in public areas. In the US, the first printed ad was in the first newspaper published. What about the cavemen? Maybe some of their etchings were advertisements to trade or sell.

There are regional shopper papers where you can post things for free. These papers span large community areas, each having their own circular district. You can find them in rural areas, suburbs, and in the inner city. Theis is one of the few places you can still advertise for free. The ads are sometimes classified as "The Thirifties"

The Internet explosion with web marketers changed how you can advertise things. There are some free advertisement sites on the Internet where you can post your ads. In your community you will still find written ads at schools, churches store windows and bars,

Radio advertisement to auction things off in a community has been around for long time. The seller or trader phones into the radio station to tell the radio announcer what he has for sell or what he or she is looking to buy. People advertise anything from coin collection to a horse. This is a very popular venue for sales and it is free to post ads.

The first commercial advertisements on the Internet were in 2000. To get on the Internet you had to be sponsored. It was difficult for the seller to advertise their product. Not long after that, the Internet became a big shopping store. There are thousands of web sites selling products. You may get some free advertising for a short amount of time after which you will have pay for it.

Craig Newmark created Craig's List. When he first started his intention was to develop a mainling list. He would also advertise local events and indutries. Crag's list is the largest and free place to post an ad.

Internet Marketers often partner up and will have their partner's ad on their web site thus gaining residual income when someone buys something from your partner's business. The first ad words sale was for "live mail order lobsters".

With the invention of Ad Words, marketers can drive traffic to their sites. Some company's help you build a web site to sell their product and may initially offer some free advertisement but after the free period you are on your own. Engineers from Google devised this new kind of Ad Words advertising.

Wikipedia could almost be considered an advertising site because the site writes about everything. It has defiitions for products from all over the world. Wikipedia is a like the site nu pedia, but Wikipedia soon took charge of this venue. Wikipedia can be found in several languages. It is still possible to find a place to post your ad for free.

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