The Ugly Truth About Advertising On FFA Pages

  FFA stands for "Free-For All," and one of the biggest myths
on the Internet is that if you advertise your website's URL
on thousands of FFA pages, you'll be flooded with traffic,
and increase your link popularity and search engine ranking.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Here's why: Very
few people actually read the ads on FFA pages. They visit
FFA pages for the same reason you do--to post their own ads--
not to look at someone else's. So basically, your submission is just a dead link.

As far as increasing your site's link popularity, research has shown that submitting to FFA pages does NOT increase your "link popularity" or search engine ranking. In fact, linking to FFA pages could actually hurt your ranking, because many search engines will penalize you if they think you are trying to artificially increase your link popularity.

Also, many individuals use auto-submitters to post their
ads. This means that many times a real person never actually
sees your ad anyway.

In addition, there's a limit to the number of ads that can
be posted to an FFA page. This means that as new ads are
posted, your ad drops further and further down the page,
until it drops off completely.

In fact, since most FFA pages are constantly bombarded with
submissions, your ad will probably only appear for a very
short period of time--sometimes only an hour or two.

And if you hate SPAM, you're really going to hate FFA pages! Here's why: When you post on FFA pages, you have to provide your e-mail address, and then the promoter of the site will promptly send you e-mails trying to sell you something.

All or most of the e-mails you'll receive will be pure garbage and scams. For example: Earn thousands weekly working from home and other equally outrageous claims.

Although some FFA pages claim to be "SPAM free", they really aren't. So, if you auto-submit your site to thousands of FFA pages, you can expect to receive hundreds and hundreds of e-mails within days--and they'll just keep right on coming unless you unsubcribe to each one. And sometimes the e-mails won't even allow you to unsubscribe.

Here's something else to consider: Most of the people
who submit to FFA pages are either on an extremely tight
budget or flat-out broke. That's the main reason they're
submitting to FFA pages to begin with. That means that by
the slim chance someone actually did see your ad on an FFA
page and clicked on it, the chances of them actually buying
anything are remote at best.

Our advice: Don't waste your time with FFA pages. They just aren't worth the headaches!

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