Free Advertising At Craigslist - Press Releases
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Opening up a new shop? Ready to launch your website? Got a big fundraiser in the works that you’d like to announce? Press releases are an excellent form of FREE advertising that can reach an extraordinary amount of people. Craigslist does this daily.
Although I have not done press releases as of yet (yet I say!), I wanted to get this to you…
Whenever you’re trying to generate interest in a business event, one of the first things you might try is a press release.
When published, it amounts to free advertising, and can be more effective than an ad due to the credibility of appearing as a news article.
But you don’t have to limit yourself to newspapers when it comes to press releases.
According to The Marketing Report, the huge classified ad site, Craigslist.org is an excellent place for your press release.
They cite two ways to get your release posted:
- Post the press release in the appropriate category.
- Post a message about your release in the appropriate category, with a link to the release itself.
With more than 10 million people visiting the site every month, clearly this is an easy, fast, and best of all, FREE way to put out the word.
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By the way, if you DO have fundraisers in the works, but you can’t seem to find just the right product or products; contact me, I can help 
To our mutual success,
Dennis
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April 8th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Craigslist always has a nofollow on there links. So, they are always useless from an SEO perspective.
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April 8th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Good to know for those that didn’t, but it makes sense, that would be the equivalent to selling links anyway, they aren’t gonna lose PR over something so trivial for them.
I also suspect that the majority using CL aren’t doing it for SEO reasons of any kind.
Thanks James!
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April 8th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I have to agree Dennis. Mostly to bring Traffic to their sites. Good timing on Article, I had been looking at Craigslist as a Marketing option.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Also what is this Marketing Report that you speak of?
April 8th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Excellent Jackie, keep in touch with what happens for you if you start using it.
Dennis Edell’s last blog post..Free Advertising At Craigslist - Press Releases
April 8th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Sorry about that Jackie, I thought I linked in the post. It’s a print newsletter for marketing specialists…a little pricey at $264 per year but it’s got some good stuff.
http://www.pbp.com/mkreport.html
You can get 2 free issues to check it out.
Dennis Edell’s last blog post..Free Advertising At Craigslist - Press Releases
April 11th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Regardless of the nofollow issue for Craigslist, it can still send traffic. So if you’re doing a PR release just to have something to use to get backlinks, don’t use Craigslist. But if you have a real product that you can tailor into an offer that Craigslist users would like, then go for it.
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April 11th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Exactly right Tracy, you can still get PLENTY of traffic.
Besides, as stated, those submitting PR’s do not have “backlinks” on the forefront of their agenda…or at least it shouldn’t be at the top of the list.
April 19th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Does craigslist work for affiliate marketing? Either including a direct link to the advertiser, or a link to a presell page? Anyone have any experience?
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April 20th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Very good question. I have no idea but will definitely look into it.
Any Craigslist pros know the answer?
April 21st, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I’ve had all my Craigslist ads with affiliate links deleted. I even had a blog link that got deleted. The only time I had an affiliate product not get deleted was when I didn’t leave a referral email address; just let them use the Craigslist assigned email address. I didn’t get any sales, though.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Ah, so it is against their TOS. Great info Jim, thanks for sharing.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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May 1st, 2008 at 7:38 am
WOW Karen, thanks so much for all the kind words…that’s exactly what I’m here for.
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