Craigslist makes a wonderful place to market your product or service. Throughout the last year, Craigslist has unfortunately dramatically cracked down on bulk posting. When this book was first written, it was much easier to bulk post on Craigslist. One could simply post an image-based ad from a Craigslist account and have the liberty to
post many ads within a short period of time.
Although posting on Craigslist requires patience and persistence, marketing on Craigslist is more valuable than ever. Why, you're wondering? Because the site gets more traffic than ever before... and because of its large usage, it can serve as a valuable place to generate leads and targeted website traffic.
This is an excerpt from the opening chapters of CraigsListPowerPosting3.0. Written by Mark Mattey, CLPP3.0 is designed to make the posting process easier. But what I continue to run up against, is the concept that Craigslist doesn't want people posting the same ads in multiple cities.
Here's what Mark has to say to that:
The goal of this report (and the PowerPosting process) is to inform you on how to post responsible,multiple ads in multiple cities. The ads will run simultaneously. Each ad will virtually look the same, but to Craigslist's computers they (the ads) will appear to be unique - therefore they will not get staff deleted.
Originally I had some moral issues with selling this information (this ebook) because of this. But I've recently come to believe that Craigslist really does not care if people post responsibly. Posting quality ads for quality products in proper sections does not hurt Craigslist. If someone is outside of your city and you sell them something they wanted that is worthwhile, what is wrong with that?
Craigslist mainly does not want spammers bulk posting garbage products all over their website. Understandable, right? So don't become one of these people, please.
Are we running into a grey area here? Is there really a moral dilemma to be had?
Right now, I'm up to 3 leads. But I'm NOT posting every day. It's too much time, and I'm still wading through CLPP3.0. But the more I read, the more I feel like I've entered a realm of "black hat" secrets that I should run SCREAMING from in the other direction.
Whenever I see something like this, I get nervous:
Another option (that I recommend) is to cut and paste junk content after your image, and HIDE it via using white text. This way it will appear unique to the computers, but to the human eye it will not appear (unless it is highlighted with the mouse).
I thought SPAM was junk that people don't want to see? How does appending junk to your post make your post NOT junk?
The more I read, the more concerned I get about Mike Dillard's recommendations. Sure Craigslist may be an orchard of leads ripe for the picking, but if you have to use black hat methods to get them, I'm not so sure I want to be associated with that. How do you teach your downline to use these same techniques and create something that works for them when the rules at Craigslist are constantly changing to keep "spammers" off the field?
ESPECIALLY when it looks like WE'RE just adding to the spam fodder.
So if you like black hat, somewhat backdoor techniques to increasing your Network Marketing Leads, grab a copy of Mike Dillard's Building on a Budget right now.
Otherwise, stay posted as I continue to "work" through this book.
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