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:

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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.

Backpage is getting popularity

As posting on craigslist is becoming tougher day by day people are now switching to backpage.com to post their ads.
The backpage site is growing at an average rate of 21% per month. (source: About Backpage.com)
Beside craigslist Backpage is the only free classified site I have found which support a wide variety of HTML elements in description.
Backpage has significant popularity in the USA. It has only 3 Canadian cities. No cities from any other countries yet.
Backpage allows renewal of the old ads after 30 days.

Popular cities of backpage are :

# houston.backpage.com
# phoenix.backpage.com
# dallas.backpage.com
# newyork.backpage.com
# miami.backpage.com
# denver.backpage.com
# sandiego.backpage.com
# losangeles.backpage.com
# cleveland.backpage.com

Loquo.com - popular Spanish classified website

Loquo.com is very popular in Spain and some other countries who speak
Spanish. Although the site is primarily in Spanish, it has English
interface too.

Loquo has about 30 cities. Popular cities are: Barcelona, Madrid,
Valencia, Majorca, Alicante, Malaga & Tenerife / Gran Canaria.

Vacation rental section is very popular on loquo.

Loquo's discussion forums are also very popular to Spanish speaking people.


Loquo.com is part of kijiji network.

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/
  

Kijiji entered into the USA market

Finally kijiji has entered into the USA market. Now kijiji.com home page shows a map of USA and list of US cities. The list of other countries/regions is now show at the bottom of the home page.
I guess kijiji will be a strong competitor of craigslist in the USA. Kijiji.ca is already a competitor of craig's list in Canada.
At this moment backpage is the second most popular free classifieds site in the USA. Hopefully kijiji will soon be the second most popular free classifieds site in the USA. Kijiji has the biggest network worldwide.
At present kijiji is very much popular in Canada and Japan. Also it's partner gumtree.com is the most popular free classifieds site in the UK.

Kijiji is one step advance of craigslist in the sense that it support local languages while craigslist support only English.