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Free Advertising on Local Site - 22-09-2006, 12:28 PM

There is a new website which offers free advertising, but is unlike any other free ad site available.
  • Firstly you get far more than a one liner - in fact a whole webpage is yours to do as you like.
  • You are able to edit this page whenever you like.
  • It will remain free for small business use forever.
  • Small local businesses with a real service on offer will be more prominently displayed over small scale national concerns.

Take a look at OffersInTown.com and reply to this post with your thoughts.
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Re: Free Advertising on Local Site - 22-09-2006, 01:56 PM

Tried to join but get SQL error. Have mailed them and patiently await a reply.
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Re: Free Advertising on Local Site - 22-09-2006, 02:09 PM

look like a massive affiliate site to me


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Re: Free Advertising on Local Site - 22-09-2006, 02:29 PM

Peter

yes there are affiliate links on the site, the income has to come from somewhere...but the more true small businesses that join the more dilute the affiliate ads will get.
And it remains free for the local small business to join in. The idea being that they will be able to update their advert whenever they like to keep their marketing abreast with the bigger players.
And at the same time informing the user where the best deals are in town.

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Re: Free Advertising on Local Site - 25-09-2006, 11:25 AM

Joined.

Thanks

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Re: Free Advertising on Local Site - 25-09-2006, 06:03 PM

I reckon I'll join up too, although I have a comment about the localisations; I searched in a specific town and found ads from companies in Plymouth and Reigate which were a bit more than a bus ride away.

I don't suppose it matters, after all when a user notices that they'll most likely just shrug their shoulders and carry on looking for what they want and they'd still be searching the local directory. Maybe someone here knows what sort of complicated script you'd need to cure that.

You can kick me for being picky now!
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Talking Re: Free Advertising on Local Site - 26-09-2006, 01:33 AM

Thanks for signing up.
Yes there's nothing to stop anyone adding a business specific to a particular town so that it shows up in every town when you want to get specific.
But their advert will be very lowly ranked because of this. Ads that are more local will get higher ranks and those that just plump for National status will appear nearer the bottom - unless of course there is a great offer in the ad.

It's all in the algorithm...
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Re: Free Advertising on Local Site - 26-09-2006, 02:28 PM

Hi again, just a quick post to thank Jamesb for all his help in getting my ad up and running. Glad it's all sorted, nice one m8.

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Re: Free Advertising on Local Site - 27-09-2006, 01:42 PM

I put a reciprocal link on my site. But in all honesty, I doubt very much that a stampede will result from that.
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Re: Free Advertising on Local Site - 27-09-2006, 01:50 PM

PS: Cycodave, the SQL syntax errors probably stem from curly quotes in your text instead of feet & inch marks. Far too easily done these days!
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