Allan Tan’s Internet Marketing Resource Centre

Craigslist has gone through the usual American media target cycle. It finally appeared on the national media?s radar. It became the darling of the press, the belle of the reporters? ball. Then, it quickly slid into disfavor. Now it’s reviled.

Based on what you hear on TV and in the papers, Craigslist is nothing more than a shadowy netherworld where sketchy people meet to trade stolen goods for drugs or guns. It’s the kind of place where women and men alike can find creepy dates with perverted soulless monsters.

They don’t mention the fact that it’s a good way to drive some free traffic to your site. Your ad on Craigslist is free. And if you right a good one, putting it in the right place, you can get some attention. It’s a nice way to grab a few extra visitors for very little work. It’s also a repeatable process. You can do it again and again.

If you can get past the scary media tall tales and look at Craigslist with something approximating a rational perspective, you’ll see that it really does have a lot to offer–including free traffic.