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Right about now, your probably thinking. 'why is this supposed to be so hard? It's just a free classified advertising site'. Well here is where it gets tricky for the online marketer to master posting ads on craigslist! The Problem With Craigslist Marketing Craigslist hates Internet marketers and does everything it can to KEEP YOU OUT. Well that might sound a little harsh, but it is true.

Craigslists creator started the site as a hobby and a service with the intention of providing free locality specific classified advertising. The operation of craigslist includes a team of professional programmers who work on creating cookies, filters and ghosting protocol. This protocol is being constantly updated and enhanced to make it harder and harder for the online marketer to post on craigslist. This is the problem with marketing on cragislist. I am not knocking it.

Craig has every right to run his site exactly how he see's fit. This is a perfectly legal procedure and part of the terms of service. Plus, they do a heck of a good job at keeping the 'spammers' at bay. Craigslist still runs today as a.org domain name, so it is considered a not for profit site, but if you can manage to get your ads to stay on craigslist, then it will definitely be to your business profits. The first thing to do in the, how to post on craigslist action steps, is to consider how many phone numbers you have access to. The current account creation process requires a valid phone number to be entered. Once you work through the sign up process you will receive a phone call or text message with a validation code.

If you have access to 10 different phone numbers than you will need to set up 10 different emails. Go to and setting up your free 10 email accounts here. Do not use any other free email accounts other than gmail. Once have 10 different email account that you use everyday to post from.

You are essentially set up for 10 days or 2 weeks. Once you have set up your email accounts, go to Craigslist and create 10 accounts with Craigslist. Go to Click on my account on the left hand side.

You will see a place where you can log in. Underneath that, it says don't have an account - Click on that. Follow the instructions. Once you get to a certain point, it will ask you to put a phone number in.

Once you put that phone number in, you will receive either a phone call or text with the code you will need to enter into Craigslist in order to have a valid Craigslist account. Fourth, you need to set up your ads. Never post the exact same ad twice - this includes your headline. Duplicate posts are NOT permitted on Craigslist. Try writing 10 ads and then sit down and try and get 10 different variations out of your original ads. This gets you 100 different ads! A common variation on the headline is to place a bunch of letters and numbers at the end.

For example if your headline reads 'Best Beef Jerky' alter it like so, 'Best Beef Jerky7r4f6FDe' & 'Best Beef JerkyHw84HpF8' Now here are some ideas if you don’t have access to a lot of phone numbers: 1. Use your work number. Use your home number 3. Use your cell number 4.

Use your significant other’s cell number 5. Use your significant other’s work number 6. Go to a payphone that accepts incoming calls and use that phone number. You may need someone at your computer to put the number in but then you can stand there and wait for the phone to ring and get the phone number.

Ask a few close friends if you can use their number. Partner up with someone in your industry and brainstorm other idea's. Perhaps one is willing go to a local train station of somewhere there's a heap of public phones, while the other does the online work. This might sound like a 'desperate' step, however it could turn out to be a very profitable partnership. Use your network and close business contacts. Repeat the process 10 times. Remember, you will need to go to each email account that you have set up and click on the link that Craigslist sends to each email account to activate each individual Craigslist account.

How Many Ads Can I Post On Craigslist? This is a topic for debate, but unless you are using auto posting software and are changing your IP address regularly (perhaphs every 3-5 ads) you should only post 3 ads every 48 hrs from one Craigslist account. If you post 3 ads on the same day from the same Craigslist account, your last 2 ads will get ghosted.

Clearing Your Internet History, Cookies & Temporary Passwords When you active or log into your Craigslist account the site places cookies on your computer. Now, if you don't know much about cookies, they basically read, record and track data while you are browsing. Cookies are used commonly online and are a natural part of online technology - there is no need to fear. Cookies are not like a virus so will not do damage to your computer. So why information on cookies? Well all you need to know with regards to cookies and posting on Craigslist is that you must clear them after finishing with each account. You should also clear your browsing history, temp passwords and temp internet files.

Each operating system will be slightly different, so use these this as a guide. Open you computer's control panel. Go to network & internet. Internet options, then delete browsing history. Within that menu option you can select to delete your history and you want to check the box and clear all.

