Frequently Asked Questions

Why Choose Hot-Web-Ads.com

    - Why free classifieds services?
    - What are other benefits to post free classifieds on Hot-Web-Ads.com?
    - Is there any hidden fee or cost to use this free classifieds services?
    - How would you keep providing such free classifieds services?

Post and Manage Advertisements

    - What kind of advertisements can I post?
    - I could not find a category that fits my advertisement. How to suggest one?
    - Is there any limitation on the format and size of advertisement description?
    - Why do I have to set an ad password when posting new advertisement?
    - Should I give my email address and phone number when posting new advertisement?
    - Is there any way to keep my ad on top of the search list?
    - How many times can I "Update" my ad?
    - What are the benefits to use the "Update" ad feature?
    - Can I post same or similar content advertisements in same or different categories?

Search and View Advertisements

    - How many ways can I look for free classifieds in your website?
    - What is the list order of advertisements on search result pages?
    - What should I do if I am interested in an advertisement?
    - Should I report any cheat or abuse?

Could not find your question? Please contact us. We have the answer for you!

Why Choose Hot-Web-Ads.com

- Why free classifieds services?

We all like free internet services such as free email, free web browser, free web searching. Why do we have to pay for advertising on internet? If you are looking for free classifieds, you are on the right place. This website provides absolutely free classifieds services especially for small business, non-profit organization, and individuals. Feel free to post your advertisement in any category as long as the content is legal and meets our User Agreement.

- What are other benefits to post free classifieds on Hot-Web-Ads.com?

The benefits include but not limited to:
  - No sign up required to post. Why give your personal information to someone you do not know?
  - No email address needed for confirmation. We trust our users. Your free classifieds goes online immediately.
  - You can specify the target area of your ad to one state or city, or to all states by default.
  - Your free classifieds can be online for 90 days by default.
  - Your free classifieds can be viewed by all visitors of this website and its affiliated websites.
  - Your free classifieds can be viewed by visitors of major search engines because all pages could
    be crawled by major search engines.
  - You can extend your advertisement forever free before it expires each time.
  - You can modify your free classifieds at any time.
  - You can delete your free classifieds at any time or it is deleted automatically when expired.
  - Friendly help/support from our team to make you happy on using our free classifieds services.

- Is there any hidden fee or cost to use the free classifieds services?

No. All ad posting and searching services are absolutely free. We will not charge any penny from our users. Please remember, Hot-Web-Ads.com Team never ask our users for credit card number or other personal data. The purpose of providing no sign up service is to let our users keep their privacy.

- How would you keep providing such free classifieds services?

All Hot-Web-Ads.com team members currently have full time jobs in IT industry. We spend our leisure time on developing and maintaining this website and enjoy providing such great free classifieds services. We will collect paid advertisements from other resources and put them around major content of each page. Our visitors can get more information from these paid advertisements and, if interested in, can click through for other products or services. We could gain from such reference. However, we do not inspire or imply our visitors to click these paid advertisements if they are not interested in.

Post and Manage Advertisements

- What kind of advertisements can I post?

Advertisements in all categories are welcomed. However, we prohibit the advertising of any item that is illegal. Please read the User Agreement for details.

- I could not find a category that fits my advertisement. How to suggest one?

If you desire a new category or sub-category, please contact us. We will consider your suggestion in next website update. But we cannot promise to add any new category probably because of existing database design or program implementation. Before we add the new category, you may post your free classifieds to a close meaning category.

- Is there any limitation on the format and size of advertisement description?

Currently, the ad description should be in text format only. HTML format is not supported. The size of ad description can be up to 5000 characters.

- Why do I have to set an ad password when posting new advertisement?

You need to set an ad password (any word) by yourself for posting each ad. The ad ID and associated ad password are required to access your ad later. Setting a password for each ad now is required during post. We received many requests in the past for setting a password because the ad owner wanted to modify the ad. We have limited resource to handle user comments or requests. Now we ask the user to set the password when posting so that you can extend, update, modify or delete your ad later all by yourself. You need to write the ad ID and ad password on your note.

