Non Tech way to use Craigslist images

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Non Tech way to use Craigslist images

Jonathan Rexford
Real Estate Investor · Vero Beach, FL · Member since 2008 · 268 posts · 89 votes

Hope this helps. Because when I found it, I was literally floored.

Here is something that I have been using for a few months to sell my properties on Craigslist. We all know that you can paste HTML code into craigslist or at least I think we all know. Well what I have been doing is loading property pictures up to Photobucket.com. I then open a TEXT file and paste each picture code into the Text file. What I do then is change the PATH of the website to my own property site. Let me know if this is foreign. I then save the text file and bingo I have my ad on Craigslist. I have about 9 pictures that I can paste right into craigslist. It saves a ton of time.

Here is an example of photobucket code

I changed the beginning to go to my site instead to photobucket below.

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T. Desmond D.
Property Manager · Member since 2009 · 10 posts · 2 votes
17y

To expand on your idea, you can also embed code for slideshows and video. Upload all of your photos to these sites (bubbleshare, slide.com) and they will automatically convert your photos into slidehsows/ virtual tours for free. All you have to do is copy the code and paste it into your Craigslist ads.

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  • NA Beauvais
    Specialist · Jacksonville, FL · Member since 2008 · 140 posts · 14 votes
    17y

    Hey Jonathan, What you are saying sounds very interesting but I'm trying to grasp the full concept of this. Can you explain it so a 5yr old can understand it? :)

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  • Jonathan Rexford
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    Real Estate Investor · Vero Beach, FL · Member since 2008 · 268 posts · 89 votes
    17y

    Let see if I can clean it up.

    If you go to photobucket.com and create an account you will see that there are ways to have your picture in a HTML code. That code can be copied and paste into Craigslist. That will show a picture that is actually hosted at photobucket. Another investor/TECH HEAD. Showed me away to allow the picture to be clicked through to my website as noted in the second code "jonbuyahome.com"

    I am by no means a WEB person. But this is what I have learned and it has saved me a ton of time posting ads and actually making a nice presentation.

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  • Nick J.
    Residential Real Estate Broker · Payson, AZ · Member since 2009 · 3k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    17y

    good stuff Jonathan, I voted for you

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  • NA Beauvais
    Specialist · Jacksonville, FL · Member since 2008 · 140 posts · 14 votes
    17y

    OK. Now I get it! Postlets.com Has that same feature where you copy and paste the HTML at a site like Craigslist. That's saaaavy!

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  • Jesse Ramirez
    Specialist · Las Cruces, NM · Member since 2009 · 557 posts · 71 votes
    17y

    Your original post seemed pretty intense Jonathon. Thanks for breaking that down for us mere mortals

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  • Jonathan Rexford
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    Real Estate Investor · Vero Beach, FL · Member since 2008 · 268 posts · 89 votes
    17y

    Jessee....if you only knew how I learned it and how many times it was shown to me. When I say I am not a TECH head I mean it. I can surf online and so forth. But a lot of what is behind the curtian like this website always amazes me.

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  • Kirk B
    Select a State · Member since 2009 · 156 posts · 17 votes
    17y

    This is very useful, not only for time, but also for quality. Images uploaded to Craigslist have lower quality than images hosted elsewhere.

    Thanks for the tip!

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  • T. Desmond D.
    Property Manager · Member since 2009 · 10 posts · 2 votes
    17y

    To expand on your idea, you can also embed code for slideshows and video. Upload all of your photos to these sites (bubbleshare, slide.com) and they will automatically convert your photos into slidehsows/ virtual tours for free. All you have to do is copy the code and paste it into your Craigslist ads.

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  • Scott M.
    Real Estate Broker · Rochester Hills, MI · Member since 2009 · 2k+ posts · 2k+ votes
    17y

    I agree - very useful - however one suggestion - the topic of this thread needs to be changed from non-tech to tech.

    The moment code is being talked about I don't think we can call it non-tech anymore :)

    Good stuff!

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  • Scott M.
    Real Estate Broker · Rochester Hills, MI · Member since 2009 · 2k+ posts · 2k+ votes
    17y

    As a PS - if your a heavy user of CL you will need to change up your URL (the one pointing to your site) with pointers or URL shorteners cuz a URL can't be posted to many times before your ad is ghosted.

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  • Sam Kuria
    Real Estate Investor · Atlanta, GA · Member since 2009 · 34 posts · 2 votes
    17y

    If anyone still cannot get it to work please PM me and i will help

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  • Matthew Gil
    Real Estate Investor · Member since 2008 · 340 posts · 34 votes
    17y

    You can also create a postlets ad, copy and paste the HTML code into a CL ad. Seems easier if you do it that way.

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  • Jeff Warner
    Real Estate Investor · North Central Arkansas · Member since 2009 · 509 posts · 178 votes
    17y

    Just bumping this post back to the top, I thought it would be helpful for people who have not seen it.

    Jeff

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  • Tiger Sun
    Real Estate Investor · Weston, FL · Member since 2009 · 73 posts · 18 votes
    17y

    Here's my surefire way to get a Picture with a Link to your main website posted on Craiglist.

    The Following is the Coding I Use - Similar to Jonathan's. Let me explain what each element of the HTML does... if anyone cares to know...

    --------------------------------------------------------

    The

    tags are to place your image in the direct middle of the web page. It make's it a bit easier to read and more professional.

    The Tag are known as ANCHOR tags. These tags create, well an Anchor - to be a link or a position on a web page. When you put you are creating an Anchor to a web address. Whatever is IN BETWEEN the anchor tags and will be the Link that goes there. You can put text or in our case, a picture.

    So now, we go to our tag. This is basically just an image tag, for any HTML image. We place this in between our anchor tags to make our image the anchor and thus, it becomes a link.

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    So to top it all off - Heres coding for you guys. Just copy and paste your own Pictures hosted wherever and your own website address.

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    That was the most basic. I left out the width and other stuff, but that right there will pretty much get your picture uploaded and link it to your website of choice. Just make sure you know the image url of your image. If you have a bad image link, Craiglist will remove it.

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