julesbrad started this topic @ 12:49 on 16/07/2004
I am setting up a new website at www.OnlineAdverts.co.uk and would welcome comments you may have.
Please feel free to add your own free classified ads about your own businesses or goods you are selling.
Has anyone else had experience of running an online classified adverts site ?
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RE: New website
stephenjamesmurray | 16/07/2004 02:29 PM
Hi Julian
the look of the site is ok and it is easy to use. I'd be interested to know what made you decide to set up an online advertising site? As i'm sure you are aware there is quiet a lot of existing sites trying to do the same thing.
As an end user of the internet I wouldn't bother to use the site unless it had a very good unique selling point (customer reviews/product reviews, dealt with a specialist subject matter etc). If looking for a business I would use google, yell.com etc and I don't know about others but the last thing I want when I do a google search is reams of classified sites in which to do an even more limited search of paying companies.
As a business user looking to advertise my business I would be unlikely to spend a great deal of time and money advertising in something that I didn't feel would target the right customers or just as importantly enough customers. I appreciate you are offering 30 days for free so I guess you can't complain about that. Hopefully this will give you a greater spectrum of advertisers and make the site a more usefull resource.
Anyway, i'm sorry to sound so negative and critical - I hope you take it as being constructive and appreciate that it just my opinion [
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Good ,luck and I hope it goes well
Stephen
www.urbandesignclothing.co.uk
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RE: New website
webvideo4u | 18/07/2004 11:52 AM
My advice would be to specialise in a particular niche. As Stephen said there is so much competition out there for classified ad services that you have no chance of competing in the general market.
If you can differentiate your service from those big players however you could succeed in a smaller and slightly different market.
On the site itself it looks nice. I'd personally put all the javascript into an external file and reference it to help cut down page size and help the search engines find your content a bit easier.
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