Here are the top seven high traffic sites that you may want to consider as you plan your promotional strategy.

Some argue that…

The page rank of your website can be increased through the use of high-traffic classified ad websites like CraigsList.org and others. The search engines scan these and you can post information including links to your website for free. It’s a great opportunity to promote your website at little or no cost.

While I agree with the later statement.. “Its a great opportunity to promote your website at little or no cost”. I have reservations around the first statement on how backlinks from these sites will increase your page rank.

Its true that the number of back links do play a role in determining the page rank of a site. But not all of these classified sites are passing link value, again make sure to test them yourself, may be there is some validity in the above statement. Glad to be proven wrong on this one…:)-

• Kijiji.com is one of these local classified websites. Its name means village in Swahili and that sums up the kind of community that the site would like to be. It now attracts over seven million monthly unique visitors. It has generated more the a billion page views since its launch.
• Gumtree.com is a site in the U.K. that receives more than a million visitors per month. More than 25,000 new rooms are advertised each month.
• Backpage.com is in approximately 250 cities. There is a fee for premium placement or to post in multiple cities. Imagine the exposure you could get for your website link.
• USFreeAds.com has an affiliate program that allows you to earn a commission on sales by people that you have referred to the site. They’ve been providing high traffic classified ads since 1999.
• Adpost.com classifieds says they have 10 million views per month. It offers to blast your ad to over 3,000 sites on the internet.




• Ablewise.com offers postings in ten countries. Each ad has its own “competition free” page. The site offers its own SEO Overview tool.




• Classifiedsforfree.com has locations in 600 U.S. cities and in 60 countries. Just register at this site and your free ad posting will stay for seven days.

The key to advertising for free on these sites is to have a good headline that will draw viewers in to hopefully click on your ad. This is your goal to have them click on your link and land at your lead capture page or your sales page. Post multiple ads daily and on several sites to drive traffic to your website.

Most of these sites have the option of paying a small fee for preferred placement that will place you at the top of the category. Place your keyword in your title and use the keyword at least ten times in the copy of the ad.

These sites will help you improve your ranking with the search engines and are a great way to get your website in front of millions of people in this country and around the world.