A part of the new trends in making money, its big time to chose the better or sometimes, even the best platforms, niche and categories to make your site popular. And if you’re new to all this, this post will surely open up your understanding capabilities to do so. There are upto 6million people who’ve made it sure that classifieds are the most effective way to gain people interest, and finally resulting in traffic and money, read through to check out.
Overview: Do you ever wonder how much different your world would be if Craigslist was actually a website that started with your name, followed by list? Would your world be easier and feel a little more complete because of the accomplishment that came with such a game-changing website?
You can create the competitor to Craigslist, the Steveslist or Gregslist that makes people remember that there can be competition for classified ads. You can do all of this with the ease of several different WordPress themes that make the process just a few minutes to complete.
The Opportunity: The opportunity is easy to see and easy to implement by using the tools that you see below and you could take a few different approaches to getting it started. Keep in mind that there can be other opportunities, but these are just a couple that could make the ideas start to flow in your mind.
Pay to Display: The simplest approach is to have users pay a fee to post an ad and you get paid based on how many ads you sell. The beauty is that it is easy to see just how much money you have made, the difficulty is that it is a field that is very saturated and hard to break into.
Benefit to Members: Let’s say that you already run a successful niche or hobby website that brings together many people with the same interests. You offer your members the opportunity to buy, sell or trade items of value that they may have as a benefit to being a member of your site. Depending on your niche or theme, this could be something of tremendous value.
How to Get Started: It is easy to get started by using the links and resources that are listed below because they make this a truly “push button” experience. You literally push a button to make a theme be installed and then you start to install the information. What you have to do is decide on your approach and who your audience might be. If they already exist in the form of your members, this benefit could happen overnight.
When you want this to be a stand-alone business you can get things started by mentioning your website on Facebook or any other social networking sites. The more of a niche you carve out the better, but like other opportunities, the better you market yourself the more success you will have. You can find some of the wordpress resources below which will be helpful for classified website.
WordPress Classified Themes:
- Classifieds Theme - Creates fully functional classified sites that let your users post free or paid ads
- ClassiPress - A feature-rich WordPress classified ads portal theme and plugin bundle
- WordPress Classifieds Theme - Classifieds theme which has been designed for ease of use and includes everything you need to get your website up and running
WordPress Classified Plugins:
- Another Classifieds Plugin - Provides the ability for you to add classified ads to your WordPress site
- WP-Classified - Adds a simple advertising blackboard or classified page in to your WordPress site
- Your Classified Ads – A plugin that allows you to have a classified ads system into your WP blog
Article by Ashish
Ashish Tadigiri is a Blogger from India, and is a part time blogger, doing his bachelors in Engineering. If you like this post, why not check his blog Short Shoot
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Yes classified sites are very nice and we can turn it a money machine. thanks for the post.
yeah. They do play a lot more, when they’re well optimized and well marketted. They’re a lot of them who’re working on classified sites and this’s for them.
That’s a nice idea to make money and one of friend has just started his classified site about 2 months ago and he’s getting good traffic there and earning small amount too.
Nice article thanks for sharing
Thanks Ashish for WordPress Classified Themes………
Yes i agree with you that following this step one can actually start making residual income online.
It is a set and forget biz, but then the market is saturated. Just like fiverr clones..
It’s always great to hear of new plugins for wordpress. I’ll just have to find a way to incorporate this into my photography website. I already see lots of forums doing this informally, so it would be interesting to see websites start popping up with Classifieds sections; however, I anticipate the same problem occuring, on a lesser scale, as does on Craigslist. How do we ensure that the postings are legitimate and not scams? That’s always the question, isn’t it?
Upon re-skimming this article, I see that the users would pay, so I guess that would weed out most of the scammers; you would hope, at least.
Ashish great post! I also agree that ads on sites well positioned to earn money online (guadagnare online) is no longer a dream but reality. Thanks for the post, but above all for the feedback they have given us some resources that we can use with WP.
Yeah , it is a great way to make money on the internet . We can list out our things on such sites for free , and earn huge income by selling them to others !
very nice idea Ashish.i already know so many successful classified sites like OLX.
I’m really happy to see the tweets.
THanks for sharing this great information.
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I am very much interested in classified sites. I have posted many list of classified sites. Now i also want to start classified site. Soon I will announce about it.
Good one Ashish..
Great Idea Ashish!
This is increasingly becoming a big way to make money atleast in India. There are new sites that are created almost every other month. Good post.
Glad you’re here. However, i’ve posted the classified plugins and also the themes you require to do so. you can also check some at
classified themes
There are a lot of ways to make money online and your advice can work very well. Having your own blog/site can help you earn money but other that there’s still classified ads, affliate marketing and the like. There’s always a lot more out there that can generate income.
Yeah …this is one of some ways that helps you to make money
Thanks for the info 
Kp it up 
Your article is very use full to get some good ideas about how to get start for classified website and i am also working many days too start a classified website and your article give me lot of good info.Thanks
I’m happy to see your interest in starting off with a classifieds website. I’m sure you’ll succeed in whatever you’re planning for.
i agree with others that this classified marketing can really bank anyone who is interested to work some cool money. thanks for creating such a wonderful blog.
A site just like craigslist with our name
Thats a very good idea, we all know craigslist is not a beautiful website, though its quite accessed.
No doubt its a good idea for long term.
And quite solid as well.
Thanks.
I too agree that classified sites are good to earn but you will definitely need some hardwork to establish these sites.
Ashish really Thanks for sharing this information
Yaa, Classifieds are great way to earn, as classifieds gets many free content from users and it helps to grow the site.
Nice one. Thanks
Well I always had a plan about starting a classified website but never knew that even with wordpress I can do this.. Lets hope for the best….
Hi Friends,
we also want to start free classified website. is there any free wordpress them if yes please share the links.. thanks for your support.. keep sharing..
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Really helpfull this post.i am very happy
Your post makes sense in the world of fake classified sites. There are many rumors already been carrying from one to another but this makes some sense. Thanks anyway!