Free Advertising Sites Leading to 100's of resources
 Many people do not realize that there are distinct differences between the internet, the World Wide Web (www) and classified advertising. It is important to understand the differences in order to understand how free advertising through these methods is effective. While each method has individual characteristics, each application overlaps each other as shown to the right.
Free Online (Internet) Advertising Using Email and Chat
The internet encompasses all online experiences; it is the “mother” of all online functions such as email, networks, newsgroups, and stand-alone online software that does not need to use a web browser.
Free online (internet) advertising makes the most use of email and chat applications to deliver free advertising versus using a browser to advertise through the web.
Email is perhaps one of the most effective ways to do free advertising through the internet because of its ability to deliver messages directly, person-to-person. Additionally, email messages allow attachments and html rendering so that your free advertising looks like a web site and may have a coupon attached.
The problem is reaching the masses or targeted audience through email lists.
To rectify this problem, there are websites that offer the handling of free advertising through email. A sample of those free email advertising services is:
- SendFree AutoResponder Ad Exchange. SendFree makes use of lists where people have subscribed to receive various types of emailed information.
- Free Safelist Mailer is a membership program that offers free email advertising through a free to paid subscription. Free advertising emails travel member to member (therefore, this would be termed a ‘safelist’ because people have opted in or subscribed to receive free advertising emails from other members).
- AdTactics is another program that provides free email advertising to through websites where people have signed up to receive certain types of email, including advertising of products and services they are interested in.
Following right behind email are chat applications such as Twitter and Instant Messaging (IM).
- Twhirl is a free Twitter application where you can freely advertise products, services and websites.
- Twitterific can be used for free to do free internet advertising on Twitter but they do ask for a $14.95 donation that goes to the developer’s ongoing efforts to make improvements to the product.
- TweetDeck is a completely free chat application where you can do free internet advertising in Twitter and Facebook.
- Pidgin is a universal chat client that provides the ability to chat with instant messenger users of different providers such as Gmail, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and more.
- A Chat Directory is listed here to provide other chat clients that not only use pc’s and laptops, but also cell phones for text messaging.
Free Web Advertising
The web is under the umbrella of the internet and is only accessed by use of your internet browser.
Free web advertising sites abound and there are differences between them. Some free web advertising websites concentrate on banner advertising, affiliate promotion, and traffic and link exchange services.
- NEOBanners Banner Exchange is a free advertising banner exchange program where members rotate banners on their websites.
- Free Banners and LinkBuddies are membership programs where members exchange banners on each others’ web sites to gain free banner advertising.
- ClickBank offers its own network of free affiliate advertising through their member base to advertise digital products such as ebooks.
- Traffic Exchange Directory lists hundreds of websites where you can advertise your website for free.
- The Link Exchange connects website owners to advertise their links for free on each other’s websites.
- LinkExchange Directory offers a free service that connects website owners to do free advertising through the exchange of links on their websites.
Free Classified and Press Release Advertising
Software is available that submits free classified advertising to a number of web-based directories, news websites, as well direct submission through their sites. And while we’re on the subject of free classified advertising, there are also outlets for free advertising through press releases.
Free press release websites offer the submission of articles that are released on news websites. You will need to write an article about your business and list its contact and website information.
Free press release websites provide effective free advertising because many people frequent topical news websites to find out about new products and services.
Some of these websites are:
- Free Classified Sites Directory lists websites that provide free classified advertising.
- Information City is another website that people can use to submit free classified advertising.
- The Online Classified Club offers free and paid resources and software for free classified ad submission and advertising.
- Avangate boasts 50 free press release advertising outlet websites.
- World Press Release is a free online advertising service that offers the distributions of articles about your business to newspapers, television, and magazines.
Things to Remember when Using Free Advertising Websites and Software:
- NEVER spam or use software that tries to bypass spam laws when you are doing free email advertising. Only use safelists that people have opted-in to receive email.
- NEVER make false or misleading claims about your business such as, “You will make millions overnight!” It is a sure-fire way to gain mistrust and lack of credibility in you and your business.
- Try to use positive feedback from your verifiable customers to add credibility to your free advertising methods.
- Research all free internet and web advertising websites before becoming a member to insure that they meet your needs effectively. Free is not ‘free’ when time is involved.
- Make a plan and schedule and stick to it. Outline your list of activities each day for your free internet and web advertising.
Helpful Websites for Finding and Creating Free Internet Advertisements:
 Free Web Advertising: http://www.freewebdirectory.us/
Affiliate Directory: http://www.affiliatescout.com/
Free Banner Creator: http://www.bannersketch.com/
Free Article Writing Software: http://www.jingerjarrett.com/Free-Article-Writing-Software/
Free and Paid Writing Software Directory: http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/free-writing.html
Classified Ad and Website Submission Software: http://www.cyberfetch.com/
Website submission (SEO) software: http://submit-spider.com
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