Is Craigslist to CPA dead?

well if ur iframing that must mean that ur incentivising right? and no doubt the offer does not allow that. in that case ur gonna have to spoof the refera, knock up a legit landing page to use. that should keep your AM happy.

Untill none of ur leads convert and the advertiser complains anyway...

Craigslist is so hard to use now a days. I think you would be better off posting on myspace.com

Thanks Everybody.

Crunch: I only did 100% iframe so that I could say check this out if you want and then have a relevant domain instead of having a long affiliate link. Not incentivizing though.

HonestBiz: Thanks, the offer is pretty useful and could be helpful. Spin off of your CL idea in your WSO. A few of the people actually emailed me back and said thanks, so it should convert on the advertisers side? Its not a fine print or stupid email submit type offer.

Google: I will check out myspace.

Has anyone read the "New Acceptable Use Policy", at Neverblue? It has a paragraph about Craigslist.. basically prohibiting every activity with that page. I'm wondering if anyone still manages to get that done nevertheless..

Nowimhere, I would say def get the WSO. Its 10 bucks! You should be able to make that back up in no time using any of the methods

Lead evolution is too expensive for me too I don't mind manually getting the craigslist.org email addresses, I just have no idea how to send out a bunch since CL has filters like crazy. Perhaps there is software out there that does this???

The reason most won't accept cl traffic is the craigslist user was normally tricked into doing the offer. This makes for a shitty lead. Merchants don't like shitty leads, networks don't like affiliates that generate shitty leads. If you're doing it and "getting away with it" you'll get caught sooner then later. There are plenty of legit ways to generate leads without using CL.

cl and craigslist is deffinetly not dead you just have to use some creative marketing ;-) I was doing about 3k per month on autopilot. I stopped because I don't want to have to buy pvas.

This sounds interesting

Can anyone recommend a good ebook to learn about this; a free one would be great, I'm tired of spending hard earned money on filler stuff that doesn't teach much.

CPA networks are harsh when it comes to CL or other free classifieds, social bookmarking/networking strategies. They usually have it outlined in their TOS-s. However if you get creative and know how to fly under the radar then there's definitely some money to be made.

No its not dead but you need to be careful so that you don't get banned.

Definitely not dead, its possible that some niches are performing less than they were before, but there is still money to be made on CL if you are creative, and spend the time to test out different campaigns and ads.

Would you believe I got turned down by the eBay Partner affiliate network?
I'd sailed through all my CPA apps, and when I saw this matching up CL to eBay buyers, I really got interested.
Does your WSO include how to get your eBay partner app accepted?

Craiglist is not dead and anyone saying "craiglist leads do not convert" are dead wrong,I have been doing $5k+ in profits just from leads i get it from craiglist and never been questioned by network or AM for quality of leads.

There is no debate to this. If I want to use the word shitty than I can. It described the leads PPC-Coach was talking about perfectly.

You need to grow more of a thick skin if that word upsets you so much. Besides, I think you are exaggerating too much here. No one is calling any names by using the word shitty. It does not lead to anything else.

Adding to your post count? Worthless post.

I think a balance of Craigslist, USFreeads and Backpage one take leverage the advantages of classified advertising pretty well. I don't like Kijjiji much though. Anyone else want to chime in?

You forgot Gumtree in the list ... :-)

Anyone hard up can always take a look - I think I have the first serious trial version available of what could be a high ticket software. But I don't have time to do seminars which would be why you have to pay me $1500 ... so I sell for $67 in my WSO.

craigslist is still very profitable

It can depend on the advertiser's offer. Most of the time they will spell it out if they do not allow it, but cragslist or not - spam is spam - so be careful on who/what & how you do it.

I certainly hope that Craiglist to CPA is dead...its not what it was intended for.

Is everyone here too young to remember when Ebay was a great place to buy and sell real products?

Lets see...Has Ebay recently pissed off all of their sellers AND buyers because:
a. they enjoy it and they like being the big bad 'PayBay' guys?
OR...
b. they had no choice because they couldn't figure out a better way to deal with all of the marketing spam?

Lets all sit back and watch Craigslist be destroyed too...(and lets encourage it too...)

Thats really just saying that you have to be 'smart' to spam CL. Same with Ebay. That doesn't argue against my point that this is NOT the kind of thing these sites were made for.

Personally, I never go to Ebay and CL anymore because of the spam and fraud.

