Craigslist tricks and tips

When you flag something on Craigslist, what you are doing is drawing the attention of the Craigslist staff to it. Craigslist classifieds are consistently flagged for many reasons, but they mainly have four areas that you can flag an ad for.

The first area that a flag can be placed on an ad for is if the ad happens to be mis-categorized. There are many free classifieds that are placed in the wrong areas either accidentally or otherwise on purpose to generate more page views and in both cases if you see an ad that is in the wrong area, feel free to flag it for that reason.

There are certain types of advertising that are not allowed on Craigslist. These are included in the terms and conditions that you are required to read before making a post on the site. Craigslist.com is very committed to removing all prohibited advertising and for that reason regardless of whether you are in Craigslist Canada or Craigslist US sites, you can flag any advertisement that you feel violates the terms of service.

Some people have advertisements placed in the right area and totally in line with the terms of service, but they post them way too often in the hopes of getting more attention. If you see any advertisement like this, you can choose to flag it as being spam or posted too often and the Craigslist staff will deal with the problem. This Craigslist guide advises that you keep in mind the length of time between posts that you think is reasonable and then go from there when you are deciding what to do.

Finally, you can also flag ads that you feel are really good examples of what you would encounter on Craigslist. These ads, no matter whether you get them from Craigslist Vancouver, Craigslist Montreal or any other place, will be put into the “Best of Craigslist” category if enough people flag them as such.