Sometimes the browser you are using is not the default for your computer. If this is the case try the following steps; Instructions For Firefox Menu option - tools, then clear private data (again you need to check all the box's to clear them all. Instructions For IE Menu option - tools, then internet options (clear everything!). The common term used to describe the automatic removal of craigslist ads is, 'ghosting.' If you have attempted to place an ad and are not able to see it visible on the live site, then you have had a visit from the green ghost.

Ghosted means that Craigslist will act like your ads are posted but when you go to look for them, they do not show up. Stopping Your Craigslist Ads From Ghosting Test, test and then TEST again. Post 3 ads in 3 different cities then stop. I takes anywhere from 15 - 20 minutes for you ads to go live.

If you go to the specific city and category and can see you ad live on the site, then you know what you did worked & you can run with that for a while. If your ads are not visible, you simply start the process again. How To Test for Specific Flagging Aspects If you think it may be your link that is causing the problem, post an ad with a different link and see if it goes live. Perhaps try an image ad instead or test running your ad without the link at all. Time Poor If you don't have much time to invest in your craigslist marketing then there are options. Some companies will manage your craigslist marketing for you and then there is also the option of a craigslist co-op. Cash Poor Do it all yourself, but be forewarned, it is going to take you a fair bit of time to get it right and maintain any level of consistency.

At the very least you will need to invest in something that will hide your real IP address so your real IP doesn't get banned while you are working this out. Time & Cash Poor Perhaps craigslist should be left until you have some time and money to get your campaign off the ground. Whilst it is free to place ads on the site you will need to invest some money to see any real results. Are you really going to give up that easily? Just post one ad every 3 days using your real IP address.

You may end up having your IP address banned from craigslist. So in the long run you will need to work on this issue. Here is a that you may find useful. For my first attempt with craigslist I posted manually for three days using software to hide my real IP. I didn't use an auto-poster I only managed to get three ads to stick for the entire time. Those ads produced over 100 hits to my website in the few days there were live.

So let's just say that mastering craigslist is a step learning curve that never stops. Craigslist is frustrating! That's exactly what Craig wants so deal with it. Following is a suggestion for html coding when posting your craigslist ad. Enter the text that you want to be hidden here enter visable ad text here enter visable ad text here. Remember that craigslist changes it's cookies and spam filtering rhythyms faster than I change my hair color, so what will work for you one day may not work the next. The Real Secret To Mastering Successful Craigstlist Codes Spend time viewing ads similar to yours that are active on craigslist.

If the ad is sticking then you know that the current cookies and monitoring systems on craigslist have allowed that ad to remain active. You want to do the same with your ads. Learn from what successful ad posters are currently doing. This is KEY to your craigslist success and at the very least will save you time in the long run. How To See The Codes For Active Craigslist Ads Step 1 Click on the required ad and open it. Step 2 Instructions for Firefox Browser Select the menu option 'view' Scroll down to 'page source' and click that option A separate window will open up showing you the HTML coding for that entire page.

Instructions for IE Select the menu option 'view' Scroll down to 'source' and click that option A separate window will open up showing you the HTML coding for that entire page. If you are using another browser program the steps will be fairly similar, and there were just too many options to list in this 'how to post on craigslist hubpage'! Obviously this option is only good for those who know how to read HTML. You need not be an expert at coding, so if you understand the basics - hyperlinks. Image insert hyperlinks etc, you should be able to give this a go.

Watch for Redirections When you first click on the required ad on craigslist, pay attention to the redirections occurring as the posted url is loaded. You will be able to see these at the botton of your Firefox Browser window.

Where the term 'done' is displayed when a page is loaded, so does it show you where you are being moved amongst. These redirections will give you insight into the type of cloaking programs, url shorteners, domains, and subdomain types being successfully used on craigslist. Using image ads and BlogSpot redirects are another great option when it comes to getting your ads to stick on craigslist. How To Create An Image Ad On Craigslist 1. Post an image ad that is clickable (people can just click the image and go to your site - Make sure you replace my info with yours 2. Posting a regular image adcannot be clicked How To Create A Blogspot Redirect On Craigslist 1. Create a new acct 3.

