ROBIN HOOD CRAIGSLIST AD POSTING TIPS, DIPS & TRICKS: 2015

Thursday, November 19, 2015

CRAIGSLIST AD POSTING SERVICE

Do you need help posting ads to Craigslist? Tired of your ads getting flagged or deleted?

Introducing Robin Hood Craigslist Ad Posting Services; the first service that fights for the working individual or business to make sure you get a piece of the taco or at least, the supreme nacho, and have a competitive presence on Craigslist, Backpage, Kijiji and Gum Tree. Are ads are even cheaper than tacos? How about that? Each ad posting only costs fifty cents per ad!

Want a free trial to see how it will work for you? Email your ads now to:

robinhoodadpostingservices@gmail.com

UPDATE. 1/5/2017

Due to the high volume of requests we are receiving due to our being one of the few companies able to get live ads out for as low as forty cents an ad, we currently have an extensive backlog of 6 months for any free trials and we are currently turning away any paid requests until we can accommodate our backlog.

If you need ads urgently, we recommend trying a Craigslist posting software such as Geil and Mehr's version of CL BOT PRO as they have updated it for 2017 with WEB GL and Canvas ID auto-syncing, making it the only software we recommend at this point and time, and let them know Robin Hood referred you for a discount (e.g., a small $100 kickback for us, and a 10% discount for you).

You can view more info on the following page:

https://geilandmehr.com/product/automation-service-for-classifieds/

If you do not mind waiting, please email us with your ads and we will add you to our list and get to your ads when we can. More info is below on our Craigslist posting service:

Our craigslist ad posting service offers the following benefits to help your business solve its ad posting ghosting, flagging, ad deletion problems, with our service, you:

Only pay for ads live at the end of each day, you do not have to pay for ads that are auto-deleted or what we refer to as ghosted/flagged.
Only pay at the end of each week for ads posted. Pre-pay each week and get a 20% discount ($.40 per ad).
No contracts/no commitments for our CL posting service. It's pay as you go and after we've done the work for post-pay, and the ability to get a refund every 12 weeks for any missed ads with pre-pay (or use missed ads for extra postings in other cities or other sites).
Email leads are checked and forwarded once each day often within minutes of being received.
Flexible weekly or monthly payment plans, pay after ads are posted/verified.
Due to our currently backlog: Posting only to your local city? Try Geil and Mehr's auto poster, click here for details on getting your PC to post. Their system can post up to 96 ads a day for only $44 a month. Please mention we referred you when signing up to get a 10% discount on your purchase.

How is our service different than other affordable or cheap Craigslist ad posting services?

Our U.S. based posters use their own virgin residential IP addresses, aged PVA accounts, and change content if flagging occurs for you.

We're American, and we only employ Americans to post the ads.

We use actual people in the city your ad is being posted in. We offer a crowdsourcing solution that makes sure your posting operates completely legally as each poster is posting via their own free will using their own IP address and account.

This guarantees you will have none of the issues you have had with other services that try to post hundreds of ads from the same PC each day using proxies or other IPs that simply do not work, or rely on unreliable foreign posters that will only get your ad content auto-deleted by these web site's systems.

Robin Hood Ad Posting is US based, and we consist of college-educated professionals across the country with over 2,000 posters in over 200 cities.

Our service started mainly by helping realtors and auto dealers get live ads, and we can help you too. We don't outsource to overseas workers that don't understand or care to work and learn the intricacies involved with posting and the attention to detail it demands to be done successfully.

Our posters are able to do a 10 minute job for $.50 by outsourcing the heavy lifting/data entry to automation technologies that allow us to avoid the use of unreliable Craigslist ad posting freelancers, and ensure the ads go out properly and ON SCHEDULE and turns a 10 minute job into a 2-3 minute job for them (sometimes!).

We send reports via a google spreadsheet once each week. You will be able to check live ad listings via a google spreadsheet each day for the most part as it's updated in real-time.

More importantly, we care! We know what it's like to run a small business, and will be there to help make sure your business grows along with ours.

To experience our craigslist ad posting service or our classified ad lead gen service and start a one week free trial, please email us at robinhoodadpostingservices@gmail.com.

We will post 5 ads for free with the free trial.

PRICING

Rates start at $.50 per live ad. If you do pre-pay one month in advance, you will receive a 20% discount and pay only $.40 per ad.

No minimums like other services!

If someone is offering you a lower price, just send us their web site or invoice with their live ad rates and copies of their live ads, and we will match and beat it by five cents if they can demonstrate their ads "stick" and are not auto flagged or ghosted.

No craigslist ad posting service is perfect, but for ours, at least it can be said that we are honest, and fair, and won't rip you off by offering post-pay billing.

Please make sure when sending your ad content you do not send us ad content that has been previously used with foreign posters, automation software such as CLADG or that has been used with any proxy service.

A few things to note, please do not provide us with content or images previously used by other services as they will be blacklisted and caused your ads to be flagged, and your account to be potentially suspended. Please provide completely fresh, new content when submitting your titles, headlines, and images.

Also, please note, for any miscategorized content or ads requested to be placed in the incorrect category or section and that may result in flagging (auto dealers posting in by owner, for example), you will be required to pay for any flagging that might occur.

There's a lot that can go wrong each day and anyone that tells you differently, has not been posting for long. Craigslist changes their algorithms frequently, and there's no guarantee what they might do to prevent people just like you from getting by and getting ads up so they can get the business they need to survive.

We do guarantee your satisfaction and will work with you to make sure you are getting the leads you want (and not just the ads) which will enable your business to flourish online. If for any reason we cannot get live ads, refunds are available after 12 weeks if we are not able to generate live ads for your business for ads we cannot post (this does not apply to miscategorized or posts flagged by competitors). We do require a 12 week window though in the event we have to re-write your ad content or contact competitors to get them to stop bullying your ads or section/category.

