Mastering the FFA sites to Maximize your results.
| Category: Free Services | Date: 2002-07-17 |
FFA stands for *Free For All*, which basically means that it is free for anyone to post ads on these sites.
Every day there seems to be new FFA and Link sites popping up on the Internet, but what kind of results can you expect from posting your ads on these sites?
Some would say zero results, others would say excellent results, we would say it all depends...
Depends on what?
Well it depends on which sites that you post to, the quality of your headlines and how often you post.
Why are there so many (thousands and thousands) of FFA and link sites?
Simply because many people who post to these sites get offered a free FFA site of their own.
Why would they want a free FFA site?
Mainly for the option of setting up an autoresponder message that goes out automatically to anyone and everyone who posts an ad on their site.
There is invariably a paid option as well as the free option, the extra benefit of being able to send messages to the global network of ad posters as well as the autoresponder message, this can mean sending an extra 500+ emails per day depending on the site.
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How to Maximize Your results with FFA sites and Link pages
We will cover the three options available to you below:
Posting your ad on FFA sites.
There is train of thought that it is not worth posting ads on FFA sites, as the visitors who go to the FFA sites, go primarily to post an ad not to read an ad. Although there is a basis of truth behind this thought, it is a slightly distorted viewpoint.
The owners of FFA sites are well aware that people who post an ad, do not necessarily read the ads placed, so they place their ad form at the bottom of the page.
So when someone comes to post an ad, they have to scroll down past all the ads to the form. If your ads stands out there is more of a chance of someone being interested enough to click on them.
If you take note of the tips below you can get good results from posting to FFA sites.
Firstly you need to use power words in your headline, some of the power words that work very well for us are - POWER, FREE, SECRET, UNCOVER, DISCOVER, STOP, the two that we get the best result from are FREE and STOP the latter being because we are all preconditioned to respond to the word STOP and FREE because everybody likes to get something for nothing.
Our suggestion to you is leave the body of your message alone and concentrate on your HEADLINE, this is what will attract visitors.
If you use the word FREE you can offer, free membership, free newsletter, free software, free Ebooks, free reports and such like - but remember whatever you offer for free, had better be of good quality and usefulness, as its being recommended by you, NEVER put your name to an inferior product or Company, you will lose credibility.
How you post is also very important, there are lots of methods but by far the best is to get a good quality software program to do the submitting for you. Most of the quality software programs will submit any amount of ads/urls to 8000+ FFA sites, you can use these programs daily to really maximize your exposure.
QUICK TIP - If you submit each page of your site as a separate ad you should receive about 20 clickthrus per day per ad, so if you have 20 pages that amounts to 400 visitors per day to your site.
You can save all 20 ads into the software program and submit them in batches of 5.
Remember to use a web based email program and go in regularly to delete all of the confirmations that you will receive from the FFA sites.
Back to top
Having your own free FFA Page.
The benefits of owning your own FFA page are that you can set up an autoresponder message that will automatically be sent out to anyone who posts an ad on your FFA site.
Also some of the free FFA pages allow you to edit your site and have a choice of adding your own banners, links to various sections of your page.
You can submit your FFA page to various online submitters and FFA software submission services, you will then gain more exposure for your FFA page and ultimately send out more autoresponder messages.
Upgrading to paid FFA membership.
The main difference between FREE and PAID is the collection of email addresses, which if you are clever you can use twice before you throw them away - once to thank them for posting their ad and the second time to invite them to post again (leave the second one for about a week before sending).
You will be able to send a daily email message to everyone that posts an ad over the whole of that FFAs global network, this can amount to 500 extra emails per day.
Do not send anymore than these two messages, otherwise you could get reported for spamming.
The note they see somewhere near the form when they post an ad (if they bother to read it that is), but it protects you all the same, goes something like this:
"By submitting your link to this FFA Page, you understand that you may receive confirmation e-mails from one or more FFA Pages belonging to this network."
If you upgrade to a paid membership, the majority of FFA sites will allow you to customize your FFA page with banner links and text links (advertising other programs you are affiliated with or your own web site).
QUICK TIP - The one secret method that we use to increase our exposure is to add our FFA url link to various sites across the web, here are a couple of places for you to try.
Email to - addengine@urlsubmitter.com
Just send an email with your FFA url address and they will add it to their database.
http://www.submitad.com/submitffa.htm
Click on the above link and fill in the form, and they will add your FFA page to their software database.
Back to top
To achieve any type of success with your ads that you post to FFA sites, you really must learn the art of writing *killer headlines*, headlines that stand out from the crowd, headlines filled with benefits for the reader (all stated within 10 words or less).
About the Author
Simon Baxter is a marketing consultant and reviewer both online and offline. He is a peoples man and derives great pleasure from helping people reach their goals.
