Generate Traffic and Boost Rankings with Craiglist
A free way to boost your web site traffic and rankings is to post on other people’s site and obtain a quality back link to your site.
Craigslist.org allows you to do that easily, at no time at all.
Craiglist is an advertisement site where you can post an ad on it. It is a very poweful marketing resource with very high Alexa ranking and PR, which in turn can boost the value of inpointing link to your site.
There is no fee involved in setting up the ad, but you still need to invest some time to write a good ad. Setting up takes 20-30minutes, depending on your experience level. The ad will be lived for 7-45 days, depending on the category you post in.
What to post in Craiglist.org
There are thousands of things you can post in CraigList. Just to give you an idea:
- Your web site service
- announce an event
- Your product Unique Selling Point
- Launch of a new product
- looking for sponsors
- Rental of advertisement space
- Sourcing for joint venture/affiliate
- Post accomodation for rent
- Auction items
- Sell real estate
It is important not to spam the site. Limit only to one ad for every items you are posting. In addition, make sure that the URL to your site is valid. This will prevent you from getting ban from Craiglist
Meanwhile, enjoy your posting. Do feel free to report back your result here.
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I’m not so sure that your Craigslist strategy works. Don’t they post nofollow tags to keep this from helping others who are only after rank building?
not really. Craigslist does not post nofollow tags. They only place ‘noarchive’ tags which is different. I have several clients who experienced higher Google ranking and traffic after they have placed an ad.