Craigslist For Marketing CPA?

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

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"

Hehe I ma newb and I did something like that too. I got a couple of signups from it before it became a headache, from flagging amd reposting.

Without going into the details of your friends CL campaign... Could you at least tell me about the copy he put in the actual CL ad that drove traffic to the splash page?

lol their are so many spammers on cl

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

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.

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?

I think this is the Ultimate reason not to mess with Craiglist. It does come across as an online tenement or a ghetto.

Definitely true!

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!

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

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

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.

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.

Classic. Thanks for sharing, Chad.

Sounds like a good blueprint... Already liking it!

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.

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!

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 :rolleyes:


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

Ken

Wouldn't setting up an autoresponder be a link?
I see links in ads all the time. Isn't it a matter of what your ad is about and what you send them too? It just involves thinking in terms of your intended audience and putting your service into your own words.

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

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

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!

Because of my early success with classifieds I'm setting up a posting schedule like this:

* 28 ads targeting 14 keywords
* 10 classifieds sites
* Post 1 ad for 1 keyword on each site every day for 14 days
* Then rotate to the second set of ads for the next 14 days

That way each ad is seen only once a month. I figure this will take me 30-60 minutes a day and based on what I've seen from posting on 1 site for the last week I'd say this schedule will get me very close to my $100/day goal.

I 100% disagree. Craigslist is just traffic like anything else. If you are creative enough, you can work with CL to deliver value and then sell your CPA on the backend completely ethically and completely whitehat.

YES, many people who promote on CL do scam and do some pretty crappy stuff, but people do the same with all traffic sources. The point is that there ARE ways to do it ethically and whitehat and its not fair to lump CL with Scam.

If you read the rest of the thread, you can see there are ways to deliver value to the CL viewers, then upsell down the pipeline a good offer they may be interested in and follow all rules, not deceive anybody in any way.

Just my thoughts

Can anyone here suggest a good guide/ebook that will show, step by step, what a newbie like myself would need to do to make money from Craigslist Traffic & CPA offers without getting banned from a CPA network. In the past, I have made some good money from Craigslist traffic (and luckily did not get caught/banned) by direct linking, but I know that this strategy will never work in the long run.

What I'm looking for is a guide/ebook that has a workable plan that I can put into action today and start earning from Craigslist traffic without getting banned from my CPA network.

I know that there is Real, Good money to be made from Craigslist traffic. I just don't know how to go about doing it the right way.

All suggestions and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Yep. There are CPA offers and affiliate/partner products that work well with CL. You can't just go on there and promote shady email or zip submits and expect your network to like that traffic source, or your ads not to get "flagged".

Plus, if your network is telling you NOT to run your offer on CL, take the hint... don't try to run that offer there!

Me too Ken. This a complete "lost cause". LOL

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I see I see ... So that's where the creativity comes from.. Giving me some ideas now. LOL

Thanks!

I think the feeling is mutual between Craig and the Networks.

The only way to make it work is to "blend" yourself into the community. If you're advertising something, make it of some type of value to the users instead of spam.

Direct-linking to an offer is considered spam unless it's in the right category. You can get away with DLing a dating offer, if done the right way. Definitely do not try it with an email submit or rebill.

Big Bang Theory...that sounds groundbreaking. Hopefully it is Let us know how it goes

BackPage traffic is absolutely HORRIBLE. If you can get 4 or 5 visits per month you're pretty lucky. Maybe because it gets 1/60th of the page views per month CL does. And if you can believe it, US Free Ads is even worse!

I just came up with an idea that I am havnig my friend try out. The first part involves putting listings on craigslist. He put up 3 listings, which probably took about 5 minutes max to do. So far at last check I think there were 400+ personalized responses he received.

This is not a CPA campaign, its not tricking or deceiving, its a rather clever method I have a feeling will do really well. The point is that there is a ton of free traffic on craigslist and if you can think creatively enough, its a hotbed of opportunity...cpa or not.

Think outside the box, dont trick, dont deceive, stay within the posts and you are good to go. Try and go the fast cash deception route and you are hurting yourself and others

Ahh, I think I'm following this one. Some type of bait-and-switch campaign.

What about the city or geographic region? Would you say perhaps that New York City would be better than a suburban area? I would think with an offer like Netflix, everyone every where would be interested, but if the offer was for say a membership dating site, perhaps areas with more money would work better?

I have also tried CL for something else, asking people to email me for more info. I tried NYC and Chicago, I got no responses. I was just wondering how I check the stats as you have said your friend knows how many viewing he has gotten.

Thanks for your input. I have learned so much about CL/CPA. Is there a CPA/Twitter thread on here too?

But what's the case with other sites like Backpage ?

It is completely dependent on what your doing. When I was "bumming" and individually answering repsonses when I first started, conversion was decent, but the time and work was hard (gotta do what you gotta do when you're a starving entrepreneur).

If you are directing people to a blog/site and elongating your sales funnel, conversion will normally decrease but this is sometimes necessary (such as if you are doing CPA).

I am testing out something right now that isn't CPA related but initial conversion has been great


So it's completely campaign dependent.

I have problems with posting for selling anything, even real products with no links in the post. They just ghost ads at will.

How do you get by posting out of your area or do you? I can't get an ad to show out of my own state. And they won't accept Skype or VOIP numbers, so I have to use a local number.

They all do. If you haven't noticed lately CL is "Scam-Central Station", home to scammers, spammers and flaggers. lol

Well said Tallon. Scam artists steal the show in many circumstances and often make some nice short term cash, but almost always its the whitehat marketers that make it big and build sustainable income streams. Building a business and earning money aren't necessarily one in the same. Building a business is about sustainability.

I have spoken to more "dark" marketers and they may make 10 grand a day for 10 days in a row but then they may go 3 months without making a dime. A better business model is to make a legit $1,000 a day for every day of the year

At least in my opinion.




Andrew, I 100% agree. Many times people think creatively at the surface of a method or strategy when they need to be more creative about the process.

The biggest problem is that too many marketers (particularly on CL) want the instant gratification of a straight sales campaign. You really need to dig deeper than that to make money on CL...and many other traffic sources for that matter.

Lots of "bum" ways to promote on CL. Most people try spamming and get the ax right out of the gate

But what if your offer is an ebook on how to make money? Can you link directly to the site that sells the ebook without getting ghosted?