SEO Effects of Craigslist

Over the past months I have started a campaign of search engine optimized craigslist.com advertisements that I create for our individual websites and services we offer. I had expected a better Google page rank as well as increased search engine traffic.

Why would I expect this from simply posting on craigslist? The key is indexing and it seems that Google indexes craigslist multiple times a week. What does this all mean you may ask, well let me explain. Within the advertisements I have posted on craigslist, I have embedded content sensitive keywords and I have linked them to different pages of the website I am marketing with the ad. This intern has helped to direct the search engine spiders from craigslist across the keyword embedded links and onto my keyword related page content.

The result seemed to be more than I had expected, My site went from a Google pr0 to a pr3 within a few weeks and I seem to be getting more and more keyword hits on my stats. I was excited when I noticed that as well as the search engine traffic, I was getting numerous hits on the advertisement links from the craigslist community.

After a few weeks I started to analyze the advertisements I had built and I came to the conclusion that if I added a few graphics and created a nice frame for the ad my craigslist community hits improved without hurting the SEO effect of the advertisement.

Overall I recommend posting at least 3-5 ads per day 3+ days per week with heavy seo on some nice but simple designed ads. This has worked for me and a number of my clients. I wish you the best of luck with your website marketing! Check back for more seo info.