MySpace has partnered with Oodle for its classified section

Popular social networking site MySpace.com has relaunched it's free classified section. This time MySpace has been tied with the popoular free classifieds Oodle.com . Although MySpace is the most popular social networking site, it's classified section is not that much popular yet. MySpace has partnered with Oodle with the hope to make it's free classified section much more popular.

Facebook, another popular social networking site has also free classified section. Most of the social networking sites are now introducing free classified section. On the other hand, Oodle is not a partner of MySpace only, Oodle has partnered with a lot of other sites. Oodle has become a leading free classified network.

Integration with Oodle will give some new functionality to MySpace classifieds like search facilites. Now myspace will be able to compete with cragislist more effectively for free classifieds. At the same time myspace will be able to meet the needs of trading of its own users more successfully.

eBay Acquired two Danish classifieds

eBay owns the kijiji-gumtree free classifieds network which is the largest network of free classifieds on the net. This network is on top positions in Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, and sites in more than 1,000 cities across 20 countries.
eBay has acquired Denmark's leading online classifieds site dba.dk and vehicles site bilbasen.dk for approximately $390 million in cash. Den Bla Avis and BilBasen are leading classifieds businesses in Denmark and operate dba.dk, an online classifieds site that generates more than 120 million page views per month, and bilbasen.dk, an online vehicle classifieds site that generates 66 million page views per month. Founded as printed classified advertising circulars, Den Bla Avis and BilBasen have successfully made the transition to fast-growing, profitable online businesses while maintaining the publication of its circulars. Den Bla Avis and BilBasen have offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark.
Den Bla Avis and BilBasen are leading classifieds businesses in Denmark and operate dba.dk, an online classifieds site that generates more than 120 million page views per month, and bilbasen.dk, an online vehicle classifieds site that generates 66 million page views per month. Founded as printed classified advertising circulars, Den Bla Avis and BilBasen have successfully made the transition to fast-growing, profitable online businesses while maintaining the publication of its circulars. Den Bla Avis and BilBasen have offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark.
The worldwide classified ads industry tops $100 billion in all forms. With the continued migration of print classifieds to online, eBay is capitalizing on the market dynamics with an aggressive growth strategy for its global classifieds portfolio.
Source: http://news.ebay.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=338504

Online Free Classifieds of India

Following are some popular free classifieds on India:
(Relative popularity in India according to Alexa ranking is shown in parenthesis)

1. classifieds.sulekha.com (43) Sulekha Classifieds & Yellow Pages. Post free classified ads & search online classifieds ads for Real Estate, Cars, Jobs, Rentals, Buy & Sell, Services and find practically everything.
   
2. clickindia.com (205) Click India Classifieds - A Site To Post Free Buy Sell Indian Classified Ads Online. Search Classified Ads For Jobs, Find Real Estate Properties On Sale, Sell Your House, Free Ads In Education, Used Cars / Bikes Sale Ads, Travel Package Offers & Deals, Pets & More. Also Find Local Information City Guides With Business Listings & Yellow Page Of Property Dealers, Agents, Restaurants & Hotels, Coaching Centres With Contact Details, Address And Reviews.
   
3. click.in (328) Free India classifieds. Sell, Buy, Find - faster & easier: flats, houses, PG, jobs, cars, motorcycles, mobiles, computers, ... - click.in
   
4. olx.in (308) OLX India Free classifieds. OLX offers free local classified ads in India. OLX is the next generation of free online classifieds. OLX provides a simple solution to the complications involved in selling, buying, trading, discussing, organizing, and meeting people near you.
   
5. quikr.com (380) Formerly Kijiji India kijiji.in
   
6. vivastreet.co.in (350) Used cars, pets, properties, babysitting, classes, jobs, events.
   
7. craigslist.co.in (707) The pioneer of free online classifieds is also popular in India.
   
8. locanto.in (760) Locanto offers free online classifieds in all major cities in India. Browsing, reading or posting classified ads is free, try it now!
   
9. indialist.com (1033)
10. kugli.com (4469) Part of worlwide Kugli free classifieds network. Kugli.com is the Free Classifieds site and the International Business Networking site. Free Classified Ads & Global Classified Network. Whether you are an employer looking to expand internationally and searching for the right candidate, an employee looking for the perfect job, a trader or collector looking for new suppliers or buyers or a professional looking to communicate with people. Kugli.com is a fast growing free local classified ads website.
    
