Craigslist Image Ads - Convert your text and html ads to an image.

Here are some benefits of using image ads on craigslist, backpage and other classified ad networks

• Use unrestricted html code to design your craigslist ads
  You can create attractive html templates for your ads only to find that craigslist place limitations on user of certain html codes. This can be quite frustrating and you have two options if you still want to get your ad posted. You must either water down your fancy html or css styling code to remove all the blocked tags or restricted keywords. More often than not, your attractive ad will not look the same anymore. The second option is to convert your html ad to an image which will preserve its attractiveness and layout.
• Prevent keyword blocking or ghosting by craigslist
  Sometimes your ad body may contain certain keywords, links that have been blocked by craigslist or make your ad prone to ghosting. The only way to get around this is to convert the ad to an image. Words or text shown in images does not get filtered by craigslist. For example, instead of putting a hyperlink in text on your ad, try to create an image ad which will include the website (domain name) you are promoting. It will not be clickable as an ordinary text ad will be, but if the one reading your ad is really interested, he or she will just simply visit your site by copying your URL address. You can go use free image hosting sites such as photobucket.com and imageshack.us. You can save the same image several times using different filenames to make your post more unique.
• Avoid craigslist flaggers searching for your ads
  If you have used craigslist for some time, you will know that there are craigslist flaggers out there ready to take your ad down once they find it. More often than not, it is usually your competition doing the flagging. There is really no sure-fire way to avoid craiglist flagging since you can't control the actions of individuals looking at your ad. But you can take steps to reduce flagging by making your ad not as easily identifiable to your craigslist competition. Usually certain keywords in your ads will give it away easily to searches by your competition but when you use an image ad, there is less chance of them finding it easily.
• Control when your images are displayed to visitors
  With image ads, you can control the loading of the images on your visitor's browser. One good application of that will be to block the image from loading when a suspected visitor IP address is requesting it such as that of a flagger. Yes, you will be able to prevent flaggers from viewing your image ads once you know their IP addresses. CraiglistAdTracker provides a powerful mechanism for filtering visitor IP addresses when loading images. Please see member area for more information.
• Use clickable image ads to drive traffic to your websites
  One of the great benefits of using craigslist is that it can help drive traffic to your websites thereby generating more sales. When you use image ads, you can make your entire ad body clickable by using the html anchor tag, thereby increasing the chances that a visitor will click the ad to go to your website. More traffic => more leads => more sales.
• Ad rotation capability
  Imagine creating several unique image ads and then show one visitor one version of your ad and another visitor another version. This can be a powerful mechanism for receiving better results from your classified ad marketing campaigns. You will be able to insert one image code into your ad and display different images to your visitors based on your custom configuration. You can use any of the following configurations to display your images to your ad visitors.
  1. Round-robin option - Your images will be displayed in an orderly fashion one after the other
  2. Unique visitors option - Show one image the first time a visitor looks at your ad and show a different image to repeating visitors
  3. Time based option - Show an image based on the time of the day or day of week.
  Please see member area for more information.
• Share on image hosting sites
  Once you convert your text or html ads to an image, you can then host and share the images on image hosting sites like photobucket, imageshack and so on. The more visibility to your ads the more sales you receive.