Friday, 10 May 2013

Perfecting Your Classifieds Website's Popularity In 21st Century

By James Barn


If your free classifieds site is in a slump and in need of a kickstart, consider using additional methods beyond SEO and online marketing. We have some key information that you should consider to reinvigorate your site.

Buy sponsored links on other free classifieds sites. That means more people visiting your site, and many sites offer a pay for performance model. Buy banner ads on other websites. It helps to build brand awareness.

You can avoid fighting with wealthier, more established free classifieds sites use words that are less targeted to gain the top rankings for a specific keyword. You have to be well established to own the most searched words.

You can make friends like editors of some offline publication. It will be great for you if you build out connections, it is going to help you at all levels. Also, you should be ready for returning favors to those people, from whom you are expecting. It is a business of giving and taking at each level.

When creating a mobile free classifieds site, keep content brief. Keep in mind screen sizes are smaller and others would need to scroll to read a traditional website's content. Instead, keep mobile content to a max of a few sentences.

Never create a text-only page on your site. Every single page should have at least one visual component - whether it's a picture, drawing, chart, graph or any other kind of image. Whatever your image is, it should be related to the content, and chosen to maximally engage the visitor's attention.

Keep your site versatile, and incorporate widgets to share your content on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. Sites that have not updated themselves to include these abilities are relegating themselves to the eternal black hole of the internet. Make it easy to find these options for sharing to extend your reach to friends and family of your visitors, and make your business grow. These options are also vital to improving SEO.

When designing your free classifieds site it is best to revive a search option for your visitors if you intend to fill it with information. This will make it easier for visitors to find an exactly what they are seek by typing and key word. Customers will have a good impression of your website and be extremely pleased if searching for content on your site is easy.

Your free classifieds site should be updated frequently, even if it is a small one. Updating regularly shows activity on your site and also increases your site's credibility. This helps to being higher rankings from search engine. Search engine crawlers are privy to fresh content and this will directly impact your site's rank.




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