Craigslist is a central network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements.
Manual placement of ads is painfully slow, so Craygo is recommended. The Basic version semi-automates the process – you still need to manually enter the captcha codes. However, the Elite version does this automatically though you have to pay for the service. The captcha reading service is outsourced by Craygo. The codes are actually read by humans 24/7 – hence the charge!
My advice is to try the Basic version first – currently $57.77 – and upgrade later if you are getting good results and can justify the cost – currently $345 but discounted if you already have the Basic version.
Getting Started
To get started view the tutorials.
Basically click on Ad Manager (Left top corner) -> Manage Campaigns -> New CL Campaign.
Campaign – Services
Sub Campaign – Sm Biz Ads
Choose cities – Choose wherever you wish to post to. 10 at a time. Do not select all!!
Creating Ads
Create several ads. Avoid using commerical URLs such as SnipURL in your ads as Craigslist is becoming increasingly strict and will probably block it. If all else fails use an email address instead.
Insert a Wiki token to each ad and a Scramble token to the title. Doing this enable multiple ad placements of similar ads as each ad is seen to be different.
Unfortunately Craigslist will not pick up Font colour so making the Wiki text near white to make it virtually invisible will not work!!
Creating Tiltes and Email Addresses
Create a selection of titles and add them using Tools -> Rotate Headlines.
You will need several email addresses. Do not use your premium addresses. You will get spammed!! When added – Tools -> email Manager – Craygo will allocate these randomly.
Posting
Select the campaign you wish to post – right top corner – and click Post Campaign.
Special issues:
IP address blocking
You probably will get your IP address blocked if you are posting more than 20 ad per day. To get around that you should use a Dial up connection when using Craygo. A new IP address is allocated each time you dial up. Disable your broadband when doing this. Craygo Elite can be set up to redial after a specified number of posts. Sadly, using a program which generates proxy IP addresses, such as Anonymizer, will not work as Craigslist is good a spotting them.
Ghosting
For the past few months Craigslist has been blocking/filtering ads. They appear to post but do not show within the listings for the city/category that you posted in.
Your ads can be ghosted/blocked/filtered no matter how you post – using Craygo, manually or other.
For more on this problem visit here.
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