11. adpost.com (2,239) Free Classifieds @ Adpost.com Classifieds - Free Classifieds for over 1000+ cities, 500+ regions worldwide & across the world - free
    
12. adsforindians.com (4,078) Free Indian ads, Indian Classifieds, Indian Classified ad Online, Announcements, Automobiles, Arts & Antiques, Business Products, Business, Computer, Employment, Education, Matrimonial, Personals, Real Estate, Travel & Tourism, Indian Classifieds Ads Search Engine and Web directory, free of cost ads, banner
    
13. goforads.com (6,414) goforads Classifieds. Now Post Classified Ads Absolutely FREE & Search from over 100,000+ ads of Property, Cars, Bikes, Jobs, Rentals, Furniture, Computers, Services etc & get what ever You Need!
    
14. webcosmo.com (7382) The Home of Free Classified Ads. Post Free Ads. Countrywide, Statewide, Local Classified Advertising.
    
    

Few more growing free classifieds of India are following:

1. allindiaads.com
2. allindiaclassified.com
3. boostime.in
4. desisoup.com
5. expressclassifieds.in
6. freeclassifiedsindia.com
7. fyndin.com
8. indiaboard.com
9. indiaclassifieds.com
10. indianclassifieds.com
11. indianflyer.com

Gumtree quits USA market

Around one year ago gumtree, a popular free classifieds site of UK and Australia starts it's USA mission with 3 cities namely Boston,  Chicago and New York.  gumtree newtwork is a partner of kijiji network. Being heavily promoted by eBay kijiji has got enormous popularity in the USA. So gumtree has decided to leave USA market instead of competing with it's partner site kijiji.  

Now  boston.gumtree.com redirects to  Boston Kijiji, chicago.gumtree.com redirects to Chicago Kijiji and newyork.gumtree.com redirects to New York Kijiji. Combinely gumtree-kijiji network is the largest and most popular network of free classified sites around the world. Although craigslist.org has huge popularity in USA the site fails to get that much popularity outside USA and among the non-english speaking nations. Grumtree-kijiji network has captured the non-US and non-English markets of online free classifieds very well.

Real Estate classifieds of USA

craigslist.org is the most popular free classifieds of the United States. craigslist's real estate sections are very popular too for buying and selling real estate. Besides craigslist there are some specialized sites for real estate listing. Following are some popular real estate listing/classified sites of USA:

Buydiscountedproperties.com

discountedproperties.com

realestatepromo.com

freeinvestmentpropertylist.com

realestatelink.net

Rehablist.com

TheInvestmentPropertyList.com

Wholesaleproperties.com

PropertyBlowOut.com

TheCreativeInvestor.com

MrLandLord.com

oodle.com

vast.com

googlebase.com

hotpads.com

BeatYourPrice: A New Name in Classified Ads Site

The Internet has made things easier for the marketers as well as the customers and various classified sites add the charm of shopping on the web. BeatYourPrice.com is a new name in the list of sites for classified ads. It is a versatile site that caters to a vast range of products.

The things that you can find on BeatYourPrice include automobile, pets, electronics, books, real estate, musical instruments, kids stuff, tools, and jewelry and the list goes on. You can also sell things here besides shopping for them. It is a user friendly site that makes your navigation through the website easy. You can advertise on this site for free for seven days and you can buy different packages if you wish to run it for a longer period.

You can also join different communities catering to your interests on Beatyourprice.com, to get updated on things you love. You will be informed about the auctions and sales. Besides that, you can also get various services like auto repair, beauty and health, child care, dental and medical, financial, lawn and garden, legal, tech help, travel and lots more. The best part is you can find all these things at your desired location. The site allows to you to choose your country and then look for a specific thing.

This site is also beneficial for those who are looking for a job or an opportunity or to start up a business. So, if you have any of these needs, you just have to visit the site of Beatyourprice.com and you will find that it has every thing that you have wanted.

