Craigslist For Marketing CPA?

nerodea · 08-05-2010, 01:14 PM

Here's my question guys:

When researching offers, I have come accross many that have craigslist as one of their main sources of traffic generation. My question to you all is this. What method are people using on craigslist to drive traffic to these CPA offers?

ChrisBa · 08-05-2010, 01:17 PM

I'd stay far away from promoting on craigslist

KingNacho · 08-05-2010, 02:05 PM

I second that motion. Craigslist's TOS spells out pretty clearly that they don't want CPA offers and most reputable networks will drop you without warning.

Kenster · 08-05-2010, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by nerodea

Here's my question guys:

When researching offers, I have come accross many that have craigslist as one of their main sources of traffic generation. My question to you all is this. What method are people using on craigslist to drive traffic to these CPA offers?

What do you mean it says craigslist is the main source of traffic? It says this on the CPA network in the offer details??

nerodea · 08-05-2010, 04:26 PM

When checking the site on google adplanner it shows this info.

williamrs · 08-05-2010, 04:52 PM

Craigslist is not a good way to start off, mainly if you want to build a solid business with CPA. Craigslist doesn't like CPA offers being advertised there and most networks and advertisers also don't like traffic from CL.

William

Carlsbadd · 08-05-2010, 06:20 PM

Craigslist is a great place to do list building if done correctly , however spamming craigslist with banners is epic fail for all involved.

Kenster · 08-05-2010, 07:06 PM

My buddy, with a little creative help from me did a craigslist campaign two weeks ago. Cant go into details, but drove traffic to a splash page then to a squeeze, then email marketed as part of a 3 part series.

Results = good

Still potential if done right. Again some networks dont want anything to do with CL and others are okay if you put steps in the middle like this.

Carlsbadd · 08-05-2010, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenster

My buddy, with a little creative help from me did a craigslist campaign two weeks ago. Cant go into details, but drove traffic to a splash page then to a squeeze, then email marketed as part of a 3 part series.

Results = good

Still potential if done right. Again some networks dont want anything to do with CL and others are okay if you put steps in the middle like this.

Exactly, there are some old school harvesting methods that are completly legit. It's the stupid spammers that screw it up . Just look in the electronics section sometime.

" clix her 2 gt fre iphn 4g ezy"

mtmjohn · 08-05-2010, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by nerodea

Here's my question guys:

When researching offers, I have come accross many that have craigslist as one of their main sources of traffic generation. My question to you all is this. What method are people using on craigslist to drive traffic to these CPA offers?

Be careful ... Use a CL traffic friendly network to promote.

Kenster · 08-06-2010, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Carlsbadd

Exactly, there are some old school harvesting methods that are completly legit. It's the stupid spammers that screw it up . Just look in the electronics section sometime.

" clix her 2 gt fre iphn 4g ezy"

True that. Its undeniable that its a massive source of free traffic. Kenster loves massive sources of free traffic!

Even if you dilute your traffic by adding bridges in between the CL traffic and your ultimate goal of the CPA offer page, its still massive free traffic. Cant go wrong.

the_velvet · 08-06-2010, 10:58 PM

Stay away from craigslist mate - you will loose all your hard earned $$$

Kenster · 08-08-2010, 03:50 PM

Exactly. You dont have to necessarily stay away from CL, but be smart about it. I always see people say stay away from PPC, stay away from Craigslist, stay away from this and that. You dont need to stay away from anything. Just be creative and smart. There is normally always a whitehat way to approach anything.

Glovek77 · 08-09-2010, 12:03 AM

Craigslist is pretty much a no-no nowadays. It has been pretty saturated already and most of the people on there are poor and not looking to spend money anywho.

Oconnor1 · 08-09-2010, 12:05 AM

How are you getting around there posting policies though? Do you have multiple accounts, phone numbers for them, etc?

Kenster · 08-09-2010, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Glovek77

Craigslist is pretty much a no-no nowadays. It has been pretty saturated already and most of the people on there are poor and not looking to spend money anywho.

