Review of free classifieds sites

WantedWants a classified site dedicated to free wanted ads

2009-10-26T06:49:00.000-07:00

WantedWants.com is a user-focused free online classified site dedicated to wanted ads, free advertising and free classified ads around the USA and the world. WantedWants is one of very few classified sites that allows you to post and search hundreds of colleges around America. WantedWants.com is different from other classified sites in three main areas:

1. Dedicated to Wanted Ads.
WantedWants.com is the first site dedicated to Wanted Ads. At WantedWants.com, you post what you want and sellers come to you. Instead of spending hours (and days, months) looking for a desired item or service, you simply post what you want and the sellers contact you.

2. Secure Posting.
Through WantedWants.com's secure posting, the site enables users to freely post items wanted and For Sale without any unwanted spam or solicitation emails.

3. Classified Preview.
WantedWants.com's smart classified layout allows users to preview item descriptions and images without opening each listing- saving users time and effort.

These are three great reasons to give WantedWants a try. Be sure to explore the site and discover the active and open discussion Forums, WantedAlerts, and the ability to Feature your ad. Join thousands of others that use Wantedwants on a daily basis.

WantedWants.com; Want it. Post it. Get it. The site has got popularity in the USA, Indian, Nepal, Pakista and the Philippines. Current alexa ranking is around 150k

AdsGlobe - Social advertising made easy

2009-09-07T10:27:00.000-07:00

AdsGlobe.com is an advanced and easy to use website with web 2.0 features and allows to post or find ads or classifieds in most of the world cities and towns. Users can post or find ads in jobs, real estate, rentals, autos, items for sale... absolutely free of cost.

AdsGlobe.com recently integrated social networks and allows to update multiple social networks with classified ads posted automatically. This new feature will turn ordinary classified ads into social ads and will helps its users to achieve social advertising and social marketing absolutely free of cost.

At AdsGlobe.com users can post ads or classifieds and automatically update their social network profiles at 40+ popular social networks like twitter, facebook, ... and users can achieve social advertising and social marketing in the form of social ads or social classifieds. Users can link their social network accounts only once and all linked social network profiles will get updated automatically or on demand whenever users post an ad on AdsGlobe.com. This feature will eliminate the need to update each social network profile individually and will save lot of time for the users and at the same time promote their products or services on various popular social networks.

For more details, please visit http://www.adsglobe.com/social-ads-marketing/

Bluebeanstalk.com is a relatively new free classifieds site

2009-08-24T08:54:00.000-07:00

Bluebeanstalk.com is a relatively new free classifieds site. It has a good look to it, and some nice features as well. One of the best features is that it is well indexed by Google, so a listing there can generate a good response. Some other advantages are that you don't have to limit a listing to a local area, yet the listings are still displayed to searchers with the listing that is closest to them first. So if you're looking for a local contractor, you can choose from among the nearest first. But if you're interested in a rare comic book that's been listed for sale, you probably don't care much about the distance.

Blusebeanstalk has the four major categories - for sale, jobs, services, and real estate properties/rentals. Listings are renewable, and you'll get a reminder notice by email with an easy renewal link. So if your a contractor who offers year round service you can easily keep your listing active. Links back to your home page are allowed. Spammy categories such as gambling and online pharmacy are not allowed, and listings that offer no value such as "check out my site" with no useful info in the listing will not be allowed either.

Whatever your interest or profession, there's probably a way to engage with a free listing at bluebeanstalk.com . The site is getting popularity in the USA.

Meramaal.com Indian Free Classifed Portal

2009-08-19T07:52:00.000-07:00

Meramaal.com was launched in June 2008 with a basic design on the internet. Since then it has come a long way. Meramaal.com launch its all New design on 24th June 2009.

The website is easy to navigate and ad posting process is simple too. User can post free classifieds in different categories like Real Estate, Jobs, Buy and Sell and many more categories depending on products. Businesses who want to grow and make their products or services visible to users by featuring right at the top of all the other ads can choose to select the sponsored ad towards the end of posting process. Meramaal also offers features like extended ads, google maps, and adding youtube videos.

