Different Ways to Market Show Cattle Online

By Jamie Eklund

Are you tired of spending lots of time and money trying to sell your cattle online? Have you listed your cattle on websites that promise to give you as much online exposure as you can handle, only to disappoint you? Let's walk through some quick and easy, not to mention cheap (free), ways to advertise your cattle online.

1) Write informative blogs - There are a host of blog sites out there that focus on show cattle. Register with one of them and request the right to author your own blog. Most of these blog admins will gladly let you author blogs as long as they are informative and beneficial to the show cattle community. While you are writing your blog postings you can freely and easily put in links to your site and mention your site. This is an excellent way to advertise your cattle website because it gives your site links that will help with Search Engine Optimization and it will drive traffic to your site. Keep in mind that this technique takes some time but it is well worth the effort.

2) Become a part of a forum - There are a handful of show cattle forums out there as well. Register with that forum and become actively evolved with the conversations that are being had. This will not only benefit you and others from the useful information that will be discussed, but you can place a signature with your website information that can help you drive traffic to your site. Be careful not to "spam" these forums by just placing advertisements and not benefiting the conversations. This will land you on the "banned" list and your threads will be removed.

3) List individual cattle on a classifieds site - There are a few show cattle sites that offer a classified section. Register with these sites and list as many individual show calves as possible. There are some sites that are not as specific to show cattle that you can list on as well. They probably won't be too beneficial due to their generality.

As you can see there are a host of opportunities to list your cattle online for free, but some take some work. I promise that if you put in the work it will be well worth your efforts. Here is a small list of some of the suggested sites to begin your online cattle advertising experience: