Promote Your Site With FFAs!

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by Dan Grossman

The subject of this article probably surprised some, with the amount of bad publicity going around for FFA or free-for-all pages. These pages can be posted to by anyone with an email address and URL, and there are thousands of them out there. If you've ever seen a "Blast Your Ad to 100,000 sites!" ad, your ad will probably be going mostly to FFA pages.

The secret to using an FFA to promote your site is not to submit to them, but to run your own! While a growing number of Internet marketers are realizing this, FFA pages only really benefit those who run them, not those who post. Running an FFA can easily allow you to send out your sales letter or advertisement to thousands of people each day. Each time your FFA page is submitted to, you send an email confirmation to the poster.

But isn't this spam?

No. Your FFA submissions will probably be coming from automatic submission sites and software, where the user is warned beforehand that they will receive many emails in response to their submission. It is good to have a note on your own page saying that you will email the user, but since you don't need to direct actual traffic to your page for this to work, it isn't necessary.

Each time your FFA page is submitted to, your confirmation can include as much as you want to include in it; an entire letter selling a product or a short advertisement for your site.

So the benefits of running an FFA page of your own are obvious: