Who's using Gumtree ? How effective is it ? Do you like it ?

[mmike]

Like in topic, how many of you are using Gumtree as free advertising for your business ?

How effective is it for you ?

Do you like it ?

What you don't like ?


What is missing there ?



Do you want/need anything extra (like ads templates which can be used to create new ads in 2-3 seconds, posting scheduler, email manager which would show you all emails received per ad (per title or per ad ID)) ??

 

[AlexanderR]

I used it for a 6 month period advertising fitness services and products last year, I didn't get 1 phone call.

 

[Storage King]

We use free ads on Gumtree on a regular basis to advertise storage rental, packing materials and office space.

We dont generally get many storage rentals, but have had a few merchandise sales through this method of advertising.

However the response to office rentals has always been good and we have rented most of our offices by using Gumtree.

I think the key is to place regular adverts and experiment with different Titles and different Catagories.

If you have the time to place a free advert, then it can't hurt.

 

[Kincess]

Having read the post, I've decided to try it, so will feedback after the week. I use gumtree a lot for personal use but would not generally check for business listings.

Think it really depends on what the service is being sold.

 

[Toughcookie]

Personally I think it's rubbish, there is never anything for sale in our area

 

[SEO Lady]

I run several Adwords campaigns on Gumtree and for a cut price product the conversions do give a good ROI.

When people are looking for a second hand product and see new products advertised with just a little higher in price, it gives added perceived value in my opinion.

I once bought a pushbike on Gumtree for £4 lol

 

[BustersDogs]

I sold one of my work vans on there, and do advertise some of my services on there now and then, just when I've got a spare minute. It's a bit hit and miss if they'll publish your ad though. I can post up an ad and it's fine, then repost it once that's expired, and it's wrong. Or I'm in the wrong category (advertising pet sitter training in category... pet sitters...), or there is a duplicate ad (er, where?).

So I find it very frustrating! I really only add things there seriously when I've got nothing else to do for ten minutes.

 

[BustersDogs]

*sigh*

Unfortunately we have had to remove your ad "So you Want to be a Professional Dog Walker?" posted in the category "Petsitters & Dogwalkers" from the site.

 

[HGSecurity]

The only experience I have had with gumtree was an extremely bad one. Someone fraudulently used our company name to set up adverts and an account, for which gumtree attempted to extort about £10,000 from us, and even placed the matter with their debt collection agency after I had pointed out to them many, many times that we had not placed the adverts, had not set up an account, the company name and contact details were incorrect, the jobs being advertised did not actually exist and were for an area we are not active in and the signature on the alleged 'order' which was supposed to be mine bore absolutely no resemblance to my actual signature in any way. The matter was reported to the police as fraud and gumtree were given the crime reference number, but even after that they still kept pursuing us. I had 9 months of phone calls, arguments, threats and emails between March last year and December before they accepted that the 'order' was, in fact, fake.

Hopefully this is now resolved, but after speaking to so many of the numpties that work for gumtree, I would not be in the least bit surprised if this rears it's ugly head again at some point.

The result - I wouldn't touch gumtree with a very, very long barge pole.

 

[smithlost01]

I am using a gumtree its is a classified site But i am not getting any traffic from there

 

[Lightningjack]

*sigh*

Unfortunately we have had to remove your ad "So you Want to be a Professional Dog Walker?" posted in the category "Petsitters & Dogwalkers" from the site.

Quite often someone reports an ad like that e.g you will be selling a service on how to become a dog walker and not offering a dogwalking service.So somene who is a dogwalker doesn't want more competition do they so report the ad and gumtree will remove it.

Use different email addresses(and IP if poss) because if you get the warnings too often your ads need to manually approved which of course they won't be.
You could always try the featured ad option,it's paid so I'd assume is less likely to be removed and you should have more options as to where you want your ad.

 

[Annoying Donkey]

*sigh*

Unfortunately we have had to remove your ad "So you Want to be a Professional Dog Walker?" posted in the category "Petsitters & Dogwalkers" from the site.

Surely this is a perfect example of mistargeted advertising. People in that section are surely looking for a dog walker, not for information on how to become one...

 

[TKDVH]

I have had an ad on gumtree for a few weeks now and have had information request but nothing came from it but to be fair if I was looking for a van rental service I wouldn't look on gum tree for it either

 

[Lightningjack]

Surely this is a perfect example of mistargeted advertising. People in that section are surely looking for a dog walker, not for information on how to become one...

You're right but sometimes it works,for example I want to buy cars,if I put the ad in the cars for sale e.g we buy any car,it'll work yet it's the wrong category.
I have used that very technique successfully on gumtree but I'm not going to go into what I was using it for

In the above dog walking case you're spot on because the ad would be better under the general pets category not the dogsitters category because you're right it's a totally mistargeted category.
The general pets category isn't ideal but you are more likely to possibly find someone who loves dogs and may be interested in dog walking whereas the people looking through the dog walking category clearly have no interest in walking dogs.

 

[mmike]

Well I'm asking because Gumtree is working very, very well for us, and this is because developed own software which is doing a lot for us on Gumtree like auto posting of selected ads, auto changing titles/descriptions/images so every day software is posting different ad on different region/city, collecting all messages for specific ad from different emails so we can use multiple emails/ads (same ad but different title/topic/images) and still keep it it simple and in one place, and more.

To be honest traffic from Gumtree is much higher and steady than from SEO ...

I thought that maybe would be good idea to go public with our software and start selling it but I see that there is no feedback about extra functionality...

 

[Kincess]

Agree with smithlost01, not really a B2B tool. The click we got was mine!

 

[mmike]

Agree with smithlost01, not really a B2B tool. The click we got was mine!

What kind of strategy did you used ?
I mentioned that we are using it for our company. I tested it as well for my second company and in both cases respond were much bigger than I expected...

Perhaps wrong title/description ?

What kind of service you're providing ?