Just be a little creative man and there is plenty of opportunity. Do the same thing everybody else is doing and sure its saturated. I can guarantee there is plenty of opportunity.

paulie888 · 08-09-2010, 12:10 PM

It really irks me when everyone just says to stay away from Craigslist or PPC or some other method, without really knowing what they're talking about. It is especially irritating when they just go on hearsay and haven't actually tried it out for themselves. As with everything else, there is a right way and wrong way to promote CPA offers on Craigslist. I can almost guarantee you that all the bad experiences encountered by some people came from promoting their offers the wrong way on Craigslist, i.e. posting millions of hype-filled ads that were probably flagged within minutes of posting them and/or spamming harvested email addresses with your CPA offer.

If you make things sound like a blatant advertisement, you'll get shut down almost immediately on Craigslist. This topic (promotion of CPA offers on Craigslist) has been covered ad infinitum in this forum, just go do some research and find out how to promote Craigslist the right way - I'm really tired of repeating myself in here (have done it a few times already but will give it a rest here!)

andreblamads · 08-09-2010, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenster

Exactly. You dont have to necessarily stay away from CL, but be smart about it. I always see people say stay away from PPC, stay away from Craigslist, stay away from this and that. You dont need to stay away from anything. Just be creative and smart. There is normally always a whitehat way to approach anything.

I agree. There's money to be made on CL, just have to be smart about it.

paulie888 · 08-09-2010, 12:58 PM

I couldn't agree more, Craigslist is an absolute goldmine for marketers who are willing to think a little outside the box. Don't just be a copycat and clone other marketers' (unsuccessful) efforts on Craigslist, take the time to analyze things and come out with creative approaches that will appeal to the browsers there.

Carlsbadd · 08-09-2010, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenster

True that. Its undeniable that its a massive source of free traffic. Kenster loves massive sources of free traffic!

Starting to refer to yourself in 3rd person makes me think you are getting to much love here.....lol...JK

apocrypha · 08-09-2010, 03:24 PM

STAY AWAY FROM CL...

That way,i will have no competition and more traffic.

Kenster · 08-11-2010, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by apocrypha

STAY AWAY FROM CL...

That way,i will have no competition and more traffic.

Its very tempting to give selfish advice...but then you have to think about how abundant most traffic sources are. Unless I tell you exactly what I'm doing on CL for example, it is unlikely a dent will even be made on my end!

Toots · 08-11-2010, 11:15 PM

There is still good money to be made on CL. You just have to be very smart about how you do it. Find yourself a good course and stick to it.

cutequotes · 08-12-2010, 06:22 AM

dont use cpa on craiglist they will complain to your affiliate network on spamming

Carlsbadd · 08-12-2010, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by cutequotes

dont use cpa on craiglist they will complain to your affiliate network on spamming

Perfect example of "How I spammed Craigslist and got caught"

Don't be a dummy and you can strike gold.

Kenster · 08-12-2010, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Carlsbadd

Perfect example of "How I spammed Craigslist and got caught"

Don't be a dummy and you can strike gold.

Exactly man! People think craigslist is horrible because they plop up ads that drive people directly to a CPA offer and then get their commissions denied. They hear networks complain about CL traffic because they are trying to spam and scam craigslist visitors, so the networks just ban the traffic altogether.

Grrr...just be a little creative, do things the right way, and everything is great. Craigslist is just traffic. If you can find a way to deliver value to that traffic and still convert your CPA on the backend, everybodys happy right. If everybodys happy, its a lot easier to make money consistently and nobody is going to care or deny commissions or give a darn if everybody walks away happy.

Focus on doing things the right way and CL just like any other traffic source can make you money.

People are just too darn lazy sometimes.

buckz55 · 08-12-2010, 08:30 PM

Craigslist is no place for amateurs , serious marketers on CL spend thousands a month on IP solutions and PVAS to get around all the roadblocks on there.

Mainly though , you need to be very experienced and creative to twist your ads so they look real ....

People are quick to hit the flag button once they smell a marketer.

Rough Outline · 08-12-2010, 09:16 PM

I've never advertised on CL before.

Would I able to post some advice and then point people towards something on website?

33centsaday · 08-12-2010, 09:42 PM

I've had zero problems with posting a simple non-spammy ad directing traffic to my website for more info. I have a full site with quality content and of course sprinkle it with links to my CPA offer.

I'm killing it on CTR but still only have 1 conversion. Gotta sort out the pre-sell a little better I guess.

But seriously, I can't believe some people are actually posting their CPA offers directly on CL. Why would you even think that's a good idea? :P

perfectlovehere · 08-12-2010, 10:15 PM

Craigslist is great for whitehat but better for blackhat... :P

Be careful, though! It can cause a lot of problems if you actually go through with blackhat.