Create a post on your blog with this code: Make sure you create 2 different posts with this same code. At the end of your blogspot url, you can put random letters and numbers Ex). This tip can be obvious if you know about checking for site trends and traffic hits, but don't know anything about this, then pay attention. This technique and following links for research can be applied to any free classified ad posting you choose to do online.

Plus you may also find a use for these in other elements of your business promotions. I highly recommend doing locality research before you begin posting. We have already established that craigslist has a lot of traffic and readers, but which cities are the most popular? Where do people go when they visit craigslist.org? If you visit alexa.com and find the traffic details for craigslist there is a ton of useful information.

When you scroll to the bottom of the page there is a heading. Where people go on Craigslist.org Listed in traffic volume you will find an up-to date summary of the most visited cities.

It stands to reason that if you try to focus on these cities you are bound to get more visitors. To apply the above to other websites, simply substitute the extension =Craigslist.org for you desired website. Eg =hubpages.com. IP's. Check what IP address your a using online at any given time, but most importantly for craigslist marketing, it is the location of the IP that is the most significant. Make your initial posts in the wrong city and you account will be flagged and you will never post a live ad to that account PERIOD.

Once you account, IP, headline, content has been flagged.never try and use it again. Once flagged by the craigslist programs these resources are obsolete. URL Shorteners. There are plenty online for you to choose from.

Simply google the term. Don't bother trying to use the ones that are known for being popular with internet marketers, like, viralurl, tinyurl, yatu etc. Try this one to get you started. Scroll down midway on the screen and you will see a list of 'services not reviewed' - these links will take you to external URL shorteners that are less common with online marketers (well maybe until now - the flip side of sharing all your secrets!). Buying Domain Names For as little as a couple of dollar's you can purchase a domain name. (consider the cheapest options first) Set your domain up so that it frame redirects to another destination (your website or lead capture page for example). If you choose a unique name that has never been registered before this is better, cause then you know it isn't blacklisted on craigslist yet.

This domain will do for craigslist posting for a while until it gets picked up by the bots. It doesn't matter what name you choose, but I wouldn't use words like 'make money' 'internet marketing'. Linking To Other Ads Take the url for an ad you have posted on another website and use that url for your craigslist marketing. Sending people to a video link is another option. How To Have Your URL Temporarly Whitelisted So by now you understand a little more about how craigslist works and what types of things will get your ads ghosted. Let's work the system and use craigslists rules to our advantage. Here is one of my best tips, but it requires a little more investment on your part.

If you are already considering purchasing software, auto IP changing cards etc you can digg a little deeper and give your ads a better chance of sticking by adopting this trick. Pay for an ad in one of the cities where craigslist is charging per post. Then you have a URL that is listed as safe on the craigslist system at least for the period that your payment covers.

The prices vary from city to city so check around and find the cheapest city. Using this domain, create multiple sub-domains to use for your bulk posting submissions. Too easy: ). Just be sure to check that your domain service provider allows unlimited sub-domains at no extra charge to you. If yours doesn't, simple, find one that does and use their service instead. The easy way to go through and check for 'ghosting' - ads that appear on your account to be posted and active but are not, is to open your account page, click one, then click the link at the top of the ad that tells you to go here to look at it - but then when you get to that ad, if it might be ghosted, go above and click the category in that city on the ad's page and go down the line and see if it appears under the date it says it was posted or renewed.

I am finding lately that some renewed ads are not ghosted but ARE left in their original post date. In some smaller cities that ad is still on the first page if there are not many other posts, so those I leave alone and check later to see if they were bumped to the second CL page for that town and category. Hope this helps y'all! I agree with Jonno Norto.

Craigslist Auto Poster

As a long-time Craigslist user for job searching, selling furniture, and so forth, it is against Craigslist culture to spam the site, whether it be in 'rants and raves' or jobs. It is really, REALLY annoying in the job section. Even those who are sneaky and disguise something as a real job but a person gets an auto-email trying to get them to a marketing site will get flagged/found out by users. No one wants to waste their time on spam. If you want to market, don't be sneaky. It doesn't make you look any better. Hi everyone, Since craigslist has made all cars and trucks ads default to searching only titles my traffic went to almost nothing.

