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Super, Simple Posting to Craigslist

I can't believe how easy this is! And Free!

I've always wanted to post my flyers on Craigslist. I know there are websites, such as postlets.com and vflyer.com, which host flyers on the web that you can then upload to Craigslist. I am the first to admit that I am "computer and internet challenged" and these sites may allow me to upload my own flyers, but I could not figure out how to do it. A mortgage broker offered to do this for me, so I have been letting him.

So after the baseball game last night, I set out on figuring how to do it myself. Naturally I started by Googling it. This led me to a helpful video on Utube by deriktutt. (I think there is a Utube video for everything.) In a nut-shell, he said in a Word document write your text, imbed your photos, save in Paint as a jpeg, upload to Photobucket.com, take the HTML that Photobucket.com generates for you and imbed it in the Craigslist ad.

I tried to paste a flyer I had created with Publisher in Paint, but it would not work. Nuts. So after fumbling around for a hour or so, I had that Eureka moment. (I love it when a plan comes together.) I use Publisher 2007 and it allows you to save your flyer as a JPEG File Interchange Format. Bingo! Works like a charm.

So the steps are:

•1. Create your flyer in Publisher and save it as a JPEG File Interchange Format document.

•2. Open a free Photobucket.com account and upload your flyer.

•3. Copy the HTML that is generated.

•4. Create a Craigslist ad and paste the HTML in the body.

So easy even a caveman can do it!

Update 12/12/2009: I discovered that when you post an image as described above, that search inquiries cannot search the image. Example: When you search for "Tigard real estate agents", your ad does not display. To fix this, after the image add

<br>

search terms: Tigard Realtor, Tigard real estate agent, Tigard homes for sale, etc., etc., etc.

This puts the search terms outside the image and makes them searchable.

Wayne B. Pruner is a Realtor® at Oregon First, who works in the Portland and Tigard, Oregon area. He is ready to help you with all your real estate needs and he is also a licensed contractor. His phone number is 503-891-0795. Here are links to his real estate website and his real estate blog

Posted by Tigard Oregon Real Estate >> Wayne B. Pruner, GRI on 10/26/2009 02:13 PM

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10 Comments on Super, Simple Posting to Craigslist

OCT

If you use postlets after the first one you get Craigs list as well as all the tohers so it is a way I like to go

I agree, we love Craigslist and are amazed by the calls we receive from the simple ad.

OCT

Good information. I've always recommended postlets for the time savings but your info would allow a bit more personalization to the post.

OCT

So you are a Caveman...?

I didn't know you were from Grants Pass, Wayne. :-)))

Craigslist is a great resource for advertising, especially rentals! I also use postlets.com - which have professional flyers which you can download directly to your craigslist account and facebook!