I used to buy my daughter used video games on Ebay all the time...now I find it more worthwhile to drive to a local buy/sell/trade store in town because I won't be bombarded with BS spam and fraud crap.

Its really bad that everyone wants to spam CL and Ebay to the point that they alienate their real customers...but its even worse that many of these same people start threads on this forum bitching about policies that CL and Ebay put in place to deal with this stuff.

Pablo you mentioned some things about Neverblue and Craigslist. That is very true.

But these guys are now mainly scraping and "emailing" to these people. So now that falls under the category of Email Marketing.

Many people are not posting ads like before, and using an autoresponder to circulate through CPA offers.

Yes they can track and its not allowed.

$10 inveastment in honestbizpro WSO is well worth of

So, can someone give me a clue, pretty please? I was burned badly by stupidity in direct CL to CPA.

What can you do between CL and CPA so that you are playing by the rules? Can you send CL to a squeeze page to add them to your list, then send them CPA offers? Or will the same rabid people from CL that would complain if you sent them direct to the CPA offer just get on your list, see who you're promoting and contact them anyway?

I just do not see a way around CL people notifying your CPA network. Some people have nothing better to do, I guess

It's actually depends on the offer... if the offer allow email then do it..

Some networks do not allow any type of CL advertising including emailing, so just be aware of their policies before you do it.

stay away from craigslist.. most places do not allow it, if you get caught you will most likely lose your earnings

Yeah, stay away from Craigslist if you hate money. It's true that posting on CL can be a challenge but once you learn the techniques and strategies the sky is the limit.

I am working with several Warriors that are killing it on Craigslist right now. If you don't want to take the time to learn Craigslist then you can always outsource to a professional.

Most of the networks dont allow Craigslist.

It also depends on the CPA offer which you are promoting, say, if the CPA offer is CPS, then there will not be any problem.

Also, some advertisers creates a issue when they find that leads are coming from CL. CPA offer that pays $9 per page submit usually have a field where user have to enter their phone number and when advertisers/CPA Network see that you are making $xxx per day from just one CPA offer, they will personally ask from lead..and they will get to know that you are promoting through CL.

Bottom line:

...Promote CPA offer that pays per sale/free trial and mostly you will remain safe.
...Dont make $xxx in one day using CL.
...Have a good relationship with your AM, so even if something goes wrong, you will not loose your account, if you are making good income from other CPA offers..It depends on many factors.
...CL is a goldmine. You just need to find a good match b/w cpa offer and CL section.

Start making $xx per day, few dollars and then increase it slowly and slowly...Dont make $500 in your first day!

Shakul

Edit: There are many other ways to make money from CL. You really dont need to go after posting.

The bottom line is that if you are promoting CPS products, there shouldn't be any issues at all.

See my manager in an affiliate network told me
" they accept any method which don't harm the advertiser "
If this don't hurt then go

So what about responding to CL wanted ads? Is that usually ok? If I respond to a wanted ad with a (cloaked) affiliate link, is that ok? Or would it have to be a link to my own site to be acceptable? Or is none of that acceptable?

I have come along way in my cpa and cl marketing over the past months and I have a few things to add...

First, yes, be careful because cl violates most TOS as noted above. Some am's dont mind if they are converting on the advertisers end, but be careful because most am's and networks dont allow this at all.

Second, if done properly, cl is STILL a goldmine, you just need to be creative. As a demonstration to a few people I have been coaching, I let them pick an offer and told them I bet I can make money with it. Set up a few very creative ads, autoresponses and landing pages and voila, got a few conversions a day ($35 payout). This is without fancy software like auto-posters and such.

The point is, there is still money to be miled from cl

Just remember if you do promote on craigslist, make sure the offer allows it - i'd hate to see a fellow warrior lose there commission due to a technicality.

Craigslist is hard job now, but as someone suggested, you could try referring people to your website with CPA offers on it. That may prove safer.

Craigslist to CPA is not a good idea. You could have your comissions withheld or your affiliate network account deleted.

There are other ways to get free traffic, IMO it's best to stay away from CL.

I've heard of AM's saying CL traffic is allowed, until pay day comes and the merchant finds out it was from CL and noone gets paid. This won't always happen, but it could. Just be careful if you are promoting with it!

When it comes to CPA try to always have a legit landing page because you never know when your advertiser is going to be strict and ban you!

Craigslist still dominates. You just need to know how to work it. It is actually 100x better now because a lot of people gave up on it. Also of course the CPA companies frown upon you iframing an offer and sending it to random craigslisters.

