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Suggest to Add Your City to FreeAdLists.com
Lately, we have been receiving a number of requests to add cities for certain countries. Frankly speaking, we don’t mind doing that but we are looking to add cities that are over 1 million in population. Lately, we have received a few requests ...
FreeAdLists.com Adds a Latest Classified Ads Feature
In case you have not noticed, we added a “Latest Ads” feature. The new feature shows the 20-25 most recently posted classified ads and gives you a quick preview of what is being posted on the site. Check out the latest classified ads toda...
Why are you attracting certain visitors to your site or blog?
I find FeedJit’s Live Traffic Feed widget useful - gives me a rough idea of who is visiting the site and WHERE they are coming from. But frankly speaking, every time I observe links coming from some of those African-based countries, I cringe. Â...
South African Couple Offers Unusual Contract
I was perusing the site and found this very unusual classified ad in the clothes category of all places. There are a lot unusual ads on FreeAdLists.com but this one takes the cake — at least for this week. Frankly speaking, I was little surpris...
Break out Website Pages From Enclosing Frames
I was reviewing my statistics at MyBlogLog and found a couple referrals that were coming via the link listed below. It appears the website below is using redirects and frames to display advertising panels that seem to be associated with FreeAdLists.c...
Your website at the top of the search engine listings - Really?
If I have learned one thing about search engine optimization, it is not an easy task and getting your website to the top of the rankings takes a lot of hard work, time and usually some money (could be substantial). So when I received this email from ...
20 possible reasons classified ads are are taken down
Yesterday, I received this email from a FreeAdLists.com poster. Â I am not sure, yet, what was the infraction, but here are 20 possible reasons for the classified ad removal. Contact form on FreeAdLists: posting ads Monday, December 1, 2008 9:20 AM F...
Competing Classified Ads Website Etiquette
Frankly speaking, I do not mind if other classified ads websites post their services to FreeAdLists.com. But I have noticed an annoying trend lately and it is happening routinely: I have seen this particular ad posted dozens of times. Not cool. I wil...
My top 25 classified ads websites for Sept ‘08
It is that time again…I waited to the last minute though. I’m listing my top 25 classified ads websites for the month of Sept 2008. Again, here is no big surprise who is at the top but a few changes in the middle. Chooseyouritem.com was added...
Phishing Attempt: Getting Started with your PayPal Anti-Fraud Protectione
Here is another phishing attempt targeting PayPal users. If you use Firefox, scams like these can be easily reported as a web forgery (Help->Report Web Forgery). No legitimate service will ask you to click a link to verify personal information vi...
Attention: Inaccurate whois information is a phishing attempt
I just received this email and it is definitely a forgery. I hope others, who might have received this phishing attempt, won’t fall for this scam. But if you have happened to inadvertently fall for this scam, please go to enom DOT com’s w...
Joe the Plumber for President
After Wednesday’s final presidential debate between Senators Obama and McCain, I guess a few people decided to capitalize on the “Joe the Plumber” comment. I think I heard it 20+ times during the debate. Well anyways, I was perusing...
This Posting has Been Flagged for Removal
Here is something I picked up from my traffic stats service. Some poster decided to leverage their FreeAdLists advertisement by posting it to Craigslist, too. Apparently, that was a big “No No.” It did receive a decent number of hits befo...
FreeAdLists.com - Free Ads Service to Connect Buyer and Seller
FreeAdLists.com is a free classified ads service to help buyer and seller find each other. We are not involved in any transactions between buyer and seller, so please stop sending us the inquiries for additional information. Here are a few things to ...
My top 25 classified ads websites for Aug ‘08
It is that time again. I’m listing my top 25 classified ads websites for the month of August 2008. There hasn’t been too many shifts at the top, but there has been a few shifts towards the bottom quarter. Here is the list of free ads sites. (Some...
Annoyed website classified ads operator queries others
I received this email a few weeks ago from an annoyed webmaster. I emailed a few suggestions but I never received a response. At any rate, I hope the suggestions helped. Annoyed Webmaster said… “I have been contacting webmasters of clas...
My Top 25 Classified Ads Websites for July ‘08
It is that time again. I’m listing my top 25 classified ads websites. There hasn’t been many shifts but one constant remains: craigslist continues to lead the pack - no surprise there. Congratulations to Michael Phelps (8 gold medals!) an...
Advertising opportunities on your website - Really?
I received this email a few days ago. What really concerned me was that the sender and signed didn’t match on the messages, and they all used web-based email addresses. I did a quick search and found some more interesting discussions related to...
Mitigating the impact of scammers and spammers
FreeAdLists.com officially launched 15 months ago and has experienced substantial growth in the free classifieds space. But as with any growth endeavor, there are always inherently negative issues. One negative issue is the impact of these two low-li...
Spamming Not Allowed on www.FreeAdLists.com
We have a few posters who are spamming the hell out of the free ads site. However, once their ads are detected, they are systematically deleted by scripts. All that time they spent posting those ads are for naught. If you are an overzealous poste...
My Top 25 Classified Ads Sites for June 08
I decided it was time to gauge the classified ads world again. There have been some shifts, but one constant remains, craigslist is still outclassing their nearest competitors. It reminded me of the 36 second fight tonight: Fedor Emelianenko (28-1, 1...
How many free ads can I post to your site in one day?
Here is a great question from one of our posters via email. It is about posting multiple/duplicate classified ads. The policy about the aforementioned is also listed in FreeAdLists’ Terms of Use . But does anyone ever bother reading those text...
My Top 25 Classified Ads Websites
Here are my top twenty-five classified ads websites. The last time I did a survey was in Mar 2008. It appears the traffic for some of the sites have increased substantially. Of course, craigslist still leads the list by a phenomenal margin. Speaking ...
How can I get a nationwide Ad listing for the US AND CANADA?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:22:34 -0700 (PDT) From: “roy___AT___freeadlists.com” Subject: Re: listing To: Some_FreeAdLists_Poster___AT__yahoo.com Some_FreeAdLists_Poster, We used to offer Feature Ads/All Cities options but the spammers wer...
I want to buy your domain name - NOT!
The 419 scammers are employing yet another method to bilk you out of your hard earned cash. As you can see below, they claim to be interested in buying your domain and they have cash today. Yeah, right. The only cash they will have is yours, if you ...
Math Helps Reduce Spam Submissions
For FreeAdLists.com top list, I have significantly reduced my daily spam queue by asking a “more difficult” math question. For example, what is 2^3? It’s 8. If you didn’t know the answer to that question, you were probably a...
Wallstreet Meets Beauty Queen via Craigslist
One of my co-workers emailed this post to me. It is a classic of craigslist.org’s “best of” category. I assume the author of the post could have probably gotten a job writing funnies because her post was hilarious. But I presume she...
Post your LEGITIMATE classified ad on FreeAdLists.com
After responding to some comments on another one of my blogs, I started thinking about offering FREE Featured Ads (homepage marquee) to anyone who links back to FreeAdLists.com on their website or blog (preferable homepage). Your classified ad will b...
7 Tips Regarding Earn Cash for Paid Surveys
I have seen several paid survey ads on this classified ads site asking for payment. Not! Is there such a thing as a marketing company paying you for your opinion? Sure there are survey companies out there doing that but they are like gold nuggets - v...
Craigslist Sued by Minority Owner eBay
According to an eBay news release, they are suing Craigslist. Why? eBay is suing Craigslist over alleged dilution of its minority interest - details on the news release were scant. eBay owns a 28.4% minority position in Craigslist. I always thought C...