USGTMauthor · 08-12-2010, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by 33centsaday

I've had zero problems with posting a simple non-spammy ad directing traffic to my website for more info. I have a full site with quality content and of course sprinkle it with links to my CPA offer.

I'm killing it on CTR but still only have 1 conversion. Gotta sort out the pre-sell a little better I guess.

But seriously, I can't believe some people are actually posting their CPA offers directly on CL. Why would you even think that's a good idea? :P

I use craigslist to inform the public about the great free information they can get on my site. When they get there, there are a variety of things on the site that make me money, but yes if all they want is some free info, they get it.

ChadH · 08-12-2010, 11:23 PM

Craigslist >> Offer = Bad/CL Traffic
Craigslist >> Optin >> E-Mail = Good/E-Mail Traffic

mtmjohn · 08-12-2010, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ChadH

Craigslist >> Offer = Bad/CL Traffic
Craigslist >> Optin >> E-Mail = Good/E-Mail Traffic

Classic. Thanks for sharing, Chad.

Kenster · 08-13-2010, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by 33centsaday

I've had zero problems with posting a simple non-spammy ad directing traffic to my website for more info. I have a full site with quality content and of course sprinkle it with links to my CPA offer.

I'm killing it on CTR but still only have 1 conversion. Gotta sort out the pre-sell a little better I guess.

But seriously, I can't believe some people are actually posting their CPA offers directly on CL. Why would you even think that's a good idea? :P

Haha and after a few days of it not working at all or the networks banning the account, they then declare craigslist as 100% dead haha.

go · 08-13-2010, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by nerodea

Here's my question guys:

When researching offers, I have come accross many that have craigslist as one of their main sources of traffic generation. My question to you all is this. What method are people using on craigslist to drive traffic to these CPA offers?

craigslist traffic in 99% of the cases is bad traffic. Simply for the reason that you have to incentivize users to fill the offer - which results in bad traffic to the advertisers.

33centsaday · 08-13-2010, 01:31 PM

Woohoo! Got another conversion. Can you make money with free traffic? Yes indeed!

My site isn't even indexed yet and I'm not paying for traffic either. Goes to show that with the right offer you can get started in CPA with free traffic just from simple CL (et al) ads.

rushindo · 08-13-2010, 09:05 PM

Listen, you can get TON of traffic from Craigslist and WITHOUT breaking their rules. Do like Kenster said, and be creative!

And like paulie888, it irks me too when people say "stay away from this or that." How can you tell someone to stay away from free traffic in the billions?

Just last week, I spent a few minutes testing a creative idea I got for Craigslist. Result?

300 people emailed me within about 2 hours! My inbox was flooded and inquires would not stop coming in. I can easily duplicate what I did and get 30,000 people emailing me, but I don't feel like posting ads all day. If you want to make money posting ads all day, hey be my guest. Not me. And like I said, I followed Craigslist's rules.

I don't post links. Not posting links minimizes or almost eliminates flagging. I tell people to email me and over 300 did within about 2 hours and begged me to give them what I offered (which was 100% legit, something available for free on the Internet that everyone has access too). Seriously, these people where telling me stories about their family, significant others, spouses, etc trying to convince me to give them what I had "if it is still available" lol.

The only problem was that I should have setup an autoresponse, but I didn't so I had to reply to everyone one by one!

Anyways, my point is please be creative. And please be optimistic. There is so much traffic available, its amazing. And again, you DON'T have to break their rules. Study their rules and figure out a way to post a billion ads without breaking their rules. There are ways! I came up with two. And I was only flagged by a couple people who didn't want others to get my offer.

jeffrey73 · 08-13-2010, 09:16 PM

Craigslist is GOLD for certain offers, and everyone is right, they HATE CPA offers and marketers in general. To do it right so it will work, you have to set up a good auto-responder system. And.. you can't piss off the people on there either. You can so easily have your account BANNED, so if you don't know what you're doing... Don't even try!

Kenster · 08-14-2010, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by rushindo

Listen, you can get TON of traffic from Craigslist and WITHOUT breaking their rules. Do like Kenster said, and be creative!

And like paulie888, it irks me too when people say "stay away from this or that." How can you tell someone to stay away from free traffic in the billions?

