Rochelle's Overall Rating
This USFreeads review is for those who do not yet know the power of using USFreeads. USFreeads is a service that allows users to post ads. This is an excellent way to get new customers on your site. Google seems to love USFreeads, which means it can be a great traffic producer.
Features
You can get either a free or a paid account to USFreeads. As you might expect, the features are better with the paid account, but the free account is good, too.
There are three different memberships: free, gold, and premium. Here is a table listing the differences between these three memberships:
I have used USFreeads since 2007 and highly recommend them. I get quite a bit of traffic from them, which does convert into sales. The key is to do keyword research before creating an ad. If you simply throw an ad up, with no thought to keywords, then you probably won’t get much traffic.
Additionally, I suggest using one of their paid memberships. I tried the free membership before I upgraded to a paid one, and the difference in traffic was considerable.
One feature that I especially like is the ability to “auto renew” ads. Ads run for a period of time, then expire. The “auto renew” feature allows me to determine which ads I want to renew automatically, so they never expire. This means I don’t have to log in to my account each month and look for expired ads that I want to continue running.
Creating ads is simple. If you know HTML, then you can create an ad offline, with a program such as Dreamweaver, and copy/paste the code into your ad. For those who do not know HTML, you can create ads on USFreeads very easily. Ads can be previewed before completion, so you will know right away if anything needs to be tweaked.
If you are an affiliate marketer, then you should seriously consider opening an account with USFreeads. They actually allow you to include affiliate links in your ads. Many advertising sites do not allow the promotion of affiliate links, so this is a huge advantage when using USFreeads.
If you ever need to contact the people at USFreeads, then you may find yourself cursing their website. Figuring out how to contact anyone at that site is challenging, at best. The links are hidden deep within the site. You can visit it at http://www.usfreeads.com/modules/info/contact.asp, with additional contact information available at http://www.usfreeads.com/modules/info/contact2.asp. I have contacted them before and they responded right away. My experience regarding contacting them was positive. They were very receptive to my inquiry.
Pros and Cons of USFreeads
Pros of USFreeads
- Free membership option, as well as two different paid memberships. There is a membership that will fit any budget.
- Control over ad creation.
- “Auto renew” any (or all) ads.
- Advertise AFFILIATE LINKS!
Cons of USFreeads
- It can be difficult figuring out how to contact any one at USFreeads if you need to reach them for any reason.
Cost and Licensing of USFreeads
- Free or Monthly Cost (cost depends on membership chosen: gold account is $10 per year and premium account is $9.99 per month)
- Gold membership allows up to 25 ads at a time, and Premium membership allows AS MANY ads as you want!
lisa on Sun, 1st Feb 2009 9:30 pm
Nice Article I love using the stumblehere.com free ad syndication for my affiliate products.
lisa on Sun, 1st Feb 2009 9:30 pm
I love using the stumblehere.com free ad syndication for my affiliate products.
Rochelle on Tue, 10th Feb 2009 8:15 am
Lisa,
I just checked out stumblehere.com and I wouldn’t use them for affiliate marketing. According to their TOS, “Accordingly, any user of the Stumblehere.com site agrees to refrain from the following: …posting material that Stumblehere.com determines to be SPAM, multi-level marketing or unsolicited commercial advertising…”
Affiliate marketing could very easily fall under the category of “unsolicited commercial advertising.” If reported for such actions, you will likely lose your stumblehere.com account, as well as the possibility of losing affiliate status with the programs you are promoting.
USFreeads allows you to promote affiliate marketing, so I would stick with USFreeads to be safe. If this is your source of income, or part of it, then you don’t want to lose it by posting on the wrong sites.
Rochelle
Michelle on Tue, 10th Nov 2009 9:02 pm
I love USfreeads I have been using them for some of my internet marketing since August 2008 and have made many sales.
The definate key is keyword research (Note: Longtailed Keywords with between 800 and 1900 searchs a month per google keyword research tool)
??????? on Sat, 28th Nov 2009 9:24 am
usfreeads is a great source of income if you use them creatively
Ellyn George on Fri, 4th Dec 2009 12:37 pm
Oh thank you, thank you for addressing the difficulty in contacting USFree Ads. I upgraded to Gold with them last night and received confirmation. However, when I went to place my ad, none of the features for gold membership were working! The ability to use links, photos, html, etc. were not activated.
Needless to say, I needed to contact them only to find that I couldn’t see how or where to do that. Your info saved me tons of time and, by the way, I found you by putting in a search for “contact USFreeAds”.