Meramaal.com is a website that begins with a very simple and modest design to use. The website has unique colors and web 2.0 look and feel to it. Meramaal.com attempts to offer value to internet users and vendors across India by helping them buy and sell goods and also offer services to prospective seekers across Indian cities and Towns and help them grow their business or simply help them find information locally.

Current Alexa traffic rank of the site is around 76k. The site is popular in India and a little bit in the UK. The site has Event calender, Photo sharing and Forums sections too.

Its services are absolutely free for everyone with a valid email address and anyone can use it with great ease and simplicity.

Targro.com – The free classifieds community of the world

2009-08-17T21:14:00.000-07:00

Targro.com is a new comer to the world of free online classifieds. It was designed with the simple principle of enabling the most IT illiterate people to easily browse and post classified ads in over 20 countries.

Unlike many other classifieds websites, targro.com does not require its users to register an account to post free ads. It takes a simple one-page form to get your advert posted onto the site with no less than up to 10 images and a link, completely free.

Buyers, sellers, clients and service providers from all over the world meet on targro.com to trade their comodities and services. Promoting your business nationally and internationally has never been easier. Reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers instantly from all over the world by posting an free ad on TargRo. For a modest fee, you can take out a featured ad, which will be posted to all of the cities in one go, saving you the time and effort from manually submitting each city.

Just to make browsing on targro.com even more entertaining, the online literature and events calendar enable people to share creativity, inspiration and keep up with friends, families and other fun activities.

Right now "For sale" sections of TargRo have over 100k live ads! Within few months of launching the site has got enoumous popularity in United States, Pakistan, India, United Kingdom and Romania. The TargRo free classified site is available in three languages: English, Romana and Chinese.

The people at targro.com go out of their way to ensure the users get the help they need every time. The customer support is absolutely 10/10. They are just a quick email away at: contact@targro.com. Give your business a boost today at http://www.targro.com

AdFlyer Classifieds - a popular online classifieds of UK

2009-05-15T10:42:00.000-07:00

AdFlyer Classifieds (Adflyer.com) is one of the nice popular online classifieds of UK It is the place for free classified adverts in the UK. Search bargains for sale in your local area of UK. Beside United Kingdom, it is a bit popular in India and Germany.

The objective for Adflyer is to bring buyers and sellers together and to make trading that bit better. Adflyer want local people selling their stuff together without having to visit car boot sales or read the classifieds section in their local paper.

You won't find any annoying advertising, pop ups or anything else that shouldn't belong on a classifieds site. For those amongst you that like to see quick results, Adflyer have introduced an upgrade option for your adverts. Adflyer like to give users choice! So choose one of two packages and sell your item in lightning speed.

Adflyer launched in September 2007 and have seen significant growth ever since, with many users expressing how extremely easy it is to advertise! You sell your item yourself, total cost to you is nothing!

Adflyer allow merchants and private sellers to advertise free and target 1000’s of potential buyer’s everyday! Registration is compulsory to advertise on this free site.

place an advert on www.adflyer.com for free today!

Search all free classifieds sites

2009-05-09T10:00:00.000-07:00

Have your ever tried to find out an opportunity or item at cheap price online? Obviously free classifieds sites like craigslsit, kijiji, backpage, gumtree, oodle are the souces to find out your best deal. But finding out each site individually is very difficult. Moreover some sites like craigslsit don't allow to search multiple cities at a time. So how may we do this?

Yes, this is possible with the search engines like google or yahoo. Google allows you to do site specific search. To searh whole craigslsit you can do following simple tricks:

item name site:craigslist.org

To search both craigslist and kijiji we can do following:

item name site:craigslist.org OR site:kijiji.com

In this way we can search up to 31 sites a time since google allows to use up to 32 terms.

There is a way to search thousands of online free classifieds at a time. Google's Custom Search may be used for this purpose. Try following Google Custom Classified Search engine www.SeekYourItem.com:

Type what you are looking for in the following box and hit the Search button to seach across all the popular free classified sites on the planet:

Few reasons to post ads on BackPage

2009-05-05T08:33:00.000-07:00

Many many times my clients ask me, "Is it profitable to post ads on backpage?" I simply answer, "Profit can't be guaranteed as it depends on a lot of factors but I storongly suggest to post ads on Backpage".

