FFA -- Yes or No?

You might have seen something about the FFA sites in your journeys around the internet. You're tempted, but are they worth it?

First of all, an FFA is a "Free For All" site. They tend to be huge bulletin boards where people can post their opportunity/product/service. There are thousands of these sites with hundreds of thousands of posts. And it costs nothing to post your information.

However, if everyone is posting, who is looking? Anyone?

For the most part, FFA sites don't generate much in the way of traffic to your website. Why? Well, when you posted, did you stop to look at any of the ads already there? (If you said "yes", bless you...but you are in the minority.) People are too busy posting and then going on to the next site and posting again...

Not to say that FFA sites can't work -- certainly there are some readers here and there. Just don't waste your time looking for the FFAs and posting to each one individually -- there are better uses for your time.

If you have access to a program or site that can do a mass posting to the FFAs, that might be useful, providing you can use it for free or for a very tiny cost. Write the ad once, click on the send button and you're good to go -- your ad just went to hundreds of sites.

Do I use the FFAs? Well, I have access to a program that includes a mass FFA posting as a freebie add-on. So sure, I may as well use it. But have I seen any response from my postings? Let's just say it's really slow. But it's free, so what the heck. And I don't know when just the right person will see the ad, 'cause it only takes one person to explode a business sometimes.

A word of warning -- get a free email account before you start posting and use it as your address when posting. You will get a TON of emails from the FFAs.