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Posted By: Steve MacLellan <steve@homebusiness-websites.com> In Response To: What is it about classified ads? (P. Drammel)
Monday, 11 July 2005, at 4:09 p.m.
I ran a classified ad site. This was a number of years ago... maybe '95-96. At that time there wasn't near the amount of people using the web, but still, people who wanted to place a calssified ad didn't stop to read anything on the site. They were just there to post ads.
By the end of '96 they weren't even visiting the site to post. You see... there were a few hundred thousand free classified ad sites, but only so many popular classified ad scripts. So the popular scripts being used, and the URL's of the sites, were programmed into software called ad blasters. So the real powere users didn't even have to visit your site to post an ad.
On many days, it was the norm to receive over 2,000 ads in one day. I studied these ads, and tried to sell stuff to these posters.... even display ads which would make their ad stand out from the crowd, but nobody read the ads... they just posted.
I shouldn't say "nobody." If the truth be told I did get a couple of jobs out of it, but they were very few and far between.
I'm not surprised that someone would mention putting up a calssified ad site though. Before I read this post I made a comment on Willie message board. It was more about the discussion of safelists, but I said:
There are some of us who had experience with safelists from the early years. Although, I understand some self-proclaimed guru's were denouncing the arguments and any similarity between 1995-97 and now, they wouldn't have been able to sell this concept if they didn't.Another trend I see starting to come back from the early years is blasting ads to free classified sites. It didn't work back then, but I expect, pretty soon, someone will convince those who didn't have this experience, that it is the next "big" thing.
Mind you I did have a couple of clients over the years try something similar. One of them paid for this deal where he would get 1,000,000 hits over the course of a month. That equals (over 30 days) 33.3 thousand per day. He wanted to make sure that the server would be able to withstand this onslaught. The deal the other fellow got was similar in nature.
I kept a close watch on their bandwidth over the next month and there was barely any noticable increase in traffic, although I understand they did receive a lot of spam.
Quite frankly... and it's only personal opinion based on my eperience, I would find some more productive uses of my time and money.
Best Regards,
Steve MacLellan
The Revolutionary 1MerchantCart eCommerce Automation Suite
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