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20 other sites like Craigslist to promote & find stuff!!!!!!

Jul 5th, 2007 by Vikram Rajan

If you’re interested in marketing yourself through Craigslist, you may want to check out the audio-book, WEB MARKETING 2.0: Prospect like Craigslist, YouTube, and eBay!

Craigslist has nearly single-handedly destroyed the paid newspaper classifieds world. It’s a great way to promote your products, find employees, sell your garage-sale stuff, and whatever else… it’s also localized for our convenience.

You can use these website to post your real estate listings, sell your garage-sale stuff, promote new job openings, find potential applicants, and even sell your e/audio/books!

But it’s not the only player in town. Mashable has reviewed a whole bunch, and I’ve added to the list with their comments. Just about all of them are free, localized, categorized, and regulate themselves through an honor system. Here they are in approximate order of popularity:

Google Base (attached to Google Product Search, formerly known as Froogle)
Kijiji (eBay’s free listings, big internationally, just launched in USA)
MySpace Classifieds
Facebook Marketplace (becoming bigger than MySpace, and attracts an older audience)
Yahoo! Classifieds
Windows Live Expo (Microsoft)
Village Voice, powered by Backpage
OLX.com (big internationally?)
Lycos classifieds
Local.com
PennySaver USA
Trulia (for real estate only)
Vast
vFlyer (auto-posting to Google Base, Craigslist, and sharing widgets)
Oodle, iqZone, Edgeio (are also multi-classifieds blasters, aggregators, and search engines)
Verticlans (new)
MyStore (new & very social sharing “2.0″ oriented)
Yample.com is also social/2.0
RealpeopleRealstuff.com (video-based classifieds)
…AND SO MANY MORE (click to view Google search results for ‘free classifieds’)

But these are the biggest. Now, you just have to post & re-post since most listings expire after a while. BTW: You can compare website traffic through Alexa.com

I’M SURE YOU FOUND THIS USEFUL:

If you’re interested in marketing yourself through Craigslist, you may want to check out the audio-book, WEB MARKETING 2.0: Prospect like Craigslist, YouTube, and eBay!

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42 Responses to “20 other sites like Craigslist to promote & find stuff!!!!!!”

on 07 Jul 2007 at 1:32 am1Vivienne Quek

Thanks for the advice, I’ll certainly check them out.
on 09 Jul 2007 at 10:56 am2dchis

I love mystore.com have been doing business on thier site for awhile now. It seems to be the only site where I can set up my own shop and actually tweak it for my customers and actually get direct feedback from customers. Great to see it is finally getting some traction and PR.
on 09 Jul 2007 at 11:30 am3Matt

Great post! Interestingly, Oodle (#15) actually powers both Lycos (#9) and Local.com (#10).
on 16 Jul 2007 at 3:44 pm4Aubrey

Might also want to add Safarri.com to the list

It is free, does user powered stores with custom URLs, is the first ever to do real time Google Earth integration, can do registered or anonymous listings, has clean urls perfect for referencing in newspapers, syndicates ads in and out using Google Base, Oodle, and EdgeIO, uses automatically calculated distance based filtering instead of pathetic “local areas” that are hardly ever near you, and regular listings stay up as long as you need so they don’t have to be re posted all the time
on 20 Jul 2007 at 12:32 am5Zoo Zoo Kitty

Great info, thanks! I found another one recently, www.listasaurus.com where they actually PAY you to list your ads…interesting new concept! They also do zip code based search, and the site has a really fun feel to it as well. I will check out some of these other sites too!
on 07 Aug 2007 at 7:24 pm6Sonia

Thank You so much for being such an awesome resource for advertising for free and posting these web sites.

I totally appreciate you and what you are doing for us marketers.

Have a Great Day!
on 08 Aug 2007 at 5:43 pm7Joel

Great resource - thanks. Does anyone know traffic details on these relative to CraigsList? I’ve had great success on Craigs List and very limited success on the others.
on 09 Aug 2007 at 12:11 pm8Vikram Rajan

you can use alexa.com to compare traffic on any websites.
on 19 Aug 2007 at 12:08 pm9craigslist marketing

Craigslist is one of the best free advertising options for anybody. The exposure that the website creates for your listings is huge. Ive been using a craigslist posting tool http://www.craygo.com to post to the craigslist real estate/housing sections. I thought I’d share the tip with you. With the craigslist tool you can easily post to all top cities, or stay within the top listing of one city.
on 23 Aug 2007 at 6:58 pm10Eric

Thanks for publishing this list!
on 16 Sep 2007 at 11:39 pm11Geraldine

Thank you! This is a great list and it is exactly what I was looking for to post information about a wonderful opportunity for Electricity Users as well as for Entrepreneurs!
on 25 Sep 2007 at 4:14 pm12roibert

Really great list Vik. I’ve been marketing via classified sites for a while and can vouch that it works when done right.

Two other sites that I use quite often that I didn’t see on your list are http://www.backpage.com and http://www.classifiedads.com Both of which are free to post and bring in really good traffic.