Microsoft is abandoing it's free classifieds "Windows Live Expo"

Microsoft is retiring it's free classifieds known as Windows Live Expo. Following notice is now being displayed on the Windows Live Expo site:

Windows Live Expo will discontinue service on 31 July 2008. In preparation, the following features are no longer available:

• Create a new account.
• Post a new listing.
• Extend a listing.
• Upgrade a listing to a premium listing.
  

All current listings will remain on expo.live.com until they expire.

We thank you for your patronage and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
-The Windows Live Expo Team.

Several months ago Yahoo retired its free classifieds section (classifieds.yahoo.com). Now Microsoft is following yahoo. While another internet tycoon google is still continuing it's free classifieds known as google base. MySpace and FaceBook are also continuing their free classifieds sections so far.
According to Alexa less than 1% people who visit live.com visit its free classified section expo.live.com. So it is not surprising that Microsoft couldn't find Windows Live Expo profitable and now shutting down.

Craigslist is limiting use of HTML

Craigs list is going to limit the use of HTML tags in body of ads. Craigslist has taken this initiative because "much of the HTML in postings these days is used by spammers for harmful purposes, such as cloaking spam links, embedding false keywords, and overriding the flagging system.", as mentioned on craigslist site.

Details of proposed permitted HTML tags have been for review by the users on the craigslist site and is available here http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/html_in_craigslist_postings
The proposed allowed tags are :

• basic text formatting tags like <B> <U> etc.
• Line breaks : <BR> <p>
• Horizontal line <hr>
• Headers : <H1> <H2> ... <H6>
• Unordered and ordered lists: <UL> <OL> <LI>
• Dictionary lists: <DL> <DT> <DD>
• Hyperlink: <A>
• Image : <IMG>
• Preformatted text: <PRE>
• Table: <table> <TR> <TD>

It may be noted that use of <DIV> & <SPAN> will not be permitted.

Discussion on this proposal is going on craigslist's help forum. Checkout this. It seems most of the users are supporting the move. So it may be anticipated that craigslist will limit use of HTML as soon as it can finish necessary software updates.

Craigslist alternatives in the UK

Like USA craigslist is also popular in some cities of United Kingdom. But there are some other popular free classifieds in he UK as well. gumtree.com is the most popular free classifieds of UK.

Following are some sites like craigslist in the UK:

http://gumtree.com/
http://tapthat.co.uk/
http://hallolondon.co.uk/
http://london.adzooks.co.uk/
http://vivastreet.co.uk/
http://adoos.co.uk/
http://freeukclassifieds.co.uk/
http://ad-mart.co.uk/
http://www.loot.com/
http://uk.freeads.net/
http://www.adoos.co.uk/
http://www.friday-ad.co.uk/

I use above UK free classifieds frequently. But there are a lot of other free sites like craigslist in the UK.


You may get more by searching google with following phrases:

UK Classifieds
UK Classifieds sites
UK Classifieds Websites
popular free classifieds in the UK
free classifieds in the UK
online free classifieds in the UK

New free classifieds site Locanto

The brand new free classifieds site Locanto is another member of online free classifies community which is rapidly getting a foothold in the international classifieds market. At this moment Locanto offers its service in 2 languages : English & Spanish and 19 countries. The Locanto site is gaining popularity very fast in the countries like America, India, UK, South Africa & Singapore.

Locanto has the following classified sections:

Community / Personals / Vehicles for sale / Pets for sale or adoption / Apartments for rent / Real estate / Buy & Sell / Jobs & Resumes / Local services

Locanto is easy to use and has a simple user interface. Although the site is young, Locanto as a free classifieds is already showing a lot of abundance. Locanto has also followed craigslist model. Try Locanto now, it’s free.

AdLandPro - the money makers classifieds & network

AdLandPro is a free classified site with networking feature. AdLandPro's Community section is the heaven for the network marketer. Adlandpro has Free Membership and paid membership options.

AdLandPro has a lot of tools for Network marketers like blog, forums, photo sharing, sending friend request with a message, Targeted Direct Contact, Community Banners, Monthly Bulletin, Renewable Offers/Requests, Private Forums, Message Polls, Autoresponders etc.

AdLandPro supplies some good Tutorials for its members for free.

AdLandpro offers Traffic Exchange and Affiliate programs.

Try AdLandPro today!!