Don't have the budget for a classified or kijiji ad posting service? Posting less than 10 ads a day? Are you an independent realtor or auto dealer posting in one area only? If so, you might be interested in Geil and Mehr's auto-posting software.

They can set up and teach you how to post on your own successfully without having to do anything, the software will do the work for you.

How much does it cost for them to set up automation on your home PC?

Rates for Craigslist and classified ad automation start at $1,299.00 per PC or $44/month when financed. It includes a life-time license to the software (no monthly fees)

Each PC can generally handle 96 ads per day.

That rate includes the full setup of the automation technology on your end, as well as IP rotations and accounts with free phone verification so your ads can run reliably. For more info on that, please contact Geil and Mehr at:

https://geilandmehr.com/product/automation-service-for-classifieds/

HOW TO GET STARTED?

To get started, please email us at robinhoodadpostingservices@gmail.com.

Sorry, but we do not offer phone or Skype support (which is why we offer post-pay billing), but we do offer reliable and immediate email support.

To speed up your free trial, please include your ad headlines, descriptions, images, section, requested times for scheduling and any additional phone numbers you might use for your ads when emailing.

Trouble emailing us? Leave a comment on this blog letting us know, along with your web site so we can contact you.

Please note the Craigslist name and Craigslist logo are registered trademarks of Craigslist, Inc. Robin Hood Ad Posting Service is not affiliated or associated with Craigslist, Inc.

Our services are not to be used to abuse or overload Craigslist. It is the responsibility of the buyer to adhere to the Terms of Service/Terms of Use provided by Craigslist. We are not the direct source of account creation or postings, and act only as intermediaries. We are not responsible for any Craigslist Terms of Service or Terms of Use violations made by our customers. By using this website you agree to the terms and services set forth in our terms of service agreement here.

CRAIGSLIST AD POSTING SERVICE

Only pay for ads live at the end of each day, you do not have to pay for ads that are auto-deleted or what we refer to as ghosted/flagged.
Only pay at the end of each week for ads posted. Pre-pay each week and get a 20% discount ($.40 per ad).
No contracts/no commitments for our CL posting service. It's pay as you go and after we've done the work for post-pay, and the ability to get a refund every 12 weeks for any missed ads with pre-pay (or use missed ads for extra postings in other cities or other sites).
Email leads are checked and forwarded once each day often within minutes of being received.
Flexible weekly or monthly payment plans, pay after ads are posted/verified.
Posting only to your local city? Try Geil and Mehr's Craigslist auto poster, click here for details on getting your PC to post. Their system can post up to 96 ads a day for only $44 a month. Please mention we referred you when signing up to get a $50 discount on your purchase.

How is our service different than other affordable or cheap Craigslist ad posting services?

PRICING

https://geilandmehr.com/product/automation-service-for-classifieds/

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

What Are The Best Craigslist Proxies and VPNs

What are the best Craigslist Proxies and VPNs and where to find or buy them?

Proxies/VPNs when shared, should be seen like prostitutes, they get around and as a result, carry all kinds of stuff with them, stuff you might not want to be associated with and cause you to be "deleted" from your social circles and so on.

If you "use" shared proxies or VPNs, most likely, your account, your content, and so on, will get FRIED, i.e., blacklisted. As for so-called VIRGIN PROXIES, good luck finding those. Even if you do, more than likely, the subnet or data center IP is on that blacklist. There's no such thing as a virgin IP on any VPN service.

Most ads using proxy services or VPNs will be auto-flagged for that reason but some, some might stay live, but they will be few and far between and probably in the housing section where Craigslist allows posts to go live much more than other sections to avoid competition from the likes of Trulia and Zillow (so anything that helps them they make easy, anywhere else they hold a monopoly, they cause you to be like the guy below trying to understand why he can't post ads to get the business he needs to feed his kids). If you're a realtor, you're in luck, because that means you get to use VPNs to place your ads (just know your accounts won't be good for much else outside that).

However, for everyone else, avoid any proxy or VPN you have to buy or rent. They will only make things worse, and they will cause you to pull your hair out of your head, because you think you are doing everything by the book, but it's still not working.

Guess what? The reason why it's not working is because you used proxies or a VPN that has a history unto itself that screams SPAM and now your content carries the mark....FOR LIFE. You have to get new IPs, new accounts, and write all new ad content. You'll also need to change the way you post on accounts at first, and do a few other things which I'll go over at the end.

The typical list of VPN and proxy services for Craigslist include:

HMA
VYPRVPN
PUREVPN
EXPRESSVPN
BESTPROXYANDVPN
ASTRILL VPN
PROXIFY
PROXY RENTAL
IPVANISH
VPN.CC
WONDERPROXY
A google search will probably reveal about 10-20 more such as squid proxies, proxy key, instant proxy and others, all which carry a high rate of disease and infection.

Is there an alternative then to VPNs and proxy servers for Craigslist?

Yes, RDSL or remote DSL to a certain extent, just not shared RDSL services, only ones you set up and use yourself or have a third-party manage for you. This is a good thing because of the few RDSL services out there, like DSL ROOT, they simply don't work and are extremely overpriced given the fact they don't work (much like CLADG and the bastards that work there, which I'll go over in another post).

RDSL services, or remote DSL, when shared, also carry the risks of STDs that can affect your accounts or content. If you use them, guess what, what you use on them will be infected, and spread over to anything else you use it on, such as your browser fingerprint (which CL uses in addition to advanced cookies to track you online).

