The Advanced Interactive Media Group's Classified Intelligence/Classified Intelligence Report, an industry newsletter that costs a thousand dollars or so I believe, and which is mainly focused on reporting the latest news on Craigslist, Backpage and other classified web sites, stated in their last report that classifieds are starting to look at and use social media data, which means Google, Facebook and others could be sharing data with Craigslist or a third party service that Craigslist contracts out to, so if the email you're using doesn't have a life beyond Craigslist, it might get penalized or even trashed as they'll view it as potential spam, even if it isn't. Although they do not say this in their flag forum, there is evidence suggesting many of the classified web sites are mining social media data to rate new user account.You'll notice that garage door repair company has blurry images with the phone number a bit blurry too, that's how they get around it most likely. If you're putting a phone number in an image, try to blend it in so their image reading systems can't scan it and ID it.Use local phone numbers, and make sure to use the number you verify the account with in the phone field for the local posting.They recommend deleting your previous ads before re-posting new ones with the same or similar content, if you find ads are still being flagged after 48 hours, try that.Only use each account once every 48 hours.But anyway.for the typical visitor to this site, and not Craig or Jim or anyone else at Craigslist (for who the above message was for), you probably want to know how to get at least one ad to stick.

It will still be gamed, true, but at least it will be more fair than having almost every ad removed, and provide a far richer user experience for Craigslist visitors as they will have a wider variety of choices, a history of feedback from other users (and while you're at it, allow account ratings too, showing flagging and flagged ad histories, and tie those up into an algorithm so those that abuse the flagging system have far less weight than a standard user that doesn't sit around flagging hundreds of ads each day). Then, have the algorithm for all the classifieds based on a rating system, rather than a flagging system. The reasonable alternative to this would be creating a directory instead of listings so each small business gets a piece of the pie, and rotating the directory listings for unique results each time based on the visitor's IP address location, browser location, and search history, so every small business in each city gets traffic and ad views.

Stop getting flagged on craigslist