What is the Most Popular Free Classified Ad Site?
Started as just an email address list, and a hobby of Craig Newmark in 1995, Craigslist.com has grown to dominate the online classified ads market by remaining totally free.
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It's Craigslist.org, not .com
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CEO Jim Buckmaster still has Craigslist.org, instead of a .com, reportedly to reflect the site's non-commercial, non-corporate persona online.
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Craigslist is a business
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In spite of the .org designation, Craigslist is a for-profit business. This is evidenced by the advertising seen on the site.
Craigslist is the world's largest online classified site
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Craigslist.org enjoys 2 billion page views per month, with approximately 8 million of them unique, per month. The site carroes 50 million classified ads and about 1 million new forum postings each month.
Craigslist watches their activity closely.
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The most popular categories on Craigslist are as follows: 1) Jobs, 2) Housing, 3) For sale, 4) Personals and 5) Forum postings The country with the most users is the United States.
Craigslist forums are on the rise.
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At present there are 120 million forum postings across 11 topical discussions. Those discussions are in English, French, German, Italian, Portugese and Spanish.
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Craigslist sucks! They are Nazis when it comes to stopping or blocking legitimate business from advertising their services-but they let spammers and crap ads all over their site!
