FFA Sites: How to use them properly
What's an FFA site? Free For All sites are a network of linked pages which are mainly lists of links that people submit to it. They're free for you to add your one line advertising link and submitting to one puts your link on all the sites on the network at the same time.
So far, sounds great. The problem is that its an automated system and there are multiple submission engines people can use to blast their ads to several FFA networks at once. The ease of submission means that thousands are doing that all the time and your link only stays on the FFA site for a very limited time because each new submission bumps your link further and further down the page until it goes off the page. Some sites only allow a hundred links at a time on their page which really cuts down the exposure time.
And every FFA gets to send you an email to confirm your submission to them. Really just a sales letter for whatever they're promoting. So you need to set up a dummy email account with Yahoo or someplace to avoid having hundreds of emails in your regular email account. And delete it daily to avoid having your email account fill up and get bounced back to the FFA which will get your link submission refused.
Of course with the automatic submission engines, not many people will actually SEE your link when you submit it so why bother? There's only one good reason to do it. If the FFA site is spidered by a search engine while your link is on it then your site will rate better because it tallies the number of other sites linking to it when it decides how to rank your site. So blasting the FFA pages with a link to your site
a few times a week can help a lot.
Overall, the best thing to do is to PAY to host your own FFA site. That way you can be sending out your own confirmation messages to hundreds of people days after they submit. Since everyone else who is paying for their site does the same thing though you'll still be one email in a bunch. How do you get yours read?
The first rule in my opinion is: DON'T LIE IN YOUR SUBJECT LINE!
I've seen so many posts from FFAs which say things like, "Confirmation Required", "Replying To Your Request", or "I saw your ad". In theory, that kind of headline will make people pause and consider looking at the email. But after they find out that the headline was BS they'll be rightfully annoyed and won't care what you have to say and if they see that you're promoting a product, they will automatically be against that product when they see another ad for it.
You do need to try to be unique though. Trumpet a specific benefit. Ask a question. You're better off submitting to FFA sites a few times and study the messages that you receive carefully and write down the ones that make you want to take a look.
For instance, if you're promoting a mailing list, then a headline that says, "Post To 5600 email addresses, SPAM Free" is more likely to be read than something generic like "Post to THOUSANDS". Always be as specific as you can. Don't say they'll make money in their sleep, say that they'll get more sleep because of all the time you'll save them. Get creative.
AND always make the same checklist as you would for all your advertising.
1) Check your spelling
2) Check your links
3) Use the "mailto:" command for all email links to make sure that everyone can click on them
4) Don't make claims that sound like lies or are lies.
And below I'll list a few FFA submitters and FFA pages to get you started.
SUBMISSION ENGINES:
FFA PAGES:
http://www.mybizpages.com/free/024440/index.html
http://pages.ffanet.com/links/syntax.htm
http://www.ad-blast.com/cgi-bin/freeserve/myffa.cgi?member=sinbad007
http://www.altimate-advertising.com/ffa/pro/sinbad007/index.html
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Dave Moore is a student of Matt Gagnon (author of Million Dollar Manual 2) and is a confessed affiliate junkie and lives in northeast Ohio.
His home page is HERE
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