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Conclusion of article about FFA's and your Home Business websiteConclusion of Bob's article on o FFA's and Home Business websites: I wrote an HTML tutorial targeting beginners, even before putting up STAT. And sikekit.html was one of the first pages I loaded. Remembering that first enormous success with the free recipe program, I was hoping to draw traffic to my brand new site. About two weeks apart, updating the Submit Wolf database before each run, I submitted the following ad: Master HTML in 4.5 hours! Get your copy of the Web Page Starter Kit. It shows you step-by-step how to write HTML code. A $39 value - FREE! Click here for details! Now ads are tricky; that's true. And I'll lay no claim to the above being the greatest. But it is essentially the ad I use on the home page at STAT. It continues to draw well over a hundred downloads each week. And a steady flow of thank-yous from users. Four submissions to the FFAs with Submit Wolf collectively drew less than 3 downloads per week over a period of nearly two months. As described above, I used Jim's service to submit a page to 1600 FFAs. Things have changed. I was asked only for a title. So I used the above headline. I received 2 hits. If this held and I submitted daily, this would mean 14 hits per week, which would translate to about 3-5 downloads. Other Jim Tools Jim also offers auto-submission to 75 search engines and 75 directories. I have not tried this, but it may be worth doing. Small search engines and directories are popping up left and right. Many of them vertical directories or vortals. Some of these will grow. And your hit counts will increase correspondingly. Wrapping Up To me it's clear that automatic submission to FFAs is pretty close to a total waste of time. If you are just getting started and even a few hits seems a lot, try Jim Wilson's search engine and directory services. But personally I don't believe you'll recover time costs messing with FFAs. Your best bet is to follow David Seitz's suggestions in "Taking Control of The Classifieds." Bob McElwain Want to build a winning site? Improve one you already have? Fix one that's busted? Get ANSWERS. Subscribe to "STAT News" now! mailto:join-stat@lists.dundee.net Web marketing and consulting since 1993 Site: |