Craigslist alternatives

Craigslist is introducing phone number verification. So far it is enforced on services and personals sections. It can be guessed that phone number verification will be introduced on other categories of craigslsit soon. So it is becoming impossible for non-US people to post on craigslsit. It makes is necessary to find out alternates. Following are some good alternates of craigslsit (i.e free classified sites like craigslist) in the USA and Canada:

1. backpage.com - The best craigslist alternative. It allows use of hyperlink, external image. It gets good traffic.
2. kijiji.com - An eBay backed free classifieds for world wide. It's now one of the most popular free classifieds of USA. In Canada kijiji.ca is more popular than craigslist.ca. It's drawback is that it allows only plain text ads. kijiji even doesn't convert URL into hyperlink
3. Other sites that may be tried are usfreeads.com, webcosmo.com, stumblehere.com, epage.com, expo.live.com, base.google.com, olx.com etc..

Try these usa online free classifieds if you aren't able to post on craigslist anymore.

AdBrite Launches Open Targeting Exchange (OTX)

AdBrite is one of the large ad serving network. The company makes it easy to buy and sell advertising online, giving advertisers and publishers more transparency and control than any other ad network.

AdBrite’s Open Targeting Exchange is the internet’s first open exchange for ad targeting technologies. OTX delivers superior yield and advertiser effectiveness by tapping into multiple third-party targeting providers.

OTX is an integrated element of AdBrite's network, so publishers and advertisers automatically benefit from competition among targeting providers. Each time a page is viewed on an AdBrite publisher's site, OTX scans multiple eligible targeting algorithms to determine the most relevant and valuable advertisement for the given site, user, and geography.

Google PR still valuable?

Once google PR was a valuable parameter to get top position on google's search result page. Now it has little value in this regard. So the question arises whether Page Rank still have any value at all.

Although for SEO, PR matters a little PR has some other significance. PR is part of your online reputation. Consider when a service buyer get quotes from two different companies : one company's site has zero PR while the other company's site has PR value 3. With whom the buyer will deal if the price is equal. Most like with the company have a PR of 3. Because PR value 3 proves that the company is not new and they have professional dedication.

Social bookmarking is an easy way of increasing PR.

Google has acquired DoubleClick

l Google has completed its acquisition of DoubleClick. Check out this. The combined company will offer more tools for publishers, enhance productivity and provide additional revenue opportunities so you can focus on creating more relevant content and improve the user experience on your websites. If you have a DoubleClick account, rest assured that everything will continue to operate as usual, and that you'll receive the same support you're used to. For more information, please read Googles' press release here

Goolge is already a giant in the field of internet advertising. With this acquisition google has established it's position more firmly.