Has anyone noticed??

Has anyone noticed that if you post an ad on Craigslist ... Backpage ... etc. ... that you get very good SEO results in a matter of days ...??

What is it about these sites that the search engine spiders seem to love??

 

Are you drunk? Google considers craigslist traffic as trash.

 

First of all ... that is uncalled for ... I am not drunk ... although it is certainly not a bad idea at the moment ...

I can give you examples where Craigslist ad posting generates 1st page results in google ...

That is my question ... why does that occur ... not whether you ... in your opinion ... consider Craigslist traffic as trash ...

 

Not really noticed about that.

 

Craigslist ads sometimes rank higher on Google then the website itself! I have the same results and I'm not drunk. lol

 

So in conclusion: If Craiglist ads rank high in Google, you're most probably not drunk

 

i heard adsense will ban you if you get to much traffic from there, but thats the rumer..

 

I'd imagine the results would be temporary. You'd probably see first page for less than a month then it would vanish. You'd have to continually add new pages to that site.

 

Temporary is fine ... you can always repost and recapture the front page again ... yes??

I agree it takes a little "maintenance" work ... but the results might justify the effort ... perhaps??

 

can you specify what kind of a very good SEO results are you referring to?

 

Even so. Google does give the backlink to craigslist. The Craigslist backlink buzz have been going on for a while now. Many have tried and have been successful. Do a search here at DP about craigs and you will get mixed result but many who say they are getting the backlink and traffic. I believe they are putting their site info (depending on what it is) in the classified sections.

 

I noticed this with a client's site - a site that was not optimized for search engines at all before they hired me. Their Craigslist ad was #1 when searched for the company's name. After I did some initial seo, the CL ad dropped to #5 for the company's name, and their site's url was #1. However, as most searchers won't know the particular conpany's name when doing a search, this was of little consequence. Full seo ensures the site is within the first page for various terms. Lesson: Optimize your site for key phrases related to your site - not generic words or only your company's name.

 

I only suggested it as a measure to gain some first page exposure (which can be very valuable) in an very quick timeframe ... while you certainly spend additional type tweaking the site's seo ...

I just thought it was an interesting effect ...

 

that you ajaonyx47 for that info.

it's been interesting to write your remakes

 

Write my remakes???

Am I spectacularly "dense" (never mind - don't answer that) ... or does that have some hidden meaning??

 

craigslist is a great place to leave a link for newly launched sites. In a matter of a couple hours Googlebot will be by to visit. Since I never posted a craiglist link to an establsihed site, I would not know of the bounce in serps. criagslist links are nofollow'ed, so it would be interesting to test.

Thanks for sharing...

 

i'm not sure what u r saying

 

I just saw here at DP, that Craigslist now use nofollow tag, so I think now we dont have to care about links from Craigslist regarding SEO