I must say that Craigslist is one of the most challenging way of marketing on the internet. There are few factors that make me think this way. If you will start to post some ads on Craigslist, especially internet business you will have most likely 100% of your ads ghosted. What does it mean term “ghosted”? Basically it’s when Craigslist tell you that your ad is live but unfortunately it’s not listed in listing. As you see and you will experience all the time Craigslist is tricky. There are many factors that could bring your ad to be ghosted. Let’s go step by step through basic checklist for not getting ghosted:
1. Craigslist Accounts Or Mails You can’t post on one acount to 10+ cities because Craigslist will automatically find your strange behaviour and ghost all your ads. I recommend 1 account or mail for 2,3 ads for safety.
2. IP Address You can’t also post a lot of ads using same ip addess. Change your ip every 5-10 posts, don’t use public proxies because they don’t work!
3. Post Delay Posting ad one after another in 10-20 seconds also won’t work. You have to post ads every 30 seconds to few minutes, depends how many craigslist accounts do u use or in which sections do you post and what kind of tactic do you use in your ads.
4. Ad Headline And Body You have to be aware that Craigslist ban some words and phrases that are inside some spam ads, to find which one of words are in this blacklist simply test, test and test.
5. Links, Images Basically you can’t use your domain over and over again for links or images. I won’t post more then 10 ads using the same domain for a link. Although it will still lately be burned, it will last longer.
6. Section, City Each section, even city have different rules. You won’t have any success until you will start to test your ads and find the best way for yourself.
7. Unexpected Circumstances Sometimes Craigslist is doing something in some sections, changing site and no ads got through there. It happen often in job section in some cities. You can’t do anything with it.
There are few rules you have to restrict to get listed in Craigslist. Of course it can vary for every section but I showed before some universal rules that should work in most cases. You have to stick on it and start testing, that’s the best way to become master poster on Craigslist.