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Craigslist for backlinks

by karunnt
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Does posting to craigslist with a link to your website in order to gain a backlink work?

I am not talking about posting to multiple cities but just to your own area and posting maybe once every 2 weeks or so?

thanks
#backlinks #craigslist
  • Profile picture of the author melanied
    CL backlinks are nofollow now, if that matters to you.
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    • Profile picture of the author karunnt
      Originally Posted by melanied View Post

      CL backlinks are nofollow now, if that matters to you.
      You must be wrong.

      I just found a Craigslist adv that has four (4) links to the website plus an email link. One of he links is a has a graphic on it as well. There are no 'no-follow' parameters on the tags at all.
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Mayhew
        Originally Posted by karunnt View Post

        You must be wrong.

        I just found a Craigslist adv that has four (4) links to the website plus an email link. One of he links is a has a graphic on it as well. There are no 'no-follow' parameters on the tags at all.
        CL does insert "No Follow" tags.
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        • Profile picture of the author trixs
          If its no follow the only real reason would be for the referrer traffic - Same with wikipedia.
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        • Profile picture of the author sevenish
          Originally Posted by Michael Mayhew View Post

          CL does insert "No Follow" tags.
          Apparently they aren't doing so now. All of my older posts on CL from earlier this year have the nofollow tags, but my recent ones don't. I didn't even check them until I read Vince's post. This is really huge for me, if it lasts; although I am happy with my CL results even without the backlinks as it brings in quite a bit of traffic to the business sites I market for my family anyway.
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          • Profile picture of the author Michael Mayhew
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            • Profile picture of the author jstover77
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              I get a ton of backlinks from posting on Backpage.com. I have not seen any of my ads from Craigslist showing up lately, so I believe they inserted "no follow" tags in their website. I used to get a bunch of backlinks from them.
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            • Profile picture of the author sevenish
              Originally Posted by Michael Mayhew View Post

              <title>Scranton 'Front Door' Web Pages for Targeted Local Traffic</title>
              <meta name="robots" content="NOARCHIVE">
              Michael, my understanding of the NOARCHIVE tag is that it's used to discourage or minimize caching by the major SEs. CL has used this quite effectively for years so that expired, deleted or flagged posts are not accessed via SEs.

              How does this impact backlinks?

              Thanks,
              Seven
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            • Profile picture of the author Vince Runza Online
              Originally Posted by Michael Mayhew View Post

              <title>Scranton 'Front Door' Web Pages for Targeted Local Traffic</title>
              <meta name="robots" content="NOARCHIVE">
              You're comparing apples and oranges! Yes, there is no 'cached' version of the page (since the ad will expire), but there are NO nofollow tags on my links with anchor text!

              Follow me? :p
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    • Profile picture of the author Vince Runza Online
      Originally Posted by melanied View Post

      CL backlinks are nofollow now, if that matters to you.
      Mine aren't! Scranton 'Front Door' Web Pages for Targeted Local Traffic
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      • Profile picture of the author karunnt
        So far it seems like youtube, kijiji and flickr have no-follow tags.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jamie Iaconis
    Short answer...

    Yes, do it!

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    • Profile picture of the author karunnt
      If it is no-follow, why do it other than using it as an 'offline' marketing tactic?

      Also what about Kijiji?
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  • Profile picture of the author Vince Runza Online
    UPDATE: My local listings now have nofollow tags
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