Here is a list of 36 top classified ads where people actually view, post ads and buy stuff. We have eliminated all junk sites from this list. There are no ffa pages, forums acting like classified sites,classified sites which are full of spam or which have no traffic and are not well maintained. These are real classified ads site where if you post your ad you actually have a serious chance of somebody seeing your ad and responding. There are no sites here with an Alexa ranking over 150,000. This means that the sites below all get serious traffic.
1. http://www.craigslist.org- The grandaddy of classified ads sites.
2. http://www.backpage.com The second busiest classified site after Craigslist. This is where all the escort ads went after Craigslist took down their erotic ads section due to pressure from 17 Attorney Generals. Not so with Village Voice owned Backpage.com. They told the attorney generals they were just fine with their erotic ads section thank you. Those guys at the Village Voice have major cohones!
3. http://www.gumtree.com Weird name but this site is one of the busiest classifieds sites out there. This high traffic classifieds site is focused on UK ads.
4. http://www.oodle.com This serious classified site has partnerships with ForRent.com in the US and Autotrader UK.
5. http://www.ebayclassifieds.com The official classifieds site for Ebay.
6. http://www.olx.com This board has a presence in most countries and can be read in English or Spanish.
7. http://www.usfreeads.com A popular US focused site with a large business opportunity and pet section.
8. http://www.classifiedads.com Classifieds focused on the English speaking world. US, UK, AU, and India.
9. http://www.inetgiant.com A green board not only in color but in their ads. They have a well represented area for green products. The board is pretty much translated in most languages. I checked their Lithuanian board. No ads there yet. Do you want to be the first?
10. http://adpost.com Solid board with presences in the United States, Singapore,Canada,Malaysia, United Kingdom, Philippines, Ireland, Australia, India, Indonesia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
11. http://adlandpro.com Well established board with a strong focus on internet marketing, business opportunities, and website promotion.
12. http://www.classifiedsforfree.com A well organized world-wide classifieds board.
13. http://www.salespider.com/online-classifieds-free-advertising Classified ads are only one part of this business site. They have forums, sell leads, and offer business tools for online businesses.
14. http://www.yakaz.com A lean uncluttered board which reads your ip and directs your ad posting accordingly. US based as far as I can tell. However, I have not yet tried accessing it with a Chinese ip. Maybe the entire site changes language with my ip. I hate being a slave to my ip. What if I am a Greek living in Spain?
15. http://www.thefreeadforum.com Ok I cheated. This is my site. But it qualifies. High traffic site which is getting serious promotion. I am doing ppc and seo campaigns for each individual category. So if you have a turtle to sell this is the place to get that type of targeted traffic!
16. http://www.domesticsale.com US classifieds site which allows car dealers and other heavy advertisters to bulk upload large amounts of listings.
17. http://www.pennysaverusa.com/classifieds/usa/index.html This is the online version of the old Penny Saver newspaper which was a very popular print newspaper with discount deals and classified ads.
18. http://epage.com This site has been in business since 1994. That is before we had Google. It looks somewhat like Usfreeads.com but with less emphasis on business opportunities. They have an affiliate program with over 34,000 affiliates. This means if you post your ad here it goes out on a feed to over 30,000 other sites who run their ads. This means more exposure for you. Many of these sites have programs where other websites run their feeds. This gives you quite a bit more exposure.
19. http://www.recycler.com Simple easy to negotiate classifieds board.
20. http://www.webcosmo.com US based with worldwide advertising possibilities.
21. http://www.hoobly.com The cleanest looking classifieds site so far. Just the ads. No clutter at all. Very Googlesque in their design. It must be working for them. Over 15,000 people have clicked their like button.
22. http://www.freeadlists.com They do it all: personals, cars, pets and they do it all over the world though they are US based. They even claim on their homepage that if you are a man looking for a woman you can find one here! Watch out Match.com!
23. http://www.sell.com How much did this domain name cost them? I give them number 1 on domain name value. Excellent classifieds site as well. Kudos for not just squatting the domain name. They have been running online classifieds since 1999. Their advertising engine has been used by big business directories such as AT&T’s YELLOWPAGES.com, newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle, and niche online properties such as sellhomes.com. Sell.com is a part of a network of advertising properties. Again, if you advertise on many of these sites your ad will simultaneously run on thousands of other partner sites.
24. http://www.bestwayclassifieds.com/ Claims to be the fastest growing free advertising site in the world. Hmmm, I do not think so. Could they even have said one of the fastest? In any case they may not be the fastest growing site but they do get some good traffic and they have a nice classifieds site worth posting to.
