I don't know about you, but I use craigslist a lot.  I don't just use it for real estate, I use it to buy and sell stuff.  Now craigslist makes sense in almost every category, but real estate some what puzzles me.  I post my listings on craigslist on a regular, twice a week routine and this drives 10 times more traffice to my site than google and I rank on the first page of google for many key words.  This is great traffic as it is a local and consist of pretty much all potential buyers  looking at my listings.

But Why? 

Why do some many people use craigslist to look for homes for sale?  It is just a major mix of stuff with no way to refine the search to see what you want.  I live in an area that I would consider medium size and there is 3 pages on average of new post daily, I can only imagine how many new post a place like New York would have. Who can and has time to post daily to stay in the public eye? and if you do its just considered spamming.  And these potential buyers, why would they waste so much time searching a site that is truely a mess and only contains just a few of the homes available to them? There are so many great sites out there with advanced search tools to find just what your looking for and contains all the market listings and data. So, the question is why to they use it? but as long as they do I will continue to use this free advertising tool.

Do they not know about these sites? Realtor.com, Trulia.com