Title:
Craigslist
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576
Summary:
Are you using Craigslist to advertise for your home business? If so you
are not going to achieve the results you are looking for. Yes Craigslist
does have an Alexa ranking of 8 and yes Craigslist does get boat loads of
traffic to it's site. But advertising on Craigslist is not worth your
time and if you are paying 25 bucks to advertise in certain cities, I
will show you why it is not worth your money. With that being said if you
are going to post your home business ads on fre...
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Article Body:
Are you using Craigslist to advertise for your home business? If so you
are not going to achieve the results you are looking for. Yes Craigslist
does have an Alexa ranking of 8 and yes Craigslist does get boat loads of
traffic to it's site. But advertising on Craigslist is not worth your
time and if you are paying 25 bucks to advertise in certain cities, I
will show you why it is not worth your money. With that being said if you
are going to post your home business ads on free classified ad sites,
Craigslist is the best. You shouldn't even bother to post to any other
free classified ad sites besides Craigslist, that is if you are going to
post on free classified ad sites. There are many other ways to
effectively market for your home business. One other thing to think
about, if you are solely using Craigslist as a way to advertise your home
business, the chances of you building a successful home business are slim
to none.
First off most people posting on Craigslist in the small biz section are
just posting their own home business ads up. They are not looking to join
up with any other home business owners. So yes posting an ad on
Craigslist is very easy but it is also very ineffective. Your ad will
most likely not end up helping you build your business. In order to be
effective on Craigslist you must post your ads massively and to every
city possible. Great problem solved, right? Nope, Craigslist has spiders
who search for spammers and these spiders ban and flag the ads. What are
some of the things which can get you flagged on Craigslist? Well posting
the same ad to multiple cities can and will get your ads flagged and
removed. Next posting multiple ads with the same IP address will get you
banned permanently. Meaning any ad you post on Craigslist will get
flagged before it even goes up. This happens if you spam with the same IP
address, that IP address is banned for life. And it's hard to know if the
Craigslist spiders consider your ads to be spam but if they do you are
done. Another issue you will have to deal with when posting to Craigslist
is other home business owners flagging your ads for no reason. Somewhere
in their twisted minds they believe more people will see their ads if
they flag and remove other home business owner's ads.
Now true posting an ad on Craigslist here and there is easy but it is not
effective. And if you are posting ads like "Earn 6 Figures Overnight",
most people are tuning those types of ads out. Now what I am suggesting
will take more work but the payoff will be 100 times what you could ever
imagine. Why not create your own website and learn how to market it
effectively online, instead of posting a couple of ads to Craigslist.
Imagine having your website located at the top of the search engines for
a keyword like "home business". How powerful would your business be if
you could land that spot? Very powerful. There are plenty of keywords to
go around. That is just one effective way of building your home business
besides posting on Craigslist.
Here is one thing I can guarantee you. The people making over 6 figure
incomes from their home business are not using Craigslist to market their
business.