Have you ever heard the old adage that nothing comes free? In most cases, that is absolutely true but not when it comes to free classified ads. Not only are they free, but you can do more than just post a personal. The options that are available to you today can put plenty of extra cash into your wallet at zero cost to you.

I know, I know, you will believe it when you see it. Well get ready to proclaim from the top of the highest mountain that you are a converter because I am about to show you how to make this unbelievable proposition work for you.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way here. I am not talking about print classified ads, although there are some local papers that will actually do this. I am talking about the internet. Do a Google search and see how many responses you get when you type in the key phrase “free classified ads”, over 12,000,000! That is 12 million sites that will allow you to post various things 100% FREE!

Now you can choose to use these sites any way you like as most of them have various outlets but I am going to stick to selling things and job searching. These are two areas that will usually cost you some cash to make cash or to find a job but not anymore. Read on and find out how.

Are all of these sites legitimate and trustworthy? No, you would be a fool to think that they were but there are enough of them out there that you can trust that you can saturate the market with your listing and get positive results. The traffic that these sites produce will get you more exposure in a week than you would by running a print ad for a year.

The sites that we want to utilize are major social networks and sites such as Craigs List. Each and every one of these sites are totally free and have such a huge following that they naturally generate hits. Not only that, but they are used around the country giving you an audience that you could not come close to touching were you to take out an ad in the local paper.

Placing the ad is quite simple. Social networking sites all have tutorials or a help video that will walk you through the process of creating a page or lens. The marketplace sites are even easier than that. If you have ever filled out a questionnaire, you have the needed background to do a listing on one of these sites successfully. The one thing you are absolutely going to want to keep in mind though is that you must use good keywords or you are defeating your own purpose. Use them in the title, in the body and throughout your article to maximize your search engine hits.

The best feature of all of these is that they are totally free. Unlike using a print ad, you don’t have to pay any up front costs. If you are selling something, you won’t have to pay a listing fee or commission to the site upon sale like you would for an auction site. And if you are looking for a job, you don’t have to pay a finders fee like you would a head hunting site. All the fee’s are paid for by advertising that is featured on the site. How much better can it get?

Now it’s time to go clean out that garage and make some extra cash. Go to one of these sites and list everything you have to get rid of and watch the cash start to roll in. If you are looking for a job, hit up the sites and do an internal search for the fields you are looking for and see opportunity after opportunity. How about that, you really can get something for nothing in this world!