Just last week, I spent a few minutes testing a creative idea I got for Craigslist. Result?

300 people emailed me within about 2 hours! My inbox was flooded and inquires would not stop coming in. I can easily duplicate what I did and get 30,000 people emailing me, but I don't feel like posting ads all day. If you want to make money posting ads all day, hey be my guest. Not me. And like I said, I followed Craigslist's rules.

I don't post links. Not posting links minimizes or almost eliminates flagging. I tell people to email me and over 300 did within about 2 hours and begged me to give them what I offered (which was 100% legit, something available for free on the Internet that everyone has access too). Seriously, these people where telling me stories about their family, significant others, spouses, etc trying to convince me to give them what I had "if it is still available" lol.

The only problem was that I should have setup an autoresponse, but I didn't so I had to reply to everyone one by one!

Anyways, my point is please be creative. And please be optimistic. There is so much traffic available, its amazing. And again, you DON'T have to break their rules. Study their rules and figure out a way to post a billion ads without breaking their rules. There are ways! I came up with two. And I was only flagged by a couple people who didn't want others to get my offer.

I did a certain cragislist campaign back when I was starting and I would do the same exact thing. This is a lot of fricken work but I am naturally a hustler and my time wasnt worth as much then as it is now.

I would write posts in the employment section and have people email me. Posts were geo specific. I got hundreds of emails a day.

I would literally sit down for hours upon hours writing individual responses back to every single person. I would find something to make sure the email was personalized, either mentioning how I like the name Sydney (if that was their name) or maybe commenting on something they said. The whole point was to make sure they were 100% confident I was a real human.

Then I would offer them value. Depending on what you are promoting, find something of value to deliver to them. Maybe a ton of great info about finding a job in this economy. Then, somehow work the CPA offer into the mix, maybe a good solid bizz opp or clickbank survey product. Make sure its a good CPA offer though. This is literally barebones craigslist marketing...nothing automated, nothing outsourced, nothing technial, nothing special, just good old elbow grease. This can be done with virtually any offer.

Just be smart and creative guys.

This was a LOT OF WORK
This took a LOT OF TIME
This was NOT EFFICIENT
This is doable for complete newbies

I was probably doing $100=$150 a day average with this.

If you are willing to role your sleeves up and put in some good ol work, there is plenty of money to be made. The problem is that 90% of new marketers want to hit gold right from day 1 and dont want to put in the work to build a business. I tell it how it is

Force yourself to be a hustler. Be willing to hustle. Get yourself in the mindset to hustle to financial freedom.

Ken

jeffrey73 · 08-15-2010, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by paulie888

It really irks me when everyone just says to stay away from Craigslist or PPC or some other method, without really knowing what they're talking about. It is especially irritating when they just go on hearsay and haven't actually tried it out for themselves. As with everything else, there is a right way and wrong way to promote CPA offers on Craigslist. I can almost guarantee you that all the bad experiences encountered by some people came from promoting their offers the wrong way on Craigslist, i.e. posting millions of hype-filled ads that were probably flagged within minutes of posting them and/or spamming harvested email addresses with your CPA offer.

If you make things sound like a blatant advertisement, you'll get shut down almost immediately on Craigslist. This topic (promotion of CPA offers on Craigslist) has been covered ad infinitum in this forum, just go do some research and find out how to promote Craigslist the right way - I'm really tired of repeating myself in here (have done it a few times already but will give it a rest here!)

Definitely true!

Fox30 · 08-15-2010, 02:34 AM

Craigslist is still a great source for traffic IMHO. It has to be done correctly so that your ads go up, stay up, and you do not violate TOS.

ChrisBa · 08-15-2010, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Fox30

Craigslist is still a great source for traffic IMHO. It has to be done correctly so that your ads go up, stay up, and you do not violate TOS.

Are we talking craigslist TOS or the offers/affiliate networks TOS?

Kenster · 08-15-2010, 10:14 AM

Chris, probably all of the above. There are ways to satisfy the TOS from the traffic side (craigslist/classified portal) and the network side!

Flaura78 · 08-15-2010, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Glovek77

Craigslist is pretty much a no-no nowadays. It has been pretty saturated already and most of the people on there are poor and not looking to spend money anywho.

