Advertising
If you work for or run a business with an opportunity to target customers locally, then I sure hope you’re not overlooking Craigslist.org. When I was seeking local SEO clients I couldn’t keep up with proposal requests during weeks I was running my Craigslist campaigns. My ads weren’t even all that appealing either. But, they [...]
November 23, 2010 by Wesley LeFebvre
A few months ago I wrote about backpage.com adding the nofollow attribute to outbound links. Well, shortly after writing that post I discovered sponsored ads still weren’t using NoFollow on outbound links. So I decided to look into sponsored ad links a little more. I discovered that backpage actually offered some some really great advertising [...]
May 24, 2010 by Wesley LeFebvre
A few weeks ago when Google changed the name of the Local Business Center to Google Places they also introduced a few new features. One of those features was the ability to enhance your local Google maps listing with a sponsored advertisement which they call tags. These yellow tags and corresponding links cost $25 and [...]
May 17, 2010 by Wesley LeFebvre
Some of you may recall a few months ago I told you about the $100 free pay-per-click promotion Business.com was offering if you submitted through my promotional link. Well I signed up for the promotion as well, through someone else’s link and received my $100 in free clicks. I received plenty of leads through there, [...]
May 10, 2010 by Wesley LeFebvre
It had been several months since this last happened and I thought the problem had been fixed, but apparently it is not because last week some time ALL of my Backpage ads were “community removed”! I have been using Backpage.com’s free classifieds for a couple of years now, so I am well-versed in their “terms [...]
April 5, 2010 by Wesley LeFebvre
Recently I added a few affiliate links to this website. One of which is BOTW.org, which requires no additional affiliate code to track referrals. Technically speaking, it should be getting its full share of link juice. I have always recommended Best of The Web Directory to my readers and my clients, and was blogging about [...]
March 23, 2010 by Wesley LeFebvre
Recently I read about this great promotion Business.com is offering for new advertisers. If you sign up for PPC Advertising through these links you can get $100 in free clicks to your business website. I signed up for it through someone else’s promo link about a month ago and have already received a few leads, [...]
December 10, 2009 by Wesley LeFebvre
The Craigslist Posting servers are currently busy. Please try again in 20 minutes. This is the message I have received every time I’ve posted my ads to Craigslist.org over the last several weeks. I wonder if the constant slowdowns are going to cause Craigslist to change the way they offer their services and perhaps even [...]
September 11, 2009 by Wesley LeFebvre