{"id":505,"date":"2006-02-23T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T11:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2025-06-12T17:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:26:03","slug":"publicity-tip-posting-on-craigslist-helps-your-pr-website-page-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/publicity-tip-posting-on-craigslist-helps-your-pr-website-page-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Publicity tip: Posting on Craigslist helps your PR, website page ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched\u00a0last night&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Nightline&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Nightline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">segment <\/a>on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\/about\/sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craigslist<\/a>, the wildly successful global billboard\u00a0for people around the world seeking\u00a0everything from\u00a0speech classes\u00a0to sperm donors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just hours before,\u00a0I\u00a0hosted\u00a0a teleseminar with Nancy Mills of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespiritedwoman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spirited Woman<\/a> website, who has been using Craigslist as a valuable publicity tool to promote her in-person events and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespiritedwoman.com\/spirited_woman_circle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teleseminars<\/a> with famous woman authors, actresses and editors. Nancy says that when she has posted events to Craigslist, she has been able to track 90 percent of her business as having come from the list.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize it during the teleseminar, but here&#8217;s one more huge reason to use Craigslist in your PR campaign. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google <\/a>gives Craigslist a page ranking of 8 out of a possible 10. Few websites have that high a ranking.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean to you? Google gives more weight to your website if other sites with a high page ranking link to you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s teleseminar is\u00a0available as a CD or\u00a0electronic transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using Craigslist as a publicity tool, tell us what you&#8217;re doing, and the results.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched\u00a0last night&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Nightline&#8221; segment on Craigslist, the wildly successful global billboard\u00a0for people around the world seeking\u00a0everything from\u00a0speech classes\u00a0to sperm donors.\u00a0 Just hours before,\u00a0I\u00a0hosted\u00a0a teleseminar with Nancy Mills of The Spirited Woman website, who has been using Craigslist as a valuable publicity tool to promote her in-person events and teleseminars with famous woman authors, actresses and\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/publicity-tip-posting-on-craigslist-helps-your-pr-website-page-ranking\/\" class=\"rmlink\">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":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[622,634],"class_list":{"0":"post-505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-building-traffic","8":"tag-craigslist","9":"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\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40949,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/40949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}