Tuesday, 25 June 2013

How To Operate Your Classifieds Website More Successfully

By Dave Max


Wouldn't it be nice if there was a step-by-step list of all the steps needed to create a good free classifieds site? Instead, you're probably finding a lot of information on why to have a website or if you're lucky maybe you've come across some marketing strategies. That's why we put this publication together so that we could provide with thorough information on setting up a site.

If your site is offering area of a member, your visitors, who are registered already, must know about their signing in. An effective tip can be providing link to a page where your users can be signed up and one other link for signing on a page. User's name and logout link must be mentioned on the top of right hand side.

Blogs are a great way to keep your users updated about products, services, promotions, or anything else that you want them to know. In addition to helping increase traffic to your free classifieds site, it also gives users a chance to leave reviews and comments so that you have more feedback on what they are looking for. By putting up posts in the form of guidelines, instructions, and tips it's a way of being able to share your product/service knowledge with them which is what they'll be looking for.

Links are easily overlooked. After reading text for an extended amount of time, the color that indicates a link begins to blend in. To make sure that people can see your links, underline the links as well. This way users will notice the active link and may click on it.

If you are trying to create a popular free classifieds site, you have to make sure to be very careful when writing the content for the website. Make sure to keep it simple and brief so your visitors don't get bored and stop reading, but also make sure it is enough information to get your point across. When you are writing articles, a good tip to keep in mind is to keep your content somewhere between 350 and 600 words.

The navigation of your site is one of the first things that you should be planning as you create your free classifieds site. Visitors will need to be able to see the home page and instantly understand where they need to go to get the information they're seeking quickly and efficiently.

Original web content is a must for any good free classifieds site. Instead of writing the content yourself, you should consider hiring a contractor to write the content. You can give them all the details of your products and services and they in turn will reproduce some marvelous content for your site.

Successful free classifieds sites always write blog posts for the marketing of their business. Reviews and comments on your blog can aid in increasing web traffic to your site. Blogs posts make the ideal way to share your product/service knowledge with your customers and visitors seeking information. The posts can be in the form of guidelines, instructions and tips.




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