The only solution we've seen so far that works that we've tried is the method Geil & Mehr uses with their Craigslist automatic posting software, they will fix your IP issues with their setup allowing you to have accounts full of green LIVE ads, but it does not involve proxies but involves setting up unique SOCKS5 connections using your cell phone but more on that with another post as that is technically not RDSL, a proxy or a VPN but rather leveraging your unrealized IP address assets to work in your favor and getting your PC to post for you (up to 100 ads a day!).

However, ever wonder how Craigslist deletes just about anything? It's because they store everything, and a fingerprint of your browser which is like an actual fingerprint they can ID you with, as well as certain content, images, IP ranges, and also accounts, all get blocked when you use something they don't like or associate with spam. There's no protection when it comes to catching Craigslist STDs so abstinence is the best prevention when it comes to shared RDSL or VPNs/Proxies.

More importantly, to add to your confusion, they probably won't delete your account anymore once they've detected something they don't like, they just let your ads get flagged after about 30-60 minutes before they even go live.

And all of this because your content, accounts, and even your PC has the internet version of a virus, a seemingly incurable virus, one that is based on data collected from your postings/accounts and used against you.

To recap, what type of data does Craigslist collect?

1) Your IP address, if you use an IP addresse associated with spam, your ads are already queued for auto-deletion, just try posting on every HMA server to see how this works.

2) Your phone number (and yes, purchasing phone numbers can cause your ads to get auto-deleted if they were previously used on an account associated with spam as they keep a record of all phone numbers used in the past). This is why it's best to use Google Voice for your account if you don't have your own cell phone number to use, as purchasing numbers can just cause you to have an account that has auto-deleted ads from the start, even if trying to sell Battlefront for Xbox One, you'll find even that ad doesn't go live! And there's nothing worse than seeing an account with all its ads deleted and being forced to play a bad Star Wars game!

3) Your browser fingerprint (which act as a super cookie), typically they track you by your browsers webGL or canvas ID, but they can even track you by the favorites/bookmarks you have on your browser as they can act as an identifier when coupled with your unique font set. Using an add-on like Random Agent Spoofer won't solve your problem, there, either, because they can detect Add-Ons, and Random Agent is one big giant red flag if there's ever been one. You might get live posts, but don't expect a perfect campaign of 96 live ads a day or one live ad every 15 minutes like you can with the unique cell IP method engineered by Geil & Mehr.

Then, they use a big mishmash of the above, including your account's posting history, to determine whether they trust your posting or not.

So, how to avoid becoming infected, or once infected, find the cure all to prevent Craigslist from serving an ass-whooping on you each time you post?

Good question, and the answer my friend, is that there are no good VPNs/Proxies or shared RDSL services anymore, not since 2014 anyway.

VPS servers in local cities, also, carry the risk of infection due to their datacenter IP addresses. Most likely, they've been used by all the shithead flaggers and spammers, rendering your small business's efforts useless at generating live ads. If you can get one to sync up with a local dedicated IP from the cable company though, you might be in business there.

A few of the phone number sellers (out of New York or New Jersey) have been raving about Verizon IP mobile addresses as a panacea for nationwide postings. Do those work? They may work better than VPS servers and proxies, but they are not a cure all and they also carry a risk of infection. You have to use them locally as well, they can't really be used for nationwide posting as claimed except for maybe housing and a few other section/categories such as community. You might get lucky with certain Verizon IP addresses, but you might also catch the CL virus in the process.

There are only two solutions, the first is Geil & Mehr's method which you can find details on the following page, https://geilandmehr.com/product/automation-service-for-classifieds/, however, this method only works regionally, not nationwide. You could get it to work nationwide using their BETA program of ad shares.

One of the old automation software programs back in 2011 or so, AdZilla, had a nifty feature just like that allowed users to share IPs with one another, however, the downside to that, is it was from posters that probably already nuked their own IP ranges, and which would lead to your accounts getting infected today. We haven't tried it with Geil and Mehr so we don't know how their IP exchange program works, or if it works at all.

Another guy, that did the "not recommended" CLautorenew program, talks about using dishes to extend your wi-fi reception and grab free wi-fi signals in a city, however, you don't know if those public wifi spots will already have been abused in the past.

A company called Hot! Internet Agency, once had a program they called iPool, and they might still do. This program was where you donated a PC to their program and were allowed 3 posts per day for free on others PCs and they limited the number of posts per PC and the content allowed, however, they stopped taking applicants last time I checked. It did work because they never allowed spam, spam accounts or spammy content on their network though, only posts for legitimate services.

A combination of the above is the approach you yourself will need to take with your network setup.

Recruit out of work people in each city, check out Craigslist's resume section and call them directly, offer them a small fee to use their PC each day using a program like Logmein to have your ads placed, or just pay them to post your ads locally for $10 a week. It's not the most reliable approach (as out of work people will ditch you once they find work) but it's better than having no ads. There's other approaches, and email and ask us if you need some shared wisdom from having dug ourselves out of Craigslist holes multiple times in the past. There are as many ways to build up posting servers/PCs as there are clouds in the sky.

Once you've recruited your team. Here's what you need to avoid the Craigslist Bear.

Use 1 accounts per computer, yes, one account!

3 posts per day per account per section/category, and no more than 10 posts total per day per PC and make sure they are spread out time wise (between 6 am and midnight), don't re-use any content you've used before, write all new headlines and ad bodies, use new phone numbers from callfire, clear your metadata on your images (using batch purifier) and preferably, design all new images, don't put writing on your photos if you can avoid it, and forget the old wisdom about clearing cookies.

Keep your cookies.

Unless you are breaking the rules, clearing cookies or changing IPs will tell Craigslist you're not a big family that is posting/renewing a lot of ads each day, but is rather someone trying to game their system.

Plus, those cookies might come in handy to feed the Craigslist Bear.

Trust me when I say this, constantly clearing cookies is a myth.

