bla.st
Free Advertising Network & Web Directory
       

Why place cards on ?

  • free! payment is completely optional
  • directory & network your card appears in the bla.st directory AND on the bla.st network, for no extra cost
  • targeted traffic steadily increasing as grows
  • improve your rankings search engines love crawling
  • let people find you voluntarily without spamming
  • a world first help build the worlds first short and long term visual advertising directory on the Internet
  • promote almost anything including your specials, sales, promotions, events, websites or your businesses
  • complimentary bla.st compliments your existing advertising and marketing
  • simple it's easy to create an account and put a card on bla.st

Features of bla.st

  • search users find what they want quickly
  • interesting for users to browse through and explore
  • flexible advertise in any category, short or long term
  • global have your card seen by people worldwide
  • promotable optionally pay to increase your card ranking
  • linky link to your website, and improve your Google PageRank
  • maps link people directly to an address on Google Maps
  • visually stunning cards on look fantastic!
  • statistics track how many people view and click your cards

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Card PilePromote almost anything

is very flexible, allowing anyone to promote a company, business, event, sale or promotion, product, website, blog, non-profit organisation or club. Almost anyone can advertise on bla.st, and it's easy to do so. Each ad features:

  • Optional main link to a website
  • Map link to an address on Google Maps
  • Statistics, including view count, click count, and detail page views.
  • Keywords and 1 line of detail text

Choose any categories

Select up to 30 categories per ad. Categories give you complete control over which categories your ad appears in. For example, an ad for a furniture shop in New York could use the categories "Furniture, New York, Sofas, Chairs, Tables". The powerful search feature of lets people find your categories, for example a user searching for "chair" would highlight the keyword "chairs".

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Choose how long your ad is online

Ads can be online from 1 day to 10 years. is great for both long term and short term advertising, unlike most other business directories. Short term ads include events, sales, promotions, or competitions. Use long term ads to promote your business, website, products or services.

Ads are free, or pay any amount you want

Cost Pile

All cards can be placed on bla.st for free. Optionally, promote your cards for as little as 1 cent per day. (Prices in USD and exclude GST) Cards are ordered by cost/day, with free cards listed last. Paying 1c/day will promote your card above the free ones. The 24 highest paying cards are listed on the front page. Any money you load onto your card applies across all countries and keywords. When setting up your card you can preview your card position in each category. You can also add more value onto your card at a later date.

No cost per click, cost per view, click fraud or unexpected bills

Most advertising systems charge advertisers for the number of clicks, number of views, or number of "conversions". uses the simple "cost per day" system, so there are no unexpected bills, not matter how clicks or views your card receives.

is Non-Invasive

Reach users that normally avoid advertising. Banner ads, unsolicited email, and text based advertising systems force themselves upon people, often down the side or embedded in content. With pop-up blockers, ad blockers, spam filters and ever more cynical web users, it's obvious less intrusive methods of advertising are needed. is a possible alternative, letting people find you by choice. With , anyone worldwide can find you for free.

advantages over other online directories

  1. Ads are image based rather than text based, while still providing search capabilities. Visual ads are easier for users to scan and browse.
  2. Ads can be short or long term. Almost all other online directories only offer long term advertising.
  3. Ads can be global, or use tags to target specific countries, states, regions or cities.

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