Agree. You even have to be careful with not direct linking but if you link to a CPA offer directly that is called suicide. Haven't tried CL for list building yet, you guys say it might worth a try, possibly another way to get people enter your sales funnel?

the_velvet · 08-15-2010, 01:53 PM

I would stay away from Craigslist - There was a time (most probably still is) that advertising on craigslist worked. The problem now is that if you are caught advertising on craigslist means that you could loose all your hard worked earnings, and have trouble with craigslist as well as the network.

Think of it this way - You going to have to put time and effort into it to make it work, the chances of you getting caught, irrelevant - cause if you do get caught you have lost Time / Money / Earnings - spend that time, money wisely and you will be able to keep all your profits.

Good luck!

commonjoe · 08-15-2010, 05:37 PM

normally, internet marketers post fake ads on craiglist and get traffic but stay away of it otherwise it will spam. Many internet marketers get lots of craiglist accounts from different ips and get traffic, but I don't recommended it, it will generate traffic but not potential customers. I think so

jeffrey73 · 08-15-2010, 11:05 PM

As long as you're advertising "legit" stuff in the proper categories, the RIGHT way, it's a pretty good source of traffic. And it's heavy traffic and FREE, so do you expect them to make it easy for you? LOL

Sure, you can't go on there and start pushing email submits or shady rebills, people will complain and flag your ads and you'll be BANNED or they'll ghost your ads. Don't act like a spam artist and you won't be treated like one.

Craigslist traffic is no worse than PoF traffic. I heard all those networks complaining about PoF traffic a while ago and what happened? Now they act like PoF is the "greatest thing since sliced bread". LOL

Nicholasedward · 08-16-2010, 03:33 AM

Craigslist is not a good way to start off, mainly if you want to build a solid business with CPA. Craigslist doesn't like CPA offers being advertised there and most networks and advertisers also don't like traffic from CL.

Kenster · 08-16-2010, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by commonjoe

normally, internet marketers post fake ads on craiglist and get traffic but stay away of it otherwise it will spam. Many internet marketers get lots of craiglist accounts from different ips and get traffic, but I don't recommended it, it will generate traffic but not potential customers. I think so

To clarify, craigslist is just a base traffic source just like any other site on the internet. Unlike other sites, its interactive, which is actually better because you can communicate with your customer as opposed to just plopping up a banner ad or text link.

You dont have to push anything at the base level traffic. You shouldnt push anything at the base level traffic. This means you cant plop up an ad on Craigslist. Simlarly, you may not be necessarily be able to effectively push people to a traditional landing page and then to the CPA offer.

Use your noggins and use some creativity. Take the traffic, give them value of some sort, make them like you, then creatively sell your CPA offer somehow.

In general...

-If you are brand new to CPA, probably dont venture into CL
-If you aren't creative dont venture into CL
-If you aren't offering more value than cost, dont venture into CL

CL is a gigantic lead generation platform and my bet is that if you used CL in the right way, you can probably do a few hundred a day. To be perfectly honest, when I started I thought CL was dead too and like many people here, I was selling too early and too blatantly.

Be smart and you can make good money with any classified site!

jeffrey73 · 08-16-2010, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenster

To clarify, craigslist is just a base traffic source just like any other site on the internet. Unlike other sites, its interactive, which is actually better because you can communicate with your customer as opposed to just plopping up a banner ad or text link.

You dont have to push anything at the base level traffic. You shouldnt push anything at the base level traffic. This means you cant plop up an ad on Craigslist. Simlarly, you may not be necessarily be able to effectively push people to a traditional landing page and then to the CPA offer.

Use your noggins and use some creativity. Take the traffic, give them value of some sort, make them like you, then creatively sell your CPA offer somehow.

In general...

-If you are brand new to CPA, probably dont venture into CL
-If you aren't creative dont venture into CL
-If you aren't offering more value than cost, dont venture into CL

CL is a gigantic lead generation platform and my bet is that if you used CL in the right way, you can probably do a few hundred a day. To be perfectly honest, when I started I thought CL was dead too and like many people here, I was selling too early and too blatantly.

Be smart and you can make good money with any classified site!

Such good, solid advice. Don't ever discount any traffic source. Craigslist is the fastest form of FREE traffic I've ever experienced. If you post enough, you can even get traffic from BackPage.

