Over the past couple years Craigslist has become the easiest way to post a classified ad online.  But Craiglist doesn't provide a lot of flexibility.  They only recently launched a login system and Captcha to prevent spam. 

Frequenters of the site have been clamoring for an analytics solution.  Craigslist believes that the integrity of their sytem relies on ads being local and home grown.  They want to avoid competing with eBay.  But users would still like to see how many views their ad attacts and where visits come from.  So my brother came up with a solution, CraigsCounter.com.

CraigsCounter.com allows users to track Craigslist ad campaigns, view competition within the category, and customize the counter that is placed on your ad.  The service is free, but an ad is displayed within the counter.

There is also a new premium service that gives you more counter templates, an invisible counter option without ads, multiple campaign tracking, and private analytical data.  A premium ad is only $1.

The site is constantly being updated.  You can checkout the HudsonCS blog at HudsonCS.com  Be sure to visit the CraigsCounter.com site and try an ad campaign.

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