If you did not set the ad password on an old ad but want to manage your ad, you may continue to Contact Us. Please mention your ad ID when you send request. We may set an ad password for you. If you forget the ad ID, you may search ads on our website using one or more most important keywords from your ad title and description, and try to find your ad from the search result. The ad ID is part of the URL (shown at the address box of your browser) of viewing the individual ad page.

- Should I give my email address and phone number when posting new advertisement?

They are optional. If you hope advertisement viewer to contact you via email or phone, you may add these contact information. If you just want others to visit your other related website, you may leave these fields blank and type in your other link/URL. Please be aware, if you provide your contact information, they are visible to all individual visitors and search engines. Your contact information could be shown on search engines' result page or cache. Please read our Privacy Statement for more information.

- Is there any way to keep my ad on top of the search list?

Yes. We provide a feature "Update". It does not change the content of your ad. It just changes the last modified time (one attribute we stored in our database) of your ad as current time. This feature is similar to command "touch" (file) on Unix operating system. The search result list by category and ad owner name now is sorted by the update time (last modified time). The latest is shown first. Every time you "Update" or Modify your ad, the last modified time is changed to current time. So, your ad can be displayed on top of the search list (except featured ads) by just "Updating" your ad.

- How many times can I "Update" my ad?

Currently there is no limitation of updating any ad. You can update your ad at any time when you visit our website.

- What are the benefits to use the "Update" ad feature?

In addition to keeping your ad on top of search result, here are other benefits:
  - Save your time to post your ad.
  - Reduce the number of duplicate ads.
  - Avoid your ads being deleted. When we see duplicate ads, we may delete one or more of your duplicate ads,
    or sometimes delete all of your posts if we see too many duplicate ads from you.

The most important, visitors can find your ad:
  - Your ad is displayed on top of search result by category on our website.
  - Your ad could be indexed and cached by major search engines after it is online. The visitors of these
    search engines could find your ad by searching some keywords that exist in your ad content.
    They click the link to our website and view the details of your ad. If you delete your old
    ad because you want to post a new one with same content (avoid duplicate posts), the visitors
    from search engines will get a message that the ad is deleted. There is no way to redirect
    them to your new ad.

So, we encourage you to use the Update feature.

- Can I post same or similar content advertisements in same or different categories?

Your advertisement can be searched by keywords no matter in what category. We do not check duplicate posting when submitting new advertisement. However, we reserve the right to remove any post from wrong category or the post that makes annoyance to our visitors. Please do not post your same content advertisement to every category. Otherwise, all your posts could be deleted without notice.

Search and View Advertisements

- How many ways can I look for free classifieds in your website?

There are 3 approaches to search free classifieds posted on this website: search by categories, search by keywords, and search by ad owner name. Searching or browsing advertisements on this website is free. When search by keywords, you may specify category, target state and/or city to narrow down the search results. Id you specify a state, the ads targeting on "All States" or the given state will be returned.

- What is the list order of advertisements on search result pages?

When search by keywords, the matching advertisements are listed by relevancy. Highest relevant advertisement is listed on the top. You may ignore lower relevant advertisements. When search by categories or owner name, the matching advertisements are listed by update time (last modified time). Most recently updated advertisement is listed on the top.

- What should I do if I am interested in an advertisement?

You may click on the URL (if available) following Related Link to get more information. You may contact the advertisement owner if email address and/or phone numbers are available.

- Should I report any cheat or abuse?

Yes. If you find any advertisement that cheats others or abuses our free classifieds services, please contact us. We reserve the right to delete such advertisement and may even block the owner from posting more advertisements. We hope all visitors enjoy our free classifieds services and help us keep high quality services.

Thank you for using our free classifieds services.

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