Tips on  How to place your ad

6 steps  are listed at the top of the ad submission page.  Each step is discussed below.

  Start Ad | Optional Items | Add Photos | Review/Edit | Boost This AD©™ | Checkout

Step 1:
Start Ad    See example screen at right.  Click to enlarge.

The first requirement of placing your ad will be to provide an email.  This email will be the email you will use to administer your ad.  It will not be available to the public to see.  It will be the email that you use to edit your ad in the future.  You will be given a choice to add an email address for the viewers to send email to you concerning your ad on Optional Items in Step 2. 

Title:  Give your ad a very descriptive title. IE: Montana Mountain Farm & Ranch for sale

Full Advertisement Description:  There is plenty of room in the text box to include as much text as you would like about your item or service.  A good idea is to write your text in a word document or in an email and then copy and paste it into the box provided for the Full Advertisement Description.  Be sure to include your phone number in the text of the ad if you would like people to be able to reach you by phone.  It is also a good idea to include your email address and website in the text of the ad, if you would like to be contacted through either of those methods.

If you have a website, you will want to write enough about your item to entice the viewer to go to your website to find out more.  Include your location and your specialties, making sure that you include your website URL as well as a phone number where you can be reached. If you want to be reached by email as well, include that too. (You will be able to edit your ad in the Review/Edit step).

If you do not have a website, you will want to write as much as possible about the item to present it in the best possible light.  Include your location, your specialties, and the best description as possible for the item.  Make sure that you enclose a phone number where you can be reached.  If you want to be reached by email as well, include that too.  (You will be able to edit your ad in the Review/Edit step).

Note: You will be able to edit your ad any time during the duration of the ad period that you have chosen after it has been submitted and paid for as well. 

At the end of this page you will need to read the security key and type it into the box provided, then click on Continue.  If you have entered the security key correctly you will go to the next step (Optional Items), if you misread the security key you will be asked to try again, or if there are any other errors such as an invalid email address (usually misspelled) or the such you will be prompted to fix, then redo the security key and then click continue again.  If you don't see an error message and return to the same page, scroll down to the bottom of the page, you may not be seeing the error message.

You will go to Optional Items  once you have successfully entered the correct information on the Start Ad page

Step 2:

Optional Items    These are all optional items that will enhance your ad page and increase your chances of being found on the internet.  You can skip this page if you wish and just click continue, but bear in mind that all of these optional items are there to help your ad page be found by the search engines and web crawlers and thus help viewers also find your ad page.

Keywords: Keywords are hidden words included within your advertisement for use by Internet search engines. This can help customers locate your advertisement when searching the Internet.  They are not seen by the viewer.  They are cues for the web crawlers and search engines.  Only enter words that are pertinent to your ad.

Example: If you have a farm or ranch for sale in Montana that has great hunting, is in the mountains, and you grow crops on, you would want to include words such as; ranch, land, cattle ranch, horse ranch, farm, hunting ranch, hunting farm, farmland, ranchland, mule deer, deer, antelope, elk, Montana, Montana real estate, ranch for sale, land for sale, MT ranch, MT ranches, MT farm, Montana farm, pheasant hunting, agriculture, crop,  grouse hunting, mountain, cropland, wheat, etc..

Email Contact: You may provide a different email other than the one entered on the Start Ad page, or use the same one, or none at all if you prefer not to be emailed.

Your Website: If you have a website, place your website address here.  If you do not have a personal website, leave it blank.  If you are a real estate agent listing a particular property, list the particular property page URL (web address).  Then the viewer can go directly to the listing and not have to sort through other listings to try to find the one described in your ad.

Price or Phone Number #: You can list an item price here, your phone number or write "see website" if you have a price list or various prices.  We strongly recommend that you place a phone number in the body of the ad as well.  You will be able to go back and review/edit your ad and add the phone number if you did not at the initial time of writing the ad.

Continent: List Your Continent, It helps with search engines

State/Province: List your State or Province, It helps with search engines

Country: List your Country, It helps with search engines

City: List your City; and if you are rural, list your nearest City and possibly list your County, It helps with search engines

click on Continue  You will go to  Add Photos

Step 3:

Add Photos  

Uploading photos:
You will want to upload the best photos that you have to showcase the item.  If you have more than 10 photos you can either write in the ad text to email or call for more photos or you can assemble a collage of photos on a single merged photo to represent one photo and do this 10 times.  Example at right, click on photo  to enlarge. 

You should try to resize your photos to 800 pixels wide before uploading.  This will enable them to upload quickly.  Very large photos will not upload and you will receive an error message.  If you do not know how to resize your own photos, you may send them to us and we will resize them and then post them for you.  Be sure to identify your ad number and give us instructions with each photo if you want to add text to each photo.  Photos need to be in .jpg or .gif  format.