25. http://www.webclassifieds.us A solid well designed board with a .us domain name. What else could you want? They seem to monetize their site quite a bit with Adsense which is good and bad. It means they include more features on the free ads, including free pictures and youtube video (many free boards charge for this) but visitors could be distracted by the Adsense ads.
26. http://www.americanlisted.com A family friendly US only board. I guess if you are an escort or into SM you should stick with Backpage.com. Your church announcements would be welcome here though.
27. http://www.freeadscity.com Lean easy to read worldwide board with non classified ads discretely at the bottom of the board.
28. http://www.chooseyouritem.com This is what they have to say about themselves “Place your classified ads with us and your ads appear not only on our site but also on over 70 partner websites — including over 30 classic car or vehicle related websites, as well as ISP’s, real estate, media, shopping and search networks. Each month, over 1 million visitors view tens of millions of our pages – making our Classified Network one of strongest in the country. Not only is our exposure the best but we also provide the best in value. ” Sounds like a good deal to me.
29. http://www.daype.com Straight forward US only board.
30. http://geebo.com They have quotes about connecting communities, building safe environments and how they are leaders of a “revolution of how classifieds sites see themselves as responsible citizens.” So if you want to join their “nice” revolution go ahead. And while you are at it why not sell that old Buick Enclave you have been meaning to get rid of. Vive La Revolution! (Pervs see Backpage.com)
31. http://www.claz.org I like the name. This site is actually an agregator of classified sites within 250 miles with picture previews. They feature ads from most of the sites I mention here. It does not look like you can place an ad directly here but it probably will appear if you place it on any of the other sites listed here.
32. http://wantedwants.com Well, you can stop looking at classifieds sites right now, forget Craigslist, forget Backpage, nope, it has been officially decided. These guys officially declare that their site is the best classifieds site in the world! I do not agree. But I think their site is worth posting to. Respectable traffic, and sharp unique and fun design. US centered with opportunity for international ads as well.
33. http://www.freeclassifieds.com No nonsense classified site which has their own Android application so you can post ads from your mobile phone. They even have their own QR code that you can scan with your Andorid phone to get immediate sucint info about freeclassifieds.com. Kudos again for the domain name. Mobile friendly site. Smart!
34. http://www.bonqo.com Huge homepage showcase of photo ads. Why not put your photo ad on their homepage?
35. http://www.buysellcommunity.com They sell everything but it looks like they have a penchant for Cocker Spaniels. US and Canada classifieds mainly.
36. http://businesslist.com/post-classified-ad/ Straight forward US targeted classifieds site. All your ads are automatically tweeted to their twitter account. They also sell business lists, hence the name Businesslist.com.
37. Pressmania.com’s Worldwideclassifieds. Thank you William for letting us know about your site. I tested it and I really like it. Alexa 70k means the site is getting decent traffic. Nice options of having never expiring ads. Free ads get live links and even the ability to add a YouTube video to your ad. Really quite a bit of value for a free ad. Just click the red icon at the top right to place an ad.
If you have your favorite classified sites please tell us about them in the comments area and especially tell us why they are your favorites. If you found this post helpful please tweet, like, bookmark, Digg, Stumbleupon, and buy an ad during Superbowl half-time. You get the idea. I am shamelessly begging for promotion.
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You can add also http://www.ansalads.in
and if you are mlmer and home based business
http://www.mlmdoor.com
Hey, Today i found a amazing free classified site.
http://www.famousfunda.com
This is a great free classifieds ads posting site. It has a huge amount of daily traffic.
plz also add to your list.
Thanks
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Hi Matthew
Thanks for this list. There are some I haven’t seen and it motivates me to get a proper ad program in action for them like I’m supposed to have done a month ago.
I like to use Michael Rasmussen’s http://freeadvertisingforum.com because it’s straightforward and people click on your ads to use it – 5 views and a html ad with links for a free member and I find it easy to use.
So it’s up to you to have a catchy subject line. You can have more with an upgrade.
I tried the free advertising format http://www.thefreeadforum.com and it worked somewhat however, I think forums are best used as just that fourms where people can discuss. When it is just ads people do not read the posts as much. That is why I set up a separate classified ads site. The advantage is that the ads are in targeted in niche specific categories which make the ads much easier to find and those who are looking are looking specifically for that category.
Your site will certainly be included in my plan Matthew. keep up the good work.
Hi guys, Iwould like you to try advertising at http://www.usnewads.com it has just been newly launched. Ifound it one of the best ad site in town to place ads.
