The same free classified site discussed in the Free Web Advertising article also includes a very important and useful feature with the premium account. It is the ability to automatically generate your own online product catalog that lists just your items separately from other advertisers!
Your product catalog is automatically generated online and includes all the categories and sub-categories that you setup to organize your ads, as well as displaying each of your free classified ads with thumbnail images alongside them.
Create your own free online product catalog!
Your online product catalog is maintenance free. It is dynamically generated when you place new classified ads. The best part is your ads appear in both your online catalog and as independent classified ads!
Your product catalog is automatically linked to from all the ads you place so anyone browsing any of your ads can easily see the other items you’re advertising. Each online catalog also has a built-in search feature that allows users to search just your classified ads!
Your online product catalog also has it own URL which allows you to link to your product catalog so you can send people directly to your it!
Catalogs are 100% “search engine friendly” and it’s not uncommon to find catalog pages indexed directly by search engines within a few weeks.
There’s no programming needed. You can set up your catalog with just a few mouse clicks. You can even add PayPal buttons to your ads and turn your catalog into an online store!
All free classified ads you place automatically display a list of your personal categories that you’ve created for your online product catalog which will also show the number of ads you have in each category. This way anyone viewing any of your classified ads can quickly jump to your own categorized list of ads in your online product catalog and see what other kinds of items you’re offering without having to search through thousands of other ads placed by other advertisers.
In your account management area, you can also browse ads which you’ve placed in the categories which you setup making it easier for you to locate specific items. You can setup 10 different categories for your catalog, each containing 5 different sub categories and you can assign new and old ads to your personal categories at any time.
Example:
If you’re a real estate professional you could create your own personal categories for your catalog as follows:
- Homes
- Condos
- Rentals
- Land
- Commercial
In each category you create, you can also create up to 5 sub-categories.
The following example shows how many different sections you can have if you only had 5 categories and 5 or so sub-categories in each:
Homes
- 1 Bedroom
- 2 Bedroom
- 3 Bedroom
- 4 Bedroom
- 5+ Bedrooms
Condos
- 1 Bedroom
- 2 Bedroom
- 3 Bedroom
- 4 Bedroom
- 5+ Bedrooms
You get the idea! You might want to use cities as your main categories or any other breakdown you want.
The point is, whatever you are selling, from paper clips to autos, houses, boats or planes, you can layout your catalog any way you want. Of course your online product catalog is fully searchable so a visitor can narrow their search as tight as they want!
