Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The Key To Easily Operating A Popular Classifieds Website

By Joseph Yew


Some people love the thrill of creating a new free classifieds site, but are very disinterested about maintaining the site. Yet, if you don't keep your information current and there is nothing appealing about your website, you will lose viewers and probably won't attract very many new ones. What to do? Put the following tips to good use!

Make sure you scrutinize the photos you use on your site carefully. If you use pictures of people, make sure that all the people in that photo look happy and friendly. Don't forget to examine the people in the backgrounds of these images! Put relevant captions to these photos so your users can identify the feeling of your page and relate, but make sure it doesn't just look like another advertisement for toothpaste.

A big turnoff for many users is when a free classifieds site doesn't work on their browser. Designing your website for only one type of browser will make you lose tons of traffic. Make it compatible to as many browsers as possible so that users can have the full experience your site has to offer. Keep in mind that everyone won't be using the same browser.

Try launching a traffic contest. If you want traffic, get your readers involved! You could launch a contest where you ask other free classifieds site owners to send traffic to one particular page on your website. It could be the contest page itself (for viral effect) or a resource page, where you give away a E-book or another product. Establish a time frame for the contest, then let it play out! Afterward, check your web analytics to find out which site sent you the most visitors, and give them a prize.

You get what you pay for with hosting for your free classifieds site. You will not get the best service or fastest speeds from hosting that is free or cheap. A successful, reliable website is dependent on the investment in a quality host.

To be able to score good traffic, when having a huge amount of text written in HTML, try avoiding Java Script, Flash and image based images to your free classifieds site. If the coding and the content on your website is relevant and coordinating, your site would be seen in search results more frequently.

Spending a lot of time and money to make your site's pages beautiful may be a waste if few visitors stick around to admire them because of slow loads. Keeping your pages fairly short and breaking up lengthy content over a couple pages can shorten load times while improving the user experience.

Effectively drawing in users can be done with unique and eye-catching designs on a free classifieds site. Heavy graphics slow loading time even if they do catch the user's eye. Slow loading time turns users off. Design your own for uniqueness and keep them light.

You sell your personal story, your business as solid and respectable or yourself as an authority to be trusted in the filed on the About page. You can connect with visitors and allow your personality to shine here.




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