White or Black Hat Craigslist Marketers

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Just like in the search engine world, black and white hat sides have emerged on Craigslist. While working as a search engine optimizer I always said the only difference between white and black is patience and brains. Whilst it does take some smarts to fool the system, simply ignoring the rules and not strategically marketing your products/service is just dumb.

Clickz posted an article today which clearly was spawned from my syndicated article a couple of weeks back. I guess my spin on the topic wasn’t sexy enough to warrant actually citing the article or posting the link. It appears that unless I am willing to tell the world to spam the system that it’s not worthy of a reference. The reality is that there are very acceptable ways to use Craigslist that don’t include posting the same spam ad in 200 cities, twice a day.

Keep in mind the articles does not offer any solution for people who want to take advantage of Craigslist, but not be a spammer. I guess for that info you need to read my article, go figure.