Beginner’s 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. 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.
What seems to happen though, is many people see this as
free advertising and get angry when, not only do they
not see a flood of sales come pouring in, but they
start receiving other people’s offers. I know when that
first happened to me, I couldn’t figure out what was
going on and was frustrated.
Let’s back up a moment and look at the bigger picture
of what an FFA site is and its TRUE purpose. The true
purpose of an FFA site is for the owner of that site to
promote his/her business. It’s really not just because
he’s a nice guy giving people a free advertising place.
(If it were such a goldmine in pulling in sales, he
would be doing it himself). That is just the bait,
getting people to his site to post their links,
thinking they are getting free advertising, so he can
respond with “confirmation” of your link, and his
business ad.
Those confirmation e-mails are NOT spam. You had to
agree to receive them in order to post your link. Who
is reading these ads anyway? Is posting to FFA’s a
total waste of time? Not necessarily, you do get an
occasional sale, people do go to post their links and
sometimes take a quick look through the links to see
what’s there while they’re posting.
So what’s the answer? Get your own FFA site to promote
your business. There are many excellent resources out
there. I have found from personal experience however,
that many of the services offering FFA’s sites, offer
a free version or a paid upgrade. The phrase “You get
what you pay for” comes to mind with these. I’ve used
several kinds and found that the paid upgrades more
than paid for themselves in sales. Shop around however
to compare between companies.
You can promote any product through this method;
information products, crafts, vitamins, whatever. You
could have the very best on the entire internet, but if
nobody sees your offer, it’s not going to get the sales
you desire. It takes traffic to get sales. These sites
are options for driving those numbers to your site.
Free classified ads sites are also in this same
category with the same purpose and can be worth
pursuing.
Best wishes to your promoting!
By Valerie Garner-Mother, grandmother and candlemaker /
owner of Joyful Designs in Soy (Candles). She loves to write
on a variety of topics with a warm, and engaging style.
http://www.joyfuldesignsinsoy.com