There are many classified websites which are growing popular among people as it gives a person feasibility to promote his or her service or gives an exposure for there goods to be sold to a second hand all just freely. People can buy second hand goods or get to know about the services offered at their near by locality just by sitting at the comfort of their home. Online classified portals are proving more worthy as there ad will be shown for longer time and for longer audience so the rate of getting exposure to their advertisement increases. Below is a list of few famous classified websites in India which are loved and used by many people. I just ranked them based on Alexa ranking and not considered any other criteria.1. Quikr : Formerly called Kijiji has soon taken its new form as Quikr which is having a strong backup from Matrix Partners India , Omidyar Network , Norwest Venture Partners , Nokia Growth Partners , Warburg Pincus and invested in by eBay Inc. Quikr was launched on 12 July 2008 and is currently present across 83 India cities. This website allows users to post a free classified ad on their products or services offered and at the same time respond to the classified ads posted by others. Mr Pranay Chulet is the CEO for this company.
2. Olx : Olx is a new York based company which runs its website in India too with a dot in suffix. This company was founded in March 2006 and is privately held. This company not only proved a good competitor for Craigslist but also won the best place in classified websites mostly used by Indian people. This site also works similar to any other classified websites like allowing users to post a free classified ad for their product or service and also allowing users to choose the required product or service. This site also had some publicity campaign running through television ads which is also a reason for its success.
3. Click India : List of top classified websites of India would remain incomplete if this site isn't included. This had a very poor design in the beginning a start up by IIM Indore pass out student. Pankaj Aagarwal is the founder who acts as the CEO and Sushan Rungta who also heads the team. This site had a nick name as the Craiglist of India and also one among the top 30 Indian websites but as the era of eCommerce had began this site slow started to loose its position but nevertheless still in the list op Top classified websites of India.
4. Sulekha : Sulekha actually is a yellow pages business directory but has its own classified section too and its design is really eye catching. You can post your classified ad for free and also have a high exposure to your classified ad.
5. Click.in : Click.in is an sister venture of Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. owned by Rajesh Jain formerly by B.G Mahesh. One of the popular portal website run by them is oneindia. This website also offers an translation tool where you can change the entire site to your local language. Presently it supports only south Indian languages like Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil along with our national Language Hindi.
6. Locanto: The Locanto Classifieds sites are operated by the German startup company Yalwa located in Wiesbaden, Germany. Locanto classifieds sites are now available in 5 languages for more than 1600 cities in 38 countries worldwide. Indian site too has a good reach of audience and also one among the top reached classified website by Indian people.
7. Vivastreet : Created in 2005 by Yannick Ponsand a team of young French people who came to the United States after graduation. It is now present in 19 countries mostly famous in Europe, Latin America, North America, North Africa and Australasia.
8. Khojle : Khojle is a free classified-ad site which offers free-ads to all advertisers from all sections of society. This online classified-ad site is launched by the Jagran Group of publications to promote the site in Internet marketing and generate profits later.
9. Freeads : Freeads is an online, voice and print advertising Service that provides a platform to its users to buy, sell anything. This is an one among the online ventures of Getit group. Mr. Sidharth Gupta, CEO of Getit group, took the initiative to introduce India’s first print classifieds, getitfreeads, in four major cities including Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata.
10. Indialist : This site is a venture of Consim Info Pvt Ltd. which successfully holds some top marriage and real estate portals like Bharath Matrimony and Indian Property web portals. This site offers search services that enables users to locate and view classifieds online, while helping businesses to reach prospects, convert prospects to customers and then retain those customers.
Few Classified Web Portals which are not Top yet Hot:
Wiju:Wiju is a good classified portal created to crater the needs of Indians which can help in saving time by searching hundreds of websites at the same time.
Adoos : Adoos is available in over 60+ countries and 20+ languages across the globe which attract over 40 million unique visitors per month.
Adeex : Adeex is a net of websites that offer free local advertisement services
Sahipasand : Sahipasand is fully owned by SCM(Schibsted Classified Media) Ventures currently the biggest online classified advertising company in Europe. SahiPasand connects buyers and sellers in India and delivers remarkable user experience.
Meramaal : Meramaal is a Capsicum Mediaworks LLP Venture. This site offers is a platform both for seekers and people offering services and products to be shared with internet users across India and create a database of classifieds to find anything and everything in this country.
Citiesads : CitiesAds.in is venture of Enaviya Commercial Overseas Pvt Ltd. This site is an online market place for buying and selling.
Still there are tons of classified portals but I mentioned only few of them which really made good success among Indians.
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