A lot of the information out there on how to post on Craigslist is misinformation, it's either put there by people that don't want competition posting their own ads, don't want what they use to stop working from overuse, or that don't know what the hell they are doing and have zero skills when it comes to the analytical sciences.

As with any marketing, always make data-driven decisions, if you're clearing your cookies or using cookie profiles and ads are still getting deleted, guess what, that probably means clearing cookies or using profiles does not help generate live ads. You have to start fresh, like an Irish immigrant on the shores of New York ready to box his way forward to a life of success.

Also, before you create a new CL account, sync up your active accounts with social media networks, make sure that email has a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account. Many of the classified sites and services are using bots or third-party vendors to check these things to rate your account and other companies share with them information to prevent spam. Guess what? If you don't have a lot of friends online, you're pretty much fucked. That doesn't mean you can't go out with a fight though, no?

Finally, for your first 50 to 100 random ad posts (yes, that many), mature the account by posting random ads, like that horrible Batman game you bought for the kids, sell it, and use real numbers you set up, preferably the same number in the ad you use to phone verify the account with.....get responses from the ads, respond back, make Craigslist come to love you, and trust you, so they never think about making you carry their STD. We believe their algorithm works based on a live/flagged ratio of the account, if you have an account they trust though, they allow you to get away with a lot more, and auto-flagging almost never occurs.

Don't ever use the phone number you used to verify one account with another, too, even though it might be tempting to re-use cell phone numbers for multiple accounts.

Why? Because your original account that you spent all that time making into a good, non-flagging account, will then prompt for phone verification, forcing you to buy a phone number, and potentially causing auto-flagging to commence.

Craigslist keeps a record of phone numbers, and if you use one number from one account to another, the account history on the original gets auto-transferred to the new one, and the original one starts fresh and will be unusable until reverified with a brand new phone number.

Want to learn more? Such as how to phone verify accounts for free?

Email us at robinhoodadpostingservices@gmail.com and let us know the problem you're having, and if you ask nicely, and become our friend on Facebook or somewhere, we might let you know how to fix it.

What Are The Best Craigslist Proxies and VPNs

What are the best Craigslist Proxies and VPNs and where to find or buy them?

The typical list of VPN and proxy services for Craigslist include:

Is there an alternative then to VPNs and proxy servers for Craigslist?

Yes, RDSL to a certain extent, just not shared RDSL services, only ones you set up and use yourself or have a third-party manage for you. This is a good thing because of the few RDSL services out there, like DSL ROOT, they simply don't work and are extremely overpriced given the fact they don't work (much like CLADG and the bastards that work there, which I'll go over in another post).

RDSL services, or remote DSL, when shared, also carry the risks of STDs that can affect your accounts or content. If you use them, guess what, what you use on them will be infected, and spread over to anything else you use it on, such as your browser fingerprint (which CL uses in addition to advanced cookies to track you online).

The only solution we've seen so far that works that we've tried is the method Geil & Mehr uses with their Craigslist automatic posting software, they will fix your IP issues with their setup allowing you to have accounts full of green LIVE ads, but it does not involve proxies but involves setting up unique SOCKS5 connections using your cell phone but more on that with another post as that is technically not RDSL, a proxy or a VPN but rather leveraging your unrealized IP address assets to work in your favor and getting your PC to post for you (up to 100 ads a day!).

However, ever wonder how Craigslist deletes just about anything? It's because they store everything, and a fingerprint of your browser which is like an actual fingerprint they can ID you with, as well as certain content, images, IP ranges, and also accounts, all get blocked when you use something they don't like or associate with spam. There's no protection when it comes to catching Craigslist STDs so abstinence is the best prevention when it comes to shared RDSL or VPNs/Proxies.

More importantly, to add to your confusion, they probably won't delete your account anymore once they've detected something they don't like, they just let your ads get flagged after about 30-60 minutes before they even go live.

And all of this because your content, accounts, and even your PC has the internet version of a virus, a seemingly incurable virus, one that is based on data collected from your postings/accounts and used against you.

What type of data do they collect?

1) IP address
2) Phone number (and yes, purchasing phone numbers can cause your ads to get auto-deleted if they were previously used on an account associated with spam). This is why it's best to use Google Voice for your account.
3) Browser fingerprint (which act as super cookies), typically they track you by your browsers webGL or canvas ID, but they can even track you by the favorites/bookmarks you have on your browser as they can act as an identifier when coupled with your unique font set. Using an add-on like Random Agent Spoofer won't solve your problem, there, either, because they can detect Add-Ons, and Random Agent is one big giant red flag if there's ever been one. You might get live posts, but don't expect a perfect campaign of 96 live ads a day or one live ad every 15 minutes like you can with the unique cell IP method engineered by Geil & Mehr.

So, how to avoid becoming infected, or once infected, find the cure all to prevent Craigslist from serving an ass-whooping on you each time you post?

Good question, and the answer my friend, is that there are no good VPNs/Proxies or shared RDSL services anymore, not since 2014 anyway.

VPS servers in local cities, also, carry the risk of infection due to their datacenter IP addresses. Most likely, they've been used by all the shithead flaggers and spammers, rendering your small business's efforts useless at generating live ads. If you can get one to sync up with a local dedicated IP from the cable company though, you might be in business there.

A few of the phone number sellers (out of New York or New Jersey) have been raving about Verizon IP mobile addresses as a panacea for nationwide postings. Do those work? They may work better than VPS servers and proxies, but they are not a cure all and they also carry a risk of infection. You have to use them locally as well, they can't really be used for nationwide posting as claimed except for maybe housing and a few other section/categories such as community. You might get lucky with certain Verizon IP addresses, but you might also catch the CL virus in the process.