Also for comparing traffic, you should check out www.compete.com and www.quantcast.com as they give some really insight into traffic data. Cheers!
on 29 Nov 2007 at 8:52 am13Jason

Please consider the new site www.localknown.com as another free ad alternative.
on 05 Feb 2008 at 8:25 am14HealingSeason

it is really a great post including very good sources thanks
on 02 Apr 2008 at 1:51 pm15tony scott

Thanks for this info.
on 02 Apr 2008 at 1:52 pm16tony scott

Here another free classified site: http://www.beatyourprice.com
on 27 May 2008 at 2:57 pm17Kale

There is a site dedicated to this. http://siteslikecraigslist.com
on 05 Jun 2008 at 9:10 am18Jason

I also found www.BuyMeSellMe.co.uk to be a good free site in the UK.. enjoy!
on 23 Jul 2008 at 8:03 am19Henry

My name is Joe, reader of First lady president. I’m in the process of promoting this book far and wide and have been doing several of the ideas you discussed, Thank you for all of the ideas … I plan to implement as many of them as possible.Glad you’ll enjoy the book (and hope you enjoy Infoquake)!
on 23 Aug 2008 at 9:06 am20Tim

might want to check out www.mansfieldgaragesale.com. It is localized for mid-ohio but growing fast. I look to see them move fast.
on 07 Sep 2008 at 4:15 pm21Alex Wu

List of biggest classifieds by page rank and alexa ratings

http://www.enamul.info/links_classifieds.php

Smaller ones: http://everydaybusinessonline.com/adsites.htm

My free classifieds & social website: http://www.KaZuum.com

A bit about our site:

KaZuum.com is a Free Social Classifieds Listings site where people can conduct transactions and network with each other: free classifieds, auction, barter, chat, profile & feedbacks, friends list, groups, event signups, and much more still under construction. We are just starting out, and have been growing at 10% per week in the last 2 months and you can set ads to last forever on our site.

Alex Wu Alex.Wu@KaZuum.com
on 07 Oct 2008 at 1:01 pm22Brent Lacy

I run a new Startup called MidwestAds.Net (Launched 10/1/08). It is similar to Craigslist, but contains no Adult content, No Dating Ads, and has a Place where Churches can list their service times and directions, etc…

It includes all the basic Employment/Community Events/Real Estate/Autos/Etc…

The First Target Market is Missouri, then other Midwest States will follow

Let me know what you think…

Http://MidwestAds.Net

Thanks
on 09 Oct 2008 at 1:51 pm23Vizz

Thank you! It’s useful for me! I think that it is help me!
on 10 Oct 2008 at 10:43 am24Matt

If you are looking for a site focused on Tag / Garage / Yard / Estate Sales you should check out Tag Sell It: http://www.tagsellit.com

They’ve been expanding pretty quick recently and have a great area to list your weekend events for free.
on 20 Oct 2008 at 2:49 am25Charlotte Howard

Thanks for sharing as you know web 2.0 marketing is very effective. Why pay for advertisements when you don’t have too.

Regards,

Charlotte Howard
on 23 Oct 2008 at 11:16 am26Lofts Los Angeles

I still find that craigslist has been the most productive of all of these sites. BTW microsoft’s expo has ceased to exist.
on 30 Oct 2008 at 11:44 am27lancemus

thanks!!!!!!awsome
on 09 Dec 2008 at 1:03 pm28Free Classified Ads

CraigsList seem to be loosing ground recently. I think they should add up more avenues that will keep them on top.
on 21 Jan 2009 at 7:28 pm29Video Classifieds

As I see video classifieds websites will soon outrank the regular text classifieds sites. That is because people don’t trust in images and text anymore. Instead a video ad will result in higher sales, higher customer satisfaction and loyalty, bigger profit. And that is because potential buyers will see a complete presentation of the product before they decide to buy it. People can be convinced easier with a video ad compared to regular text.
on 14 Mar 2009 at 1:54 pm30Anita

Great list of advertising websites…

http://bahousecleaning.com/craigslist-ad-design.htm
on 17 Mar 2009 at 4:53 am31jnbwebpromoiton1

Why those some of the craigslist site have no page rank?
on 17 Mar 2009 at 4:58 am32Perfect Holiday Home Packages

Maybe some of the site you entered are not good in trafficking? All they want is your money?
on 14 Apr 2009 at 3:32 am33Matt

you can also checkout yelper! it is pretty easy to use and similar to craigslist.

http://www.yelper.org
on 17 Jul 2009 at 2:04 am34Text to audio

very good

Why those some of the craigslist site have no page rank?
on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:19 pm35Mark

Craigslist is a grat service. For more infotmation about CL visit: http://clhandbook.com.
on 28 Aug 2009 at 7:50 pm36best online classifieds

www.BIGGESTCLASSIFIEDS.com is a natural choice for advertisers. New kid on the block. Recommend or add this to your list, guys.

Regards, Dennis Joshua
on 06 Sep 2009 at 6:28 pm37Ilya

Here is one more: http://freelance-leads.com/
on 13 Sep 2009 at 8:23 pm38chi flat iron

Thank you for sharing this information
on 01 Oct 2009 at 11:25 pm39Anthony36

Informative post.. The list given above are so much informative and useful. One of the best Free Classifieds site http://www.phinditt.com which my friend suggested to me to post and view ads of all the categories. They are too good in providing good services for every one in their business and personal…
on 11 Oct 2009 at 8:49 am40MODOVATI

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE INFO
on 10 Nov 2009 at 10:55 am41Craig Newmark

I thought that it would never be done, but some has created a site like ours. http://www.ziark.com
on 30 Nov 2009 at 1:04 am42diamonds

I would like to get more info.