I have been posting on Craigslist for the past few months, it has brought me good traffic. I used to post on the "service offered" section at US state and cities and everything was fine until this week...something terrible happened... It seem that my ads was deleted instantly (within minutes) once i made a post, most properly it was deleted by the craigslist's software cos the staff couldn't be that fast to read and deleted my ads. I posted my ads the same way i used to post it, and i know i am not spamming, i suspected that they have blocked my ip address. So i tried to post the same ads at my own country and it works....i am wondering now whether Craigslist has started to block Foreign ip address to post on other countries? Anyway to solve this problem regarding foreign ip address to post on US cities? Thanks for your help.
It is possible that the service you offer is viewed as spam by the US audience. Users from your country may not be flagging your posts as spam.
If you post in more that one city, they will flag it as spam. Craiglist was designed for people to post ads in their LOCAL city. That is why you are getting flagged. Read the ToS and you will understand.
Craigslist most likely blocked your domain name. So whenever you post with example.com, your post will automatically get deleted.
Did your posts get flagged before? Craigslist users flag posts fast if they are not in the right section. I once accidently posted something in the wrong section and it got flagged within minutes. There probably people who have nothing better to do than just keep refreshing Craigslist all day. If you got flagged enough times and reported, they may have blocked you. Craigslist people really don't like links as they think it's all spam.
Thats how craigslist work... do the following 1. Chnage your email address.. 2. Change your doman name (use url forward, you might have to try a few before you get success) 3. Use proxy sites to post... 4. And finally Good Luck from my side
Thanks for all the advice from the members here. Really help me. I did get flagged a couple of time for the past few months, maybe the accumulation of the numbers of flag get my ip and url (domain name) blocked by Craigslist. By the way i have discovered something which i would like to share with the members who help me... If you are using gmail address to post your ads, try add +1 or +2 etc to your email address...for eg. if your email address is , then you can use superman+1@gmail.com , superman+2@gmail , superman+3@gmail.com to post another ads on Craigslist , Craigslist will recognize this as different email address so you can post ads in different cities. As for gmail, the mail will still resend back to your original email address at . Using this trick , you can have multiple email address using only 1 orginal address. All the best. Any good proxy sites to recommend? Must i use a US proxy site (with US ip address) to post my ads? ( sorry i am not so familiar with proxy sites) Thanks Again.
I have also been posting to different cities in US (even if i'm not doing this from US) and i got banned several times before. i tried to use proxy server but still they were able to detect it. What i did was, created several email addresses and used TOR which changed my IP everytime i hit refresh. I used this everytime i go to craigslist and everything went fine.
Thanks for this info also I was trying to answer a question for a friend who was having the same problem
Tor is a piece of software that you need to install in your PC. It allows you to surf anonymously. What's more? IT changes your IP everytime you hit REFRESH on your browser. Very cool.
Can you configure this software to only give you United States IPs? Or whatever country you want? Thanks.
Will TOR help me to flag an ad? If I had this would it see me as a different user and allow me to successfully click on Flag more than once?