5 Minute Boot Camp – How to post a video in your Craigslist Ad
Craigslist doesn’t allow Video Embed Code in their listings. Here is a way to make a Video “Fake Out” ad and get the same click through as if you embedded a video right in your ad.
Clickable Image Wizard
Jack Mize
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Jack Mize
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September 26, 2013
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Thanks Greg. It’s definitely one of the easiest ninja tricks that most posters that use YouTube links don’t do.
Michael
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September 26, 2013
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Very nice. Is the Clickable Image Wizard tool available for download so I can have it in my personal toolbox?
Jack Mize
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September 29, 2013
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Thanks Michael. This is just a web tool I had created so there’s no download, of course your welcome to bookmark the page and use it all you want.
I was actually thinking about doing a training around getting these kind of wizards created if anyone is interested in that.
5 Minute Boot Camp - How to embed a video in your BackPage.com Ad - JackMize.com
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October 13, 2013
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[…] can use the Craigslist “Video Fake Out” method as well, if you want to send them to your own landing […]
Jack Mize
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October 15, 2013
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It’s certainly still relevant for myself and many others. I’ve posted clickable images several times in the last few months, including one this morning.
What city and category have you tried?
Geo
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October 19, 2013
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“IMG, FONT, TABLE, DIV, and SPAN tags are no longer supported in this category. Please use CL image upload for images.”
SF bay area craigslist > south bay > for sale / wanted > garage & moving sales > repost posting
Jack Mize
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October 19, 2013
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I see. You are posting outside of the services. I only use it for local business marketing, so you may be correct if you are advertising garage sales etc..
Looking in the SF Bay Area section, I still see clickable images in services sections, so the tool would certainly be relevant for folks using it marketing their business.
Thanks for the clarification.
Darren
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November 8, 2013
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The HTML code is being auto striped from the ad… Oh well was a good tool for its time
Laurie
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April 20, 2014
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Hey Jack.
I’ve tried for quite some time to post as a property manager attempting to post for a rental property, but have had no luck. Is this tool still relevant? It is for a rental property in San Diego, CA.
Any information you could provide would be very helpful. Thanks.
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December 29, 2014
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I told my grandmother how you helped. She said, “bake them a cake!”
LJStevens
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January 28, 2015
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Great tutorial, Jack!
The only problem is, I can’t get it to work.
I just spent over 5 hours trying to. But no matter what I do, all I can get is the video link as a VERY small icon below my main image. The photo for clickable link simply will NOT load.
You can see what I mean by going to this ad:
http://vienna.en.craigslist.at/cls/4867468774.html
I’m assuming it is because of the share setting on Google Drive, and Dropbox, and Google+ Photos, and one or two others that I tried.
Any suggestions you have to correct this would be MOST appreciated.
Thnx.
LJS
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