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FFA's and your Home Business websiteBob Continues on the topic o FFA's and Home Business websites: Jim Wilson of virtualpromote dot com has grown an amazing site in a brief time. Throughout, he has maintained that effective use of Free-for-Allss has been a key to his success. And he continues to believe this. In fact he offers a free service that will submit to around sixteen hundred sites at jimtools dot com, then in the center column of this page under SubmitBot, click on Register. Do not use an email address you need; you'll will be spammed heavily.) Above, it was suggested that FFAs did not work equally well for all sites. One reason for Jim's success was that a large % of visitors to FFA pages were web marketers, an audience to which Jim had a great deal to offer. Things have changed so dramatically in the last couple of years, that it seems unlikely any demographics regards FFA visitors as available. In fact, if you visit a site, you may find yourself asking, "Why would anyone come here?" {Editors note: the site promotelikecrazy dot com is also a good free site for submitting your Home Business site to may FFA's at once} The biggest change has been due to the availability of software, such as mentioned above on Jim's site, that will automatically submit your website to FFA sites around the internet. While such tools are a great time saver, they are no longer effective because a lot of people use them. Now your submission to a site remains for only minutes. For example, suppose a site maintains two hundred listings. If it receives twenty new listings each minute, and drops the "oldest" twenty listing, your submission will be available for only 10 minutes. To complicate matters, most Free for All sites really do not care about your ad. They are automatically posted and deleted by software, and never seen by a human. What these people want is your email address. They will use it themselves to try to sell you things you do not need. And they sell them to others, too. Years back I posted ads regularly to several FFA sites. And got some pretty decent results. But the gain in hits never seemed worth the time required to post. So for several years I gave up on the idea. When Submit Wolf became available, I bought a copy. In June of 1998, on behalf of a client, I used this program to submit an ad for a free recipe cataloging program. Of sixteen hundred and sixty sites available, the program reported success in submitting to one thousand and ninety sites. The results were astonishing. My client received over thirty-seven hundred download requests. And since users are invited to share recipes, he was overwhelmed getting submissions collected and uploaded for visitors to use. When I asked if he wanted another run, he said, "Not just now, thanks." In Nov. 1998, we did go again. Results? Only 200 or so hits. I again updated the program database in Jan, of 99' and ran again with about the same results. I do not have an explanation for the big success on the first run and the virtual failure of the last two. Since we were trying to interest visitors in software being sold, a couple hundred freebie seekers did not convert to many buyers. |
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