CRAIGSLIST - Ghosting Tips

[Karen]

Okay going to post some basic ghosting troubleshooting tips for those
of you still struggling. I'm not revealing anything that hasn't
already been posted before just trying to create a clean message with
all the information neatly laid out for you.


1) Lets say you want to post in Los Angeles, CA. You need to first
import and validate some hotmail/gmail accounts into clad. Then you
need to use CLAD to create some CL accounts using a LA ip address.
Next you need to bind a LA phone # (213) to the CL account created in
the same region. Then you need to make sure your posting using "exact
location match" in CLAD so that it uses a los angeles ip address when
posting to LA using that local cl account and phone number created in
the same region.

Basically
A) Create ad for each posting region.
B) Create CL account with local ip and phone #
C) Bind CL account to that local posting region
D) Always post to that region using a local IP



2) If your posting an image only ad make sure your using photobucket
image links and only upload one photo per photobucket account and
resize each and every image you upload so their all unique however
appear the same to the human eye. If your posting 100 ads per day you
should have 300+ image links and rotate them weekly. If your having
ghosting issues you should delete all your image links and create
fresh new ones being sure to resize each and every image and uploading
a max of one image per photobucket account. There are tools out there
to help automate this task.



3) Make sure you have a LOT of unique hand written titles. You can
never have too many and you should delete and write new ones often. If
your having ghosting issues you should delete your title token
variations and write another 50+ from scratch.



4) If using text within your ad make sure your using a LOT of tokens/
mutations/phrase mutations/letter substitutions within CLAD. And
change up your content frequently. If having major ghosting issues
keep changing up your content more and more.


So major points....

> Create CL account with local ip address and phone number and always post using local ip
> Post image only ads with plenty of image links that you rotate weekly and make sure each image is resized and uploaded to a different Photobucket account
> Create as many new title token variations as possible and delete and write fresh new ones frequently.
> If using text in your ads use lots of tokens, posting mutations, letter substitution, and hidden text.



These are just some of the basic tips and tricks that have already
been shared here. Ive seen people go from 90% ghosting down to 10% by
making sure they create their own cl accounts with a local ip to their
posting regions and changing up their image links and titles...etc.
Remember this is a never ending cat and mouse game and the rules will
change weekly. Dont get frustrated and give up, thats what they want
you to do. Instead just stay focused and keep testing until you find
what works best for you.