His web site *Net Income Affiliates & Associates Resource Center helps affiliates to do just that. netincomesite.com
webmaster@netincomesite.com
http://www.netincomesite.com
Every day there seems to be new FFA and Link sites popping up on the Internet, but what kind of results can you expect from posting your ads on these sites?
Some would say zero results, others would say excellent results, we would say it all depends...
Depends on what?
Well it depends on which sites that you post to, the quality of your headlines and how often you post.
Why are there so many (thousands and thousands) of FFA and link sites?
Simply because many people who post to these sites get offered a free FFA site of their own.
Why would they want a free FFA site?
Mainly for the option of setting up an autoresponder message that goes out automatically to anyone and everyone who posts an ad on their site.
There is invariably a paid option as well as the free option, the extra benefit of being able to send messages to the global network of ad posters as well as the autoresponder message, this can mean sending an extra 500+ emails per day depending on the site.
Back to top
How to Maximize Your results with FFA sites and Link pages
We will cover the three options available to you below:
Posting your ad on FFA sites.
There is train of thought that it is not worth posting ads on FFA sites, as the visitors who go to the FFA sites, go primarily to post an ad not to read an ad. Although there is a basis of truth behind this thought, it is a slightly distorted viewpoint.
The owners of FFA sites are well aware that people who post an ad, do not necessarily read the ads placed, so they place their ad form at the bottom of the page.
So when someone comes to post an ad, they have to scroll down past all the ads to the form. If your ads stands out there is more of a chance of someone being interested enough to click on them.
If you take note of the tips below you can get good results from posting to FFA sites.
Firstly you need to use power words in your headline, some of the power words that work very well for us are - POWER, FREE, SECRET, UNCOVER, DISCOVER, STOP, the two that we get the best result from are FREE and STOP the latter being because we are all preconditioned to respond to the word STOP and FREE because everybody likes to get something for nothing.
Our suggestion to you is leave the body of your message alone and concentrate on your HEADLINE, this is what will attract visitors.
If you use the word FREE you can offer, free membership, free newsletter, free software, free Ebooks, free reports and such like - but remember whatever you offer for free, had better be of good quality and usefulness, as its being recommended by you, NEVER put your name to an inferior product or Company, you will lose credibility.
How you post is also very important, there are lots of methods but by far the best is to get a good quality software program to do the submitting for you. Most of the quality software programs will submit any amount of ads/urls to 8000+ FFA sites, you can use these programs daily to really maximize your exposure.
QUICK TIP - If you submit each page of your site as a separate ad you should receive about 20 clickthrus per day per ad, so if you have 20 pages that amounts to 400 visitors per day to your site.
You can save all 20 ads into the software program and submit them in batches of 5.
Remember to use a web based email program and go in regularly to delete all of the confirmations that you will receive from the FFA sites.
Back to top
Having your own free FFA Page.
The benefits of owning your own FFA page are that you can set up an autoresponder message that will automatically be sent out to anyone who posts an ad on your FFA site.
Also some of the free FFA pages allow you to edit your site and have a choice of adding your own banners, links to various sections of your page.
You can submit your FFA page to various online submitters and FFA software submission services, you will then gain more exposure for your FFA page and ultimately send out more autoresponder messages.
Upgrading to paid FFA membership.
The main difference between FREE and PAID is the collection of email addresses, which if you are clever you can use twice before you throw them away - once to thank them for posting their ad and the second time to invite them to post again (leave the second one for about a week before sending).
You will be able to send a daily email message to everyone that posts an ad over the whole of that FFAs global network, this can amount to 500 extra emails per day.
Do not send anymore than these two messages, otherwise you could get reported for spamming.
The note they see somewhere near the form when they post an ad (if they bother to read it that is), but it protects you all the same, goes something like this:
"By submitting your link to this FFA Page, you understand that you may receive confirmation e-mails from one or more FFA Pages belonging to this network."
If you upgrade to a paid membership, the majority of FFA sites will allow you to customize your FFA page with banner links and text links (advertising other programs you are affiliated with or your own web site).
QUICK TIP - The one secret method that we use to increase our exposure is to add our FFA url link to various sites across the web, here are a couple of places for you to try.
Email to - addengine@urlsubmitter.com
Just send an email with your FFA url address and they will add it to their database.
http://www.submitad.com/submitffa.htm
Click on the above link and fill in the form, and they will add your FFA page to their software database.
Back to top
To achieve any type of success with your ads that you post to FFA sites, you really must learn the art of writing *killer headlines*, headlines that stand out from the crowd, headlines filled with benefits for the reader (all stated within 10 words or less).
About the Author
Simon Baxter is a marketing consultant and reviewer both online and offline. He is a peoples man and derives great pleasure from helping people reach their goals.
His web site *Net Income Affiliates & Associates Resource Center helps affiliates to do just that. netincomesite.com
webmaster@netincomesite.com
http://www.netincomesite.com
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