Ebay's new Kijiji classifieds = AM opportunity?

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In case you haven't heard, eBay's just launched a free classified listings service, Kijiji.com (which is a weird name, methinks), to compete with craigslist.

Since the site's very new, the listings are far and few between. But still, there could be some money to be made here. Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up. :)
 


Actually, Kijiji has been around for sometime and eBay has owned it since 2005. I remember they launched it while I was still at PayPal, but at the time it was just international stuff. It'll be interesting to see if it takes off in the US though.

Just checked Omaha, NE and there are only 20 listings total.

So, anyone have a Kijiji autoposter built yet? ;)
 
Aveligand said:
In case you haven't heard, eBay's just launched a free classified listings service, Kijiji.com (which is a weird name, methinks), to compete with craigslist.

Since the site's very new, the listings are far and few between. But still, there could be some money to be made here. Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up. :)
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Where there is traffic, there is an opportunity. =)
 
Though I looked over at it yesterday when I first got news about it in my email and it seems they dont have much traffic as of right now. But with eBay on its back -- the traffic sure has to grow.

Also, they dont seem to be following CraigsList eMail model and rather have a CAPCHA enabled form (Example). Could be a pain in ass to spam as easily as CraigsList but oh well, when do my slaves... err. I mean my staff come in.
 
I set up a mock ad and tried using an email autoresponder but it wouldn't work.

It did let me type an email address in the text of the ad though. It has a pretty decent text editor compared to Craigslist. So, you could put an email address in the ad text and make it a large sized font with a bright color and underline it and tell the viewers to use the email address directly instead of the Kijiji email reply system.

That would be a pain in the ass though.
 
I set up a couple of ads in my area, one for an affiliate site I have, and one for a very simple arbi page (actually, a full-site-in-a-page, but not that Google looks at it that way!).

So I'll either get commission, or adsense/auction ads, or nothing.

But for free, not bad. Be interesting to see if anyone types/cut-n-pastes the URL's into the browser...

I think tomorrow I will set up wildcard dns on some of my domains and track this traffic (if there is any) that way...
 
Hey Rusty. So, you made some ads and just typed your page URL right in the ad text?
 
kjb1891 said:
Hey Rusty. So, you made some ads and just typed your page URL right in the ad text?
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Yeppers. Just plain text, no link or anything, but I'm hoping for cut-n-paste traffic if the ads are interesting enough...

Probably not going to get any though...
 
Everything I've put on a Kijiji has been yanked within 10 minutes. It's stuff that works great on CL too. i.e. stays up, doesn't get flagged, converts good.
 
Kijiji is quick to pull down spam, so you need to be creative with your ad copies.

Interestingly enough, mine have yet to be pulled :)
 
Well front page has PR 7, but local page has nothing... it might pull a few clicks here and there, but right now I'm looking for some dirty PR pulling tricks... There are apparently like 10 locals using kijiji here (lol) - not a lot to pull clicks from for me.
 
cashflowrusty said:
Yeppers. Just plain text, no link or anything, but I'm hoping for cut-n-paste traffic if the ads are interesting enough...

Probably not going to get any though...
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I've been getting decent traffic from my ads, and I've actually made a few hundred dollars with them. The trick is to find a large enough city with a decent user base.
 
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