Let me explain why I prefer backpage free classifieds. Following is a comparison of craigslist vs backpage:

Except craigslist, BackPage is the only online classified site which allows a lot of HTML elements into body of the ads. This gives you freedom to design the ads as per your need. Craigslist recently limited used of most of the advance MTML elements. So backpage is now unbeaten in this regard.
Backpage allows reposting when the ads expire but craigslist doesn't.
Backpage receives good amount of traffic making ad posting viable. Alexa ranking of backpage is going up day by day.
Unlike CL, flagging and ghosting shouldn't be a problem on backpage unless you really spam a lot.
It is possible to post the ads with hyperlink. On craiglist it's parctically impossible.
No phone verified account is required. Phone verification is a breach of your privacy. This is a big problem of posting ads on craigslist.
Most importantly, nationwide sponsor ad feature makes backpage really useful. If you are trying to promote a home businessess (obviously legitimate) opportunity then nationwide sponsor ad is the best option for you.
You can post keyword rich ads to get SEO benefit. Pages of backpage get very good position on search engines results page.
Finally, if you are succesful in posting ads on craigslsit, you should still consider backpage to increase your revenue further.

franglo.com Worldwide classifieds

2009-04-26T11:56:00.000-07:00

franglo.com is an worldwide classifieds popular outside the USA. Franglo.com is a classifieds network for travelers, expats and internationals.
Franglo has become popular in India, United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Philippines and South Africa as an free advertising venue. Popular categories include Jobs, Housing, Services, Travel, Events, Personals, job boards etc.
Franglo is the premier classifieds network for Anglophones and expats. Franglo is a community of people who speak English and live outside USA. You can find and post ads on just about anything — from job and housing offers, to cultural questions and answers, even poetry and prose.
Franglo is composed of a growing family of websites. Franglo has affiliate program too. Reach 1000s of expats & travelers. Advertise on franglo.
Current Alexa ranking of Franglo is around 86k. On Franglo, you may post adverts for free, upload and share images, and connect with other people. As a Franglo user you will be part of a growing community of dynamic, multicultural people worldwide.

AdBhai - an Indian free classifieds

2009-04-26T02:09:00.000-07:00

AdBhai.com is a good Indian free classified website. The site is positioning itself as a social classifieds site by implementing Google friend connect on its site. The site has also launched a Orkut App(http://adbhai.com/app) which means that your ads can be directly accessed from within the popular social networking site Orkut. The site is currently acting as an aggregator for Indian classifieds by collecting ads from different sites and newspapers but users can post their ads on the site like any other online classifieds site. So AdBhai may be considered as Oodle of India. You do not need register to post ads on AdBhai which makes ad posting easier.

AdBhai covers all major Indian cities and all categories. The site aims to be a CrasigList of india by giving itself a no frills look. Although the site is new but the traffic seems to be picking up pretty decently. The site will also be launching its app on Ning.com. Ning a site that allows you to make your own social network and currently hosting over one million social networks.

AdBhai site is divided into major seven categories: For Sale, Community, Housing / Real Estate, Jobs, Services, Vehicles, Personals. Each category has several sub-categories. Some popular cities of AdBhai are Bangalore, SF bay area, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Mysore and Pune. So outside India, AdBhai has some popularity in San Francisco of the USA.

The site is also working on an affiliate program wherein any one can host their own classifieds site. It is not decide whether this would be a paid service or a free one.

PorkyPost.com Free Classifieds Advertising

2009-04-11T02:29:00.000-07:00

Porky post is a large high traffic user friendly free online classifieds and online advertising community for all your online advertising needs. This fantastic online classifieds site does not require any registration to post the classified ads which makes it very easy to use. PorkyPost.com also has a free advertising forum for you business advertisers looking to promote your business and receive free one-way back links to your website as well. Another feature of ProkyPost which I like is the ability to post a banner site wide on there site in minutes giving you instant targeted traffic back to your site with over 500 pages your banner will indeed be notice among users.

