While doing some research on renting out my condo in Charlotte, I found a novel technique for making money from Craigslist. About once a week, someone posts links for a condo for rent. The person’s posts have pictures and a very reasonable price listed. Instead of providing a phone number or email address, he encourages people to contact him through his website. The site is a domain parking page at Sedo with PPC ads for condos in downtown Charlotte. The condo market is pretty hot here, and related keywords are going for over $1.00 per click on Adwords. Even after Sedo takes their cut, he is still doing pretty well. I am curious how much traffic this could generate.
You can check out the ads in question here. The landing page at Sedo is located here.
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Generally craigslist’s users tend to quickly flag spam as spam, but these listings are still up.
I just checked today (9/20/07) and it looks like the PPC page was pulled. I wouldn’t be surprised if doing a craigslist pull/scam is a violation of Sedo’s (and just about every other parking page’s) TOS. Interestingly, your blog post here probably was what made Sedo take a look at it.
Genius, if the pages stay up long enough to cash in from it. I’d be interested in seeing this guy’s profits from this.
Very interesting find. There are so many combinations of ads/landing pages that this could used for.
I am just trying the same trick with Gumtree.com. Will let you know how it works for me later.
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I have a much better and quazi legitimate way of doing it. I also am pulling as much as 3.96 from Sedo parking for my keyword. It is all working great and doesn’t actually violate Sedo’s TOS! Zaaaaa!