Craigslist Erotic Services Shut Down

[merelypink]

Backpage is the new place to advertise.. You can pay for top placement and your ads dont get taken down
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[Sushigirl]

Craigslist shut down its adult and erotic sections

Wow is the Word of the day,

I am appalled that without any notice to any of their advertisers *SNIP* they just removed the Erotic Services and Adult section of CL : Craigslist.ca. This morning I went to check out the section for a reference and it was gone. Gone gone, GONE! Oh My Goooooooooooood! So, what's next?

The Canadian Governement had a bill during the last few months in parliament to have Craigslist remove their adult and erotic services ads because of human trafficking was rampant through those ads. The thing is that I don't personally believe that it was necessarily through those ads that these malevolent organized criminals were planting their ads but they could actually place them in any section of any online ad placement webpages. That is the sad part about all this. But at last they feel like they have done their job by removing the adult and erotic sections of Craigslist. Now, Craigslist is a Dinosaurus!

So, what's next for us that are not criminals and are trying to earn an honest living in providing legitimate erotic services and/or adult services? What are the options? Well, for us transsexuals, we have many other resources available to us that protect us because these forum are small communities of Service providers and our clientele and we all know each other very well. The Shemales in Canada and the Shemales in Montreal have their own reference site in which we can survive. But my growing concerns are for all those women in the industry that offers legitimate services. Where are they going to go? Craislist was so quick and precise. It would target the clientele effectively and placing an ad was very easy it was like to place an annonce123.

I think that the problem with Craigslist was because of its anonymity. The very fact that anyone could anonymously place an ad is a fault in their system. The remedy would be to work as a membership system and exchanges through a forum with placement advertising in a connected section. It has proven itself to be effective in keeping the unwanted out and its been tested efficiently over time that we all know that it works. So, perhaps that is something that Craigslist.ca or even Craigslist.org should seriously consider adding to their features. A full fledge forum attached to their registrant and where everyone carry an identity.

Anyway, it was a shock this morning and I think that it will be quite an earthquake within the community at large that will have a modifying effect on the way advertisers conduct their affairs. There are many solutions out there and this morning everyone is thinking at 300 miles an hour.

Shockingly,

Bibiane
514 647 6969

[toban]

For what it's worth

This link appeared in a message in my Yahoo mailbox a few minutes ago. I suspect it has been sent to most all who receive emails from GHandys.

I was not aware of the site before and it does not seem to have been used too frequently but I suspect that with CList gone it's usage will rise very quickly now. For any who care to check it, here it is:-

http://www.localadultpages.com/51/posts/8-Adult-Services/85-TS/

P.S. I found it very slow!

[DELPHI]

When Craiglist got shut down in the U.S everone seemed to move to backpage.com It's free

[gpguy]

I see 2 problems with this. 1) the bored/bullshit/cheap callers are going to go elsewhere, meaning those of us that don't use craigslist are going to have a major headache on our hands; 2) In some smaller markets, craigslist is really the only effective way to reach customer's. This will slightly limit touring options.
Having to pay for advertising will probably not limit the undercutter's either. Look at all the $60 asian and russian gg ads in now and eye. I've even seen some cheaper than that lately.

While I see some good coming to the end of the section, I also see point#2 really affecting us in a limited market like Grande Prairie. This was the first year we ever had any visiting ladies to Grande Prairie (Sunshine 3X and a visit by Alyssa). Without CL I doubt if few people would even know any ladies were visiting. And if noone knows I doubt if any ladies would bother to come. I know because of Shemale Canada and Tgirl forums. But I doubt many people are aware of these sights anway. I doubt if an ad could be put in the local paper under ?scorts as it is so godammn redneck here.

[Rockheart]

Well for the travelling girls here is a few suggestions from me.

On Shemale Canada make sure you put your tour dates on your page well in advance. This way they will get into the search engines.
The advantage of keeping the same static page on Shemale Canada over some of these other sites is you get into the search engines and stay there. Plus people aren't confused by old information. These sites like Craigslist keep the old updated ads up so you may find many misleading things in the search engines.

Tgirlforums has really good exposure to the search engines and submits to google every day. So posting your tour plans on the forum will give you more exposure.

If you put your travel plans in the travelling girls forum here, it automatically gets posted to Twitter also. This only works if you create a new thread each time. If you add to an old thread in travelling tgirls it will not post to twitter.

