Bellingham Real Estate Craigslist
The popular online Craigslist, is being used more and more by Realtors and some for sale by owners alike as an effective tool for advertising homes for sale in Whatcom County. The centralized network of online communities, featuring free classified advertising for most anything one can think of and yes even homes for sale.
The service was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark for the San Francisco Bay Area. After incorporating as a private for-profit company in 1999, Craigslist expanded into nine more U.S. cities in 2000, four each in 2001 and 2002, and 14 in 2003. As of September 2007, Craigslist had established itself in approximately 450 cities in 50 countries. The Photo to the left is their actual offices in San Francisco.
Vancouver, Canada, was the first non U.S. city included. London, England was the first city outside North America. As of September 2007, 450 cities in 50 countries are represented.
The site serves over five billion page views per month, putting it in 51st place overall among web sites world wide, ninth place overall among web sites in the United States (per Alexa.com on November 10, 2007), to ten million unique visitors. With over ten million new classified advertisements each month, Craigslist is the leading classifieds service in any medium. The site receives over 500,000 new job listings each month, making it one of the top job boards in the world. The classified advertisements range from traditional buy/sell ads and community announcements, to personal ads and even erotic services.
One nice thing about advertising on sites like Craigslist is that you don’t have to worry about abreviating as you do in the print media with local newspaper ads. You’re not posting in the newspaper anymore. Craigslist and other classified sites let you write as much info as you’d like. Use that ability. Everyone does not know what dw, cac, and other abbreviations mean.
First glance at the site and it’s hard to see how craigslist can be so popular. Her case in point, don’t let the appearance fool you, these guys are giants in advertising in what ever city they set up in. It seems like almost a weekly or daily experience where someone is telling me that they got a great response from just advertising a free ad on craigslist.
After posting this article in fact I’m actually heading over to my real estate web site to post some new listings on to…you guessed it… CraigsList. Search Bellingham real estate on CraigsList.
Jerry Campbell - Muljat Group Realtors - Bellingham WA - Bellingham Real Estate