Posting on this site is easy as pie, As soon as you arrive at this site you can start posting ads immediately and if you need national attention you can post in all 50 states and other countries as well which will lead to more sells and audience.

Advertise on this free classified website to promote your business on, because it is well worth it. The site is popular in India, USA, Indonesia, Pakistan and Australia. It's gaining popularity in other countries as well.

iList a popular social free classifieds

2009-03-24T02:15:00.000-07:00

Previously I wrote about two other social classifieds namely: Jihoy and Eesy Cheesy . Jihoy has been able to gain good popularity in the USA and some other countries but Eesy Cheesy couldn't get any significat volume of traffic. Today I want to introduce iList.com, a very popular social classifieds having at around 40k position on Alexa ranking. iList is more robust than those two sites. iList.com has a lot of features. iList can circulate your posting through other social networks like FaceBook, twitter, MySpace, FriendFeed. iList also can notify your address book contacts of Gmail, yahoo or HotMail.

To reduce fraudulent activities and spamming, iList requires phone verification while registering. So you can confidently deals with other members of this community. You can make friends on iList since it's a social network as well. The more friends you have the more visibily your ads will get. iList.com has online messaging system as well.

iList has a nice flash widget in it's Tools & Widgets section. You can put the listings of iList on your blog or site to enrich your site. Other classifieds put your data in a closed locked database and you’re banned if you try to scrape it. At iList, you can retrive your data using some handy APIs found in the iList Developer’s API section.

Today I have signed up on iList. Here is my profile on iList.com.

Facebook Marketplace is now powered by Oodle

2009-03-03T23:45:00.000-08:00

Being inspired by incredible success of the online free classifieds giant craigslist.org, FaceBook started it's free marketplace section on Facebook Platform in May 2007 as a way for people to post classified listings on the FaceBook site which helps people to buy and sell furniture and household items in a trusted environment. On the otherhand, Oodle.com is a leading free classified network in the USA and worldwide. Previously Oodle partnered with MySpace, another leading social networking site. Now Oodle has partnered with FaceBook, #1 popular social networking sites right now. Oodle has already published Facebook Marketplace powered by Oodle

The Oolde powered FaceBook Marketplace has a unique feature named "Sell for a Cause", which allows you to donate the profits of the items you sell to over a million participating charities including UNICEF.

It can be apprehand that FaceBook Marketplace will get more popularity with this new design. The old facebook market place platform will also be available for the time being which will be ultimately abandoned in course of time. A lot of new features and categories will be added soon to the new Oolde powered FaceBook Marketplace.

Ref: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=57525537130

expatriates.com the online community for expatriates

2009-01-17T22:26:00.000-08:00

Yes, the title of this post is the slogan of the free classified site expatriates.com. This free classifieds and community website is created for and by expatriates and internationally minded people everywhere. This online classifieds is growing outside USA and mostly getting popularity in the Asian and African countries.

It's within 1k popular websites globally according to Alexa ranking. It's popular in the countries like India, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Kenya, Kuwait, Qatar and UAE.

expatriates.com is uniquely designed for the expatriates. It has a resource section helpful for the expatriates. The site has some unique categories like Language Exchange, Lessons Offered, Lessons Wanted which can't be found on any other free classified site.

Some popular cities of expatriates.com are Paris, Amsterdam, Athens, Bangalore Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, London, Manila, Riyadh, Rome, Singapore, Toronto

JIHOY - a free classifieds with social networking

2009-01-01T00:42:00.000-08:00

Both social networking and free classifieds are getting popularity rapidly on the internet. Now social networking sites like MySpace, FaceBook catch a significant portion of online traffice. On the other hand free classifieds has challenged other forms of online and offline advertising media. Although social networking sites and free local classified sites evolved independently, two are now embracing each other. Popular social networking sites MySpace, FaceBook introduced free classifieds sections for their members. On the other hand some free classifieds like AdLandPro.com are allowing networking among their members.

Jihoy.com is a new site which combines the concept of free online classifieds and social networking. The members of Jihoy can post free ads and network with each other. Barters, chats, profiles & feedbacks, friends list, groups, event calender ect are some other features of the site.

