When searching for low cost lead generation to mass market their websites or products, many internet marketers are overlooking the best kept secrets. Advertising on Craigslist.org is a great way to drum up traffic if you know exactly how to post to make it work.

Classified advertising is not new idea. People have been placing ads in newspapers and magazine for as long as their have been newspapers and magazines. What is relatively new are free classifieds as a means of low cost lead generation. Although virtual, they have the potential to reach anyone who has internet access.

Although you may have tried this before- posting on a free virtual classifieds network such as Craigslist can bring your website an immense amount of traffic as well as build you a very large profitable list.

CraigsList has been around for 12 years- and the records show: 10 billion page views, 40 million users, 2 million new job listings each month, 90 million user postings in 100 topical forums, and 10 million new images per month (and growing). Craigslist has both local and worldwide classifieds and forums for over 576 cities in over 50 countries worldwide.

With an online classified ads format organized by either region or city, Craigslist connects buyers and sellers in more than 300 communities; for the most part, posting on the site is free.

*This is a free and effective low cost lead generation tool that’s within Your reach!*

Posting ads on Craigslist can be as simple as typing a 3-4 line text ad, or you can incorporate using html code and photos. When posting on Craigslist, you want to make sure your ad is relevant to the category that you are posting to. I like to use the name of the category that I am posting to in my title. So if I am posting an ad about inviting people to work at home, I would more than likely post to the sales, real estate, and marketing categories (this is where the most traffic is on Craigslist). So let’s say I was posting in the Sales category, I would say something like, ‘Need 11 people with Sales experience…’. What I have just done is targeted my approach to only people that have been in sales before.

Also, Craigslist is very strict about spamming. We do not advocate spamming on Craigslist. This means posting 5-10 of the same ad in the same city right in a row. But you can still get some great exposure on Craigslist without breaking their TOS. There are however tricks and secrets that can show you how to post thousands of ads on Craigslist in a very short period of time. This is especially good if you have a product or service that can be sold globally.

Craigslist, and free classified sites are a goldmine for any legitimate business that has anything for sale on the internet. These allow you to sell mass amounts of your product. There is a catch here; however, there are secrets on the online classified sites that you need to be well versed on to see positive results and growth in your business.