For those of you who frequent Craigslist, I’m sure as your eyes have scoured the listings they were attracted to the ads that were in CAPS and the ads that had the graphic symbols included in them. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about take a look at the page below.
I don’t know about you, but symbols such as these are a huge attention-getter. CraigsList is definitely not the place where you want to blend in, so symbols can come in handy. That is until everyone starts using them.
The technical term is “ASCII Symbol”, if you use some of the corresponding ASCII codes below in your CraigsList ad titles, you too can have your ads stand out from the masses.
▲ ▲
▶▶ ▶ ▶
▖ ▖
▆ ▆
♠ ♠
♥ ♥
♦♦ ♦ ♦
♬ ♬
So for instance, the CraigsList title,
“▶ ▶ Awesome 3 bedroom ▶ ▶ 30K Equity ▶ ▶”
will convert to
“▶▶Awesome 3 bedroom ▶▶ 30K Equity ▶▶”
I hope that helps!
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Fantastic, thank you! Gearing up for a move, this will be a huge help in shifting all our unloved extras.
Great info. Craig’s list may be the single greatest invention of the last 10 years for real estate investors. Knowing how to use it to the best of your ability is essential for any investors marketing efforts.
I’m no expert but I’m going to assume that inserting these little symbols will help your listing stand out from the pack?
Great Post Justin! We’ve been using symbols in our craigslist ad titles for awhile, but i had no idea about the ASCII codes. Thanks for sharing! This is good stuff! Using these symbols alone will get your ad twice as many clicks then normal.
Justin right on…never knew how to do those.
Does anyone on here use Vflyer to post on Craigs List?
wow this whole time and its just ascii codes. lol ive been wondering how to do that… thanks!!