Craigslist advertising, do you do it? How do you do it?

I love craigslist.com, not only it allows me to get a lot of goods for cheap, it is also a great place for me to advertise my websites

I like to advertise my site in the for sale section. I think most people go on there looking for cheap stuff, therefore in my opinion, for sale section has the most page view, so I tend to drop my ads there. However, if you just drop your ads there, 98% of the time your post will get flagged and removed by the staff. Therefore I always tweak my ad a little bit to avoid this problem.

Let’s say if I have a forum about..um..let’s say cars. What I would do is pick out a sales post in the classified section on my forum, post half of the description on the craigslist, and at the end say something like “click here for the price” or “click here for more detail”

This always work well for me, I rarely get my ads removed, it also brings in a lot of targeted traffic and most importantly, you will probably get some new members on your forum if you tweak it right. You can do stuff like “only members can reply to the sales post.”

As for can’t have similar posts, you got a hosting account, right? Create multiple emails, have them all forward to one account. Then just use the same post over and over by putting in different email address…….

Anyways, you got the idea. How do you promote your site on craigslist?

A lot of people here are a part of shoemoney gang, therefore this post might be a bit cheesy to the marketing gurus, but what the hell, I need to start somewhere, so might as well start with craigslist since I use them so much. The next post will probably be a little more interesting. It is going to be about how to find the golden / forgotten keyword in your niche.