Newbie Guide To Free For All Sites (FFA’s)
For those of you who don’t know what an FFA site is, it’s basically a website where you can post a link/add to your website for free. Generally it is also posted to many other sites at the same time and hopefully somebody sees your link…free advertising in other words. This also creates backlinks to your website. When you post a link, you are also giving permission (whether you know it or not) to receive confirmation e-mails back from the site owner.
For people new to all this however, it can be baffling. Sometimes they are angry when they not only do not see a flood of sales coming their way from their posting, but they start receiving other people’s offers instead. It can be quite frustrating for a newbie.
Let’s back the truck up a minute and really explore what just happened and the true purpose of a FFA site. The real purpose is for the site owner to promote his business or product to you. He’s just just being a nice person giving people free advertising space. If it worked that way, he’d be using it as his own goldmine. This is just the bait so people will post their site, so they can send their offers to you via their confirmation link. Brilliant isn’t it?
Those confirmation e-mails are NOT spam. You had to agree to receive them in order to post your link. Who are reading these ads anyway? So is posting to FFA’s a total waste of time? Not necessarily, you do get an occasional sale, people do go back to post their links and sometimes take a quick look through the links to see what’s there while they’re at it.
So how do you really use them for your benefit? Get your own FFA site to promote your business. There are many excellent ones out there, shop around to find which you like best. Many offer free or paid upgrade versions and the phrase “you get what you pay for” comes to mind. I’ve used several kinds and found the paid upgrades more than paid for themselves.
Many things can be promoted through FFA sites, information products, crafts, vitamins, and anything else you are selling. If you don’t have traffic coming to your site, it doesn’t matter how great what you have is, you won’t have sales. These sites provide methods to get traffic to your site. Free classified websites work in pretty much the same concept and can be another method worth pursuing.
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