Safelists and Listbuilders

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You know you need to get people looking at your site before you can make sales, but your budget for advertising is pretty close to nothing.

The best sources of free traffic include safelists, traffic exchanges, article marketing (bum marketing), and forum marketing.

Safelists are sites which help you to get your site seen from links in eMail in exchange for you reading other people’s eMail and viewing their sites. Sort of an eMail exchange as opposed to direct eyeballs on your page right off the top.

Safelists usually have two types of mail – regular and solo. Solo mails get you lots more credit to read but you have to pay extra to send them out.

List builders have only one type of mailing and you usually get even fewer credits per read than regular safelists, but the traffic quality is a lot higher, i.e. better conversions.

By the numbers, they are not as effective as traffic exchanges, but when you’re sending out thousands of eMails at a time (double opt-in – you’re not spamming) you don’t need as big a percentage to still get results. These are credit based mailers so there’s real people on the other end of the process, not just some computer program eating them up without human eyes ever seeing them.

Different safelists attract somewhat different personalities. For many of my sites, my best safelist is rarely in the top 10 and a couple of the top 5 safelists don’t do much for me at all. Your mileage will vary

I will be going through and collecting much more detailed information on each safelist so the list will be much more useful in deciding which safelists you want to work. Safelists also aren’t nearly as hard to keep up with as traffic exchanges, but they’re also a way of advertising where you’re trading your time for the advertising. It is easy to get in over your head on time spent in reading and viewing so don’t feel bad if you don’t read them one day or only get through a few of them.

Full Disclosure: If you join or buy anything through any of the links on the site, I might make some money. Seems obvious to me, but to do a CYA under the new Federal Trade Commission rules, I have to be explicit.

Safelists in Alphabetical Order

I know I don’t have all of the safelists out there. In fact there are hundreds of safelists with new ones starting up all the time and not so new ones quitting. As a result, unless something really catches my eye, I’m arbitrarily setting a minimum of 500 members and 3 months in operation in order to be added to the list.

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