Listia

Well, here my review on Listia as promised. My curious nature brought me to this site via an ad on Facebook saying get free Magic cards, and because I have an eBay store that sells Magic cards I thought that free stuff sounds pretty good, especially if it has some value to it and I can resell it on eBay. I will say that things worked out pretty well.

Listia is an online auction site, but instead of paying with money you pay with credits and some of the things on there are pretty darn good. You can spend money to buy credits, but it’s ridiculously expensive and silly to do so unless you are absolutely certain that you’ll get your money back via product value. Alright, I wasn’t completely telling the truth when I said you don’t pay money, some auctions require you pay shipping with real dollars, but other than that there really isn’t much else you need money for in this site.

Much like eBay, every type of product you can think of goes up here. Collectibles? Yep. Computer parts? Yep. Cameras? Yep. Even books and clothing and a dozen other categories of stuff with… subcategories! Not only that, but you can get the stuff for pretty much free. Free is good, right?

If you want to add credits to your account you can do quite a few things. One is spend money to buy them there credits. Another is list your own stuff that you don’t want to have anymore and in a few days after somebody wins the auction your credits will come to you. You can also complete surveys and offers of the free kind and the paid kind and get a varying amount of credits per choice. There are also little goals here and there that can give you 10-15 credits if you complete them. Also inviting a friend that then completes an auction gives you 500 credits and them 100 plus the starting amount when they join.

I’ll tell you now that this site is in fact very legit and definitely not a scam. It’s also a fantastic way to get rid of all of your extra junk that you don’t need that somebody else might want.
Auctions for free stuff at Listia.com

Traffic Swarm

I’ve done several searches on which sites were the best to advertise on that actively said “free advertisement here” and of all of them Traffic Swarm has been the best one I’ve tried yet. Because of Traffic Swarm, my blog’s views have increased from 15-20 views a day to 40-70 views, and it’s getting higher. I’m even getting repeat visitors, which is fantastic, but enough about me, this is a post about Traffic Swarm.

After you make a free account with them you get a few rules like: no more than 10 advertisements unless you decide to purchase our premium plan. You have to earn credits to get views to your link, and the more credits you have the more likely someone’s going to visit your site through the advertisement. How do you earn credits? The easiest way is to buy them using PayPal or a credit/debit card. The free way requires time and a little bit of work. The free way is you must surf the ads that are already present in Traffic Swarm to get 1-5 credits per view with a maximum of 250 clicks per day. At 100, 200, and 250 you get a bonus 10-1000 credits randomly decided. Also on occasion for using them a lot you get 50 credits randomly. This means that you’re guaranteed 280 credits a day, which means at least 280 views to your ad and 280 chances to have someone click on it. Easily in one day I’ve gotten 2000 credits. The most you could get for credits is 4235 which is quite a lot for a small blog.

If anything, Traffic Swarm is a fantastic start for advertising for bloggers. You may have to wait 20 seconds between clicks on ads, but you’re also increasing views on your website. You can also pick the continental area that you want to advertise to, you can pick everywhere, or just North America or Europe. You can even focus to regions.

Premium users get 5000 monthly credits, bonus credits per click, free web hosting, unlimited ads, unlimited website submits, unlimited feature articles, and even paid referrals.

Overall, if you have the time and need advertising and you have a small blog I recommend Traffic Swarm, and even if you’re trying to get just a little bit more traffic to your already busy site and have the ability to cover the expense or time requirement for Traffic Swarm then go for it.