There are only two solutions, the first is Geil & Mehr's method, which only works regionally, not nationwide, if you want to post nationwide, you need to set up your own network of residential IP addresses, preferably DSL or static residential IPs.

One of the old automation software programs back in 2011 or so, AdZilla, had a nifty feature that allowed users to share IPs with one another, however, the downside to that, is it was from posters that probably already nuked their own IP ranges, and which would lead to your accounts getting infected today.

Another guy, that did the "not recommended" CLautorenew program, talks about using dishes to extend your wi-fi reception and grab free wi-fi signals in a city, however, you don't know if those public wifi spots will already have been abused in the past.

A company called Hot! Internet Agency, once had a program they called iPool, and they might still do. This program was where you donated a PC to their program and were allowed 3 posts per day for free on others PCs and they limited the number of posts per PC and the content allowed, however, they stopped taking applicants last time I checked. It did work because they never allowed spam, spam accounts or spammy content on their network though, only posts for legitimate services.

A combination of the above is the approach you yourself will need to take with your network setup.

Recruit out of work people in each city, check out Craigslist's resume section and call them directly, offer them a small fee to use their PC each day using a program like Logmein to have your ads placed, or just pay them to post your ads locally for $10 a week. It's not the most reliable approach (as out of work people will ditch you once they find work) but it's better than having no ads. There's other approaches, and email and ask us if you need some shared wisdom from having dug ourselves out of Craigslist holes multiple times in the past. There are as many ways to build up posting servers/PCs as there are clouds in the sky.

Once you've recruited your team. Here's what you need to avoid the Craigslist Bear.

Use 1 accounts per computer, yes, one account!

3 posts per day per account per section/category, so no more than 15 posts total per day per PC and make sure they are spread out time wise (between 6 am and midnight), don't re-use any content you've used before, write all new headlines and ad bodies, use new phone numbers from callfire, clear your metadata on your images and preferably, design all new images, don't put writing on your photos if you can avoid it, and forget the old wisdom about clearing cookies.

As with any marketing, always make data-driven decisions, if you're clearing your cookies or using cookie profiles and ads are still getting deleted, guess what, that probably means clearing cookies or using profiles does not help generate live ads. You have to start fresh, like an Irish immigrant on the shores of New York ready to box his way forward to a life of success.

Also, before you create a new CL account, sync up your active accounts with social media networks, make sure that email has a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account. Many of the classified sites and services are using bots or third-party vendors to check these things to rate your account and other companies share with them information to prevent spam. Guess what? If you don't have a lot of friends online, you're pretty much fucked. That doesn't mean you can't go out with a fight though, no?

Finally, for your first 50 to 100 posts (yes, that many), mature it by posting random stuff, like that horrible Batman game you bought for the kids, sell it, and use real numbers you set up, preferably the same number in the ad you use to phone verify the account with.....get responses from the ads, respond back, make Craigslist come to love you, and trust you, so they never think about making you carry their STD. We believe their algorithm works based on a live/flagged ratio of the account, if you have an account they trust though, they allow you to get away with a lot more, and auto-flagging almost never occurs.

Don't ever use the phone number you used to verify one account with another, too, even though it might be tempting to re-use cell phone numbers for multiple accounts.

Why? Because your original account that you spent all that time making into a good, non-flagging account, will then prompt for phone verification, forcing you to buy a phone number, and potentially causing auto-flagging to commence.

Craigslist keeps a record of phone numbers, and if you use one number from one account to another, the account history on the original gets auto-transferred to the new one, and the original one starts fresh and will be unusable until reverified with a brand new phone number.

Want to learn more? Such as how to phone verify accounts for free?

Email us at robinhoodadpostingservices@gmail.com and let us know the problem you're having, and if you ask nicely, and become our friend on Facebook or somewhere, we might let you know how to fix it.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

How To Prevent Auto-Flagging on Craigslist

How To Stop The Craigslist Mega Bitch

One of the most frustrating aspects of posting is seeing your ads auto-deleted, en masse. According to Craigslist, if your ad is flagged by an indiscriminate flagger (e.g., a competitor), you can repost with changes, but when you go about doing that, you find that maybe every single ad is flagged? They then provide virtually no support, and if you see one of their developer's response on Quora, wonder if maybe they are too full of hubris to ask themselves if maybe they're going the wrong way about things and hurting people in the process.

For the person suffering the disease of auto-flagging. Nothing sticks, nothing goes live, and you ask yourself: WHY?

It's because Craigslist has narrowed the restrictions on what they allow, like any good dictator, ex-wife or mega bitch, they are out to get you in the cleverest ways possible. They don't want to just banish you, they want to bring you down.

This is a guide for those of you that have played by the rules, found Craigslist unresponsive to your pleas, and while you'd love to use a competing service like OfferUp or Backpage, maybe you're posting a small business ad that is getting flagged down by competitors, and there are no good alternatives to Craigslist, not yet anyway, where you can make a living off your ads. And remember, Craigslist does not care that you have a family to feed and they have no problem letting your competitors that have learned to game the system get away with over posting while they allow their lazy automation systems to flag down everyone else's ads.

Just do a search for "garage door repair" on any service section on Craigslist, you'll probably find it's one lead generation company owned by an Israeli or Russian I believe, that has flagged everyone else down and has only their ads showing for the most part in virtually every city, there's probably dozens if not hundreds posted a day, and almost all stick while everyone else's flags. Is that fair?

