Website Review and Suggestions

**Zanary** · 10-27-2006, 11:51 AM

Dear Readers,

I want to make a Classifieds, because as I can see Craigslist trying to make money off of people posting advertisement. I was enjoying Craigslist when they're free to post jobs or whatsoever and I would enjoy a Classifieds without have to pay a cent to post... I dunno about you. I want to see if people would support my ideas before I go ahead with my decision...

The Classifieds im going to make will be available all over the country to post. Will Forever be Free to Post. You can post, personals, jobs, real estate, merchandise, vehicles, service, community, software, pets, and more.

Smiliar to craigslist but free. I understand that they're trying to lower down the spam level, but I believe it's their jobs not visitor's pay them to manage their website.

Please reply if you have some ideas or maybe wanna join me,
Thanks,
Zanary

**FreelanceITs** · 10-27-2006, 12:00 PM

hi Zanary,
sounds like a good idea, however you will have to depend on donations and volunteer advertising costs (available adspace) to cover the expenses of the site. Have you considered how you are going to pay for the hosting and everything.

**Zanary** · 10-27-2006, 12:12 PM

I already given alot to my other websites and I haven't manage to get the money back via advertisement, but the reasons I open websites its not really for money, so I don't expect to get anything for this project, beside using advertisement to cover little of hosting cost. I use the money I worked every week to pay the hosting off =)

Thanks

**KingsbayTrader** · 11:12 PM

FREE Classified Websites are great but they cost money.
The bigger the site becomes the more money it will cost.
Bandwidth is not cheep when you start getting 100,000 users.
Site maintenance also become a big concern. If you haven't noticed, Craig's list has had lawsuits won against their content. Marketing will also cost money. FREE does not mean free for you to advertise. Word of mouth takes time and is limited to geographic areas. Radio Ads are expensive and your return will be a huge loss because your site is not making you anything in return.
I have been running a Classifieds Website for a while and just starting to market it to the public due to lack of time due to college classes I have been taking.

I think having a classifieds site is great and the rewards for me have been profit less but self rewarding. FREE is a great thing if you do it because you like it. There is a-lot of competition in the classifieds market.

I hope this helps. If I can be of any help send me a PM

**GremlinaCoconut** · 11-10-2006, 05:15 AM

This is a very saturated market, with new sites spring up daily with lots of funding. Good luck though.

**Alone** · 11-10-2006, 06:10 AM

Very good site

Thanks