Craigslist tricks and tips

Whether you are a Craigslist Seattle or Craigslist Sacramento fan, the truth of the matter is the posting frequency does matter a lot. This is true for all free classifieds sites, but it is especially true for Craigslist classifieds because of the high volumes experienced by both Craigslist Canada and Craigslist US. All of the Craigslist.com websites are reasonably popular and for that reason, this Craigslist guide emphasizes the utilization of a high posting frequency whenever you have something that you really want to get across.

Of course, the term “high” is not an objective one by any stretch of the imagination. For some people, a high posting frequency might be placing their ad on Craigslist.com once a week while for others a posting frequency of one ad an hour might actually be too short a time. There are going to be divergent opinions on exactly what constitutes a high posting frequency, but there are some ground rules that you can follow that will help get you into the ballpark of what might be considered acceptable.

Craigslist posting frequency is partially denoted by the amount of posts that your fellow Craigslist users can actually handle. If you post too often, you might end up annoying people enough to the point where they start flagging your submissions and even worse is the possibility of accidentally violating the terms of service and getting your ads removed from Craigslist altogether. You don’t want either of those things to happen, so make sure that you pay attention to the social norms of your particular website as well as the Craigslist terms and conditions to set an upper limit for the number of posts you can make. Once you have that number, you can start working your way down from it until you reach a number that you feel is acceptable.

Unless you have purchased a featured slot for your particular Craigslist classifieds, you will find that they go the way of many free classifieds and disappear beneath a litany of newer classifieds relatively quickly. For popular Craigslist websites like Craigslist San Diego or Craigslist Toronto (to name a couple), you might find that the process is even quicker than possible. This is true for almost all of the Craigslist Canada and Craigslist US sites, so you need to develop a strategy for reposting that will allow your ad to get seen enough times on Craigslist.com to help you get what you want. This Craigslist guide will help you develop that guide.

There are many methods that you could try using, but the most important one for a first time user is probably the trial and error method. Create your advertisement and decide where you would like to post it. Once you have done that, set up a starting posting frequency that you think might be appropriate (i.e. once a week, once every two weeks, once every five days, etc.). Then, go ahead and actually start posting your ad for a month, adhering to whatever frequency you have decided to set up. After the month has gone by, if your ad still has not fulfilled its purpose of achieving whatever selling goal you had, evaluate your ad in relation to other ads that have worked on Craigslist in the same category and decide if you need to up the selling frequency or not.

Before you start using this method, it is worthwhile to point out that this is not the most efficient method around for settling on a posting frequency. For the beginner that has no online free classifieds experience however, it is vital because of the overall introduction to decision-making that comes with the trial and error method.

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.

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