One Easy Trick to Getting Your Ads Live on Craigslist

With or without PVA for Craigslist, you may already know that it can almost seem to be a constant battle to get your ad live and displaying on the website. Many believe that using PVA or phone verified accounts can solve this problem, but more often than not it is the actual content of the ad itself. There are a vast number of filters or systems in place that Craigslist uses to limit the number of ads or kinds of ads that are posted by advertisers. This simple tip below should help you to give your ads a better change at going live or not getting ghosted on Craigslist.

One of the biggest causes of ghosting or your ad not going live on Craigslist is caused by the content of the ad, more specifically using links in your ad. Links here refers to hyperlinks that redirect a visitor to an external website such as you business website when they click on it. Links in ads are a great way to boost visitors to your site, but the problem is that Craigslist doesn't think too highly of them. This isn't to say that you can't or shouldn't use links. If you visit Craigslist right now, you'll find plenty of ads in the services section with links to websites. The important thing to remember is that each section on Craigslist has its own set of rules or guidelines about the use of links. Services is a little more flexible and you should find that using links there works without too much of a hassle. Other sections, especially jobs, aren't so easy.

If the use of links in the section you want to advertise in isn't supported or causes your ads to ghost more often than not, than what can you do? Links make ads convert on a very high basis as it is simple for a visitor to click the ad and be directed to your site. Removing the link obviously means less visitors. The first thing you could do is just make the link unclickable. Instead of using a hyperlink use plain text instead. You may even want to colour the text blue and bhold it so it looks like a normal hyperlink. You'll obviously still get a lower conversion rate on your ad but at least many people will see the link. You could also consider adding text above or below the text link which tells them to simply copy and paste the URL into their web browser to visit your site. This should help increase your ads conversion rates while still making it go live and avoid being ghosted.

If you are having problems getting ads live on Craigslist, even with Craigslist PVA, stop for a minute to see if you are using links of some kind in your ad. Try removing them just to see what happens. You may find that the links are the cause of your problem. Having an ad on Craigslist without a direct link is still much better than having no ads at all online and visible to potential customers.