Q&A

THEM — Facebook Marketplace:
• Your post enters a feed ranked by recency; within hours newer posts push it below the fold.
• No view counts, no visitor locations, no record of what happened after posting.
• Any throwaway account can message you; deposit scams and no-shows are the platform's most documented complaint.

HERE:
• Your post is a permanent page with its own address, live for a stated 30-day period — the exact end date is printed on your receipt.
• Your receipt records when the search engines were notified, then tracks total views, distinct visitors, and the cities they came from.
• Every poster holds a registered account, and first-time posters pass a one-time confirmation that keeps scammers and spammers out — a human administrator can suspend abuse.

THEM — Kijiji:
• Since March 13, 2024, every Services post carries a paid insertion fee; Jobs, Vehicles and Real Estate bill per 31-day listing period.
• Pay, sink under newer listings, pay again to bump. After 31 days you own nothing.
• Three owners in five years — eBay, then Adevinta ($9.2B, 2021), now private equity. Each change has meant more fees.
• Anyone can post from a throwaway username — no identity check, so scams and spam are routine.

HERE:
• One flat price, shown in full before you publish. Personal posts are free.
• Your post stays live its full stated period, and your receipt never disappears.
• Prices are set by the site owner and printed on the page. No outside owner to serve.
• A first-time personal poster pays a one-time confirmation — it proves a real, serious person is behind the post and keeps scams and spam out. Membership itself is free, and personal posting stays free.

THEM — Yellow Pages / 411:
• An enhanced listing runs $30–$60/month, premium $100–$300/month, marketing packages up to $2,500/month — charged every month, whether or not anything changes.
• 411.ca holds a 2.3 out of 5 TrustScore, built on complaints about cold calls and auto-renewing contracts.
• Yellow Pages' revenue collapsed from ~$1.1B in 2012 to under $200M in 2025; it survives by raising prices on a shrinking customer base.

HERE:
• You pay per post, only when you have something to publish. A quiet month costs you nothing.
• No sales calls, no contracts. The price is printed on the page before you commit.
• Your post is a modern, indexed web page with structured data — built for how people search today, not for a phone book.

THEM — Indeed:
• Employers pay per click — $0.10–$5.00+ per click, with a $25/day minimum per posting. You pay for traffic, not applicants.
• Up to 97–98% of applicants fail basic qualification screening; employers report $15–$50 spent per usable application.
• Free posts are buried under sponsored ones within hours, by design.

HERE:
• One flat price, stated before you publish. It doesn't move.
• Your job reaches a local audience that lives here — and your receipt shows who saw it.
• "Looking for work" posts are free — full pages, same quality, same visibility as paid ones.

THEM — Shopify:
• The $39 plan is the entry fee. Add apps ($350–$1,400/month), 2.15–2.9% + 30¢ on every sale, and a 0.2–2% penalty for your own payment provider — a realistic store pays $4,200–$5,500/month.
• Shopify hosts your store but delivers no customers — 97% of its merchants must buy their own traffic from Meta and Google.
• Roughly 90% of Shopify stores make under $100,000 a year — most pay monthly rent on a shop nobody visits.

HERE:
• One flat price per post, stated in full before you publish. No percentages, no add-ons, no monthly meter.
• Your post is built for discovery from the moment it publishes: search-engine notification, structured data, sitemap inclusion.
• You pay only when you publish, and your receipt shows exactly what your post did.

Because of how this site publishes and connects what you post. Your post is its own public page, submitted to search indexes the moment it goes live, written in structured data search engines can read, and linked from the site's sections, sitemap, and member contact cards. You also see views, referrers, and city-level locations for your own posts.

Through search and through the network. New posts are sent to search indexes when they go live (IndexNow: Bing, Yandex), and pages carry schema.org structured data so search engines can read the details, not just the link. Each site covers one place or one subject, which is what search engines reward for local and topic searches.

Members carry contact cards that link to their listings, and the directory, events, and the other sites in this network link to each other. Your post receives internal links from more than the page it sits on.

Your dashboard shows views, referrers, and city-level visitor locations for your own posts. No estimates — the platform's own counters.

Your post appears at the top of its category with a badge for 30 days. Featured is limited to 3 per category.

Flat prices, shown before you publish: listings, events, and directory entries from $60 for 30 days; featured placement $90; job postings $120; homepage showcase $150.