CAPTCHA twist another trick of Craigslist

Did you post any ad very recently on Craigslist? Have you noticed that sometimes craigslist says wrong input for CAPTCHA image although you are entering accurately? Have you noticed that often second time verification image is given after you click on the ACCEPT button?

Are all these due to problems on craigslist servers?

Perhaps not. These seem to be the latest tricks from Craiglist to stop the auto-posters. Not a bad idea at all. Such random placement of verification image will make most of the auto-posting tools null and void. Who doesn't know that mostly hardcore spammers and scammers use those craigslist auto posting tools.

Eesy Cheesy : New free classifieds with networking

EesyCheesy.com is a Seattle based brand new free classifieds launched few months ago. It's not only a platform for free classified advertising but also social networking, photo & video sharing, blogging. There is a flavor of MySpace or FaceBook.

After registration on the site, upload your photos, update your profile, and pick your page design… it’s that easy. Then, you can import or upload your contacts files from Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook, and whatnot and invite friends along. I’ll be curious to see the progress of the site.

Let's see in which direction it goes: networking or classifieds?

I wish success of Eesy Cheesy!

Popular Searches : new feature of backpage

Backpage.com has introduced some new features :

- Popular searches by users a newly introduced nice feature.
You can view popular search terms by category. It will help you write better postings and get more views. Example: Popular Searches on Dallas Backpage and Popular Searches on Las Vegas

Kijiji already has this feature. Check out this Popular Searches on Toronto kijiji and Popular Searches on New York kijiji

Other new features are:
- Upgraded search engine optimization: Your backpage postings will appear more frequently on Google searches.

- 15 new cities launched. Those are: Alaska backpage , Harrisburg, PA backpage , Jackson, MS backpage , Burlington, VT backpage , Calgary backpage , Maine backpage , Colorado Springs backpage , Columbia backpage , Dayton backpage , New Jersey backpage , Des Moines, IA backpage , Edmonton backpage , Eugene, OR backpage , Omaha backpage , Fresno backpage

TapThat.co.uk free classifieds : getting popularity in UK

TapThat.co.uk is a nice UK based online free classified site. It has 79 counties in its list. Some popular sites of TapThat.co.uk are following:
# london.tapthat.co.uk
# west-midlands.tapthat.co.uk
# admin.tapthat.co.uk
# leicestershire.tapthat.co.uk
# berkshire.tapthat.co.uk
# hampshire.tapthat.co.uk
# lothian.tapthat.co.uk
# clwyd.tapthat.co.uk
# gr-manchester.tapthat.co.uk
# antrim.tapthat.co.uk

Popular categories of tapthat.co.uk are Houses/Flats/Rooms, Jobs, Buy and Sell, Cars For Sale,

Other categories are Events, Pets For Sale, Community, The world at your doorstep (!), Services, Share your photos and Personals

TapThat.co.uk is one of the UK's Leading Community Site with over 85K Adverts in its database at this moment and growing further.

Try this UK free classified site.

There is no doubt that gumtree.com is the most popular free classifieds of UK. TapThat.co.uk is also getting popularity quickly.

Web Cosmo - another good free classifieds

Web Cosmo is a well-designed USA based online free classified site although it has over 40 more countries on it's list. Webcosmo has also followed the craigslist's style.

Web cosmo has following classified sections:
community housing for sale jobs services personals resumes and gigs

Webcosmo recently started forums too.

It has a Poll section which is not available on most other free classifieds.

Webcosmo has got some popularity on following countries:
United States, Philippines, India, Canada, Turkey,
Malaysia, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Egypt


Hopefully it will be get popularity soon.

OLX - a promising free classified web site

OLX started its mission on March 2006. Within two years it has captured significant market share of online free classifieds. OLX has a presence in over 40 countries on six continents.

OLX is following craigslist's style graphics free simple design.

OLX has following classified sections:

For Sale Vehicles Real Estate

Services Jobs Resumes Community

Classes Personals

OLX also has Discussion Forums although it has no Event Calender section.

StumbleHere.com - new USA free classifieds

StumbleHere is a new general classified website for USA.

Posting is completely free. It has 'for sale', service, housing, community, jobs, gigs, personals, resumes and announcements sections.
It also has discussion forums.

It's offering $500 prize contest for posting ads during this January, 2008

Try this cool new free classified website.