Flickr – Craigslist Marketing Secrets – Terry Carter

These are the ingredients:

1. Yahoo email account

2. Free Flickr account – thru your yahoo email

3. Craigslist or Backpage ad

4. JPG or similar photo/pic to upload to your Flickr account

5. The website you want to promote.

Craigslist and Backpage are very similar in the way you post an ad. Both allow up to 4 images to be uploaded onto their site. However, you cannot have them link to anything.  So we turn to a free photo sharing site like Yahoo’s Flickr.

Flickr allows you to upload up to 200 images ~~ per yahoo email account ~~ which seriously people, really should be more than enough.

The problem we run into with using a Flickr hosted image is that by default, when you grab the embed code to put it into your ad, it links to the Flickr account it’s tied to.  Not very helpful for driving traffic to your website.

What you need to do is grab the ‘embed it’ code on Flickr for the image you’re using.

Then post it into the description box of the craigslist or backpage ad.

Next you want to delete all the junk in the anchor tag <a href=”http…..”>

and replace it with <a href=”http://www.YourWebSiteLink.com”>

be sure to not leave off closing ” ” marks or else the link won’t work right.

(CHECK your CODE!) That’s where people usually run into trouble – they accidentally delete a closing tag or ” ” or something easy to miss and wonder why it doesn’t work.

That’s pretty much it on using Flickr with Craigslist and Backpage to drive traffic to your website.

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