{"id":1408,"date":"2008-04-25T13:13:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T13:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/dont-let-craigslists-bad-publicity-discourage-you-from-posting\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:27:03","slug":"dont-let-craigslists-bad-publicity-discourage-you-from-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/dont-let-craigslists-bad-publicity-discourage-you-from-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t let Craigslist’s bad publicity discourage you from posting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"craigslistexterior.jpg\"Every month or so,\u00a0it seems, we’re hearing one more story about how somebody committed a crime with help from\u00a0Craigslist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In March, a New York City prostitute was killed\u00a0after meeting a client on\u00a0the world’s largest classified ad bulletin board.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported<\/a> that a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl\u00a0who ran away from home\u00a0sold sex acts in Milwaukee to men who found her ad and photo on Craigslist. And on it goes.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what you’re selling or promoting, don’t let the bad publicity sway you. Craigslist remains a popular home for the kind of news Publicity Hounds want to promote:\u00a0\u00a0business services, events, classes and workshops, sewing circles, dog shows,\u00a0arts and entertainment, public service announcements and more. Post\u00a0regularly to the Craigslist nearest to your city.<\/p>\n

If you live\u00a0in the middle of nowhere and the nearest list is in a small city,\u00a0that’s OK. A\u00a0Q&A in The New York Times last year called “Here are the Answers to Your Craigslist Questions” featured\u00a0Jim Buckmaster, the CEO of Craigslist, and Craig Newmark, the list’s founder. They said you don’t have to live in big cities to get lots of exposure on Craigslist.<\/p>\n

“Surprisingly, postings to smaller markets like Des Moines often get more page views than ones in large cities where there are more postings competing for attention,” Buckmaster\u00a0said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you are unfamiliar with Craigslist, or even if you’ve been posting for several years, it’s best to read the rules <\/a>before you post again. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Nancy Mills, a Craigslist expert who\u00a0shared tips on how to use Craigslist<\/a>\u00a0for publicity during a teleseminar I hosted, said the rules often change without warning, and if you don’t know what you are allowed to post, and where, you can get kicked off the list.<\/p>\n

As for critics who abandon Craigslist because of the bad publicity, that would be like me closing up my business, which is almost exclusivly Internet marketing-based, because the Internet has a dark and dangerous side. That won’t happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every month or so,\u00a0it seems, we’re hearing one more story about how somebody committed a crime with help from\u00a0Craigslist. In March, a New York City prostitute was killed\u00a0after meeting a client on\u00a0the world’s largest classified ad bulletin board.\u00a0\u00a0 Two weeks ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl\u00a0who ran away from home\u00a0sold\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":612,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[634],"class_list":{"0":"post-1408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online-marketing","7":"tag-craigslist","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41572,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/41572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}