The reasonable alternative to this would be creating a directory instead of listings so each small business gets a piece of the pie, and rotating the directory listings for unique results each time based on the visitor's IP address location, browser location, and search history, so every small business in each city gets traffic and ad views. Then, have the algorithm for all the classifieds based on a rating system, rather than a flagging system. It will still be gamed, true, but at least it will be more fair than having almost every ad removed, and provide a far richer user experience for Craigslist visitors as they will have a wider variety of choices, a history of feedback from other users (and while you're at it, allow account ratings too, showing flagging and flagged ad histories, and tie those up into an algorithm so those that abuse the flagging system have far less weight than a standard user that doesn't sit around flagging hundreds of ads each day). But anyway....for the typical visitor to this site, and not Craig or Jim or anyone else at Craigslist (for who the above message was for), you probably want to know how to get at least one ad to stick. Here's some info:

Reasons Craigslist cites for ads being flagged:

Ad is posted outside the local area (non-local IP address).
You posted more than one ad per category per account within 48 hours. Yep, the old 3 ads per day per account rule NO LONGER APPLIES.
You included a name, address, phone number, web site in your ad body.
You included contact info in your image, even a phone number on a yard sign they say will cause flagging.
Moderators claim that ads can be flagged simply for not putting enough detail in too, for example, are you an auto-dealer posting in by owner? Guess what? They will flag the ad simply because it has a photo of a car on a street instead of in a driveway (apparently ignoring the fact not everyone has a driveway, especially those living in major cities).

So the best way to avoid auto-flagging?

Use a local residential IP.
Only use each account once every 48 hours.
They recommend deleting your previous ads before re-posting new ones with the same or similar content, if you find ads are still being flagged after 48 hours, try that.
Use local phone numbers, and make sure to use the number you verify the account with in the phone field for the local posting.
If you're putting a phone number in an image, try to blend it in so their image reading systems can't scan it and ID it. You'll notice that garage door repair company has blurry images with the phone number a bit blurry too, that's how they get around it most likely.
Although they do not say this in their flag forum, there is evidence suggesting many of the classified web sites are mining social media data to rate new user account. The Advanced Interactive Media Group's Classified Intelligence/Classified Intelligence Report, an industry newsletter that costs a thousand dollars or so I believe, and which is mainly focused on reporting the latest news on Craigslist, Backpage and other classified web sites, stated in their last report that classifieds are starting to look at and use social media data, which means Google, Facebook and others could be sharing data with Craigslist or a third party service that Craigslist contracts out to, so if the email you're using doesn't have a life beyond Craigslist, it might get penalized or even trashed as they'll view it as potential spam, even if it isn't. Say it's just an email you created so you could download virtual reality porn, and don't want your wife to know because maybe you two share an email, but either way, if that report is correct, then most likely, a new account created with that new email, might not work.

You might also be saying, well, how can I get that many accounts and phone numbers to post one ad per account every 48 hours? Well, there's good news and bad news, the good news is you can now use Google Voice (just create one for each gmail you use) or use an app on your smart phone, TextMe. You can get free phone numbers from it, which you can then use. The bad news is you have to log into each one to get the calls, and watch a lot of videos to get free credits, and also, it might not continue to work indefinitely (if it even still works). Make sure to send the calls as VOICE, not SMS though, when using TextMe.

How You're Getting Scammed on Thumbtack.com

Thumbtack.com is a pretty crappy site, borderline scam. Why?

Advertisers/contractors will send fake bids to use up your ad budget so when legitimate leads come in, guess what? You've already spent your money on fake ones. It's 2007's click fraud on Google all over again, only 9 years later, and with another web site that is looking to cash in on every small business's inability to see past these digital scams perpetuated by Google and its parent company Alphabet. Google Capital, incidentally, invested in Thumbtack.com, funny they now show at the top of most organic search results, right?

But what is really discouraging about Thumbtack is the way in which the traffic that was once generated by Craigslist's service section ads, is now going to Thumbtack, by the way of Google and Craigslist's incompetence in relying on automation that has pissed off a lot of their users who now go to other sites to look for service quotes.

As a test, 3 years ago, if you ran ads in a service section on Craigslist, you'd get a few calls a day. Now, you're lucky if you get one a day or even a week on Craigslist (compounded by their desire to auto-flag almost everyone that posts a new ad).

So what can you do? How are some fighting back against this injustice?

1) Some are sending spammy links to thumbtack.com for your relevant keywords so Google's automated system kicks in and knocks them down. This is referred to as "negative SEO", you can use the power of algorithms to work in your favor, and against monopolies which seek to dominate search results with low quality lead services (rather than directories like the yellow pages that democratized contractors).

2) Others are sending emails to Thumbtack complaining about the lack of any review for incoming leads. SMS verification required, you think? Right now, any dipshit in India can send you 50 requests for jobs that don't actually exist using programs such as Hide My Ass. Thumbtack profits off these scammers, while you suffer. That's bullshit! Keep complaining, and voice your concerns not just with your emails, but with your wallet. Don't bid on leads that haven't been verified to be REAL PEOPLE in the city you are servicing.

3) Click on their google ads all day, and all night long. Use HMA and random agent spoofer on firefox (disable canvas ID and webgl so they can't track you via your browser fingerprint), or instead of HMA, use your phone's hotspot, go in and out of airplane mode for a new IP each time.

Oh, which reminds me, Google is also profiting off click fraud.

File a class action lawsuit against Alphabet for the 35% in income they've probably generated off bogus clicks from proxy services (which they should never have been billing for) and not only will you destroy their stock price if you win (because 35% of google's ad revenue is a lot of money, and a lot of refunds), you will help to take down a corporate monopoly and ensure a wider range of competitors take their place that put your interests ahead of a corporations' profit mongering.

CRAIGSLIST AUTOMATION SOFTWARES REVIEWED

CRAIGSLIST AUTO POSTING SOFTWARE REVIEWED - CLADG VS. ADMISSILE VS CL AUTO RENEW VS CL BOT PRO VS AD CLIMBER UPDATED 2016

CLADG CRAIGSLIST AUTO POSTING SOFTWARE

Our Rating: 0/10

Advantages:

None.

