Craigslist Marketing Refinement
I'll admit that I use Craigslist sporadically to help increase my web traffic. It doesn't always bring in the tons of traffic I had expected when I first got started but it is a steady trickle and its easy to use. Sign up for an account and you can keep track of all of your listings and automatically relist them when they expire.
That being said I came up with an interesting idea today while playing with Google Trends. I put in several search terms for one of my websites to compare the amount of searches for each one. It returns a handy graph with Search Volumes for each of your keywords as well as pages of interest (good for comments if its a blog) and where the searches come from.
That last part is what got me thinking. They narrow it down to not just countries but states and cities in the United States.
What good is that?
Well now I know that two cities with the highest search volume by far are from an area easily covered by Craigslist. All I have to do is work my link into the appropriate category.
No more randomly targeting cities or competing against the flood of posts in NYC, LA and SF for a little extra traffic.
That being said I came up with an interesting idea today while playing with Google Trends. I put in several search terms for one of my websites to compare the amount of searches for each one. It returns a handy graph with Search Volumes for each of your keywords as well as pages of interest (good for comments if its a blog) and where the searches come from.
That last part is what got me thinking. They narrow it down to not just countries but states and cities in the United States.
What good is that?
Well now I know that two cities with the highest search volume by far are from an area easily covered by Craigslist. All I have to do is work my link into the appropriate category.
No more randomly targeting cities or competing against the flood of posts in NYC, LA and SF for a little extra traffic.
posted by Chris at 5:51 PM
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