Jihoy.com has folloiwng categories:

Service
Stuff (items for sale)
Wanted
Rent
Employment
Barter
Monthly Favorites (what is the purpose? Perhaps it will be like "best of craigslist")
Resume

Each section has several sub-sections.

Within very quickly after lunching the site has got more than 1300 members due to its unique feature and nice design.

MySpace has partnered with Oodle for its classified section

2008-12-17T22:35:00.000-08:00

Popular social networking site MySpace.com has relaunched it's free classified section. This time MySpace has been tied with the popoular free classifieds Oodle.com . Although MySpace is the most popular social networking site, it's classified section is not that much popular yet. MySpace has partnered with Oodle with the hope to make it's free classified section much more popular.

Facebook, another popular social networking site has also free classified section. Most of the social networking sites are now introducing free classified section. On the other hand, Oodle is not a partner of MySpace only, Oodle has partnered with a lot of other sites. Oodle has become a leading free classified network.

Integration with Oodle will give some new functionality to MySpace classifieds like search facilites. Now myspace will be able to compete with cragislist more effectively for free classifieds. At the same time myspace will be able to meet the needs of trading of its own users more successfully.

eBay Acquired two Danish classifieds

2008-12-01T07:16:00.000-08:00

eBay owns the kijiji-gumtree free classifieds network which is the largest network of free classifieds on the net. This network is on top positions in Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, and sites in more than 1,000 cities across 20 countries.
eBay has acquired Denmark's leading online classifieds site dba.dk and vehicles site bilbasen.dk for approximately $390 million in cash. Den Bla Avis and BilBasen are leading classifieds businesses in Denmark and operate dba.dk, an online classifieds site that generates more than 120 million page views per month, and bilbasen.dk, an online vehicle classifieds site that generates 66 million page views per month. Founded as printed classified advertising circulars, Den Bla Avis and BilBasen have successfully made the transition to fast-growing, profitable online businesses while maintaining the publication of its circulars. Den Bla Avis and BilBasen have offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark.
Den Bla Avis and BilBasen are leading classifieds businesses in Denmark and operate dba.dk, an online classifieds site that generates more than 120 million page views per month, and bilbasen.dk, an online vehicle classifieds site that generates 66 million page views per month. Founded as printed classified advertising circulars, Den Bla Avis and BilBasen have successfully made the transition to fast-growing, profitable online businesses while maintaining the publication of its circulars. Den Bla Avis and BilBasen have offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark.
The worldwide classified ads industry tops $100 billion in all forms. With the continued migration of print classifieds to online, eBay is capitalizing on the market dynamics with an aggressive growth strategy for its global classifieds portfolio.
Source: http://news.ebay.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=338504

Online Free Classifieds of India

2008-11-27T23:04:00.000-08:00

Following are some popular free classifieds on India:
(Relative popularity in India according to Alexa ranking is shown in parenthesis)