I am looking at feeding updates on shemale canada to twitter also.
Plus I am looking at setting up a members section for users of Shemale Canada where they could recieve notifications by email of escort travel plans and updates.

Also I provide free domain names for regular users of Shemale Canada and I am open to other ideas and suggestions to make the site better and assist you in reaching your goals.

I am also open to now selling additional advertising on my sites to interested parties.

[Rockheart]

While I see some good coming to the end of the section, I also see point#2 really affecting us in a limited market like Grande Prairie. This was the first year we ever had any visiting ladies to Grande Prairie (Sunshine 3X and a visit by Alyssa). Without CL I doubt if few people would even know any ladies were visiting. And if noone knows I doubt if any ladies would bother to come. I know because of Shemale Canada and Tgirl forums. But I doubt many people are aware of these sights anway. I doubt if an ad could be put in the local paper under ?scorts as it is so godammn redneck here.

Most local papers out west take escort ads.
However most require you either have an escort license or at least a business registered in that jurisdiction.

[Bawb]

Smc

Atta boy; Keep up the good work Crag

Well for the travelling girls here is a few suggestions from me.

On Shemale Canada make sure you put your tour dates on your page well in advance. This way they will get into the search engines.
The advantage of keeping the same static page on Shemale Canada over some of these other sites is you get into the search engines and stay there. Plus people aren't confused by old information. These sites like Craigslist keep the old updated ads up so you may find many misleading things in the search engines.

Tgirlforums has really good exposure to the search engines and submits to google every day. So posting your tour plans on the forum will give you more exposure.

If you put your travel plans in the travelling girls forum here, it automatically gets posted to Twitter also. This only works if you create a new thread each time. If you add to an old thread in travelling tgirls it will not post to twitter.

I am looking at feeding updates on shemale canada to twitter also.
Plus I am looking at setting up a members section for users of Shemale Canada where they could recieve notifications by email of escort travel plans and updates.

Also I provide free domain names for regular users of Shemale Canada and I am open to other ideas and suggestions to make the site better and assist you in reaching your goals.

I am also open to now selling additional advertising on my sites to interested parties.

[Rockheart]

Atta boy; Keep up the good work Crag

Thanks.

I should also mention that my site http://www.safesextour.com was originally founded to support travelling tgirls. Tgirls on tour.

The site has hundreds of tgirls and now also has men and girls.

I have recently redesigned it and am working on building it up even more.

[LAND SHARK]

Bravo CR

[maddplotter]

wtf?you want crag to give you a blow job lol

LOL. Oh Lisa, you're so funny! I'm sure Crag gives good BJ's but I would like one from a hot sexy tgirl. Like you sweetie pie!

[tommygun]

I wonder what caused it They were pretty stern on not shutting it down

$$$$$$$

I bet there was a backdoor deal made somewhere.

[Stephanie L'amour]

hey girl! stephanie from the Island says merry X-mas,I have not talked to you for over a year

[?_who's_next]

duh !!! attention all girls, just move to casual encounter section and don't post prices, not rocket science

[Sushigirl]

Who's Next!

Here is a few places I have put together to give us directions in the market.
This list is not exhaustive, but its efficient.

Ad and Promotion Sites:

www.ShemaleCanada.com (Our best Canadian resource and base)
www.ShemaleMontreal.ca (Our Montreal base)
www.Annonce123.ca (Best replacement in Montreal for us)
www.BackPage.com (really popular in the US, don't know about Canada, we'll see)
www.Maryly.com (has spunk)
www.SexyEscortsAds.com (great site)
www.LocalAdultPages.com (starting up but has potential)
www.ProviderGuide.com (Used to automatically republish Craigslist ads)
www.Escorts.com (connected to all the US top sites: Date-Check, SP411, BackPages)
www.Exotics.com (Good for republishing and is thorough)
www.SP411.com
www.Escorts-Canada.com
www.Date-Check.com (Touring USA)
www.SafeSexTour.com (Touring Canada, own by Shemale Canada)
www.ReseauEscorte.com


Montreal's Local Newspapers:
Mirror (attracts the wrong clientele)
Journal de Montreal (expensive but damn efficient if you can afford it)



Please, re-copy this list as you go along and filter it down or up. Ad sites to it that might be the best places for us across Canada to advertise. Give us your imput.

Thank you,

Bibiane
514 647 6969