WHAT ARE THE FFA PAGES?
FFA comes from: Free For All pages, and are sites that allow anyone
to submit a link to them. This links are free of cost and you don't
need to link back to the page, as it's usually required in the link
exchange programs.
Whether a FFA submission is useful or not it's still being discussed.
Some people claim that FFA pages produce so little traffic, that's
useless to consider submitting a link to them.
Others say that investing resources on search engine optimization
and other methods of traffic improvement it's much better. And many
point out that if your alternative is having a free link in a FFA
page or having nothing at all, then the FFA link is always better
than nothing.
You can be sure that if you post your link into a FFA page you will
get a real flood of email!...
SPAM email !
E-mail that comes from hundreds (even thousands) of people that want
to tell you about their business and have captured your e-mail address
from the FFA pages with special programs that do so.
Will you also get e-mail from people interested in YOUR offer? ...
Only a few!
MY OPINION
FFA pages
are more a waste of time and effort than a good deal
If you still
would like to try with them, don't post to them one by one, a good
auto submitter can get you pretty good results in a minimal amount
of time.
NEVER use
your personal e-mail addresses when you post to FFA, you must use
a free (disposable) account.
Be sure that
the URL address you submit doesn't have any e-mail address that
can be harvested by spammers
Using FFA
auto submitters it might look as a good idea, but in fact it doesn't
work, because your link rolls off from the pages as fast as other
people submit their sites via the same tool.
Submitting
manually to FFA's it's even worst, for the same reason than before
and because it takes too much time per submission.
If you want
a better positioning, submit with auto submitters more than once
a day
HAVING YOUR OWN FFA SITE
Absolutely! It's much better to own a FFA site than to post to FFA
sites!
You might wonder what's the gain of creating a page that allows OTHER
people to post their links to YOUR site for free?
The gain is that with a good CGI script...
You would get their E-mail addresses!
Then you can use that e-mail address to send out a "thank you for
posting" message, which it's just an excuse to include an advertisement
for some of YOUR products.
Some webmasters send also a second e-mail telling their users when
their link roles off the page, in this message, they tell the receiver
that his link is no longer available at the FFA page and they invite
him to come back and submit it again.
As you can probably guess, if you run the FFA page this is your second
opportunity to include another advertisement in this message as well..
So, as you can see these are the reasons of why the FFA pages exist...
NOT to give
you the opportunity to contact people
BUT to give
the owner the opportunity to harvest your e-mail address for marketing
purposes
If you go around sending information about your business opportunity
to people that haven't asked for it, you can be accused of spaming
However, if people give you their e-mail address in order to be accepted
in your FFA site, and therefore accepts that will receive confirmation
e-mail, they can't complain about it.
A very good FFA system that will give you all this can be found at:
http://newsletter.easy-home-business.com/hts/trafficwave.html
THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION ABOUT FFA PAGES
Do FFA pages work as a traffic builder?
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It used to
work well in the past
It isn't very
good anymore.
Many people use auto submitters to submit to hundreds or thousands
of FFA pages at the same time, they get a throwaway account and direct
the flood of e-mail caused by the submission to that address.
As they use a throwaway account, they never go and read those messages.
Only a few use their personal e-mail address, but they get so many
messages that just can't possibly read every single one of them. So,
the chances of your message being among those that get read are closer
to 0 % than to any other number, because...
Very few people
do read those postings
HOW TO MAXIMIZE FFA PAGES PROFIT
Once you get
the e-mail addresses you should make sure that they are real, and
the easiest way to do it, is to request via e-mail that all submitters
confirm their submissions by replying to the message. (So they don't
use a fake one)
Send your
confirmation mailings two or three days after the submission. If
the submission has being made using an automatic submission tool,
the user will get a ton of mail, so an immediate reply might get
buried among thousands of others.
Always notify
the user why you're mailing him, and if you promised to send one
or two reply e-mail, send only one or two e-mail.
We have now covered why people run FFA pages and how to improve the
benefits they can bring. But is that hard work worth it in the end?
I'd wish I could say otherwise, but I believe that the answer is no.
It takes quite a lot of effort to get a FFA page run flawlessly and
even when you manage to achieve that, the negative sides of running
an FFA page will always be with you.
Is it worthwhile doing all this work? Mi idea is that the answer
is no. It will take you too much effort to get a FFA page run flawlessly
and you can expect only little result. Unless you run a PAID service.
Why would people pay for a FFA service? They will do it if they see
that you consciously filter all the automatic submissions, and offer
a copy of the e-mail address of all the daily submitters to your customers.
FFA PAGES COMMON PROBLEMS
What kind of problems can you expect in a FFA of your own:
Some people
might post ads with e-mail addresses that belong to someone that
they would like to disturb, and you can be accused of SPAM (so you
need to keep a copy of all the requests that you receive)
Massive auto submitters
will hammer at your host (no solution for this).
Even if it's
not allowed, some people will post obscene links on your page (you
need a human being that reads all of them to filter them).
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Written by Dr. Roberto A. Bonomi
Dr. Roberto Bonomi is a successful e-book writer that shares his home business experience at: http://www.easy-home-business.com
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