Welcome to Day 10 of 30 Days to More Traffic!
This is a guest post on “Targetted Craigslist Traffic: Way too easy…” by Steve Mount. His site is: http://www.ebookaddict.org
Introduction
I wanted to share some strategies of my own about what I’ve been doing to increase traffic to my website without investing a penny of my money. I haven’t been doing this very long at all and I already feel like a million bucks!
It’s pretty amazing to think that less than two months ago, all I was doing on my computer was playing video games and wasting literally years of my life away with nothing to show for it. It makes me sick to think of all that precious time I’ve just thrown out of the window … ugh
There have been a few great people on here who have inspired me to take action and wouldn’t you know it, I’ve pocketed an extra $1,000 in my pocket last month.
That is a ton of money when you’re struggling to pay bills and living each week paycheck to paycheck!
In this write up, I’m going to assume that you have a product of your own to sell. If you don’t have a product yet, I suggest becoming an affiliate and promoting someone else’s products! It works exactly the same in the long run. Go check out some of the products over at Clickbank.com or Commission Junction (CJ.com)
Ok enough of the rambling, here’s what I have been doing and how it works.
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I use primarily two different websites for massive amounts of free traffic. Craigslist and YouTube. For this post, I’m just going to cover my Craigslist tactics. My YouTube traffic will be in an upcoming post so stay tuned for that 
Using Craigslist:
Folks, Craigslist is almost too good to be true. It is simply AMAZING for internet marketing. I’m sure you’re aware that it’s 100% free to use and not to mention that it gets just a little bit of Internet traffic each month (if you consider 9 BILLION PAGE VIEWS PER MONTH “LITTLE”…!) If you haven’t taken advantage of this site, you need to stop what you’re doing right now and follow these steps to start getting more traffic to your site or squeeze page in just a few minutes from now!
Step 1. Make a Craigslist account. Many people overlook this powerful aspect of Craigslist. I don’t know why since it’s absolutely free to sign up for… I make multiple accounts with different email addresses assigned to each. My first 10 postings for the week fall under my first account and email. So, that means I have 7 accounts and 7 unique email addresses. The huge advantage to signing up for an account is that you don’t have to confirm your email address after each posting. It’s a simple 3 step process for each ad when you’re logged in. PLUS you can see a list of all of your current, expired, and flagged listings (yes you will get a lot of ads flagged… this is completely normal)
Step 2. I only post approximately 10 ads per day on Craigslist in popular city listings. I don’t post anymore than this because I don’t want to SPAM the entire website with my product. You need to be professional about this. Spamming isn’t very professional, after all! You will want to find cities that have a large population and a lot of ads. The number of listings per city will show up as a number next to the For Sale sections in the major cities.
Now… a lot of people have the problem of knowing how to post identical ads across different cities. There are a few tricks to get around this.
TOP SECRET… Until Now…
Let me fill you in on the huge secret that tons of people have paid big money for on the WSO forum… Your standard boring text ads won’t cut it anymore. Your ads need to be PICTURES, not words.
Yep, I just let the cat out of the bag. I hope I don’t get sued for this lol
The entire picture is identical on each and every listing. It needs to be a clickable and hyperlinked .jpeg so that the customer can easily click your picture and be sent to your website.
Here’s the picture I use for ‘Cashing In on Craigslist’
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e…listad-2.jpg
This way, your ad is much better looking than a bunch of text and plus you can type whatever the heck you want to in your ad since the Craigslist computers can’t “read” the text on your image
I designed that picture myself… just let me know if you would like me to help you create a nice picture. I’ll create one for you for $20 (That was my ninja super stealth way of selling my designing skills to you … pretty sneaky huh?)
Step 3. Before you start posting, you need to make a list of 10 different ad titles. These can be fairly similar but they need to include different adjectives and words to make the titles as unique as possible. For example:
The Ultimate “Cashing In on Craigslist” guide and VIDEO Version 2.0
Discover my “Cashing In on Craigslist” System, eBook & Video!
You can see that they are very similar but are different enough so that the Craigslist computers won’t see enough similarity between the two. It will only take you about 10 minutes to come up with 10 unique titles.
Step 3. Make a spreadsheet to keep yourself organized. Here is my own personal spreadsheet that I made to organize what ads I have placed, what email address I used and what city I posted the ad in. You will need Microsoft Excel or something similar to view it.
