Are you utilizing such tools like BackPage and CraigsList in your business in order to get to the first page of Google and generate traffic to your website? Turns out it’s still a new idea for a lot of marketers out there and I’m going to try to shed some light on this subject.
CraigsList has a Google Page Rank of 8, which is very high. BackPage is right behind the CraigsList in popularity. Naturally, a back link from BackPage is going to add a lot of value to your website as far as the quality of the back links (unfortunately, CraigsList is “no follow” any more).
Another great thing is that based on the Google Page Rank your ad in either one of those
locations will get indexed in a matter of minutes and will pop up on the first (hopefully) page of Google organically in a matter of hours.
Remember: it’s not about getting traffic from the visitors of the CraigsList or BackPage, but about getting to the first page of Google and getting visitors from Google.
Obviously, both of those guys have pretty strict rules, but it’s just a matter of phrasing your ads accordingly in order not to get flagged right away.
It’s all about the keywords you use. You can change the copy any way you want in order to comply with the requirements of either site, just make sure you use your keywords correctly.
So, in order for your ad to get to the first page of Google you need to follow this concept:
1. Place your keyword in the title of the post
2. Make sure you have your keywords in the body of the post
3. Insert your URL in the ad and make sure it’s clickable: http://www.URL.com, not just URL.com
4. Use long tail keywords to insure first page of Google placement of your post. General criteria is that the niche has to have about 300000 search results or less, but according to my tests you should be able to get to the first page even within niches of up to a few millions search results. That’s how much Google loves those two websites.
5. That’s it, you are done.
From the automation stand point BackPage is much more convenient to use, because it allows you to schedule re-submitting your adds for you automatically.
With both of those sites you need to make sure that you do not spam and therefore you shouldn’t repeat the same submission more than twice a week, I would even recommend to do it only once a week in order not to irritate nobody.
When your post gets to the first page of Google it will stay there for a few days, so once a week re-submission should be just as good.
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