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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