Download it here: HTTP://WWW.EBOOKADDICT.ORG/CLMP/CRA…EADSHEET.ZIP
You need to be as organized as possible so that you don’t get confused, since all your ads are very similar! I can’t stress this enough. Organization is the key to success.
Step 4. Create a schedule and stick to it! I post 10 ads per day when I get home from my normal J.O.B. (I’m in the military so I can’t quit my job yet… lol) It takes me all of 5 minutes out of my day to do this. You will find that posting in the mid afternoon/early evening will get your listing a lot more exposure as it will sit at the top of the listings for that evening and throughout the night. Since I post 70 ads (10 per day, each day), I start over again with my first 10 ads by reposting them all once the week has restarted.
One thing I’ve learned about this process: DO NOT delete your old listings. Just repost everything again and leave the old ones up. A lot of people delete the old ads but I found out a problem that is probably still costing me some major leads and profits. Since I’ve been doing this awhile, you can’t see an example of what I mean, but when I would go to google.com, my ads would appear on the first page using various search terms which was AWESOME but then the links would go to a “User has deleted this listing” page!!! BAD BAD BAD news for me…
I don’t even want to know how many prospects I lost because of that. The morale of the story is… don’t delete your old listings.
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This is pretty much what I do on Craigslist each and every day. It may not sound like much, but I wake up every morning to at least one sale if not more. And I didn’t pay a damn thing for advertising, nor will I ever. Since I have an email list form on my site as well, I get a ton of subscribers each day. And this is just for one product. They sky is the limit with this procedure, so GO NUTS!
I think you can see how powerful this is! Go out there and give it a shot guys I just spilled the beans on some valuable info, so don’t waste my efforts… haha
I’ll be releasing a new guide soon that explains this in more detail with an included video of the entire process.
I really hope this helps you and gets you even more motivated to use craigslist!
Regards,
Steve
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Hi, Steve:
Thanxs for the CL tips. I can see how it works, but the problem for me, is finding “the product”. I am aware of “the networks”, such as CJ and ShareAsale, but am dumbfounded by the many offers and options.
Yes, i said “dumbfounded”. LOL. I see you’re targeting a most relevant niche, the CL users themselves. Nice!
Also i was not able to view the spreadsheet, as i don’t have excel. I use the web-based Google Docs, but alas, it doesn’t have the universal viewing capabilities of Excel.
I will bookmark this, and when time permits, i will refer back to it, and perform an experiment. Thanxs, again.
Missy.
Opps! I also forgot to mention, that i especially enjoyed the “use an image, instead of text” tip. Very key.
Last comment, what “category” do you tend to place ads like yours in? (or net marketing products)
Can you explain how to make a picture clickable? I can post a picture I’ve made in photobucket and it looks good–but I can’t figure out how to make it a link?
I would like to hire you to get me traffic to my site.
Would you do that?
Please email me for info.
Yanni-
I am currently not looking for any additional clients.
But I will try to answer any questions you have.
Email me nickstraffictricks@gmail.com
Hi Steve,
you mention that you instal 10 ads per day, is there a maximum number of ads you can place per day, over the choice of any city? and this can be done once a week then?
thanks
I just cam across this new affiliate program and I wanted to market it on Craigslist.I already have 2 accounts on there because I was posting too many ads and my first account got put on hold.If I were to open several more accounts what about the phone verification process?I already put 2 different numbers on there.
Yes craigslist does seem to have cracked down on this.
To be honest I am not sure what to do about the phone verification.
What I do to avoid the phone verification thing is just borrow some friends and families numbers to use, that easy. Heres my lnikback if you don’t mind.
The phone verification has been added since this post was written. And it’s a very good question.
I will research this.
Although my site is still under construction I’ve been using the tips you provided to do craigslist postings every day. Most people say to only do 1 to 2 everyday, but you suggested 10, and well, it works. I only get maybe 1 out of 50 ads posted on craigslist flagged. I use the ebay partner network to earn money (for those of you who don’t know what type of products to sell) online. Last month i made $3,600.00 – and so far this month i’m at about $1,500 (half way through the month)
Thanks for the tips and good luck to everyone else who is out there trying to earn money online. It might seem hard at first but its worth it.
PS: I lost my job and had been learning everything on the side for a couple years and I can’t be any happier now that I don’t have to go out there and get a job again.