Craigslist and the police are really cracking down against all affiliate/adsense spam. Read This: http://www.wickedfire.com/industry-news/16903-prostitutes-affiliates-cops-dont-care.html Craigslist I can guarantee at some point, will contact the adsense team and get you banned. So for anyone spamming craigslist. Stop Now.
I saw someone got banned by Adsense staff because he was spamming Adsense on Craigslist. He generated more $10,000 for Adsense at Craigslist.
You need to stop posting inane BS The link you provided is a admins view of this article about prostitutes using craigslist to sell sex. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/n...8nutLjOCAXSSmZ8hfw&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin Reading the original article would have told you WF admin is simply trying to stoke the flames to drive traffic. That has nothing to do with marketing via craigslist. As for WickedFire admin speculating the police would start chasing affiliates is a bold face lie.. There are few if any police departments in the USA with the time or resources to chase affiliates....WTF stupid posting.....they need to deal with real crime. In addition does anyone in the real world see police departments outside newspapers, radio & television stations monitoring advertisements?? By posting that lie he seems to be clearing off the competition from craigslist, so he can be more effective in his own affiliate marketing. Next most reputable police departments are not going to answer the phone and start blabbing to some random website owner, or anyone else for that matter their mode of operation, investigative practices, who they will/are targeting and / or legal ramifications of peoples actions.... More BS being spread recklessly Where he is accurate, is that posting Ads which are obvious lies such as a service that is free, when it is not, is true and this would equate to bait & switch advertising offline which is a crime. Do not let people and their use of propaganda scare you....they have agendas deep down that they are not likely to divulge. Peace!
Yes, Google will ban your Adsense for CL spamming, however, you can open a new one. I have seen one guy in a category posting the same ads for over a year. He has made a small fortune.
One of the most famous affiliate and Adsense publisher described how he spammed Google Base and is still an Adsense publisher. I also have a friend in a major police department and he said they know the keywords that drug dealers use to sell drugs on CL. So the police use it but not for helping ban Adsense publishers but if you are pill affiliate they might be watching you.
I call it a money tree and another revenue stream.... but don't tell the others as they may find out and grab some of the green tree dead presidents... http://sfbay.craigslist.org/ http://www.craigslist.org/about/factsheet.html Its a good thing to read and see if you can earn more revenues too!
Yes thanks.. 8 billion page views a month I guess there probably is some usefullness with this. I'll keep this site in mind. Looks web 1.0 though, if you ever checked out the Marketing section on facebook you'll see the difference.
Well this is where we get into the marketing aspect and why somethings which may or may not have value, may or may not work. Facebook is great. However the target market for my real estate investing & sales marketing needs is not hanging out on facebook. There are however a 100 links or so for real estate all over the USA and now the world on craigslist and where I have been able to find "highly targeted traffic" Now what is important here is proof. Here is the top three referrals for one of my sites from one day last week. www.google.com Rerferrals 356 Percentage 60.85 austin.craigslist.org Referrals 51 Percentage 8.72 search.yahoo.com Referrals 14 Percentage 2.39 Now had I just thought search engines would be my only source of traffic... I would be missing almost 10% of my daily traffic. Had I not thought where to find my target market.. I would perhaps be wasting my energy & money on facebook. (Already tried for this market and was ) I bought a few of the facebook blasts which drove nobody to the site. However for other niches facebook works better than craigslist. Peace! PS I dont mean to go off topic but thought the info is important enough to post for others.
LOL like the police have time to investigate and prosecute affiliate misrepresentations! Even if they did, I wish them luck with all the international affiliates.
There was a subliminal message in the first post. The police are "cracking" down so don't sell goods they are cracking down on via CL.
kudos to you bro. we are on the same page. this is my response to his post on his forum: this thread is BS. if a site is advertised as free with a marketer advertising it as free but where all resources on that site require payment, then that site is the one committing fraud, not the affiliate. when a business commits fraud the ones who put up the posters or handed out the flyers are not the ones arrested. a dating site can have tens of thousands of affiliates marking the site as free. why would any department or person waste their time knocking off affliates when shutting down the website would kill them all? thats how the fbi nabs drug and crime kingpins. they trace it up to the source. furthermore, on any given day I can find about five CL posts that suggest or imply selling/asking for underage sex/CP so post proof of your findings or STFU with your scaring tactics. you probably are just a CL user who is sick of the spam.
here is another thread on the same site of that guy spreading BS about the industry http://www.wickedfire.com/industry-news/15482-edebitpay-gets-raided-fbi.html
Ummm....I agree that you could get banned by Google and/or Craigslist for spamming, but I'm not too sure about the police part. During my early e-commerce days, I had been scammed out of thousands of dollars. I contacted the FBI and local police, and they did show some interest. In the end, however, they did not pursue those cases since they decided that the cases were isolated incidences rather than massive, systematic internet fraud.