Secrets exposed! Craiglist

Secrets exposed! Craiglist

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. It is now no7, trailing only yahoo, aol, microsoft, google, ebay, and news corp.

About half of the growth in visits to online classified ads is going to San Francisco online classified site Craiglist, according to comScore Media Metrix. It is considered by many in Silicon Valley’s tech crowd to be clunky, a homely Web 1.0 site lacking the jazz of newer players, such as Oodle. But it is getting the job done. Web sites featuring classified ads drew 47 percent more unique visitors this July than the same month a year ago, while Craiglist’s visits about doubled, to 13.8 million unique visitors.

When using Craigslist to get traffic to your site you have to be careful that you aren’t spamming. Watch the video below for a full and detailed tutorial on why and how to use Craigslist to benefit your site and your business.

After watching it, it seemes that there were three benefits to using Craigslist:

1. Getting an incoming link from a high-ranking web site

2. Getting some extra traffic from people who read your ad and come to view your site

3. A good place to find people to write articles, press releases, and whatever else you need help with

One thing you will like about Craigslist is that it specifies an area. That way you can hire someone to work for you who lives nearby if you want. It’s not necessary, but there are times it would be nice to talk face to face to explain how you like things done.

After watching the video you will know everything there is to know about using Craigslist for hiring, for traffic, and for links.

General tips for using Craigslist

• Spend some time learning the site. Familiarize yourself with the interface (it’s fairly straight-forward). Pick a category to watch for a week so that you can get a feel for how things work.
• It’s cool that you can subscribe to your favorite categories. This can get overwhelming, though. Do you really want to sift through a thousand lame free items every day? Of course not. But you might be keen on learning about every free piano that comes along, for example. Or maybe you want to see every job posting searching for a writer. You can subscribe to a feed of any Craigslist search. This is amazingly powerful. (It’s also a dangerous time-sink.)
• Always be polite. People are grateful to deal with kind, helpful strangers. When a woman came to take 500 square feet of free sod we’d dug from our lawn, I spent an hour in the rain helping to load her trailer. Though the sod had been listed as free, she sent me $50 in restaurant gift certificates to thank me for helping her.
• Don’t feel pressured. If you drive out to the seller’s location and find that the item is not as described, or that you’ve changed your mind, don’t feel obligated to buy. If a buyer arrives and tries to change the terms of the deal, call it off.