classifieds.sulekha.com (43) Sulekha Classifieds & Yellow Pages. Post free classified ads & search online classifieds ads for Real Estate, Cars, Jobs, Rentals, Buy & Sell, Services and find practically everything.
clickindia.com (205) Click India Classifieds - A Site To Post Free Buy Sell Indian Classified Ads Online. Search Classified Ads For Jobs, Find Real Estate Properties On Sale, Sell Your House, Free Ads In Education, Used Cars / Bikes Sale Ads, Travel Package Offers & Deals, Pets & More. Also Find Local Information City Guides With Business Listings & Yellow Page Of Property Dealers, Agents, Restaurants & Hotels, Coaching Centres With Contact Details, Address And Reviews.
click.in (328) Free India classifieds. Sell, Buy, Find - faster & easier: flats, houses, PG, jobs, cars, motorcycles, mobiles, computers, ... - click.in
olx.in (308) OLX India Free classifieds. OLX offers free local classified ads in India. OLX is the next generation of free online classifieds. OLX provides a simple solution to the complications involved in selling, buying, trading, discussing, organizing, and meeting people near you.
quikr.com (380) Formerly Kijiji India kijiji.in
vivastreet.co.in (350) Used cars, pets, properties, babysitting, classes, jobs, events.
craigslist.co.in (707) The pioneer of free online classifieds is also popular in India.
locanto.in (760) Locanto offers free online classifieds in all major cities in India. Browsing, reading or posting classified ads is free, try it now!
indialist.com (1033)
kugli.com (4469) Part of worlwide Kugli free classifieds network. Kugli.com is the Free Classifieds site and the International Business Networking site. Free Classified Ads & Global Classified Network. Whether you are an employer looking to expand internationally and searching for the right candidate, an employee looking for the perfect job, a trader or collector looking for new suppliers or buyers or a professional looking to communicate with people. Kugli.com is a fast growing free local classified ads website.
adpost.com (2,239) Free Classifieds @ Adpost.com Classifieds - Free Classifieds for over 1000+ cities, 500+ regions worldwide & across the world - free
adsforindians.com (4,078) Free Indian ads, Indian Classifieds, Indian Classified ad Online, Announcements, Automobiles, Arts & Antiques, Business Products, Business, Computer, Employment, Education, Matrimonial, Personals, Real Estate, Travel & Tourism, Indian Classifieds Ads Search Engine and Web directory, free of cost ads, banner
goforads.com (6,414) goforads Classifieds. Now Post Classified Ads Absolutely FREE & Search from over 100,000+ ads of Property, Cars, Bikes, Jobs, Rentals, Furniture, Computers, Services etc & get what ever You Need!
webcosmo.com (7382) The Home of Free Classified Ads. Post Free Ads. Countrywide, Statewide, Local Classified Advertising.

Few more growing free classifieds of India are following:

allindiaads.com
allindiaclassified.com
boostime.in
desisoup.com
expressclassifieds.in
freeclassifiedsindia.com
fyndin.com
indiaboard.com
indiaclassifieds.com
indianclassifieds.com
indianflyer.com

Gumtree quits USA market

2008-10-22T22:39:00.000-07:00

Around one year ago gumtree, a popular free classifieds site of UK and Australia starts it's USA mission with 3 cities namely Boston, Chicago and New York. gumtree newtwork is a partner of kijiji network. Being heavily promoted by eBay kijiji has got enormous popularity in the USA. So gumtree has decided to leave USA market instead of competing with it's partner site kijiji.

Now boston.gumtree.com redirects to Boston Kijiji, chicago.gumtree.com redirects to Chicago Kijiji and newyork.gumtree.com redirects to New York Kijiji. Combinely gumtree-kijiji network is the largest and most popular network of free classified sites around the world. Although craigslist.org has huge popularity in USA the site fails to get that much popularity outside USA and among the non-english speaking nations. Grumtree-kijiji network has captured the non-US and non-English markets of online free classifieds very well.

Real Estate classifieds of USA

2008-09-11T00:54:00.000-07:00

craigslist.org is the most popular free classifieds of the United States. craigslist's real estate sections are very popular too for buying and selling real estate. Besides craigslist there are some specialized sites for real estate listing. Following are some popular real estate listing/classified sites of USA:

Buydiscountedproperties.com

discountedproperties.com

realestatepromo.com

freeinvestmentpropertylist.com

realestatelink.net

Rehablist.com

TheInvestmentPropertyList.com

Wholesaleproperties.com

PropertyBlowOut.com

TheCreativeInvestor.com

BeatYourPrice: A New Name in Classified Ads Site

2008-09-09T01:56:00.000-07:00

The Internet has made things easier for the marketers as well as the customers and various classified sites add the charm of shopping on the web. BeatYourPrice.com is a new name in the list of sites for classified ads. It is a versatile site that caters to a vast range of products.

The things that you can find on BeatYourPrice include automobile, pets, electronics, books, real estate, musical instruments, kids stuff, tools, and jewelry and the list goes on. You can also sell things here besides shopping for them. It is a user friendly site that makes your navigation through the website easy. You can advertise on this site for free for seven days and you can buy different packages if you wish to run it for a longer period.

