Is online classified ad syndication worth it?

by Callie Davis

Over the last few weeks I have been placingmore and more online classified ads. The problems I have seen is lack of people seeing my ad and being wrongly flagged. I decided to attempt the stumblehere classified ad syndication. Stumblehere.com has made online classified ad syndication the primary focus of their site.



I wanted to find out what online ad syndication is. Stumblehere.com touts their professional ad service. Their Wizard walks you through the ad creation process and then will automatically syndicate and post your ads to over 150 separate highest traffic classified ad directories, online marketplaces, search engines and RSS Feeds. This will save you hours upon hours of personal time. Is your time worth it?



What this means is stumblehere.com saves you not only money but time too. The power comes from entering your ad only one time. After that they do all the work listing your ad in online marketplaces, classified directories, RSS feeds and the top search engines. And this is all done rather quickly, usually within 40 hours or less.



Wow, so I can actually get traffic to my ad? I don't have to spend time posting them 500 places? I don't need to repost them every day due to being flagged wrongly? Sign me up!



So I know from experience that free classified ads work on stumblehere, but how about these new paid ads? Are they really worth it? In doing my research I decided to try their new betterpost product. The way I understand it is the betterpost classifieds are ads designed in beautiful templates, with full ad syndication. Basically I can spice up my ad and get traffic to it without web programming knowledge.



What is the betterpost Premium Ad Feature? The betterpost Premium Ad Feature saves you time and money! They help you create an attractive ad. For a small fee of $7.99, once you place your ad in stumblehere customized templates, they will automatically syndicate and post your ad. Yes, they post your ad for you so you do not have to make multiple postings yourself! This will save you hours upon hours of personal time.



Right now stumblehere only offers betterpost in their vehicles section. I am going to test it out. I need to sell my car anyways. Stumblehere is offering 85% off through the end of October 2008 for anyone who wants to beta test their betterpost ad syndication product. Simply enter 'halloween' all lowercase in the promo code box after posting your ad.



Wow ummm so I can test this out for only $1.20? I think I can afford that test. I placed the ad and paid my buck. My Ad is gorgeous. No really, it looks fantastic, not boring like most classified ads.



This is my first time paying for an online classified ad. After 7 hours I still had not received any response. I read the faq on http://www.stumblehere.com and it said how it can take up to 25 hours for syndication to happen. Now I need to wait it out.



About 7 hours later I got my 1st call... I tried to see what site they saw my ad on but, the gal couldn't remember. She just talked about how she was impressed at how my car looked in the ad.



The next morning I had 3 emails about my car. And later that day call number 2 came in off my syndicated ad. Is this classified ad syndication stuff working? I need to set up times for people to look at my car.



5 days after my post I had 5 calls and 8 emails! To answer my above question, I know classified ad syndication works! It was sooo easy and I only needed to submit my ad once. And it was not brought down from someone flagging it cause they were selling a similar car, etc.

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