Best Classified Sites for Paid Advertising [USA, UK and India]

Basically we're using classified sites to post free ads online. It is the greatest opportunity to advertise our business or product online without spending money from our pocket. 

We can drive thousands of targeted customers to our business by simply placing free classified advertisements in various of free classified sites. Still then, sometime we need a higher traffic flow to maintain the fluency of our online business or many other purposes. Therefor, we need to go for paid advertisements to fulfil those requirements. 

There are many options available for paid advertising like- AdWords, Facebook, Bing Advertising, etc. Still you should go for paid classified advertisements for the reasons below- 

1. About 50% of internet users are using classified sites everyday for different purposes.
2. Business conversion nature of a classified site is very high. Because, classified sites itself an advertising platform and basically people are visiting classified sites to see advertisements. 
3. Here is no limitation on impression and clicks you received.
4. One time investment, long time results (till your ad running).
5. It is very cheap.
6. Better for local businesses. 

So, we just need to choose some of the best classified sites to place our paid ads to get more traffic to our business.

Here is some best classified site list to place paid ads. Country wise list-


Note: The advertising cost & rank was last updated in 2014. So, the value might be slightly different now-

USA	United Kingdom	India
Craigslist.org|Rank-12 Ad cost depends upon  categories and location-  Price $5 to $75.	Gumtree.com | Rank-29 Ad cost depends upon  categories-  Price 7.95 to 59.95 pounds	OlX.in  |Rank-20 Home Page Featured  Ads cost र250/week Top Listings cost- र50/week
OLX.com|Rank-5275 Home Page Featured  Ads cost $9.99/week Top Listings cost- $2.99/week	preloved.co.uk | Rank-289 15 adverts- £20+VAT / month. Unlimited adverts-  £50+VAT/ month	Quikr | Rank-23 Ad cost र-66 to र316 Depending on categories
Backpage.com|Rank-165 Auto Repost Ad-$0.5 to $3 Sponsor Ad-$0.2 to $10.4	craigslist.co.uk | Rank-404  Ad cost depends upon  categories and location-  Price $5 to $75.	click.in |Rank-219 Premium plans- र99 to र599
usfreeads.com|Rank-2314 Premium Membership- $9.99/month Gold Membership- $10/year!	Vivastreet.co.uk  | Rank-636 Premium ad-£5.99  to £15.99 Highlight Ad-£4.99 auto repost-£6.99	Locanto.in |Rank-261 Top Ad- 1 week to 19 week र190 to र3610 Gallery Ad- 1 week to 19 week र190 to र3610 Premium Ad-1 week to 19 week र95 to र1805

There are many other good classified sites available to post paid classified advertisements. But, if you're new then we strongly recommend the above list for you.

The Alexa ranks might change day by day so, visit Alexa for most recent information.

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