The entire logic of using FFA's for increasing site traffic and advertising is severely flawed. What's even worse is that most search engines rank these sites lowly if at all. So where exactly then do you advertise your FFA site?

I performed a very simple test. I created a simple E-Zine sign up form, separate from my site, and used a well known autosubmit software to "Blast" my add to entire FFA network, which claimed millions of page views per day. Submission was done once per day, at same time for a period of 1 week. How many responses? 1! A single response that did not even sign up.

FFA sites for advertising are worthless. You'll hear many argue that they work if your careful. I would like to believe it would. Definitely easy to submit to and exposure would be phenomenal. The cold hard truth is that they do not.

Below are a few of what I find to be comical ad headlines posted at FFA sites. Enjoy!

(1)"Get your classified ad in 5,000,000 emails and 111,000 websites everyday for free without spamming". (If you follow link you find that what is being promoted is another FFA site!)

(2)"$1.67=massive income" (I wonder if they know that this is not an equality?!)

(3)"Getting 5,000 opt-in leads daily." (1 year amounts to 150,000 subscribers. Just about population of a small town!)

(4)"Delivers an endless flood of traffic!" (Perpetual motion?!)

(5)"Retire in months for only $6!" (The state of Florida is about to get an incredible population boost)

(6)"The secret to getting a million visitors to your site!"

Go to your inbox and find that ‘template email’ that you sent to your self. Scroll down to very bottom; click and hold your mouse button and drag it up to very top of your email. Let go of your mouse button when all of text has been highlighted.

Now, click edit menu at top of your email program and choose ‘Copy’.

Next, make a new email to your customer; it’s getting so easy. Click where you would normally type your message and then go to edit menu again; click paste.

WOW! That’s all there is to it. Of coarse you need to change contact info to your customer’s info. Make any necessary changes to text, give it a subject and click send! You can refine your ‘template email’ until you only have to change customers name and contact info; creating efficient template emails will save your more and more time.

These same ideas can be applied to many other areas of communication (including anything that you print and mail). The next time you are communicating with a client and you realize that you are repeating your self, remember to automate! Small notes and templates will save you weeks in long run; they work for me and they can work for you.

There, we eased some of your workload for today – and – forever!