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Field notes on Craigslist posting — what works, what gets flagged, what it costs, and who's making it pay.
Guide · November 9, 2026 · 2 min
Craigslist pet rules: rehoming is allowed, selling isn't
Craigslist bans pet sales but allows rehoming with a small adoption fee, and only in Community › Pets. Here's what gets a pet post removed, where it has to go, and how long it stays up.
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Guide · 3 min
Craigslist posting service: what it costs and how it works
What a Craigslist posting service actually does, what you should pay, and the five things to check before you hand one your ad. With real numbers for single posts and 50-city orders.
Guide · 2 min
How to list rentals on Craigslist in multiple cities
Craigslist rental listings are free almost everywhere and stay up 45 days in most markets. Here's what it costs where it isn't free, how long listings last, and how property managers keep units visible.
Guide · 2 min
Craigslist services ads for local businesses: what works in 2026
Craigslist charges $5 to post in services in every city, and the posts run 30 days. Here's which services category to pick, how to write an ad that gets calls, and how often to post.
Research · 3 min
How long do Craigslist ads last? 30 days or 45, depending on where
Craigslist says paid posts run 30 days and free posts run "7 to 45 days" without saying which. We measured it across seven markets: free posts last 45 days in mid-size cities and 30 in the biggest metros.
Guide · 3 min
How to post a job on Craigslist in multiple cities
Craigslist charges $10 to $75 per job post depending on the city, makes you post each city separately, and expires every post after 30 days. Here's how to plan a multi-city hiring push, and what it really costs.
Research · 5 min
How long a Craigslist ad stays on page one
We measured 25 markets across four categories. A for-sale listing in Los Angeles is off page one in six minutes. An office listing in Detroit holds it for eleven days. Posts expire after 30 to 45 days, but that was never the number that mattered.
Case study · 5 min
How one affiliate marketer cleared $20K from Craigslist gigs posts in a summer
A CPA marketer with no ad budget and no audience turned the computer gigs section into a lead machine. The numbers, the metros that worked, and the part that almost sank it.
Case study · 4 min
The used-car lot that gets 30 leads a week from Craigslist
When Facebook Marketplace shut off dealer inventory feeds, one independent dealer went back to the oldest classifieds on the internet. What he posts, what it costs, and why he still bothers with Marketplace too.
Guide · 5 min
Why posting on Craigslist got so hard
Fees on the sections that used to be free, one post per category per city every 48 hours, phone verification loops, posts that vanish without a word. What people actually complain about, with sources, and what each problem is really about.
Guide · 4 min
Your Craigslist post isn't showing up. Here's why, and what to do.
The confirmation email arrived, the ad is in your account, and nobody can find it. That's ghosting. How to confirm it, what triggers it, why the usual fixes don't stick, and how to get a post that actually appears.
Guide · 5 min
Craigslist posting fees in 2026, section by section
What Craigslist actually charges to post — by section, and for gigs and jobs, by city — and why the number you see at checkout is different from the number in every blog post about it.
Guide · 4 min
How to post one ad in 50 cities without getting banned
Craigslist's rules were written for one person posting one thing. Here's what it actually takes for a business to be live in dozens of metros — the accounts, the pacing, the wording, the honest cost, and the mistakes that get whole operations shut down.