Where to Advertise

Free Ad web sites

There are various free ad web sites on the Internet where you can place free classified ads. Below are links to some of them. You can also go to www.funnel.co.za or www.ananzi.co.za and search for "free online ads". Both these sites will give you South African results. If you know of other good free ad web site please email it to me at pieter (at) earnextra.co.za so that I can it to the list.

Each of these web site work in a different way. I cannot write instruction one the use of each of them. You will register on the web site, then log in and place your ad. If you are not sure how to place an ad then start off by using FreeOnlineAds.co.za . They have an online tutorial which shows you how to place an ad. Click here to go there now.

Pay per click ads

You might have seen on some web site are these small Google Ads on the pages. You place these ads using Google's Adwords service. You can register for Adwords at https://adwords.google.com/

When you setup a new campaign make sure you choose "South Africa" only. You will be paying each time somebody clicks your ad and you will not benefit at all if somebody in India or Russia clicks your ad. Also put a daily limit on the account according to what you can afford. Never run an Adwords campaign without a daily limit.

In South Africa you can also use Peppor.com , click here . With Peppor.com you will target South African traffic. You can choose between Pay per click, Pay per lead or Pay per sale if you are selling something.

You can also try Yahoo's pay per click engine at http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/

Forums and Communities

There are discussions forums for just about any topic you can think off. You do not have to register specifically for "work from home" or "marketing" forums.

Again your signature will work extremely good. It is a very subtle way to make people aware of what you do. If you regularly post information on a forum, people will be curious to see what you do. I always use my web site URL as signature.

Find a forum related to your hobby or something you are an expert in. If you post good valuable contributions to the forum people start to see you as a reliable knowledgeable person and will trust you recommendations.

Just search www.google.co.za for "your topic forum".

Also try http://www.theforumsa.co.za/

My Favorite business community forum is http://sabizcommunity.co.za/

And you can also register at http://sta.rtup.biz/

WARNING

If you spend money on online ads. Be very careful for sites that offers you to buy "hits" from them. Most of these are useless. You will see increased number of hits to your site but very little increase in results. They either have software generating the hits or the wrong audience.