Ever wondered what caused the need for Craigslist phone verified accounts? You probably, like many, know that it was introduced to try and stop spammers. There is no denying that this is true, but there is actually a reason or cause for phone verification working behind the scenes in sections of Craigslist that actually don't require a Craigslist PVA to post ads. If you post ads on Craigslist and are not aware of what causes this, then you are potentially playing with fire and risking a phone verified block from Craigslist.

Many assume that there are sections which require phone verification and sections which don't. This is only partly true. There are indeed some sections that require phone verification. This includes primarily the services section and was initially trialed with the erotic services section. From there it spread to the remainder of the services section once testing was finished. Most people know that if you want to post in the services section you will need a phone verified account. What some people may not know is that many if not all of the other sections also can require a phone verified account before you are allowed to post.

What they may not also know is that how you post on Craigslist is the actual cause of needing to verify your account before you can continue. Craigslist logs IP along with other data to keep track of how people post. They do this to try and ensure that no-one exceeds their posting limit and posts too many ads. Several months ago, Craiglsist introduced a new filter where they appear to be keeping track of how many ads are posted from an IP range. When the number of ads (perhaps within a specified period of time) is exceeded, you will be asked to verify your account before you can continue. What sections does this affect? Most, if not all.

Many people, mainly casual users, can post ads in the for sale section without ever needing a phone verified account. However, for those who post multiple ads each day, you will soon find that your IP or IP range that you post with has been blacklisted and no matter what you do you will need to verify your account. If the cause of requiring phone verified accounts is known, how can one best avoid or try to prevent it from happening? The best thing you can do is rotate your IP as much as possible. This may or may not be something you can do, as it will depend on what kind of internet connection you have. However, if you are able to rotate IPs between posts you will increase the chance and life duration of your IPs. Will your IPs eventually get blocked? Yes, they probably will. This is especially true if you are posting with only a very few IPs. The solution? The more IPs the better. Doing this will help you avoid the dreaded phone verification request for as long as possible.

Hopefully using the tips above you can now avoid or put off having to use verified phone accounts for as long as possible. This can prove very useful if you have limited access to IPs and must rely on one internet connection to run your advertising campaigns with.

For those people who post on Craigslist, there is probably a very good chance that at least once in the past they have had a Craigslist PVA account or several accounts put on hold by Craigslist. When an account is put on hold, it is lost forever. Nothing can be done to bring it back from the dead and start being used again. While this isn't such an issue for normal or unverified accounts, for phone verified accounts it can be a costly problem if it happens again and again to each new account your create. Luckily there are a few basic steps that you can take to try and improve the lifespan of your phone verified accounts. These steps do no guarantee or make your accounts bulletproof but will definitely help them last as long as possible.

The most important thing you need to remember when posting on Craigslist is that everything you do is logged or tracked by Craigslist. While it is not exactly known what or how much is being tracked, account activity is still tracked at some level. The first level that all accounts are tracked at is IP activity. This isn't a problem for the casual poster who puts one ad up on Craigslist each week but does become a problem for someone who is looking to post several ads day in and day out. Each time you log in to your accounts and post ads, the IP that you used is logged.

The problem with IP arises when you start accessing multiple accounts from one or a very few IPs, hence creating a pattern. Craigslist terms state that you are only allowed to have one account and one way they enforce this is through tracking of IP activity on accounts. If they notice several accounts are being accessed by the same or very similar IPs, red flags are raised and you may find that those accounts one day are suddenly placed on hold. For phone verified accounts, the most common method to avoid raising red flags due to IP activity is to use a different IP for each Craigslist PVA that you have. If you have 10 phone verified accounts then you should be using at least 10 different IPs. This is perhaps the biggest and one of the most important steps to remember if you want to avoid having verified accounts placed on hold.

After you log in and post with an account, rotate to a fresh IP and continue posting. The second and almost as important point to remember when using phone verified accounts is to limit how often you post ads on Craigslist. Normal or unverified accounts have no restriction and can be used to post hundreds of ads each day until they die and then you simply create a new account. With phone verified accounts this is a little trickier. The official Craigslist policy is that one account can post an ad every 48 hours. Some people do post more than this but doing so again raises the chance of red flags being raised and your accounts being suspended. If you are looking to make the most of your accounts, then it would be advised to post no more than once every 48 hours. If you wish to post anymore than this, simply obtain more phone verified accounts and post the additional ads with them. Going past one ad every 48 hours increases the chance of the account being suspended and rendered useless.

These are just two tips that anyone who uses Craigslist should keep in mind. Always rotate to a fresh IP and avoid posting anymore than one ad every 48 hours. By following these two simple tips you increase the likely hood that your Craigslist PVA will not be suspended and last for a long time.

Sometime has passed since the introduction of Craigslist PVA at the Craigslist online classified website. The introduction of these PVA was done for a specific reason, that of being able to control how often people who use Craigslist could post ads. By implementing Craigslist PVAs, Craigslist now had a much greater control over who was posting and how often they could post. The implementation of these accounts has been one of many steps Craigslist has taken to try and control or limit the amount of unwanted ads/spam that is posted on the classified website.

When Craigslist was first established, it was essentially a free for all classified site. There were basically no restrictions on who could post ads and how often they could post them. While originally this did not pose a problem, since Craigslist grew into the world's largest online classified website, many problems came about because of this. One of the many steps Craigslist took to limit the amount of ads being posted or that could be posted by individuals was through the introduction of phone verified accounts. This originally started in the erotic services section and was tested for just over one month. Once this phase of testing was completed, it was then expanded to the entire services section.

Almost overnight, there was a dramatic decrease in the quantity and frequency of ads being posted in Craigslist in the services section. The reason for this being that many advertisers were using hundreds or thousands of accounts and once phone verification was introduced they simply did not have enough phone number to use to verify all the accounts. A phone number can only be used once to phone verify an account, and this was the main reason for the dramatic drop in ads being posted on Craigslist. This is good news for legit advertisers who have a product or service they want to promote and sell in their local area.

Thanks to phone verification, there were less spam ads being posted and this allowed legit advertisers to have the chance of having their ad seen by a potential customer on Craigslist instead of being lost amongst the thousands of spam ads being posted. Where originally there was no limit on how often you could post an ad on Craigslist, once phone verified accounts were introduced this was changed to one ad posted every 48 hours per account. While some advertisers did manage to get around this by using multiple accounts, the difficulty in obtaining phone numbers that are compatible with Craigslist has resulted in visible decrease in spam in the services sections on Craigslist.

The use of Craigslist PVA came about due to how popular and how much unwanted spam or abuse Craigslist was receiving. If it was not for this we probably would have never seen or had the need for phone verification on Craigslist. Phone verified accounts can only be used once every 48 hours and as a result this has lead to a drop decrease in ads being posted or spammed on Craigslist, making it a better experience for users browsing Craigslist to buy or hire.