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subject: The Deception Of Free For All (ffa) Advertising [print this page]

FFA, or Free For All sites are the next generation of internet

marketing. Or at least that's what many want you to believe.

FFA sites are places where anyone can post a short ad with a

link, as long as they agree to accept emails from the site owner.

Some of the most popular sites are

(1)ffanet.com

(2)myebiz.com

(3)prolinks.com

(4)kiosk.com

(5)ffamailblaster.com

At first thought this seems like a remarkable way to advertise.

But, there are major problems here.

First off, the only way for the advertisement to work is for

people to visit the FFA site where it is posted. But the only

people it seems that visits these sites are those that posts an ad.

To make matters worse, 99% of posts are done now through

auto submitters. So who actually sees your ad? Absolutely no one.

You may have received emails from FFA site owners of claiming

that advertising via an FFA is worthless unless you actually own

the site. Their flawed reasoning (which I will explain shortly)

is that as the owner, you get to post your own ads on the site,

and better yet, collect the email addresses of everyone posting.

Moreover, you receive commissions on anyone signing up to

purchase an FFA site of their own.

But wait! It gets better. The same people will claim that when

submitting your ad, create a separate email account to store the

large number of auto responder messages you will receive and other

advertisements. So, if you don't want your primary email account

to fill up, create a secondary account and simply delete the

emails as they come in.

Now i'm really confused. If people who submit to my now owned and

paying monthly FFA site, create a secondary email address to

submit when posting, only to delete all of the advertisements

they receive, why exactly do I want their email address?

The entire logic of using FFA's for increasing site traffic and

advertising is severely flawed. What's even worse is that most

search engines rank these sites lowly if at all. So where

exactly then do you advertise your FFA site?

I performed a very simple test. I created a simple E-Zine sign up

form, separate from my site, and used a well known autosubmit

software to "Blast" my add to the entire FFA network, which

claimed millions of page views per day. Submission was done once

per day, at the same time for a period of 1 week. How many

responses? 1! A single response that did not even sign up.

FFA sites for advertising are worthless. You'll hear many argue

that they work if your careful. I would like to believe it would.

Definitely easy to submit to and the exposure would be

phenomenal. The cold hard truth is that they do not.

Below are a few of what I find to be comical ad headlines posted

at FFA sites. Enjoy!

(1)"Get your classified ad in 5,000,000 emails and 111,000

websites everyday for free without spamming". (If you follow the

link you find that what is being promoted is another FFA site!)

(2)"$1.67=massive income" (I wonder if they know that this is not

an equality?!)

(3)"Getting 5,000 opt-in leads daily." (1 year amounts to

150,000 subscribers. Just about the population of a small town!)

(4)"Delivers an endless flood of traffic!" (Perpetual motion?!)

(5)"Retire in months for only $6!" (The state of Florida is about

to get an incredible population boost)

(6)"The secret to getting a million visitors to your site!"

by: chhote532

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