I have read many posts about whether or not it is a good idea to post your listings on craigslist...some people have called craigslist the "slums of real estate." Sure...you can find someone in the personals for a "quickie" or someone that is looking for a "generou$$$ man or woman", but when you post your listing you aren't posting in the category "personals" so you aren't associated with this "slum area". Is Chicago a great city? In my opinion it is the best city in the world...are there slums in the city...yes. Is Atlanta a great city? It is up and coming and a great place to live...are there slums in the city...yes. Is craigslist a great site that gets crawled by search engines and pages indexed...yes...are there slums...yes.
When I moved to Atlanta back in March of this year (2007) from Chicago I came with my Jeep and the biggest U-Hual trailer possible...that still didn't allow for me to bring much stuff! I've used craigslist in the past to find things such as; car, furniture, fish tank, even my two dogs (Maddux - the Golden Retreiver and Pierre - my gay...will only hump male dogs, but very cute French...won't touch beer, but don't leave wine unattended, Papillon) When I moved from Chicago I used craigslist to buy items I need to fill my house...I just moved to a new city...I didn't have the money to buy all new stuff so craigslist was great!
Regarding putting your listing on craigslist. Will people really shop for listings on craigslist? Maybe if they are browsing and thinking that they could find a great deal on a house. We have received some leads from craigslist, even some sales, so I think it is worth posting on this FREE site.
The bigger upside that people tend not to realize is this: People might not buy a house directly off craigslist, but craigslist will help drive your site and listings up on search engine rankings. I challenge you to post an article on AR or craigslist and then also post it on your website, type in the headline into a search engine and see where you find the article first, repeat this for several days...see how long it takes for your personal website to be crawled and have the post indexed so that it will show up on search engines. I strongly urge you to post on craigslist if you aren't doing so already (use Postlets as a FREE way to post professional looking listing flyers), disregard what the extremists say.
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