CRAIGSLIST ALTERNATIVES

Chris WebbLance & CompanyNova Home Loans

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Why Craigslist was important

How it effected the bottom line

A Few Terms to KnowAnalytics: Key Measurements used to rate effectiveness of websites and social sites

The Box: A computer

The End User: The person who is searching in Google, Bing, or Yahoo

Index: The way that Google, Bing and Yahoo read your website.

Search: Short term for Search Engine Optimization or SEO

SEO: Search Engine Optimization Creating a search friendly site that will show up on page one of search engines

Social: Short term for Social Media sharing or commenting.

What happened to Craigslist

• No longer allows for HTML code• No links to website• No in-ad images

The Alternatives

Blogger Tumblr Active Rain Classified OLX BackPage Merchant Circle

Quick Note

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Blogger

Owned by Google

Indexed

Simple one touch HTML transformation

Tumblr

New Social Network

Indexed by Search Engines

HTML integration

Active Rain

Real Estate Specific (paid option)

Indexed by Google

High link strength for Real Estate

Classified Ads.com

Classified Site

Simple Posting

Indexed

OLX

Classified Site

Simple Posting

Indexed

Backpage

Most similar to Craigslist

Allows for HTML

Indexed

Merchant Circle

Local Directory

Leaderboard

Tracking cabibility

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