- 1). Choose the "Post to Classified" button from the top, left corner of Craigslist. Select a category and, if necessary, a subcategory for the ad.
- 2). Type in a concise, descriptive title, your location and a price if necessary. Compose a descriptive, effective body for the ad without regard to formatting.
- 3). Divide the ad into sections as you would a webpage using HTML header tags. Use <h2> tags to make the sub-headings slightly smaller than the main title, so as not to detract from it. If you are selling a car, for example, you might use the following headers:
<h2>About the Car</h2>
<h2>Price and Payment</h2>
<h2>My Contact Information</h2>
Make sure to close the header tag -- using an </h2> -- after the last word of each headline. Otherwise, your entire ad's text appears enlarged and bold. - 4). Insert HTML hyperlinks to link the ad to outside information. If you're selling an old car and want to link to the Wikipedia page about the history of the car, for example, the tag looks something like this:
<a href="/links/?u=http://wikipedia.com/aboutmyoldcar">This is the text of the ad you want to link to the external webpage.</a> - 5). Embed images within your ad if you already have them hosted online. Open the images in a separate browser window or tab, then click within the Address Bar and choose "copy." Paste the image URLs into HTML code that looks like this:
<img src="http://yoururl.com/yourpic.jpg"></img>
Then copy and paste the complete code into the ad wherever you want an image to appear. If them image isn't hosted online, use the "Upload Image from Your Computer" links at the bottom of the ad template. - 6). Click "Continue" to preview the ad, then click "Continue" once again to enter the image verification. Click the link embedded in the confirmation email Craigslist sends to post the ad live on Cragislist.
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