Disadvantages:

Overpriced.

The software leaves fingerprints that result in mass deletions, they provided zero support to resolve it.

The software may result in a cease and desist from Craigslist, and possibly a lawsuit, based on what others have told us after having used it themselves.

Horrible, horrible customer service. Responses are condescending and rude.

They don’t take credit card, only wire transfer or bit coin. So, you have no guarantee if they decide to cheat you. They've been known to keep money, and tell the person that purchased a license to fuck off.

We do not recommend using CLADG, it’s bad news all the way to Belize, which is where we think they’re located (and if you notice Craigslist doesn’t have a section for Belize, it’s probably because of them).

AD MISSILE CL POSTING SOFTWARE

Our Rating: 3.0/10

Advantages:

Like a young Indiana Jones once was told, “you got heart, kid” - this software is promising, if they can navigate the difficult terrain of avoiding lawsuits, getting the software to actually work for the average person, it might be a good candidate for "posting software of the year" award one day. They need to keep the software out of the hands of spammers though.

Disadvantages:

The demo we tried did not really work. In their defense, it was in beta, and the software shows a lot of promise.

Customer support, while friendly, was unable to resolve the issue. Given that we’re no idiots when it comes to software, the issue is with their user interface that copies off CLADG but doesn’t solve all the UI issues plaguing CLADG. We'd be happier with a much simpler system that takes care of all the headaches, rather than adding to them.

They get a 4.0 because it’s in beta and shows promise, but when we test the finished product, if it still doesn’t post an ad reliably and easily, it’s getting removed from the rankings.

UPDATE Feb 29, 2016:

Still not working, so getting bumped down to a 3.0 as it's 2016 already. Someone wrote me that they are a "one man" show and they don't use the software, so starting to look more and more like it's a Sean Connery show featuring the old Bond retiring instead of a River Phoenix, or hell, even a Daniel Craig, ready to get shit done.

CL AUTO RENEW

Our Rating: 1.0/10.0

Advantages:

Cheap, barebones design.

Works on a limited scale

Disadvantages:

Won't work for most posters, doesn't save much time.

Confusing interface.

Weird installation and setup.

A great deal of misinformation on the site related to posting which can cause issues, such as using HMA, for example.

GEIL & MEHR AUTO POSTER (built off the code from CL BOT PRO)

Our Rating: 9.0/10

Advantages:

It’s cheaper than the others over the long-term as
no monthly fees.

They set everything up for you, unlike the other software programs that leave you stumbling with a confused interface and just causes your ads to be deleted if you do not know what you are doing.

They try, and haven't stopped (which counts for something), craigslist has not crushed them yet.

It actually posts ads.
They update within 24 hours so downtime is never an issue like it was with CLADG back in the day.

Disadvantages:

Does not allow for advanced browser customization needed to avoid auto-flagging related to cookies, browser fingerprinting, and more if using multiple accounts, however, they do set it up to handle 100 postings/renewals a day.

You can also order this software on a monthly plan with no set-up assistance from several sites such as claposter.com and a hundred other affiliate sites. All of these sites are merely re-selling the original source code from CL BOT PRO.

AD CLIMBER

Our rating: 2/10

This program makes some extraordinary claims, but as the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Given the weight of the claims made in the video at their web site regarding the efficacy of this program at posting successfully, which shows an account filled with live ads, we thought we'd check it out. Too good to be true? Yes, we found, that in fact, it was too good to be true. The video was either doctored, or used a very old "trusted" account, but more than likely, the majority of those ads would eventually be deleted as everyone knows, and the account placed on hold. This might work for a day or a week, but it's no way to go about posting long-term (unless your strategy is to get someone else's accounts to use for your own posting, which this software might just be doing due to the fact it asks for your CL account at the very start).

Advantages:

It posts the ads but does not appear to be fully automated, only allows for one account at this time and posts still need to be email verified at times.

The posting process is fast, the randomization tools appear to work, and if it weren't for the bugs detailed below and the auto-flagging, it might have been a great tool for use in the daily posting wars though it's still far too expensive compared to other tools such as CL BOT PRO.

Disadvantages:

During our testing, all ads were auto-flagged using a good account and IP. IP was blocked after the first post. Only allowed for 3 service ads. Said it posted a 4th but when we checked, nothing there.

The software was filled with typos and bad grammar, which makes it feel rushed.

The scheduling did not work. You have to click start each time in order to get an ad posted at least with the windows version. No way to schedule your campaigns to run automatically at least with the version we tested.

Mac version did not work. PC version worked. We did not test the Linux, as we felt no need to, given the fact that the ads posted were auto-flagged.

You can only use one PC, forcing you to use proxies, which will result in your accounts getting blocked and your ads auto-flagged. No ability to extend it to multiple PCs for local residential IP posting that actually works.

They write that by using Java they avoid cookies, but if you have to verify by email, guess what? You need a web browser for that, which still involves cookies unless you're in private mode, but privacy experts would tell you, web sites don't need cookies to track you. You can be tracked via your browser fingerprint, so opening up your browser will still allow them to ID you and put a big red flag next to your browser fingerprint to blacklist anything posted with that fingerprint.

p.s.

if you're trying to avoid a fingerprint, use a mobile phone w/cookies disabled in that case.....mobile phone browsers offer the best protection against browser fingerprinting according to experts, if using a desktop PC, Internet Explorer is considered the browser least likely to give off an identifiable fingerprint (Microsoft as usual has delivered a product so shitty and not fully supported after launch that it even breaks the browser fingerprint technology they didn't develop).

Final verdict:

Given the fact that Ad Climber asks for your Craigslist account, it's either a phishing scam to get your account, or a product rushed to market where the bugs haven't been worked out. We'll give them the benefit of the doubt and wait for them to update the software and test it again but until then, there are less expensive, better and proven solutions available.