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08-09-2010, 12:10 PM	#17
paulie888 Redoubtable Implementer War Room Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 6,066 Thanks: 916 Thanked 998 Times in 843 Posts Contact Info	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? It really irks me when everyone just says to stay away from Craigslist or PPC or some other method, without really knowing what they're talking about. It is especially irritating when they just go on hearsay and haven't actually tried it out for themselves. As with everything else, there is a right way and wrong way to promote CPA offers on Craigslist. I can almost guarantee you that all the bad experiences encountered by some people came from promoting their offers the wrong way on Craigslist, i.e. posting millions of hype-filled ads that were probably flagged within minutes of posting them and/or spamming harvested email addresses with your CPA offer. If you make things sound like a blatant advertisement, you'll get shut down almost immediately on Craigslist. This topic (promotion of CPA offers on Craigslist) has been covered ad infinitum in this forum, just go do some research and find out how to promote Craigslist the right way - I'm really tired of repeating myself in here (have done it a few times already but will give it a rest here!)
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08-09-2010, 12:58 PM	#19
paulie888 Redoubtable Implementer War Room Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 6,066 Thanks: 916 Thanked 998 Times in 843 Posts Contact Info	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? I couldn't agree more, Craigslist is an absolute goldmine for marketers who are willing to think a little outside the box. Don't just be a copycat and clone other marketers' (unsuccessful) efforts on Craigslist, take the time to analyze things and come out with creative approaches that will appeal to the browsers there.
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08-09-2010, 03:24 PM	#21
apocrypha SEO Junkie Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Mount Everest Posts: 90 Thanks: 49 Thanked 12 Times in 11 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? STAY AWAY FROM CL... That way,i will have no competition and more traffic.

08-11-2010, 11:15 PM	#23
Toots Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 66 Thanks: 4 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? There is still good money to be made on CL. You just have to be very smart about how you do it. Find yourself a good course and stick to it.
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08-12-2010, 06:22 AM	#24
cutequotes i love cute quotes Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 38 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? dont use cpa on craiglist they will complain to your affiliate network on spamming
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08-12-2010, 08:30 PM	#27
buckz55 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 145 Thanks: 43 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? Craigslist is no place for amateurs , serious marketers on CL spend thousands a month on IP solutions and PVAS to get around all the roadblocks on there. Mainly though , you need to be very experienced and creative to twist your ads so they look real .... People are quick to hit the flag button once they smell a marketer.

08-12-2010, 09:16 PM	#28
Rough Outline Keyword Extraordinaire War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: England, UK Posts: 836 Thanks: 90 Thanked 90 Times in 76 Posts Contact Info	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? I've never advertised on CL before. Would I able to post some advice and then point people towards something on website?
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08-12-2010, 09:42 PM	#29
33centsaday HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 196 Thanks: 5 Thanked 24 Times in 16 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? I've had zero problems with posting a simple non-spammy ad directing traffic to my website for more info. I have a full site with quality content and of course sprinkle it with links to my CPA offer. I'm killing it on CTR but still only have 1 conversion. Gotta sort out the pre-sell a little better I guess. But seriously, I can't believe some people are actually posting their CPA offers directly on CL. Why would you even think that's a good idea? :P

08-12-2010, 10:15 PM	#30
perfectlovehere Warrior Princess War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 807 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 232 Thanked 97 Times in 81 Posts Social Networking	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? Craigslist is great for whitehat but better for blackhat... :P Be careful, though! It can cause a lot of problems if you actually go through with blackhat.
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08-12-2010, 11:23 PM	#32
ChadH Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: The Great White North Posts: 546 Thanks: 43 Thanked 249 Times in 107 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? Craigslist >> Offer = Bad/CL Traffic Craigslist >> Optin >> E-Mail = Good/E-Mail Traffic
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08-13-2010, 01:31 PM	#36
33centsaday HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 196 Thanks: 5 Thanked 24 Times in 16 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? Woohoo! Got another conversion. Can you make money with free traffic? Yes indeed! My site isn't even indexed yet and I'm not paying for traffic either. Goes to show that with the right offer you can get started in CPA with free traffic just from simple CL (et al) ads.

