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I was surfing the web yesterday when I have chanced upon a site selling a $7 report on how bloggers and site owners can take advantage of Craiglist to increase their site traffic without spending money.

The Logic
Craiglist is among the most visited sites in the internet today. The site actually accommodates free classified ads for jobs, housing, services, etc. Thousands of site visitors find jobs, clients or products via craiglist.org. Posting your link in Craiglist, I believe, can indeed drive traffic to your site most especially if you make a post that is appealing enough for product and job hunters.

Unethical
Before you head on to utilize Craiglist to drive traffic to your site, however, it also pays to ponder on some points. First, it is quite unfair to post a job listing with the sole intention of leading job hunters to your site that has no employment opportunities at all. While looking for additional online jobs, I came upon several job postings in Craiglist saying "XXXX company is looking for a writer. Please see "XXXX.com" for details of employment" only for me to check every page of the website and realize there is actually no job vacancy.

Craiglist is not a directory. I hope that more bloggers will see the importance of keeping Craiglist safe from frauds and abuse.