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Craigslist is a powerful internet classified ad site that many internet marketers are totally unaware of. More than likely, there is a Craigslist site in your city or close by. Here is a screen shot of what a Craigslist site looks like. This is the main http://www.craigslist.org site. Other Craigslist site, listed by city and country are shown on the right.

Some Facts of Craigslist

Craigslist is a local community classifieds and forums – a place to find jobs, housing, goods & services, social activities, a girlfriend or boyfriend, advice, community information, and just about anything else — all for free, and in a relatively non-commercial environment.Craigs List was started in early 1995, by Craig Newmark, in San Francisco, California. Craigslist receives more than 5 billion page views per monthCraigslist is now #7, of the most visited sites in the world, trailing only yahoo, aol, microsoft, google, ebay, and news corpMore than 15 million people use Craigslist each monthMore than 12 million new classified ads each month are posted on CraigslistMore than 750,000 new job listings each month are posted on CraigslistSites are added in response to user request. There are now over 300 craigslist sites in all 50 US states, and over 50 countries

Advertising on Craigslist

Go to http://craigslist.org and select the city or country on the right that you want to advertise in. Maybe start with your home city. Then scroll down near the bottom of the page, and you see the Services section, and Sm Biz Ads (Small Business Ads) This is the only place you can advertise biz opps on Craigslist. After you click on sm biz ads, the page will open up the a listing of ads.

At the top right of the page, you sill see POST. Click on it. Then find small biz ads and click on it. At this point you may be asked for a specific area, if so, select one.Now the Ad. Enter a Posting Title. IMPORTANT: Make this key word sensitive. Meaning, you want to make the title of your ad, a key word phrase that you feel people would search for online. Google and other search engines are very Craigslist Friendly and and your ad could show up in the search results in Google in a little as 2 – 3 days.In the posting description, enter a good ad. Now you want to add your link, and you need to make it so it is hyperlinked. Depending on what you are targeting in your ad, Network Marketers, use your PIF4P link, or Home Business Opportunity Seekers, use your 3Step or CashFlow123 link. This is how your link should look so it will be hyperlinked in Craigslist.<a href=”http://www.yourwebsiteaddress.com“>Anchor Text Here</a>

Now, you can copy the above and paste into your Craigslist ad, change “yourwebsiteaddress” to your MyMaxSuccess web sites or any website or blog you want to send your visitors to. Also change “Anchor Text Here” to the keyword phrase in your title. Now enter your email address, and again to confirm, click on Continue, enter the Captcha, and your ad is done.Now, you will have to check your email for an email from Craigslist with a link to click on to confirm your post. Once you click on the link you click on POST.Your ad will be live on Craigslist in about 15 minutes

 

Advanced Craigslist Marketing

Depending on your selection of City, you ad will appear on craigslist for 1 week, up to 1 month. You cannot advertise the same opportunity again in that city with that email until your ad has expired.What you can do however, is with a different email address, post another ad with different title and content, in another city. You can do this in maybe 5 – 10 different Craigslist cities every week, using a different title, ad content, and a different email every time. You can set up free emails accounts with places like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail..

DO NOT SPAM CRAIGSLIST – Just a hand full of quality ads every week and you will have great success. Here are some other great Online Classified Ad Sites 

http://www.kijiji.com – Very similar to CraigsList

http://www.usfreeads.com – A great Classified Ad Site

Rod Larrivee
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