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My First Craigslist Posting Rejected (Can You Explain This One?)

by Craig Fenton
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Hi Warriors:

Happy Holiday.

Could you please explain this one and how 1,000,000 people get around the following but me?

I wanted to put up a trial ad on Craigslist to promote an affiliate product. I was told that it looked better instead of the link being
wwwzzzzz234hop14 to make it say "Click Here".

Since the ad was to get people to a Clickbank page it did not have
my website or my email embedded in the text. I selected "May be contacted through Craigslist."

It did not have a price.

When I went to hit publish it said "Blocked." I thought maybe they wanted to have an account. I created one and tried again with the same results.

I posted on the Craigslist Forum (may I say the people broke the record for being condescending) and they told me (not nicely by the way)
1) No affiliate links
2) A regular link looks better than Click Here
3) They don't even like link shortening URL's
4) An ad should have a price
5) An email should be visible
6) The link if any should go to your own website.

While this is not front page news, can you please tell me how the rest of the universe is able to promote Clickbank/CPA offers?

What are they doing to work around this? I thought the only hassle was to not post in more than one city and if you do so have a Virtual Private Network?

Thank you as always.
#craigslist #explain #posting #rejected
  • Profile picture of the author Scott Skinner
    Craigslist is like a Rubik's Cube that changes colors at will. I have found this to work consistently for me:

    1. No more than 2 ads per day
    2.     Post in areas no further than 150 miles from your registered location
    3.     Post only in the jobs section
    4.     Different headline and ad copy for each ad
    5. embed the link in a pic, their bots cannot read the html of a pic, "yet"
    6.     I also use a WP plugin called 'pretty link", it redirects the click to the affiliate site, the url looks like this example- www.mysite.com/clickhere.... the cool thing about the plugin is that it gives me all kinds of metrics on how well the add is pulling, # of clicks etc.

    Hope this helped...Good Luck
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    • Profile picture of the author Craig Fenton
      Hi Scott:

      Thanks for the information. Glad you have had success posting in the Jobs Section!

      I tried using the closest Craigslist city.

      A lot of the people marketing Cost Per Action Offers/Clickbank products are able to post them in Services/Gigs.

      I'm curious how they do it. I see the ads without photos.

      As for the link (thanks for the plug-in information) I wonder if changing the Click Here to www dot mywebsite.com would do it? My general inclination is there is more to it.

      Have a great day and thank you again.

      Have a
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      • Profile picture of the author Scott Skinner
        Yes Craig, the link was an example only, you can title the text after the slash with whatever you want. I like using the jobs section because there is much less chance of your ad getting flagged or ghosted.
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        • Profile picture of the author Craig Fenton
          Hi Scott:

          Thanks for the follow-up.

          Since I wanted to promote non-job related things Internet Marketing Products, Learn How To Use ABC Product, etc. I can't make use of the Job Section.

          I wanted to try Craigslist in conjunction with ClickBank.

          Have a great day.
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          • Profile picture of the author Scott Skinner
            O.K. Craig, now I understand. In the past I have also set up a simple WP site with a basic landing page that instructs people to click thru to your offer. And you are correct, there are some words that will get you flagged.

            Try scrolling thru and finding people with products similar to yours and if there ads are sticking, copy what they are doing. Good Luck.....
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            • Profile picture of the author Craig Fenton
              Hi Scott:

              Thanks again.
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  • Profile picture of the author Craig Fenton
    Hi Ricardo:

    Sorry you have had issues on the Classified sites.

    There has to be a way around it as so many people are posting.

    Have a great day.
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  • Profile picture of the author BradVert2013
    I've posted many legitimate ads, all following the rules, and they still get taken down. The problem is anyone can flag any post for any reason. If you go to the flagging help forum, you'll see many self-appointed people feel its their duty to keep Craigslist pure. I've seen reasons for a post being deleted from "the price was too high" to "you can't use the word 'guaranteed' (seriously, that was a reason)." There's no accountability or checks and balances.

    I've pretty much stopped posting on Craigslist because of this. Not worth the time or frustration.
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    • Profile picture of the author Craig Fenton
      Hi Brad:

      Sorry you had issues too. I didn't even get the ad posted (never mind flagged).

      The people on the forum were the rudest most condescending individuals one could imagine.

      It's a shame if you are promoting something that is not unethical that they put you through such nonsense.

      Enjoy the day.
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  • Profile picture of the author HelpingYouBeAnExpert
    Try putting an image ad and linking the image to the landing page on your landing page to the cpa offer
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    • Profile picture of the author Craig Fenton
      Here is an update.

      I played around with words in an ad and one thing that became evident is their software picks up certain common words as no-no because they take them out of context.

      An example:
      Headline: Learn ABC Software It Won't Cost You A Mortgage Payment

      The word mortgage is no-no. You are not selling a mortgage or representing a mortgage product but because the word appeared in Service or Gigs and is unrelated to Software it can't be used.

      The type of link you use as well can be a no-no. Most places don't get upset at Click Here instead of www dot whatever dot com but they do not like that.

      Some of the URL shortening services they do not like as well.

      Depending on the ad the words in the link could be a no-no. If you took www dot whatever hop link 123 4 dot com and made it
      www dot learnsoftwareforagoodprice that as well may be rejected. Their software is picking up price when you were talking about a specific product.

      They may approve www dot learnsoftwarethismonth

      As Brad mentioned in his post they didn't even like the word guaranteed!

      Is Backpage any better and nicer?

      Thank you.
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