Craigslist Marketing Plan
Ok, I am glad that you decided to stop the insanity and learn to use one small part of the internet the right way. I am going to show you how to get a continuous flow of traffic from a few ads a week on craigslist for 45 days per ad that you run.
This is not guesswork or speculation. I am a professional SEO and online marketer, This is what i do for a living full time and i am here to tell you that you can make a lot of money from the web. If you are a local real estate agent, you can use the web to get the first contact with a potential buyer. a salesman with a local dealership can double or even triple his sales in one month. The local florist, doctor, medical specialist doctor, contractors, building material suppliers, insulation contractors, hotel managers, hospitality industry, auto mechanics. just about anything at a local or even a national level(Including affiliate marketing) can be attained in a short period of time if you know what to do. and this can be done with little to no expense to make this happen to get you started.
Now, If you want to dominate the web, you need some big bucks. but the average man/woman can make a good living from ads on the web with little or no cost. This is the beauty of the web, you can exchange sweat equity for cash. There are even places where you can get a website for free if you so desire and i will show you where to do this.
I am going to lay out step by step what you need to do to gather leads or even make sales on the net within a week from finishing this mini course, and like i stated earlier, it will work for just about any business. Just follow the instructions step by step and you will start seeing good results within 1 week if you do as i say. Are you ready? Well, one more thing you must remember Hope is not a method... Nor is it a strategy. So reading this and not putting it into action will lead to failure.
At least give it the 30 to 45 minuets for the first week to at least give it a try , Ok, correction, you will need a few hours to prepare, then 30 to 45 minuets a week from there on out.
LET's Get Started!
The first step is to decide how you want the leads to come in. If you just want plain ads with your email and a phone number or if you want a site. The first option is the simplest way to go and will cut down on prep time. If you already have a site you are already a step ahead. This will make you look more professional. If you are just starting out you can build a free site with point and click at Next hour site its web address is
http://www.nexthoursite.com and it will never cost you a dime. you can also use social networking sites like myspace but they are less quality than the previous mentioned free site place.
Ok, once you have your method set up (site/ email phone) you are now ready to start putting the ads information together. To do this you will need a keyword tool. You can download an application that is free called Good Keywords . this free download is a desktop application that queries overture. The one I recommend is Word Tracker . This is the most comprehensive keyword tool on the net. It does cost a little money if you subscribe, but they offer a free trial, and this should be all you need. To use these tools, you type in a word or phrase that you think someone might use to search for your business or service. play with it a while and get familiar with the tools.
Once you get comfortable with the keywords you need to open notepad and save all of the possible keywords and phrases you can find that apply to your business or service. you will need these when you place your ads on craigslist. make sure you save the search counts also, this will be important shortly.
NOW, LETS GO OVER KEYWORDS. THIS STEP IS A PART YOU NEED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO!
I am going to use wordtracker for this example. This is the results.
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351,487,458 searches ( last 90 days )
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Ok, Most of these keywords are low enough competition that an ad on craigslist will automatically go into the top 10 of Google for these keywords in 3 to 5 days because of the strength of craigslist. If you notice the counts next to the phrases, this is the daily estimated searches on all search engines combined. And Google accounts for about half of these searches. So if you can work several of these phrases into your ad on craigslist, your craigslist ad will be in a top 10 position for the life of the ad. just like having your site in the top 10.
Use the stronger or top keywords as the TITLE of the ad on craigslist. Remember, you are not writing the title to grab attention, you are writing them for keywords and top positions in Google. And this means it is targeted traffic because someone did a keyword search in Google and found your ad on craigslist.
When you write your ad, get as many phrases into the ad as you can, and you can even put a few extra at the bottom of the ad (body of ad on CL). Now if you look at the keyword results there are an estimated 1,360 searches a day for all of these phrases combined, so this is close to 700 searches a day just on Google if you could incorporate them into one ad. This should give you close to 200 ad views per day (after a few days). If you have a website, you should get 40 to 80 clicks to your site a day from one ad if you use all of the keywords listed, but that is not reasonable, so break it in half, after you place the first ad wait 2 days and then place the second ad with the rest of the keywords. You also have to remember that this is just one keyword we started with, use your head and keep trying different phrases to come up with more. i would try other close locations to get more keywords for dental, mortgage ect...
Now, a word to the wise, If you are in Los Angeles, a craigslist ad only last 7 days, so i would find a location that is close that the ad stays live for the full 45 days, this will make your ads last longer and slow the rate you need to keep to always have ads in the top 10. Most major metro's have 7 day ads, so hit outlying locations to place your ad, Remember that you are not trying to get craigslist traffic, you are using craigslist to gain search engine traffic, so you will have a few days before you start seeing results. I built a 6 figure income in 5 months using the same methods i am showing you now. I revealed this to a real estate agent in Texas and he makes 50K per month from craigslist ads now, even with the market slumping.
You may only need to run 2 or 3 ads a month depending on your market. If you are able to run ads nationally, you can work a 45 day cycle and work state level keywords and phrases and place 3 to 5 ads a week, not spam and get tons of traffic. just do one state a day, keep the keywords in text files so you do not have to keep going back to the keyword tools.
Now on to products that you may want national keywords on. Craigslist is powerful, but you ad will never rank for "weight loss" so what you need to do is find weight loss keywords by location, either city or state and just run a few ads a day.
I just checked Houston weight loss and there were over 800 searches a day for related phrases just in Houston, I am sure most cities will be similar, so if you do the research and run an ad a day in a different location, you could have thousands of visitors a day in about a month, without spamming.
Here is another example For Houston flowers and Houston florist there is an estimated 400 searches a day. How do you think this would affect a Houston florist bottom line?? I bet it would make a huge difference
There are almost 120 searches a day for Houston BMW. I would be willing to bet that a BMW salesperson would just about sell his soul for these leads! If he only sold an extra 10 BMW's a month, I am sure he would be very happy.
There is another site that is less popular but you can get close to the same effect with ads this way, and that is
classifieds for apts, jobs, for sale and personals - backpage.com It is similar to craigslist. Give it a try also