Prospective customers now have to manually check the box that seaches the entire ad. I put most of my keywords in several different ads to make up for what originally would have been in one ad so I can fit them into the title. That works fine but has anyone ever tried to write a title and edit the ad later to be something totally different and then find that both the previous keywords and the current keywords will bring up the ad. I've seen this work but it doesn't seem to be consistent.

I've been on craigslist for 10 years and yes, I do consider myself an expert but don't want to take the time to research this. Any craigslists pro's out there? I myself still don't believe about this free ads, as I have try to post lot of, and try to search my ads in the site, guess what ads will be appeared?

All of them is paid ads! So they actually never post your free ads, they just doing this to grab visitor to visit their site(kejiji,craiglist). In some case for the grow classified site they show your ads as there are lot of people visit your ads ( may be auto tool) to keep you come back in other times. Just my experience, I do not know if someone will tell us the truth, as there are ton of their man ready to give positive review and rate 5 stars. Hello I have encountered many difficulties in posting on CL in the US, I'm not located there though. I am looking for solutions on how to place adds.

I use different US IP addresses frequently, and different posts each time but most adds doesn't go pass the 'phone authorization' filters, very common before even writing the post. Any advise would be appreciated, and willing to reward as well. Please contact me if you can help on any manner: maxaffiliator@gmail.com Great hub btw, looking forward to read your comment. Best, Jonathan.

I'm not an Internet marketer - I'm a freelance writer. It seems that they are very cruel to location independent businesses. For about a month I wondered why I stopped giving out quotes and then I realized that they were pretending to post my ads, but none were showing up. This forced me to create an entirely new account and have my boyfriend post ads for my business from his computer. 90% of my private work was coming from there. I'm not about to give that up any time soon.

A tip for writers and web designers: Don't be too descriptive of your business and always put the name of the city in the location box. Also, put a line in there like 'catering to local businesses/students' or something so that you 'look' local. This page appropriately describes what most of us were searching. Why else would people stumble upon this article, at least for the majority. My only problem is the spamming of so many gmail accounts or any other email accounts and flooding CraigList with the same add on the same day with 30 adds of the same business.

That in my opinion is not ethical or proper for the sanity of the internet. Yes you and I as individuals are minuscule in our ability to destroy the net, however we all know how annoying spam is, whether it is in the email or all those 'erotic' massages adds on Craig List. Also why destory gmail so many times. The author indicated to create 10 gmail accounts or any other email account.

That is a clear waste of a free service like gmail. If a million people choose to do this, that is 10 million emails that will never be used for its intent, but only to spam CraigList. I want to post just 2 adds per day on CL of the same service, but I dont believe in destroying 10 Gmail accounts or any other service for this.

I seriously think there has to be a better more legit way that is not only useful for us to advertise, but keeps some sort of order and regulation on Craiglist as well. The problem with Craiglist, usually under 'Services' is that it gets spammed by the same add, thus the overall search and browse value of that page get diminished as users get frustrated after the first few pages of search. Lets try to be a bit more innovative and profit in the right away instead of misusing Gmail or Hotmail or CraigList. Good luck to everyone.

The How To Hub, Very informative. Thank you for sharing so much. I'm a regular HubPages user, but found you through Google. I was searching for why Craigslist doesn't allow multiple posting and this article came up on the first page.

You've hinted at it and it's all I can figure too. Since it's geared toward the local community, it would be natural to have just the one ad. It's not like you'd have 100 cats.

Unfortunately, when you have a real service or project that is nationwide, it's very frustrating to get the word out. And since everyone looks at it on the city level, they'll never see your ad unless they happen to be in the one city where you placed it.

That's a lot of cities (users) left out. Makes no sense to me.

This also relates to the blurb on Craigslist about our users don't want to see the same ad. Again, makes absolutely no sense at all because how is anyone going to see the same ad unless they are going from city to city to city to city and so on. It would take a lot of going to each city for someone to get sick of an ad. I don't know how often users pull up more than one city.

Maybe a few right around them, which is what I do, but most cities I never even see. I just learned tonight how to search all of Craigslist through www.searchtempest.com.

Very cool site. It searches for whatever you want and wherever you want and includes eBay and a few other sites too. Gosh, this is the longest comment I've ever left! Thanks again, Kind Regards P.S. Just for clarification sake. This relates to a little gig I picked up posting ads for someone else. It's perfectly legit, in my opinion.

