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