Hi Peter and Everyone,

I'd also like to post while this thread is still open, I'm writing an article about my early experiences with Adlandpro Classifieds for the several years before this Community was created. There are many ways that the advertising area has always been of higher quality than other ad sources, and now many other places are just trying to catch up in one of those ways, but they are all a decade behind and they think they have a new big idea that's always been here since 1998. (This isn't the article, LOL it's almost turning into it!)

I also agree with Mary Evelyn, I've never seen the point in adults saying, "if you're friends with so&so then I won't be your friend"...that's a very 3rd grade behavior. If you don't like whoever else, don't lose your current friend because they have another friend who you don't want to be buddies with. geez. People have things in common with other people, some are really fun to talk to about goofy junk, some make more logical sense to us than others, some people have an exuberant addiction to advertising, whatever we find in other people that we like, is nobody else's business.

The same can be said about advertisers, I just said that...they are people, too :) If advertisers have focus and stay in the ad forums and are not bothering anyone, then they should not be bothered either. There's room in this community for everyone to do their own thing and if they are doing it where they're allowed to, then it's nobody's place to complain.

If I finish my article about the historically "different and better" since before the turn-of-the-century Adlandpro Classifieds within the next few hours, I'll post it here.

I may add more to this later, it's my "nearly 14 year" review:

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Adlandpro Free World Classifieds: What's Always Been Different And Better?

Here are just a few of the free benefits that impress me the most about Adlandpro Classifieds since it was created in 1998 and even more now as we near 2012:

1. We can geo-target and category-target our ads for free, no extra charge, always.

2. We can choose to be notified by email when people click through our ads to visit our sites, and if they are an Adlandpro member, their link is provided to us in that notification so we can easily contact them, these great benefits have also always been free.

3. We can choose to have our contact info from our profile automatically included with our ads.

I've been an affiliate of Adlandpro Classifieds since 1998, it's one of the first ad sources I used, and other sources didn't bring in as much traffic. Now over a decade has passed, the internet is filled with unlimited advertising sites and most of them still don't offer geo-targeting or category-targeting, and some are just starting to offer geo-targeting as if it's a new idea, and charging extra for it. Most ad sites also don't notify us by email when people click through our ads to visit our sites.

I've continued to get longterm visitors to my ads, I recently got a visitor from an ad I posted over a year ago. Adlandpro Classifieds can provide very longterm traffic.

I'm writing this especially for people who've never used Adlandpro Classifieds, or have used it and don't realize the impact of these FREE benefits, so they will be more aware of what Adlandpro has offered for nearly 14 years that other classified ad sites don't offer. That's why Adlandpro Free World Classifieds has been a mainstay of internet marketers since the turn of the century for marketers who recognize high quality advertising.

These sound like small simple issues, they are very important, these are free benefits that Adlandpro Classifieds has ALWAYS offered, and can help you to more easily gain leads and signups for your businesses.

Adlandpro Classifieds has always given us the free options to find leads in the areas that are best for our businesses, and to easily have communications between advertiser and visitor.

Here are the banners I made for Adlandpro about 12 years ago, maybe longer than that:

The banners are below, but here's how to find them in this labyrinth, if you want to take a trip and get lost, actually how to find your affiliate link with the banners:

Click the "Affiliates" tab near the top of this site....then "Affiliate Custom Page" on the left side,
then scroll down to the banner area, and above the first banner, look for "Extra images can be found on this page" and click the "page" link!

YAY!

Then you'll find my bannersss...from the late 1990's: These are for the advertising area, that was The Adlandpro for 6 years before this community was created in 2004, the Classifieds brought me lots of traffic, more than other sources:

It's great when I still sometimes see my banners being displayed online by other people!

That's called "longterm".