Advertising Methods FREE TIPS
Free For All sites, of which they are many thousands, allow users to place a description and link to their website for free. These sites list a limited number of links. As newer links are posted older ones are removed. Their are programs which are able to submit descriptions and links to Free For All site. These sites are termed as high traffic because so many links are being posted to them, tens of thousands, by software. Your description and link may only be displayed for only a short time before being rotated off the site as new sites are posted. The main point of these Free For All sites is not to provide a link to you but to email you with advertising when you supply your details. This is counted as opt-in emails an one method that Opt-In email or Safe Lists and other Bulk email methods use to send emails to you.
Free For All sites are sometimes known as reverse advertising because they are not their to advertise you but to advertise there own products or services when they email you. These sites are not usually visited by real people but only by the software which posts details to them. Sometimes real people may view there pages to see if their own site has been listed and could if your timing is lucky see your link. Reverse Marketing is the term giving the FFA pages because these site are not really there to promote your website but to promote the products and service of the FFA website owner when they email you. Your email details may be sold to other services increasing Spam to your email. Sometimes some search engines will find FFA temporary links to your site. This may help increase link popularity to your site. Some FFA sites are better than others.
Some FFA sites don't even display pages, I assume this is because too many submissions are being made for the bandwidth of the site. Some FFA sites require conformation of your email address before they will list your site. Returning emails may be posted as soon as you suggest a site or after sometime after.
FFA websites usually accept free ads to collect email addresses, which they can then sell increasing eMail Spam to your email address. They don't usually really care if your ad is ever seen or if it is displayed correctly or not. When the next one is submitted, the oldest is dropped, and the process continues.
NOTE: Some of the eMail Spam your receive may be Phishing messages or other Scams and hoaxes. Fraud warnings. Virus Attacks which are hoping to get money from you.
Advice: We don't recommend this method. (Submitting sites related to increasing website traffic are probably more likely you produce results). Create a separate website to submit to FFA sites because some of the major, better, search engines have been reported to reduce the rank of site which submit to FFA sites.
Warning and concern regarding FFA's.
They could seriously downgrade any rankings you may have... worse-- you could be removed from major search engines completely. A lot of search engines will place most FFA's into a list of sites to ignore. Not only are they "ignored" but links on them may also penalized or rankings. Generally they are they not effective and they can actually harm how many visitors you will receive.
The email address you enter in your submission Information is what is sent to the engines. You will not want to enter your main email address here because you may receive a large number of emails, (used in reverse marketing). Use an alternate email address such as a free email account. Be sure to keep your email account clean because if emails to your account bounce the engines may remove your site from their listing. Although FFA sites may be used, (this is not recommended), but make sure you use a separate email account which is automatically deletes all emails to it. The eMail Spam emails you get will increase if you submit to FFA sites even if you use a separate email account. Use a program such as Traffic Seeker which is able to post to lots of FFA pages as well as to the Major search engines. You may generally re-submit, (this is not recommended), to FFA sites at every day.
General rule: Delete any Spam, (junk email, unsolicited emails, un-request emails). Use Spam Filters to help remove unwanted emails.
You are not likely to receive any significant Traffic using this method of listing your sites. Not many actual people visit them and your link may only be displayed for a few minutes before being rotated off the list. You may get a few visits, if you submit to every day via the scheduler in Traffic Seeker Their are so many FFA sites that Traffic Seeker is probably the best way to submit to them automatically. You need to set up a junk email account say with Yahoo or Hotmail. Use this when submitting to FFA websites. This will need emptying from time to time, set filters to delete all emails except any you wish to confirm. The amount of Spam you receive, (even to none Junk email addresses), will increase because of techniques such as harvesting emails. Once a day is the normal level of submitting to FFA sites.
FFA links don't give much benefits in improving traffic to your website, most FFA links are mainly used to email you with you with advertising emails, reverse marketing. There main purpose than to collect your email address, which they may sell to other advertisers. They may also place your email on to an opt-in list or so called safe lists. This is why they require confirmation of the submission before listing.
Most, not all, search engines don't list FFA sites and the temporary nature of links will probably NOT HELP website ranking. Also almost anyone is able to post to FFA sites therefore links from FFA sites to your site may not prove very beneficial towards Google PageRank®.
It has been reported that some Major search engines may not view websites which have been submitted to FFA sites as sites worth listing and could even remove there listing because they have been submitting to FFA sites. For this reason create a separate site which you are willing to use for submitting to FFA sites and don't need to be listed with Major search engines.
Getting a listed on a Free For All site may be classed as being listed with a Bad Neighbourhood.
FFA Site example See our notes on Spam. The List. Opt-In emails.
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