You please add http://classifiedsindia.net also to your list. anyway thank you for sharing such a big classifieds ads list.
Hi Classifieds India, Thanks for sharing it.
You are welcome.
Hi Dear, Please also add http://clickinfolinks.com/ to your list. It’s 100% free, No registration required.
Many Thanks for all these list.
Regards,
Kiran
Thanks for the great share, and it is truly amazing how some online marketers stil tend to ignore the power of classified ads. One could even consider the outsourcing of account creation and posting to these ad sites at a minimal initial cost, yet with a very high potential return on the investment.
This is way cool!!! I was adding free ad sites on one of my web sites, this must have been a lot of work, thanks for this information.
Now this is what I call giving back to the industry! God bless you Matthew.
You are most welcome!
Thanks for sharing, much appreciated!
Your Craigslist link leads to a copycat fake website which has 2 letters transposed and is NOT Craigslist – this is the correct genuine Craigslist link -
http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites
Thanks for letting me know! Will check immediately!
Thanks Matthew,
A great share, not sure how I can advertise my FREE info site about ‘How to successfully move to Spain’ but I shall work on it!
Try escapefromamerica or something like that. There should be plenty of categories in the various classifieds sites that would be appropriate. Thanks. Matt.
Thanks Matthew, I will check that out
Your missing a good one and i’m not just saying it because I own it but I do get more traffic then most of these sites http://www.diggclassifieds.com
Hey not bad! Alexa 98,000. Very good name too. thank you! Matt.
Matthew please give me classified list.I am wating
Here it is!
Hi Matthew,
One site that you did not mention is http://www.kijiji.com.
I have been using it now for over 3 years with great success. They sell everything and it is free though you can pay to have upgraded listings. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the comment. Kijiji.com is actually now the Ebay Classifieds now I guess they bought them out not sure. In any case they are right near the top of the list.
Wow, I wonder when that happend… I must have been asleep or something.. Thanks for pointing that out…
By the way.,. great list
Thanks for sharing, very good and useful list.
Thank you so much- this is really helpful!
It really helps to have lists like these. Thanks so much for your effort in putting the list together.
Sofia
Matthew. Great list.
Following you on Twitter, gave you a RT, and a Like at Facebook. How’s that, bud?
Jim
Thanks Jim!
hi Matthew
thanks for the great and useful list and post
But do you have a methord of posting quickly on all or some of the sites
cheers
peter mcgrath
Funny you should ask. I just launched a manual submission service yesterday. See http://www.thefreeadforum.com/ads/page/manual-classified-submission-service.html Thanks! Matt.
Hey, this post is really cool. Will really help in placing ads. Thanks ya.
I really appreciate this post I was looking for some high traffic classified sites. Thanks for putting this together for people I am sure it will help other small businesses
You are most welcome Melanie.
I think the classified ads is a great discover because many peoples will accomplish their success in market place .classified ads is a new page of life wish kept and turning over and new idea kept and come up.
wow very nice thank you
I like this ad site because from this ad site I have got the result. Here ad can be posted in the country of your choice seperately or as a whole. It is free. You can keep your ad continue for the time period you want as well as you can keep your ad on the top.
Classified ads is taking life and it is a new break through online marketing
When more peoples discover its will bring many people through lots of new industries were they will never think their business will reach so many eyes
This is a great post! There are only a zillion trillion jillion free classifieds out there! BTW, I use Adpost.com. They are good. They have a feature where they will BLAST YOUR AD to other free classifieds so you don’t have to post them yourself. I’ve seen some of my ads from AdPost.com appear at other sites because they used this feature. I used some of the others but if you can’t say nothing good, don’t say nothing at all. It could have been my own unique experience or a bum computer or a number of other problems. Since they’re being recommended, I’ll withhold my comments and others can try them and judge for themselves. Again … excellent post!
Thanks for letting us know about Adpost.com I will check it out.
Thanks for letting us know about Adpost.com I will check it out.
Thanks for this list, do any of them accept ads for the adult dating industry?
You would have to check with each one on that. They all have different policies. You might have a look at Backpage.com
This is real timing when you sent this link to my email. Thank you Matthew. I was really thinking on how could I improve the traffic of our website because it drops although our SERP are strongly on the right track. you are God sent.
More power to you and God bless.
I really like your post. Thanks for sharing this interesting post, hope you will share more interesting posts in future too.
Hello there!