Craigslist can also be a good source to drive traffic to an adsense site.

Criagslist is ALIVE...

It continually gets tougher and you must be resilient to evolve with it, but it is sitll a ginormous traffic source. The traffic is free and abundant, so even tohugh conversion may not be great, profit is.

Its funny because the methods I use on CL are soo basic its pathetic. I think people overthink and think theres some secret software that has to be used to make money using CL. Thats what I thought when I first started to, its simply not true. Just be creative.


ken

I have been reading through all of the threads and whew!

If it is this hard to do it, why not just use another accepted method. There are many to choose from.

I just needed to chime in on this one because why risk getting banned...

you get so much junk mail from CL anymore it seems like.

Hi Kenster,

I just got a great craigs list marketing pprogram 2 days ago myself and it's miles above any others i've seen.

it sounds like it's just what you're looking for,the guy who put it out is named Kenny Cannon.

you can probably do a search here on the WF and find it or if not you can go to his blog and check it out.

KennyCannon.com

That is NOT an affiliate link,simply a link to his blog.

Hope that helps.

Paul

I wouldn't call Craiglist dead. But it is oversaturated, definitely.

But what I do besides my other projects, is that Im collecting CL-emails via "CL EmailHarvesting"-Programs. Which will help me sending out different CPA-Offers.

Search for a harvesting-tool that collects emails in CL by category. I.e, if you do have CPALeads that are about Pets (Dogs, Cats etc.) then its pretty obvious that you need to harvest emails from the same category over at CraigList. And then just send out your emails.


Regards,
A.N

On Craigslist it says "FUN FACT: Reporting a scammer's "affiliate ID" to their affiliate marketing program often results in confiscation of the scammer's ill-gotten gains by the affiliate program." So I would not really recommend it.

"stay away from craigslist.. most places do not allow it, if you get caught you will most likely lose your earnings "

Let's say you figure out how to get relevant traffic from CL to your own web page (w/o tricking). Visitors click-thru relevant cpa ad links.

Do you think that this model would violate any cpa tos?

As a newbie I dont really know if CL is dead for CPA. I use it for buying and selling physical goods all the time and I consider it a great part of the "underground ecomomy". I recently tried out posting to multiple CL cities by using information I found on YouTube. The guy said to make your ad a jpeg image and you can post all over the US. Well, I can tell that this information is already outdated. It looks like you need to kep your self ahead of the curve when using CL for CPa.

uhm, I ran some CL traffic a while back, make some cash, and so far, only one advertiser ban me. They didn't say that my CL traffic quality is bad, it;s just that they don't like to see more competitors on CL
oh well, yeah, it's worth, but you have to be careful

I haven't had any success with Craiglist but there are a few who gained from it, maybe my procedure was just wrong and it's the reason why I am not doing CPA on craiglist.

CL to a lander isn't necessarily called CL traffic. A lot of AM's will allow you to do it this way.

CL spam is reaching a new low...

I want to sell my car, put an ad up locally.

Got a short response from a semi-legit non-spammy looking email address.

I responded.

The guy(rather his script) then asked me to look up insurance rates for him on my vehicle for sale and gave me his affiliate link to a insurance signup.. WTF?

Like I'm going to take my time to get the guy who inquired about my car insurance quotes?

Craigslist is now better than ever in my opinion because a lot of marketers went else where. You just have to fly under the radar and get PVA accounts(easy if you know what to do).

There is always opportunity.

Exactly...setting up a custom autoresponder is also a must.

it`s a little tricky.


i do think the best way to do it is with email auto responder.

I'm going to be flat out honest - you can make money on facebook, but almost everything your doing is against the terms of service for both your network and affiliate offers, networks are cracking down on this now, they are not only not paying affiliates, but are banning there accounts. I'm not saying don't do it, just know the consequences if you get caught.

I'm curious if Kenster has had all his commissions paid out from his CL traffic over the year since this thread was started?

Found this thread interesting, so I checked with one of my AM's ...they said as long as it's not direct link from CL and the offer allows it, they're ok with it....

I think most EDU pubs use email marketing and making $10k a day, i'm thinking if they are using craigslist to email EDU offers.

This thread is interesting. Was thinking of getting into marketing on Craigslist and other classified sites.

Is it still an effective place to market or is it dead?

Any suggestions of method/techniques to use?