Many webmasters will tell you that the days of free advertising on the Internet are long gone. 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. But for the purpose of this article, we will be focusing on one simple, easy method only, using free classified ad sites and forums.

When it comes to using free advertising, it’s mostly just a numbers game. Naturally, the more ads you have out there in circulation, the better your results are going to be. And there are all kinds of classified sites and forums where you can place ads. The great thing about free advertising sites is that most will allow you to post your ads over and over. Most free ad forum sites will let you bump your ad to the top by replying to the you’ve posted. This can save a lot of time and effort.

It’s easy to find sites to post your free ads. Simply go to your favorite search engine and look up terms like free advertising forum, free classified ads, place free ads, free ads forum, etc.

Persistent effort is the key to be successful with free ads. You pretty much have to post day in and day out. If you track your results, you’ll quickly learn which sites and what times are the most effective for placing 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. Promoting an offer that either has a wide appeal or is free, or better stiil both, will most likely bring the greatest 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. Using this method with several other forums of free promotion, like social bookmarking, forum signatures, article submissions, offline advertising, etc., it is quite possible to get a brand new or unnoticed site off ground in just a few short months.