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In this article we are going to take a quick look at the decidedly un-paranormal pain in the rear end known as Craigslist ghosting. If you are trying to promote a business, or a series of affiliate offers on CL, you may have had your very own experience with the frightening facade of the green ghost..:-) Let’s take a moment and look at some definitions, and see if there is any help in sight. Read on!

Simply stated, ghosting, as it’s become commonly called, refers to an ad that appears to be live in your account administration area, yet appears no where in the real time listings where it was posted. As I’m sure you can imagine, this has put a serious cramp in the serious affiliate marketer’s sense of intelligent time management, and for many, has relegated Craigslist to the ignominious heap of good ideas whose time has long come and gone. I happen to disagree.

The truth is quite simple. With any business opportunity where the barrier of entry is low, (CL requires no “real” account, is free for most categories and can be started in 5 minutes or less) there is going to be a period of rapid growth, hard lessons learned, an inevitable pullback, and when the dust settles, the smart and resourceful folks are almost always still in the game, and on top of the pack.

To be honest, it’s not that much different than ranking well in the search engines, or running ppc campaigns, etc - people abuse the system for a while, the system fights back, and 80% of the people who weren’t playing nicely, take their ball and find a new playground to pollute. If you’re smart, you look at the ghost as a competitive ADVANTAGE to hone your skills, amp up your resourcefulness and crush your competition when the smoke clears. Craigslist remains an evergreen wellspring of great free traffic, and will remain so for quite some time to come.

I’m not afraid of no ghost..;-) And if you get agile, resourceful and adventurous with your marketing mindset - you won’t be as well.

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I am often asked about the best ways to get traffic to build your list.  In fact, most of the questions I get are about traffic or the lack of traffic.  I can see that is a real challenge for people.

As I have mentioned in previous posts, article marketing is my favorite source of traffic.  It’s high quality traffic.  If you struggle or don’t like to write articles, I like the 30 minute article ebook.  It helps break down the process so you can write fast and easy articles.  Here is the link for more info:

30 Minute Articles Easy

Another creative source for traffic is classified ads.  I use classified ads both for list building and then also pay per action promotions.

Here is a real example of how easy it can be to get search engine results.  Last night I was trying something out and placed an ad for a free $250 gift card from Dunkin Donuts (keyword is “free dunkin donut coupons”) — this morning it ranks about 12 on Google.

I just placed the ad on the classified ad service and bam it shows up.  I did make the ad keyword rich so that helped it get ranking.

The classified ad service I use costs $9.95 a month but it’s unlimited ads and really gets a lot of love from Google (I understand it owned by Google).  You can get more info here:

Free Ads Bring Traffic

I am thinking about creating a step by step video tutorial for placing an ad on this service.  Would that be helpful to you?  If so, please send me an email to let me know.

I thought I would jot down my top free traffic sources.  All of these sites have provided me with decent traffic at a cost of zero.  Please feel free to add to the list:

 EzineArticles.com- A great place to submit articles.  They can be a little picky to get your articles in.  But once your article is approved it typically leads to very good traffic.

Digg.com - a little harder to get traffic but if you hit the right topic it can be explosive.

StumbleUpon.com -  Participation is the key here.  Put meaningful comments on people’s sites and it typically leads to good results.

Yahoo Answers - Ask and Answer questions and with little effort you will get traffic.  Plus, giving your opinion in the area you have knowledge can be helpful to people in need.  I have received several personal thank you notes which makes me feel good.

Squidoo- Create a decent S lens with a low competing niche topic and you should see traffic in a day.  Just put a good lens together and your off!

 Bonus 

Social Bookmarking - sites like Technorati.com, Twitter.com and Blink.com can lead to great traffic.  Like all of these sites, a little effort and time and you will be surprised at the results.

 Have a good one.  Tyler

After writing my post about making $25 practically instantly with free ads, I received a few questions about writing a good free ad.  [Side Note: I have had 2 more sales since my original post]

With that said, I decided to share with you the way I approach an ad in steps.   

Step 1) Find a product that is selling well in ClickBank.  If this is your first time using ClickBank, you will need to sign-up to get an affiliate link.  This is the link that credits you for sales. 

Step 2) Create headline - come up with a headline that grabs the reader’s attention.  But let’s suppose you can’t think of a headline, that’s cool — here are 3 links with enough ideas to generate several great headlines:

Freelance Copywriter Secrets: Headlines That Grab The Reader’s Attention

Progressive Headlines Guide Customers To Buy

What Secrets of Copyright Headlines Can Make You Money?

Step 3) For the next step, you will write 1-3 paragraphs about the product.  Typically I will review the sales page and paraphrase the most interesting parts. On thing I should I add, I typically have better results if I have actually purchased and used the product.  I realize this is not always possible but if you promote a product you actually like and use, you will get better results.  I have found a smaller amount of text rather than a long sales type letter creates better results.

Step 4) Do you remember step 1 where you got your Clickbank affiliate link?  I typically add it in a couple of spots in my ad and then at the end.

So what do you think?  It’s doesn’t sound too hard right?  Be warned though, not all of your ads will be home runs but even if you hit .300 (3 out of 10) — you will still make money.

Please Note: one key item I will save for a future post is choosing the money making keywords to use in the ad.  If you are ready to go now, do some research on google for the term ”keyword research”.  Also, use google’s free keyword tool at: Google Keyword Suggestion Tool