They're hiring college students to place flyers advertising an LSAT study course. As we all know, colleges are in different cities and the college students are going to be looking at ads in their city related to their college. If you can only post one ad in one city, that leaves out all the other colleges.

This whole thing just puzzles me! Is it just me? Thanks for the info! FYI, if you have a wifi enabled laptop, every time you post from a different physical location on a different wifi network you're on a different IP. Also, you can buy a skype phone number pretty cheaply. If I remember correctly, it's something like 8 bucks for three months.

One thing I don't know is if you can have multiple instances of skype on your 'puter, but there may be a way around that by using that google voice thingie? I don't know about your area, but in mine every coffee house, every Mickey D's, every Panera Bread and many other places are all wired these days.:-) Might be tough on the waistline though.;-). I read this and wanted more information about this. The only post that craigslist charge are NY real estate, job postings and adult ads. I'm just selling classified stuff. Is there a category that requires payment for this area?

What did you mean by this below? Using this domain, create multiple sub-domains to use for your bulk posting submissions. Too easy: ). Pay for an ad in one of the cities where craigslist is charging per post. Then you have a URL that is listed as safe on the craigslist system at least for the period that your payment covers. The prices vary from city to city so check around and find the cheapest city.

Using this domain, create multiple sub-domains to use for your bulk posting submissions. Too easy: ). Just be sure to check that your domain service provider allows unlimited sub-domains at no extra charge to you. If yours doesn't, simple, find one that does and use their service instead. Craigslist doesn't hate marketers. They are a classifieds site.

The type of content people are trying to post on Craigslist in the name of 'marketing' is simply not classifieds. If you have people coming to your site and trying to constantly comment and post non related items you might be unhappy about it too. I use Craigslist to sell things I don't want locally. And it's a shame, but I nearly almost always just get scam replies. The Nigerians are still scamming on Craigslist, tons of direct mail spams from supposed 'affiliate marketers'. You really have to question the ethics of people who continually violate personal rights and privileges in the name of profit.

You don't have to do any tricks or gimmicks to post ethically on Craigslist. I got already my bussiness this page contain a lot of information! Is true but you need experience on it craigslist is very sensitive.and you need to know and learn some tips.you dont need to invest for the software when you start this bussines.you can do manually until 100 posts daily,once u get u people they willl pay for the software.if anyone wants my service as poster on craigslist let me know;)also im selling a guide for the complete set up for make this job.contact to:info@advertiseposter.com no phone calls for the guide.check my website www.advertiseposter.com. I know of several job listing sites where there are people who will pay people to post on craigslist for the. I have been considering doing this to earn a little extra money, thinking 'how hard could it be'.

Before I did this I wanted to do a little research into craigslist. With your extremely helpful hints I think I can pull this off. Thank your for sharing this info with everyone. I am going to re-read it several times and learn your techniques. I am also going to share this info with some friends who get frustrated with trying to post on craigslist.

Again MUCHO thanks for this!!!! @ Patrick - categories is pretty important when you want to post on craigslist, I do agree. Choosing a category that suits your ad is important when posting. While to main intent of my hubpage was to share information on how to post on craigslist - how people choose to use that information is up to them. Some of the feedback I've had by comments and emails was to tell me about how people trying to sell everyday household items, like secondhand furniture, have their ads flagged! Despite posting just one ad in the right category their ads disappeared.

This would be an example of the auto spam filter going too far & someone like that would find my information very helpful. @ Jeremiah - that's great of you to share information for free, thumbs up.

@ontheway - thanks.will do:). There are categories to post free ads on graiglist. Like business but other categories like real estate ads are purchased in single ads or blocks. This is how graislist is maintained. Ads are free in other categories but you must post only what is intended for that specific category.

Like pets you post pets not laptops or TV. That would be considered spam! Any over post is considered spam and will be flagged buy existing users or staff. Companies that over post in all categories are spammers and if you like using graigsist they become very annoying. Although I find your post very informative I use graiglsit everyday as a valuable resource to find deals and business ideas.

But by you teaching people how to spam graigslist it only makes graiglist less attractive. We could all do without all that spam in our mail box and you have to admitt it is pretty annoying.