Tips For Writing A Classified Ad
Even though online classified ads are the modern equivalent of print newspaper ads, the success of an ad however is dependent solely on the skills of the person writing the the classified ad, and with that in mind, below are a few tips for writing classified ads online that can help get you started.
Writing A Good Classified Ad Title-
When writing your classified ad make your title/subject interesting. That is the first thing viewers see and if it catches their attention, they will certainly click on it and view your classified ad. Keep in mind whatever title you use for your classified ad on Eveythingseacoast.com becomes the title of your classifieds ad page.
Also, well written classified ad titles need both an action and a statement. An action is a description of the classifieds ad itself, telling the reader what the ad contains. For Sale is the most common type of action. The statement is an additional description of the product, for example, rustic antique, pine dining table. So, For Sale Rustic, Pine Dining Table, becomes the title that attracts the readers attention, and holds their interest throughout the reading of the rest of the classified ad.
Writing Unique Classified Ad Content-
When writing an ad, remember to always include proper contact information, full pricing, including shipping costs, and a photo whenever possible. Avoid irrelevant statements in your ad copy, buyers are not interested in how much you like the item or why you have to sell it, only whether or not they themselves may want to purchase it.
Be sure to add related pictures to your classified ad. A picture speaks a thousand words.
One way to be sure rank your ad ranks high in the search engines is by writing unique page content. This is becoming more and more important to how many major search engines are indexing pages. Similarly this is exactly why popular free classififeds sites are now out-ranking major corporations that arean't properly optimized yet.
You can use the Similar Page Checker below to find out exactly how similar your ad page may be to anothers either on EverythingSeacoast.com or even another classified site or web page.
Classified Ad Keyword Optimization
A Keyword Cloud is a visual depiction of keywords used on a website, keywords having higher density are depicted in a larger fonts. Ideally your main keywords should appear in larger fonts at the start of the cloud.
Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage.It is important for your main keywords to have the correct keyword density to rank well in Search Engines.
This tool will crawl the given URL, extract text as a search engine would, remove common stop words and Analyze the density of the keywords.
You can use the Key Word Density Checker as a great way you can better optimize your page for search engines, after you have posted your classified ad.
Classifieds Category Placement-
Be sure to add your classified ads to the correct categories. People select on categories to view ads in that category and if you are selling the wrong product/services in the worng category then no one will be interested. Depeneding on what you are offering this can seriously affect the number of views to your classified ad if improperly placed.
