PorkyPost.com Free Classifieds Advertising

Porky post is a large high traffic user friendly free online classifieds and online advertising community for all your online advertising needs. This fantastic online classifieds site does not require any registration to post the classified ads which makes it very easy to use. PorkyPost.com also has a free advertising forum for you business advertisers looking to promote your business and receive free one-way back links to your website as well. Another feature of ProkyPost which I like is the ability to post a banner site wide on there site in minutes giving you instant targeted traffic back to your site with over 500 pages your banner will indeed be notice among users.

Posting on this site is easy as pie, As soon as you arrive at this site you can start posting ads immediately and if you need national attention you can post in all 50 states and other countries as well which will lead to more sells and audience.

Advertise on this free classified website to promote your business on, because it is well worth it. The site is popular in India, USA, Indonesia, Pakistan and Australia. It's gaining popularity in other countries as well.

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.

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.

Popular free classified websites

Free classifieds websites have make a revolution in the filed of online advertising. Free classifieds are now one of the prime source of internet marketing. Craigslist.org is the leader and model in this field. Being inspired by the success of craigslist, internet giants like google, yahoo, Microsoft have also started free classifieds.
~ craigslist.org is the most popular free classified website.
~ backpage.com is very popular in USA.
~ kijiji network is popular in Canada (kijiji.ca), China (kijiji.cn),
India (kijiji.in), Germany (kijiji.de), France (kijiji.fr) and Italy
(kijiji.it)
~ gumtree network is popular in UK (gumtree.com), Australia
(gumtree.com.au) and New Zealand (gumtree.co.nz)
~ loquo.com is popular in Spain.

I have compiled a list of popular free classified web sites. Click here to see other popular free classified websites.

Enjoy marketing through free classifieds :)

Gumtree has opened its US chapter

Gumtree.com, the very much popular free classified website of the UK has started its US mission. Very recently kijiji the popular Canadian free classifieds entered in the US market. Now another famous classifieds gumtree is in the fight to grab US traffic.

So it may be anticipated that one day craigslist's monopoly in the field of free classifieds will be challenged.

Following are 3 US sites of gumtree:

• http://boston.gumtree.com/
• http://newyork.gumtree.com/
• http://chicago.gumtree.com/
  

Synopsis of craigslist

Craigslist is the leader of free classifieds sites. It is founded by Craig Newmark in 1995. He started craigslist to serve as a non-commercial community bulletin board with classifieds and discussion forums.
Although the site has gained huge popularity and now one of the top traffic catching site, it has retain it's non corporate nature. It has a large network worldwide in about 450 cities in all 50 US states and over 50 countries.

Due to its incredible popularity the site has become target of the spammers. Craig and his team have shown their excellent capability fighting against those spammers. Specially, the auto-posting tools has created huge overload on the site. Craig seems very much successful to fight against auto-posting tools.

Craigslist gets more than 5 billion page views per month. Over 14 million new classified ads are posted on craigslist each month.

The strength of the site is that it allows a wide range of HTML elements in posting including link to any website, external image, formatting html elements with style="..." , table, div, span and so on. While other free classifieds sites allow only basic text formatting like <b>, <u>, <i> etc. However, Craigslist prohibits using javascript, video, flash and some attribute inside <style> tag.