Posting on Craigslist: Resources, FAQ and Tutorial
Craigslist is great local classified ad marketplace you an use to promote your listings, products and services. There are now 450 Craigslist sites in all 50 US states, and over 50 countries with 7 high level categories that include: Jobs, Gigs (Job related), Housing, For sale/Wanted (General), Resumes, Services Offered, Personal/Romance (Classifieds), Community and Events. If you are new to Craigslist, its worth checking out.
When you publish a flyer, a HTML template is automatically generated that you can post directly into Craigslist (or Backpage, blogs, and other websites). Subscribers have the added benefit of an enhanced HTML template that includes large versions of pictures in your flyer gallery. Simply select Craigslist HTML in the Post Flyer tab of your flyer. The other HTML formats are not necessarily Craigslist compliant so be sure to select the correct HTML format.
Both of the Craigslist HTML templates have been designed (and redesigned) to make sure they adhere to the Craigslist Terms of Service (no external links, no tracking, i.e).
We have had a number of great resources on our support wiki to help you learn the ropes, all the way from online tutorials, FAQs, and even a review of Craigslist’ Terms of Use (so you better understand what you can and cannot do). You can find some of these resources here:
July 5th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Thanks for this useful information. I will certainly be careful posting to Craig’s List in the future.
Jack
July 5th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Great info, thanks for shring it with us. I have recently had issues with the c-list but have apparently resolved them. Had I known this before I may have been able to avoid a situation.
July 6th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Looks like an amazing tool, I look forward to looking into it further!
July 6th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Great information. I have definitely generated some business from Craigslist and I look forward to more still to come!
July 7th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Wow. I didn’t realize that the standard html format may not be compliant with Craigslist. Thanks for the post and links to more info.
July 7th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I’ve been getting errors when posting to Craigslist that the description is longer than 30,000 characters. Apparently, Craigslist has a limit and the Vflyer templates are exceeding the character limits. Not sure what to do about this, but wanted to bring it up!
July 8th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Dee,
We have had only a few occurrences of users exceeding the 30,000 character limit. I’d recommend reducing the content in the Description field.
Best,
Aaron
February 20th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
hello,
i am just trying to figure out how to create a craigslist html ad with a template.
please advise!
Thank you
Sam
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
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