Craigslist seems to have put some armor around itself and this is the toughest stance to date it has taken against  and scammers. It’s just unfortunate that so many innocent people who use that website are being banned at the same time.

Craigslist could care less about the people who make a living on there. From what I have heard Craigslist pulls in a cool $1 million a day!  The money is made on adult ads and help wanted ads.

If Craigslist was smart they would offer monthly subscriptions to post ads for businesses and people who make a living on there and offer it for free to the average Joe who only posts once in a while. I would gladly pay Craigslist $250 a month for a monthly subscription to post ads on Craigslist.

If Craig really wanted to help the world he could raise a Billion Dollars a year charging subscriptions to businesses to place ads and then give it to charity. I have heard Craig moves slow so maybe once he realizes how many innocent peoples lives he has devastated with these new changes he might come up with a compromise. I think a subscription is the way to go. Most spammers won’t pay to spam so they will leave Craigslist alone.

Perhaps all the people who lost their living with the recent changes should pack up and head over to Craigs house and pitch a tent city on his lawn. That might show him how much devastation he has caused us.

I would like to offer up Backpage as an alternative. I know that for right now it doesn’t get the traffic that Craigslist does but the more people who use it the higher rating it gets on Google. I have found that Backpage ads when SEO’d properly can get first and second page organic search results on Google. Choose your title carefully when placing your Backpage ads so you can get some good natural organic click traffic.

I am very fortunate enough to have found better ways to market my products online, most of the are free.

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