They should also be charging no more than $9.95 a month or the price of a netflix membership for this software until the bugs are resolved. People would be less inclined to cancel after seeing auto-flagging and IP blocks after the first few posts if they didn't feel they were getting ripped off with a product rushed to market.

OUR CHOICE:

GEIL AND MEHR AUTO POSTER

While it's not perfect, it's the best of a bunch of poor alternatives when it comes to a craigslist auto-posting software.

It can't post nationwide, but it can post/renew up to 96 ads a day. They set it up for you, saving you time, and ensuring you get the live ads you need. When financed, it's only $44 a month, which makes it cheaper than every other software program out there and once paid off, there are no monthly fees.

Do you need help setting up CL automation software?

Geil and Mehr will set it up for you, unlike the other programs. Order it on their site as it comes with a 90 day money back guarantee:

https://geilandmehr.com/product/automation-service-for-classifieds/

If you're using CLADG, AD MISSILE, AD CLIMBER or any other software, we can set up your campaigns for you (even though we don't recommend those programs). Our rates are reasonable and we will quote you based on the complexity of your campaigns, but most automation software can be set up for around $300 to $2,000.00 based on the number of ads being posted a day and cities (as more complicated campaigns will require socks5/non-shared IPs from each city).

Check back for updated reviews then on other programs as we continually test them. Are you offering a new software? Please email us here so we can review it.

For more details on help with setting up campaigns on automation software, please email robinhoodadpostingservices@gmail.com and put "automation help" in your subject line.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

How To Flag Other Ads On Craigslist When They Are Flagging You (WITHOUT ACTUALLY FLAGGING)

Robin of Loxley here, I'd like to tell you a story I once heard from little John.....little John said the best way to flag someone was not by fighting fire with fire, or flags versus flags, but by making the assailant turn to water to put their own fire out.

We personally hate flaggers here, they are the scum of the earth (and people that create programs and bots like craigsflagger, you are also scum that serves scum), so we thought we might share this story for anyone else that has to deal with flaggers that does not want to become one themselves.

Although the individual's name that told us this story one evening by a campfire was not actually Little John, this person was a small business owner and they were being picked on by a bully with a much bigger budget that was trying to prevent everyone else from getting any business, or playing fair, on the classifieds, and Little John (as they will now be called) said they did the below for a David versus Goliath moment.

This is not advice or a guide, just information relayed on how they responded to competitors flagging their ads with a technique that burned down the bully's barn so they had to spend their time fixing up their own farm before attacking others (and according to Little John, they never bullied again after this little trick).

Let us know your thoughts:

Have you tried the below technique against flaggers? Does it work? If so, share your answers in the comments.

STEP 1: BE A GOOD ARTIST.

COPY THEIR ADS WORD FOR WORD.

STEP 2: BE A GREAT ARTIST.

Download the demo of CLADG, apply the crack to get CLADG for free (this is where the second part of Picasso's quote comes in, also worth mentioning, Jobs stole the quote from Picasso).

If you don't want to use CLADG, you can also do it manually or hire someone that doesn't know what they are doing to post the ads for you, there are hundreds if not thousands of them on sites like Freelancer and oDesk claiming they are ad posting experts, and why not use this as an opportunity to let them show off their expertise?

STEP 3: BE GREAT.

Use accounts with deletion histories or created on VPNs or proxies (same thing). Set up HMA or any shared VPN/proxy, select a server outside the city you're posting in. Then, post their copied ads using CLADG.

RESULT?

Did the bully's ad content then become blacklisted, and auto-deleted, moving forward?

Little John said it did along with any IP addresses and accounts they used with that content, but we'd rather hear it from you.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

How is our service different than other affordable or cheap Craigslist ad posting services?

PRICING

How is our service different than other affordable or cheap Craigslist ad posting services?

PRICING

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

What are the best Craigslist Proxies and VPNs and where to find or buy them?

The typical list of VPN and proxy services for Craigslist include:

Is there an alternative then to VPNs and proxy servers for Craigslist?

What are the best Craigslist Proxies and VPNs and where to find or buy them?

The typical list of VPN and proxy services for Craigslist include:

Is there an alternative then to VPNs and proxy servers for Craigslist?

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

How To Stop The Craigslist Mega Bitch

Reasons Craigslist cites for ads being flagged:

So the best way to avoid auto-flagging?

CRAIGSLIST AUTO POSTING SOFTWARE REVIEWED - CLADG VS. ADMISSILE VS CL AUTO RENEW VS CL BOT PRO VS AD CLIMBER **** UPDATED 2016****

CLADG CRAIGSLIST AUTO POSTING SOFTWARE

Our Rating: 0/10

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

AD MISSILE CL POSTING SOFTWARE

Our Rating: 3.0/10

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

UPDATE Feb 29, 2016:

CL AUTO RENEW

Our Rating: 1.0/10.0

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

GEIL & MEHR AUTO POSTER (built off the code from CL BOT PRO)

Our Rating: 9.0/10

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

AD CLIMBER

Our rating: 2/10

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

Final verdict:

OUR CHOICE:

GEIL AND MEHR AUTO POSTER

Do you need help setting up CL automation software?

For more details on help with setting up campaigns on automation software, please email robinhoodadpostingservices@gmail.com and put "automation help" in your subject line.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

STEP 1: BE A GOOD ARTIST.

STEP 2: BE A GREAT ARTIST.

STEP 3: BE GREAT.

RESULT?

CRAIGSLIST AUTO POSTING SOFTWARE REVIEWED - CLADG VS. ADMISSILE VS CL AUTO RENEW VS CL BOT PRO VS AD CLIMBER UPDATED 2016