08-13-2010, 09:05 PM	#37
rushindo Ever Learning Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 794 Thanks: 40 Thanked 38 Times in 21 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? Listen, you can get TON of traffic from Craigslist and WITHOUT breaking their rules. Do like Kenster said, and be creative! And like paulie888, it irks me too when people say "stay away from this or that." How can you tell someone to stay away from free traffic in the billions? Just last week, I spent a few minutes testing a creative idea I got for Craigslist. Result? 300 people emailed me within about 2 hours! My inbox was flooded and inquires would not stop coming in. I can easily duplicate what I did and get 30,000 people emailing me, but I don't feel like posting ads all day. If you want to make money posting ads all day, hey be my guest. Not me. And like I said, I followed Craigslist's rules. I don't post links. Not posting links minimizes or almost eliminates flagging. I tell people to email me and over 300 did within about 2 hours and begged me to give them what I offered (which was 100% legit, something available for free on the Internet that everyone has access too). Seriously, these people where telling me stories about their family, significant others, spouses, etc trying to convince me to give them what I had "if it is still available" lol. The only problem was that I should have setup an autoresponse, but I didn't so I had to reply to everyone one by one! Anyways, my point is please be creative. And please be optimistic. There is so much traffic available, its amazing. And again, you DON'T have to break their rules. Study their rules and figure out a way to post a billion ads without breaking their rules. There are ways! I came up with two. And I was only flagged by a couple people who didn't want others to get my offer.
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08-13-2010, 09:16 PM	#38
jeffrey73 AdCopyAssault.com War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: USA Posts: 2,073 Thanks: 1,249 Thanked 450 Times in 374 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? Craigslist is GOLD for certain offers, and everyone is right, they HATE CPA offers and marketers in general. To do it right so it will work, you have to set up a good auto-responder system. And.. you can't piss off the people on there either. You can so easily have your account BANNED, so if you don't know what you're doing... Don't even try!
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08-15-2010, 02:34 AM	#41
Fox30 Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: California Posts: 506 Thanks: 59 Thanked 83 Times in 31 Posts Contact Info	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? Craigslist is still a great source for traffic IMHO. It has to be done correctly so that your ads go up, stay up, and you do not violate TOS.

08-15-2010, 10:14 AM	#43
Kenster Krazy Kenster War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 5,111 Blog Entries: 11 Thanks: 672 Thanked 2,009 Times in 885 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? Chris, probably all of the above. There are ways to satisfy the TOS from the traffic side (craigslist/classified portal) and the network side!
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08-15-2010, 01:53 PM	#45
the_velvet Active Warrior Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Lost at sea! - Send SOS Posts: 74 Thanks: 0 Thanked 11 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? I would stay away from Craigslist - There was a time (most probably still is) that advertising on craigslist worked. The problem now is that if you are caught advertising on craigslist means that you could loose all your hard worked earnings, and have trouble with craigslist as well as the network. Think of it this way - You going to have to put time and effort into it to make it work, the chances of you getting caught, irrelevant - cause if you do get caught you have lost Time / Money / Earnings - spend that time, money wisely and you will be able to keep all your profits. Good luck!
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08-15-2010, 05:37 PM	#46
commonjoe John Gaddis War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Ski Country USA Posts: 116 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 16 Thanked 8 Times in 8 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? normally, internet marketers post fake ads on craiglist and get traffic but stay away of it otherwise it will spam. Many internet marketers get lots of craiglist accounts from different ips and get traffic, but I don't recommended it, it will generate traffic but not potential customers. I think so
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08-15-2010, 11:05 PM	#47
jeffrey73 AdCopyAssault.com War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: USA Posts: 2,073 Thanks: 1,249 Thanked 450 Times in 374 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? As long as you're advertising "legit" stuff in the proper categories, the RIGHT way, it's a pretty good source of traffic. And it's heavy traffic and FREE, so do you expect them to make it easy for you? LOL Sure, you can't go on there and start pushing email submits or shady rebills, people will complain and flag your ads and you'll be BANNED or they'll ghost your ads. Don't act like a spam artist and you won't be treated like one. Craigslist traffic is no worse than PoF traffic. I heard all those networks complaining about PoF traffic a while ago and what happened? Now they act like PoF is the "greatest thing since sliced bread". LOL
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08-16-2010, 03:33 AM	#48
Nicholasedward Warrior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 14 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Craigslist For Marketing CPA? Craigslist is not a good way to start off, mainly if you want to build a solid business with CPA. Craigslist doesn't like CPA offers being advertised there and most networks and advertisers also don't like traffic from CL.