Saturday, November 29, 2008

Is online classified ad syndication worth it?

By Natalie Grey

The last few months classified sites seem to not be working as well. I don't know if it is all my ads being removed by people flagging them or if classified ad page views have diminished, but my ads are not working as well as before. I have decided to try the new classifieds syndication found over at stumblehere.com classifieds. I will give it a unbiased review.

What is online classified ad syndication? Well, Stumblehere.com now provides an incredible 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 online classified ads?

Stumblehere.com can save you time and money. Enter your listings only once and watch them spread automatically to some of the highest trafficked search sites on the Internet. They automatically syndicate and post your ad to over 100 separate top classified ad directories, online marketplaces, search engines and RSS Feeds. This will save you hours upon hours of personal time. Once submitted, your ad will show live on the other sites within 24 - 48 hours.

This is how they get traffic to your ad. Not only is your listing on their site, but it is on all the top networks as well. And now I dont need to repost it daily cause a competitor maliciously flags my ad. Okay I am sold!

So I know from experience that free classified ads work on stumblehere, but how about these new paid ads? Are they really worth it? In doing my research I decided to try their new betterpost product. The way I understand it is the betterpost classifieds are ads designed in beautiful templates, with full ad syndication. Basically I can spice up my ad and get traffic to it without web programming knowledge.

The best way to explain betterpost is - An ad upgrade feature, for 7.99 you build a professional and attractive ad and then stumblehere.com syndicates that ad for you. They place and syndicate your ad for you so you do not have to make multiple ad postings yourself!

Right now stumblehere only offers betterpost in their vehicles section. I am going to test it out. I need to sell my car anyways. Stumblehere is offering 85% off through the end of October 2008 for anyone who wants to beta test their betterpost ad syndication product. Simply enter 'halloween' all lowercase in the promo code box after posting your ad.

This test is going to be really cheap. My total came to $1.20. And my ad looks wonderful.

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 40 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.

After a good night's rest I decided to check my email. There were already 4 emails in there about my car. Later that day I got call number 2 and set up some appointments to have people look at my car. Soo classified ad syndication does work?

3 days after my post I had 5 calls and 8 emails! To answer my above question, I know classified ad syndication works! It was sooo easy and I only needed to submit my ad once. And it was not brought down from someone flagging it cause they were selling a similar car, etc. - 16003

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