Tuesday, January 20, 2009

What is this new classified ad syndication I am hearing about?

By Amy Sanders

Over the last few years I have been submittingmore and more classified ads. The problems I have run into is lack of people seeing my ad and having my ads taken down by flagging. I decided to attempt the online ad syndication. Stumblehere.com has made ad syndication the primary focus of their site.

What is ad syndication? Well, Stumblehere.com now provides an incredible online service that enables you to make 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 95 or more local classified ads?

What this means is stumblehere.com saves you not only money but time too. The power comes from entering your ad only one time. After that they do all the work listing your ad in online marketplaces, classified directories, RSS feeds and the top search engines. And this is all done rather quickly, usually within 42 hours or less.

Wow, so I can actually get traffic to my ad? I don't have to spend time posting my ads 750 places? I don't need to repost them every day due to being flagged wrongly? Sign me up!

I am gonna test out the betterpost ads. Since I am relatively new to the web, I am excited to try their walkthrough and have my classified ad built for me. Then as part of the betterpost process the ads will have full syndication. I will let you know all my results on how thier process works.

The flagship product is betterpost. Betterpost is a premimum ad feature offered exclusively at stumblehere.com classifieds. For only 7.99 you can use their customized templates and build professional attractive classified ads. As part of the package stumblehere offers full syndication of you ad to the highest traffic sites.

I saw they currently only offer betterpost for vehicles classifieds, so i decided to try to sell my old car. They are offering 85% off through the end of October for anyone who wants to test their betterpost ad syndication. After posting your ad simply enter 'halloween' all lowercase in the promo code box.

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

I had never paid to list an online classified before. 4 hours went by and no response. Grrrr did I just waste money? I went back to the http://www.stumblehere.com site and read how it takes up to 24 hours to have listings syndicated out. Whew, ok so I decided to just wait and see what happens.

It was not too long until i received my first call. He told me how much he enjoyed the look of my car and how well it was presented.

The next morning I had 2 emails about my car. And later that day call number 2 came in off my syndicated ad. Is this classified ad syndication stuff working? I need to set up times for people to look at my car.

To answer my question above, I know ad syndication works! It was nice to only have to submit my ad once. Plus my ad was not flagged wrongly. 4 days after i started this process response was great. I had 5 calls and 9 emails! - 17943

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