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There have been free classified ads for a long time. People try to sell anything from kittens to dump trucks. Many people buy these second hand treasures they find in the free classified ads. Where can you post Classified Ads for free?

A stone was found in Pompeii with writing on it. It is assumed that the writing on it was an advertisement for the community and is the first documented ad. Maybe advertisement went even farther back in history. The cavemen put figures on cave rock. Maybe they were advertisement too. It was not until the 15th century that written notes were placed in public areas for advertisement.

There are regional shopper papers where you can post things for free. These papers span large community areas, each having their own circular district. You can find them in rural areas, suburbs, and in the inner city. Theis is one of the few places you can still advertise for free. The ads are sometimes classified as “The Thirifties”

With the introduction of the Internet, free advertising is highly desirable for people building web sites. If you want to advertise in some free ad papers, some insist that you place your ad on the Internet too. You still see advertisements in public places posted up on boards or walls in grocery stores, schools, bars and churches.

There are still local call in radio ads for people to buy or sell their treasures. There can be some strange things people sell and people buy them too. Everybody needs 25 ice cream buckets right?

The first commercial advertisements on the Internet were in 2000. To get on the Internet you had to be sponsored. It was difficult for the seller to advertise their product. Not long after that, the Internet became a big shopping store. There are thousands of web sites selling products. You may get some free advertising for a short amount of time after which you will have pay for it.

There is also Craig’s list that will advertise anything. Craig’s list has everything and all the ad posts are free. Craig Newmark was brainiac that started this site. Craig’s list evolved in 1995 and it soon became very popular when the news spread that you could get free advertising. At first Craig’s list advertised social event and local Industries in San Francisco. Craig’s initial intention for the site was for it to be a mailing list.

Internet advertising is here to stay. It is a big market. People with web sites will often partner up and advertise each other’s product on their site. This is often done with multiple sites. They will not pay each other for the service and if the buyer first cane to your site to buy the product you will get revenue too.

With the invention of Ad Words, marketers can drive traffic to their sites. Some company’s help you build a web site to sell their product and may initially offer some free advertisement but after the free period you are on your own. Engineers from Google devised this new kind of Ad Words advertising.

Another place people can get publicity and perhaps consumers is on Wikipedia. Wikipedia replaced Nu pedia. They can post the definition of what you are trying to sell. Wikipedia is a global resource and is written in many diffeent languages. You can still get some free classified ads. The Internet is a great place to place an ad but you have to pay for it in most cases.