Get free leads with craigslist clickable image ads.

How to make Image ads including clickable ads to explode your craigslist marketing.

Image ads on craigslist should be another arsenal in your marketing campaigns. You will get a lot of free leads with this advertising. And who doesn't want free leads anyway?

Have you ever wanted to do more with the ads you place on craigslist? Like add a picture or even add a video' To make your ad stand out from the rest?

Image ads are made up of HTML code but you don't need to know anything about HTML to make a great ad. These ads can either have a picture in them or not, it is up to you and what your most wanted response is, whether to click on the ad or call your 800 number or email response.

You can not actually add a video to your image ad but you can trick it to look like it is a video and send people that actually click on your ad to the video on your YouTube channel or website.

OK, let's get started. Follow these steps to make your own image ads.

1. Make the actual image of your ad. I use Microsoft PowerPoint but you can use any presentation program or other type of program that allows you to save the file as a jpg file.

Start adding your text or pictures to the page and be creative! Change the fonts, change the coloring, be unique and fun and imaginative. This is your chance to stand out from the crowd. If this ad is not to be clickable, then make sure to ad your phone number of email address if that is your most wanted response when people read the ad.

If this ad will be clickable (clickable means when someone clicks on the ad they will be taken to where you send them, either your website, your video on a video sharing site or somewhere else on the net.

Once you have the ad looking like you want it, save the file with the .jpg extension.

2. Now we will generate the html code for your ad. Sign into your photobucket account or if you don't have a photobucket account go to www.photobucket.com and sign up for an account. Upload your jpg file you saved from step one. After uploading the file (don't worry about adding the title and description), hover your mouse pointer over the file you just uploaded, it will expand to show different types of code available. Highlight and copy the html line.

3. Paste the html code into a text editor like notepad and save the file so you have it. If this is an image ad that will not be clickable then you are done and can start posting this ad on craigslist where they allow image ads to be posted.

4. If this is to be a clickable ad, you will be adding the link where you want to send them when they click on the ad, to the html code. To do this, first delete everything between the first set of quotes (the section that starts with blog.
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