What Is The Craigslist Slap
If you are not familiar with the Craigslist posting process, you first select a city and category to post your ad in. You then fill out the form which is your actual ad, type in the image verification, agree to their terms and service, and you will receive an email with a link to the ad. You will need to visit that link and click on the “Publish” button for the ad to go live. After you publish your ad will go live on the Craigslist?s website in about 15 minutes from when you published it. If you were to visit the same link in the email after you have published it, the webpage will indicate that you already published this ad.
If the link brings you to a webpage where it says that your ad has been removed by staff, it means there is something in your ad title/description (or even your email address, IP address where you are posting from) that triggered the filter so Craigslist will immediate take your ad down.
This is all fine and dandy up until Craigslist recently changed its algorithm so that when you click on the link in the email to publish your ad, it will show that your ad has been successfully published, even though in reality it never made it live on the Craigslist website. Marketers who got “slapped” will go the actual Craigslist site and not see their ads that have been successfully published! This surely had many marketers scratching their heads or simply gave up on Craigslist altogether. Good. Less marketers and more room for you to play with now!
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