Craigslist and website marketing (2024)

Do you use Craigslist? We get a good percentage of work from our ad placement on Craigslist. I have found that good keywords and linking helps with website ranking also.

Here is one example of a Craigslist ad...

http://lexington.craigslist.org/biz/404918304.html

Using Pictures help to make your ad stand out from the other lazily written "we pressure wash anything" guys ads.

FCPWLLC said:

Do you use Craigslist? We get a good percentage of work from our ad placement on Craigslist. I have found that good keywords and linking helps with website ranking also.

Here is one example of a Craigslist ad...

http://lexington.craigslist.org/biz/404918304.html

Using Pictures help to make your ad stand out from the other lazily written "we pressure wash anything" guys ads.

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i just checked out the craigslist site in my area for power washers and the second one i saw was POWER WASHING FOR HALF THE PRICE, QUALITY WORK!, CHECK IT OUT! i wont go into all his prices but it said 3 stories starts at 175.00 and up.

Don't worry about the other ads.... Place your own ads listing your qualifications and some evidence of quality work like pictures or link to website with pictures.

If you aren't listing there, you are guaranteed not to get a call from a prospect that does a search. You may NEVER get a call, but it is FREE to list and IF you do get a call/job it will be the best money you ever spent on advertising. LOL

FCPWLLC said:

Don't worry about the other ads.... Place your own ads listing your qualifications and some evidence of quality work like pictures or link to website with pictures.

If you aren't listing there, you are guaranteed not to get a call from a prospect that does a search. You may NEVER get a call, but it is FREE to list and IF you do get a call/job it will be the best money you ever spent on advertising. LOL

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how does craigslist work as far as paying for the ad? im confused, is it free or nt?

It's FREE.... That's why I say it is the best money you will ever spend on advertising... Nothing beats FREE.

FCPWLLC said:

It's FREE.... That's why I say it is the best money you will ever spend on advertising... Nothing beats FREE.

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i remember looking at craiglist and when i looked at the sign up it said something about paying a certain amount per month. i will look into it again.

MIKE FP said:

i remember looking at craiglist and when i looked at the sign up it said something about paying a certain amount per month. i will look into it again.

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That may be for real estate listings or job postings.

Is Craigslist mainly residential. Do you think commercial customers look there too

Thanks
Jeff

Hey Mike

Help me out here please I have a few questions. LIKE how the heck do I get to a home page for Craigslist. I search and I come up with everything but a home page and what I do come up with is a bunch of San Fran stuff

Do you have a link to get me to the site for my area?

should you list in different states or should you just list areas in one ad?

Also can you do more than one listing, in different catagories?

What area should I put my listing?

Is it easy to post pictures?

Anything else I should know?

Jeff

jlpressure said:

Is Craigslist mainly residential. Do you think commercial customers look there too

Thanks
Jeff

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Actually not very many people look there at all. But when folks do a GOOGLE search, the ads show up in the results. This is why it is a great way to get high ranking on google searches. Doesn't matter then who is looking, they will find the ads.

Here is a GOOGLE search for "pressure washing Myrtle Beach" there are 4 craigslist ads on the first page.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pressure+washing+Myrtle+beach&btnG=Google+Search

jlpressure said:

Hey Mike
Do you have a link to get me to the site for my area?

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http://myrtlebeach.craigslist.org/

How do you get pictures on the ad?

Celeste

celeste use html code for hte pictures:

< img src"picture location.jpg here" >

no spaces between the carrots. And the file name is somewhere like imageshack or online host

CarolinaProWash said:

How do you get pictures on the ad?

Celeste

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I hotlink to a pic hosted on Imageshack.
There might be easier ways but that one's pretty easy.

Even I can do it!
Call me if you need help.

Cool, thanks.

Celeste

FCPWLLC said:

Jeff, Later this weekend I will do a youtube video on how to place an ad on craigslist. Bear with me while I get an outline of how I want to present the video. It is one of the single most effective uses of the internet for marketing your website along with Google Local and Yahoo Local.

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Thanks that would be great!!!

Here is a simple ad placed on craigslist....

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BCi718-3G8Q"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BCi718-3G8Q" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>