You will want to write text about each photo as well.  You will be able to do this underneath each photo after it has been uploaded.  The photo will upload with a text box underneath that says <optional - enter a description for the highlighted photo here>, you will type right over that text to write what you want about that particular photo.  Then click browse to add the next photo and then enter the text , etc, etc...   If you forget to add text to a particular photo and want to go back and add text, click on the photo number and it will highlight and then you can add the text.  Do not click on the red X, that will delete the photo.  You will click the Continue button when you are done loading all the photos.

A hint for photo submission page:

  You check the Radio button for the main photo, (photo that displays with the ad introduction) otherwise the first photo uploaded will be chosen automatically if you do not choose one
  Radio button not checked (other photos included in the ad but not the main one, you can choose any photo to be the display photo)

When all photos are uploaded click on Continue  You will go to  Review/Edit

Step 4:

Review/Edit   

If you go back to modify your ad You will see a new screen to edit called Preview Edit.   See example screen at right.  Click to enlarge.  When finished editing click on Preview Changes

You will next go to  Boost This AD©™

Step 5:

Boost This AD©™ 

This page has a Website Selection Box on the left and a Category Box and Search Box on the right.

The Category Box is a drop down box with the different categories that you may wish to place your ad at,  it helps to sort through the numerous websites that you may not want to advertise on.  For instance if you have real estate for sale, you would choose the real estate category, that way you would rule out the cat and dog websites and all other non real estate sites, but you would also want to do a search in the hunting category if your real estate happened to be land with great hunting on it after you finished with the real estate category.  You may also want to  check out the Agriculture and Guides categories to see if there were any websites among them that you might be interested in.  Or if you do not want to miss any website choices, do the search using the All Categories selection.  The Search Box is where you would type words that would reflect what you might want to advertise.  If you have a farm or ranch for sale in Montana, you choose the real estate category, and then type farm into the search box.  All the most significant farm related sites to Montana will be listed first in the My Website Selection on the left side of the page.  Below that will be other names that you may also be interested in.  Always look for the name you type in as well, (farm). You will find domain names like: www.farmandranchrealestate.com,  www.farmlandforsale.net, you can change the search word as often as you would like, ranch, cattle, horse, irrigated, wheat, hunting; then after you have tried what you can think of pertains to you, try some city names near you, try your state abbreviation, then change the category and start all over again in the search box if you wish. Check each domain that you would like to advertise at.  You can uncheck any domain name to remove it from the selection and then select Update Cart. 

Click the radio button next to the domain name that you have selected that most closely identifies your ad listing. 
montanafarm.com    This helps with the search engine relevence

A running Price tally is found underneath the Category and Search boxes.  Below that is a table listing our rates.  You are able to list your ad for 2 months, 6 months or 1 year (best deals are for a year). You just need to click the Radio button as to the length of time that you want to run the ad.

Once you have chosen all of the domain names that you want to advertise on click on the Checkout button.  You will go then to Checkout

Step 6: 

Checkout   Here you will see a shortened version of the ad, your Ad Total and Payment Options. 

Payment Option 1: You call us and ask any questions, talk about payment by sending check, give us your cc number over the phone or discuss any specials that we may have running, and you have the opportunity to Boost This AD©™ (add more websites, as long as you keep this web page open while you are talking to us).  Click on Order by Phone

Payment Option 2:  Fastest way to complete your ad without any human contact.  You can pay by credit card or by PayPal. Once at PayPal, you are going to be able to choose between making payment by credit card, or making payment by PayPal. If you don't want to pay by PayPal, but want to pay by credit card, look for the blue colored "Continue" on the bottom left hand side of the next page. Remember to click on the blue "Continue" link on the next pages if you want to pay by credit card instead of PayPal.  PayPal will ask you to become a member, just keep to the credit side of the page if you do not want to join PayPal.  If you do want to join PayPal there will be a wait time while PayPal verifies you.  If you join, your ad will be posted once PayPal verifies you.  Click on  Credit Card or PayPal

Note: All funds are payable in US dollars.  If you are from another country with different currency, PayPal has a currency exchange, You just have to look for it.

Payment Option 3:  Save advertisement and we will contact you to complete your order.  Insert your Name & Phone Number into this box.  Please insert your area code.  Click Save & Exit  This will save your ad and photos.  We will call you back as soon as we receive the request.  If you are from another country other than Canada we will most likely contact you by email as to what questions you may have or how you would like to pay for your ad.