I have a website with lots of traffic and I added a classified ad section for people looking to buy or sell related stuff, I made the ad's free but still no one is posting, I think the problem is the section is basically empty and no one wants to post in an empty section, I need ideas on how to get the area going? Thanks!!!
One little idea: Trade with people in the same situation (they post an ad on your site, and you post one in return on their site).
Thanks for the tip, but the niche is Horses and I do not have a horse to buy or sell so I cannot post an ad on other sites.
Yes sebastya, I have thought of offering cash or prizes, just not sure how or if it would work. I would rather spend the money on promoting the site then to just give it to some people to post an ad they really dont care about.
You could grab related classifieds from other sites and post them on yours to get things rolling. You might get some word of mouth going that way if the person tells where they found the ad.
I was concerned about copyright issues with using ad's from other classified ad sites. Has anyone had any luck with it?.
Good question... I ahve been considering doing that too... I am starting a classifieds site, but don't have any user base at all. It is a good site though.