You can also join different communities catering to your interests on Beatyourprice.com, to get updated on things you love. You will be informed about the auctions and sales. Besides that, you can also get various services like auto repair, beauty and health, child care, dental and medical, financial, lawn and garden, legal, tech help, travel and lots more. The best part is you can find all these things at your desired location. The site allows to you to choose your country and then look for a specific thing.

This site is also beneficial for those who are looking for a job or an opportunity or to start up a business. So, if you have any of these needs, you just have to visit the site of Beatyourprice.com and you will find that it has every thing that you have wanted.

Microsoft is abandoing it's free classifieds "Windows Live Expo"

2008-06-25T09:14:00.000-07:00

Microsoft is retiring it's free classifieds known as Windows Live Expo. Following notice is now being displayed on the Windows Live Expo site:

Windows Live Expo will discontinue service on 31 July 2008. In preparation, the following features are no longer available:
Create a new account.
Post a new listing.
Extend a listing.
Upgrade a listing to a premium listing.
All current listings will remain on expo.live.com until they expire.

We thank you for your patronage and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
-The Windows Live Expo Team.

Several months ago Yahoo retired its free classifieds section (classifieds.yahoo.com). Now Microsoft is following yahoo. While another internet tycoon google is still continuing it's free classifieds known as google base. MySpace and FaceBook are also continuing their free classifieds sections so far.
According to Alexa less than 1% people who visit live.com visit its free classified section expo.live.com. So it is not surprising that Microsoft couldn't find Windows Live Expo profitable and now shutting down.

Craigslist is limiting use of HTML

2008-05-31T22:41:00.000-07:00

Craigs list is going to limit the use of HTML tags in body of ads. Craigslist has taken this initiative because "much of the HTML in postings these days is used by spammers for harmful purposes, such as cloaking spam links, embedding false keywords, and overriding the flagging system.", as mentioned on craigslist site.

Details of proposed permitted HTML tags have been for review by the users on the craigslist site and is available here http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/html_in_craigslist_postings
The proposed allowed tags are :

basic text formatting tags like <B> <U> etc.
Line breaks : <BR> <p>
Horizontal line <hr>
Headers : <H1> <H2> ... <H6>
Unordered and ordered lists: <UL> <OL> <LI>
Dictionary lists: <DL> <DT> <DD>
Hyperlink: <A>
Image : <IMG>
Preformatted text: <PRE>
Table: <table> <TR> <TD>

It may be noted that use of <DIV> & <SPAN> will not be permitted.

Discussion on this proposal is going on craigslist's help forum. Checkout this. It seems most of the users are supporting the move. So it may be anticipated that craigslist will limit use of HTML as soon as it can finish necessary software updates.

Craigslist alternatives in the UK

2008-05-25T23:12:00.000-07:00

Like USA craigslist is also popular in some cities of United Kingdom. But there are some other popular free classifieds in he UK as well. gumtree.com is the most popular free classifieds of UK.

Following are some sites like craigslist in the UK:

http://gumtree.com/
http://tapthat.co.uk/
http://hallolondon.co.uk/
http://london.adzooks.co.uk/
http://vivastreet.co.uk/
http://adoos.co.uk/
http://freeukclassifieds.co.uk/
http://ad-mart.co.uk/
http://www.loot.com/
http://uk.freeads.net/
http://www.adoos.co.uk/
http://www.friday-ad.co.uk/

I use above UK free classifieds frequently. But there are a lot of other free sites like craigslist in the UK.

You may get more by searching google with following phrases:

UK Classifieds
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UK Classifieds Websites
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New free classifieds site Locanto

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The brand new free classifieds site Locanto is another member of online free classifies community which is rapidly getting a foothold in the international classifieds market. At this moment Locanto offers its service in 2 languages : English & Spanish and 19 countries. The Locanto site is gaining popularity very fast in the countries like America, India, UK, South Africa & Singapore.

Locanto has the following classified sections:

Community / Personals / Vehicles for sale / Pets for sale or adoption / Apartments for rent / Real estate / Buy & Sell / Jobs & Resumes / Local services

Locanto is easy to use and has a simple user interface. Although the site is young, Locanto as a free classifieds is already showing a lot of abundance. Locanto has also followed craigslist model. Try Locanto now, it’s free.