Thanks for the awesome lists! I am really happy this is truly a good lists and you know what I’m going to think a new campaign to made. Hope we all seen a success more than kiyosaki
Thanks for sharing this list.i like your post.really this list will save time of everybody.
You are most welcome Anuj.
You may also list my Classifieds ad Site on your list, free or paid listing, Wide World or local listing, http://theworldwideclassifieds.pressmania.com/ see you there
Will check it out William. thanks!
Thanks Matthew Your sites are very intresting with a lot of useful content & information, you don’t find many these day, Keep up the good work. I would be intrested in what you think about my classifieds, A review would be nice if you have the time, Just tell me what you really think about my Classifieds. Ads submitions The red button on right hand side at top is the location of ad submitions .It takes a little getting use- to but can be quite easy after your first few ads, post a pic. ad your contact information, edit your ads many tools. I hope you will enjoy your listings………….friend me on face book …Hope you a great day
Hi William. It looks like a good classifieds site with nice traffic. I will run a test ad and consider it for the list. Thanks Matt.
Well, I just tried your site, no listing for pets, but my big complaint would be that you can’t paste into the description box. I’m a lousy speller and always do my ads in word to spell check and save.
Try using ctrl c to copy the ctrl v to paste. It should work. I will test. In any case will you be one of our first pet ads? We are just getting this site going. We have several thousand listings in our first few weeks. Thanks for the heads up. Matt
Marilyn, here is the pets section.
http://www.thefreeadforum.com/ads/categories/pets-and-animal-classifieds.html
William. I have added your site to the list. I tested it out and the ad posted fine. Nice site. Thanks! How about a link back to my manual submission service?
http://www.thefreeadforum.com/ads/page/manual-classified-submission-service.html
Thanks!
Matt
Hey thanks for the consideration, Matthew
Anyone have any feedback on the effectiveness of thebartertown.net ?
hi frnds
plz send me more clasified ads link
thanks
thats very nice site
and need more links like this site
thanks for that bro
Great post Matt, Three that I use with great results in South Africa are.
http://www.kalahari.net/
http://vottle.com/
http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/
Thanks Glin for letting us know what is happening with the classified biz in South Africa! Matt.
I like to use: http://comfortads.com/
It is FREE, you can place many ads with pictures. It has many countries and also your business gets to be added in google maps. Great stuff, recomend everyone to check it out.
Thank you for sharing you classifieds site. I will check it out.
u can also add this website to your database http://www.realadposting.com its easy to post your free classified
Thank you for letting us know pallavi.
Hi Matthew Meyer this classified is very good for high traffic for website. I have bookmark your list.
Thanks
thank you I hope the sitse works well for you.
Wow, there’s a big list here, and more being added in, but I’ve got to be honest, I definitely feel Locanto was missed out badly here – Craigslist and a lot of the others are the oldest of the old-school and things definitely need a shake-up.
Locanto (http://www.locanto.com) meanwhile is already big and constantly growing in over 38 countries and is committed to providing communities with a local trading platform!
Would love if you guys gave it a try!
Thank you for letting us know about locanto.com Andrew. I will definitely check it out.
I have some more on my site – without the reviews
They are all above? below? 300,000 on Alexa – whichever one means it’s a good thing 
http://marketingjelly.com/classifieds-sites/
I will use my sites with your clasified ads sources, thanks
Use This Site Also : http://www.muftad.com
Free Classified Website
Thanks for letting us know.
Matt
Thanks for the extras Matthew.
This has been great. If a person used about 10 of these a day it sure is better than none.
I can see making a spreadsheet and code system as I join will be beneficial to monitor it.
When the emails keep coming about these it motivates me to move on.
What success rate could be expected from free advertising? Anyone?
Janny
That is the key question, how to manage your time. Impossible to tell you of results. It depends on your offer. But classifieds have worked well for a long time. Thanks Janny.
It appears classifieds work as well as mostly anything else for the home use niches.
Hey Matt! Truly Amazing list! I have not had much success with classified ads but I will give some of these a shot.
Do you have any ideas on inexpensive outsourcing of posting?
Hi Joshua, you could try Scriptlance.com for the outsourcing. You could also experiment with posting multiple backpage.com ads.
Please Include My Site in Your Directory……
Thanks
I’ve used clasypress for my classified blog. Take a look at http://warungiklan.tk/.
Thanks Warung for letting us know about this wordpress theme.
Hai All,
Great information,
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You can also choose countries in which your ad should appear
this another new one that is good, http://www.campusebay.com …. what do u thinka bout it ?
Hey here is a job posting service http://latestjobs.org. it’s 100% free.