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A lot people will say that effective free advertising online is a thing of the past. But this is largely just talk. While it's probably true that paid advertising is more effective, free advertising is far from dead.

There are a great number of methods when it comes to free promotion, such as forum advertising, article submission, and viral ebooks, which goes to show that free advertising is indeed alive and well. In this article however, we will just be looking at a simple and easy method, that of using free ads forums and classified advertising sites.

When it comes to using free advertising, it's mostly just a numbers game. The more ads you have circulating, the better the results. And there are too many places to count when it comes to posting free ads. One good thing about a lot of free ad sites is that you can post your ads over and over again. A lot of free ads forums make so you move your ad to the top with just a quick reply.

It is easy to find lots of websites where you can post free ads. You can use Google or basically any search engine to do searches for terms such as post free ads, free classifieds, free advertising forum, and so on.

Persistent effort is the key to be successful with free ads. You pretty much have to post day in and day out. If you make the effort to track your results, you'll soon learn which sites and what times are the optimum for posting ads. Knowing the best places to post your ads makes things a lot easier and saves time as well.

Ultimately, what it is you are offering will largely determine how successful your free advertising campaigns will be. Advertising something that has wide appeal and is also free, will likely yield the best results. A lot of the traffic at most free advertising sites is comprised of other advertisers, who are there to post their own ads, so having an offer that appeals to them is a good idea. If you happen to be offering something related to advertising, or even better, free advertising, you chances of success can be greatly boosted.

While posting free ads might not be the absolute optimum way to generate traffic, it certainly can be effective enough to start pulling in some nice targeted traffic, particularly if you make the effort to do it on a consistent basis. And combining this method with other forms of free advertising, such as using forum signatures, social bookmarks, submitting articles, etc., it is thus surely possible to get your brand new or unnoticed site off and running in just a few short months.