Hi, Craiglist is one of the major website which servers local classifieds in US. Does some one know how did they encouraged users to register their website and post ad ? when craiglist started they even don't have all these directory listing, social networking, and surprising there were less people who used internet.
I'm not sure but I started using craigslist for the first time in 2005 and the site was booming. I'm wonder if through word of mouth...