How To Post On Craigslist

Quite often I am asked: now that I have my craigslist image ad how do I post my ad.

This is a bare bones no fluff approach to posting images on CL. If you can copy and paste you can do this.

Once you have your ad saved in a folder that is easily reached, like On your desktop, up load it to imageshack.us

Here is how you do that. Go to

http://www.imageshack.us/

you will see on the right a cancel annd browse button hit browse and find your image. Tip: if you are loading several images that are the same then Give them each a different name. I give random letters and numbers.

Once uploaded onto imageshack yoou will see something similar to The image below. Highlite and copy the direct link.

Now open any html editor, there are several free. I use NVU it is open source= free.
Hit the image icon in the tool bar. A separate window will pop up. Insert your
Link from imageshack. Image below.

Hit the ok button.If you want to make it clickable hit the link tab on the right Insert your site domain name like below.

Hit the ok button.

Now find the source button at the bottom and what will show is an image Like below.

Make sure you save the document. Then copy from <html> to </html>

Go To craigslist.org

1. Click “post to classifieds” near thee top left.
2. As an example, select “for sale”".
3. Click “computers & tech”.
4. Click your region if several are offered.
5. Click your town if several are offered. The input form should now be on screen.
6. Insert the posting title, and your price.
7. Place the cursor in Craigslist’s Product Description window and press CTRL-V to paste the code. One thing you must do when posting this way is to take out the title. This is the name you saved your Document as.

<title>easy central</title> it will look like this when you do that. <title> </title> If you don’t the words will show up on the top of your image ad.

8. Enter your e-mail address in thee window. Make sure it’s correct.
9. Click continue and follow on-screen instructions to finish your ad. You should see a preview containing your very large image add and it will be clickable (WOW)
10. Type in the security code, click “Continue” and you are done. Craigslist will send you an e-mail with a link to your ad. Be sure to check it for errors. Now it’s time to wait for buyers.

If you want to check it first to make sure your ad is as it should be.
Open the saved html doc in any browser. This way you are making sure the link not only showing up
but, you can check to make sure thee ad is clickable.

This should do it and you are good to go.

When wanting to post several ads of the same image each one should have a different name to confuse the bots on cl. They will look like this. You can load up several at a time and then copy ea link separately

SDFH90MCXZW3.jpg

Ghktyuiwert.jpg

XCBGNQW4TR56.jpg

ZFT789HJQW4ER.jpg

And that is all there is to it. I may look difficult at first but after the first time you will have it down and can post in just a couple of minutes.

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