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I seem to be re-learning a lesson about placing classified ads. The better quality ones, the ones set up for local cities, etc., do not allow you to post ads with affiliate referral links in them. They want ads for items for sale or for services and jobs, and community announcements.

Just yesterday I placed an ad for a free e-book to download, geared to work-at-home Moms. I soon had an email telling me it had been deleted for being illegal.

Illegal? Well, only on that site.

I’ve just done a search for classifieds that allow affiliate links, and it seems there is only AdlandPro and a great barge full of the ones that you really don’t want your ad to be seen in. Oh yes, there are classifieds sites that allow affiliate links, but the caliber of ads is low, and your ad will not come before the eyes of the people you really would like to join under you. - or I should say under me.

I’ve gone through phases of trying classifieds in the past, and found that most of them were free-for-all (ffa) sites, and those sites are set up to trap your email so they can flood YOU with their ads. That’s not the crowd I want to run with.

This tells me that I should work a little harder at my ads on AdlandPro, and I should be making room in my life for some other methods of promotion.

Since last year I’ve heard, or read, a lot of advice about writing interesting and informative articles that subtly refer to whatever website or affiliate program I want to promote, but with the clickable link in the bio or resource box which comes at the bottom. That is in fact, my deluxe ad, and since these articles are posted on article directory sites, the links to my site are worth far more than in a classified ad. It also means that visitors come to see my site and explore around it, rather then just landing on an affiliate program page, and clicking away as fast as they realize what that is.

If you can chatter helpful stuff on any given topic you should be able to write an article too, though, naturally, there are tips and tricks for writing a more productive article that will really score high for you.

I really want to be thorough about my campaign with classified ads, so I’ll work at submitting mine on a regular basis at AdlandPro for a while, to test the effectiveness of those ads. There’s no point in dumping the baby out with the bathtub water if there’s hope, right?

But you will find my advice here shifting to articles over the next while. We’ll see if we can’t make that a whole lot more useful to you. Even if you’ve never seen yourself as an article writer before. It’s a learnable skill!