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