Spammin’ & Jammin’ With Craig’s List

Posted by Greg on April 30th, 2006

Have you run out of great ideas when it comes to clever ways to get some link love from super trusted .org sites? If you have, here’s a tip. Surf on over to Craig’s List and browse the resume section. Copy the content of the oldest resumes you can find. Then repost those resumes with an off-topic title and text links embeded in the bottom of the page.

Just don’t pick a title that would draw the attention of the only people on the web who have a clue about the purpose of the text links you added. :)

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8 Responses to “ Spammin’ & Jammin’ With Craig’s List ”

  1. Neil Patel on April 30th, 2006 1:14 am

    It is not a bad trick, but it just does not seem ethical. If you are trying to get links you can try releasing press releases, write good content, and try to use other mediums to your advantage.

    If you are trying to get links from Craig’s List, you can post a job opening and link back to your website. The downfall is that it will cost you for the job posting.

  2. graywolf on April 30th, 2006 1:27 am

    aren’t they blocking the whole resume directory?

    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acraigslist.org%2Fres%2F&btnG=Search

  3. Matt Cutts on April 30th, 2006 11:49 am

    Craig’s List has a robots.txt that blocks /res/ .

  4. WebGuerrilla on April 30th, 2006 9:06 pm

    Which makes the fact these guys are putting effort into spamming with resumes even more hysterical. :)

  5. esoomllub on May 1st, 2006 12:16 pm

    They blockholed that pretty damned quick!

  6. IrishWonder on May 3rd, 2006 9:17 am

    This posting has been removed by craigslist staff.

    Looks like you’ve tipped them ;-)

  7. willard97 on May 5th, 2006 5:51 pm

    It’s a pretty comical little litmus test when you mention this stuff. Your Forbes mention and the Craigs-List-link-love got vaporized offly quick…. I don’t think there’s any question about the walls having ears in here.

  8. abhilash on May 11th, 2006 6:42 pm

    That was definitely hilarious. It went down uch quicker than I thought though. I found Matt’s comment the most interesting part of the post, which was to say that he’s definitely keeping an eye out & on the watch.

    For a long time, good SEO blogs have been able to share, talk, & discuss new strategies and cutting edge ideas. That was what made SEO blogs so fun. But now the ideas need to be kept quiet–(shhh, matt’s reading on his google reader), and discussed after too many drinks at some conference. It’s too bad, unless we start more “secret” seo clubs to really move stratgies into the cutting edge all over again.

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