The 1,000 Free Advertising Project
Ongoing free advertising discoveries and observations. The survival tool for hard working small and micro Web publishers and Web business owners.
Tomorrows Free Classified Advertising
Few years back classified advertising was popular and probably still is very popular and some of the free classified advertising services are thriving while other have fallen victims for ad spammers and endless submissions of repetitive advertisements.
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The Search Industry has Changed, Dramatically
The goal of The 1,000 Free Advertising Project is to find Web sites and services that accept free submissions from small and micro Web publishers and Web site owners. We are digging the Web for Web sites and services that are really offering this service, not Web sites and services that just hint they might be offering it. We are at the moment digging the Web for search engines that still maintain their own index/database and allow Web publishers and Web site owners the chance to submit their Web sites free of charge.
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Web Site not Mentioned and Project's Daily Current
The Web as it is today is both local and global. The big search engines are attempting to bring more focus to the local part of search in addition to the global environment they already maintain. The reasons could be both business and technically related. It is considerably easy to design a system that sorts information according to the location of the Web site, the location of the business operation and the location of the user/searcher. Local search also brings people and companies closer to one another and that can play a big part in purchasing decisions. Having both local and global search is also great for the end user and increases the quality of his search experience.
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Are All Free Advertising Opportunities Good Opportunities?
If you are reading this piece of text then we assume you are not logging on the Web for the first time and by now you know a lot about the Web, how it works and you are probably running a Web business or at least thinking about starting one. One of the questions that may come to your mind is: can free advertising hurt my Web business? Is it safe to place free ads everywhere?
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Free Advertising with Online Malls
Offline subjects have often inspired online activities. The trend has been to create a virtual equivalence to a real world subject. The real world has shopping malls and the Web has virtual shopping malls. Virtual shopping malls appeared soon after the Web became a household name. In the beginning they were basically advertisements or listings with a photo or just plain text.
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Free Advertising with Databases and Directories
A search engine and a Web site directory can be very similar to one another and it can be hard to distinguish between them. The common understanding of a Web search engine is that it creates a database of Web pages built on their content. The database is built either by using a crawler or a spider that index the content on Web pages and creates from it a searchable database or by creating a database built on users input. Web site directory is usually built around databases that rely on users or webmaster/editor input and has a certain structure. The simplest form of a Web site directory is a categorized list of links.
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Free Advertising with Social Bookmarking
Link pages of many different shapes and form have been online since the Web saw daylight. After all links are the core of the Web and what is more natural than a Web page with links?
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Free Advertising with Classifieds
Web advertising is often compared to offline advertising even though the elements are quite different. One element in offline advertising has gained popularity on the Web also and that is Classified advertising or as many call them – classifieds. Advertising in online classifieds was the method that was frequently used by Web marketers during Web's first years as a household name. The online classified services were back then easily identified and they were actually read.
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Free Advertising with Alternative Ways to Search
The three major search engines have 60-80% market share in search. Those numbers can fluctuate between countries, groups of people and by what measures are used, but these are the figures we think are real. This is a huge market share, any way you look at it, but the real number that matters is how many users are behind that market share. Internet users worldwide can be counted in hundreds of millions and probably over one billion people have access to the Internet in one form or another, at home, at work, at Web cafes and educational institutions.
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Free Advertising with Alternative Search Engines
There is life after Google, Yahoo and MSN. Since the Web became a household name there have been many search engines. Many of us remember AltaVista and how it became the search engine of choice by many few years before Google arrived. Many of us also remember Lycos and Excite. Those three search engines were the major search engines of the Web in 1994-1998. Excite was so popular that a top position in its search results for a relatively common search word was enough to power a profitable micro Web business back in those days.
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