Tips on craigslist ad posting

Craigslist.org is the leader in the field of online free classified advertising. Craigslist is within top 50 in Alexa ranking. Due to it’s enormous popularity, the site is number one target of the spammers. Craigslist is upgrading it’s system continuously to fight against the spammers. Now it is harder to post the same ad on different locations or multiple times in a particular location.

Following are some tips for posting ads on craigslist:

1) Use Craigslist registered account: Try to post all ads with phone verified CL accounts. Avoid posting the ads anonymously, rather post the ads with a registered CL account. Posting ads with registered account will give you the opportunity of reposting which may save some time.

2) Different Ad Descriptions: You need to change the ad description each time to avoid "similar posting" error and staff deletion (popularly known as "ghosting"). Use image in the description or upload image during ad posting. Using an image increases response.

3) If you are trying to promote your affilite products then you must hide your affiliate URL. A lot of techniques are available to to do so. I suggest to use Free Dot TK domains.

4) Titles: Titles should match with category. If your title don't match with the theme of the category the visitors are more likely to flag your ad. And obviously user flagging leads to staff deletion popularly known as ghosting.

5) Don’t post too many ads at a time. Give some time gap between each batch of postings.

6) Select your posting category properly. Postings on wrong categories are flagged and ghosted so quickly. This is very important.

7) To get maximum benefit select your posting time carefully. Do some research to determine approriate time of posting for your business.

8) Don't post too many ads or too frequently. Over exposure is not a good idea. You can repeat the same ad on every 48 hours interval according to TOS of craigslsit.org

9) If your ads are flagged so frequently then make your ads more natural looking. Too much commercial looking ads may be flagged so frequently unless you are posting under "services offered" category.

10) Finally, avoid using a particular word or phrase (may be company name, phone number or email address etc.) in your titles or ad descriptions.