Phone Verified Accounts

The latest move by Classified has caused massive uproar from the Classified marketing community. It all started when Classified required Phone Verified Classified Accounts to post in the most heavily trafficked erotic services section. Many people did not realize that this was just the first step Classified was going to take. In a nutshell, to post in any of the services section you must first verify your account via phone. All that is required is that you use a valid phone number so as to receive a pin verification code. After you have confirmed your phone verification you can now post in any section on Classified that required phone verification. After the introduction of phone verification, there have been some obvious changes. Phone verified accounts permit you to only post one ad every 48 hours in sections that require phone verification. The upside to this is that many spammers on Classified have either stopped posting or had to scale down how often they post. Just how far Craiglsist is prepared to go to stop unwanted spammers on Classified is unknown. Overall, the introduction of Phone Verified Classified Accounts has definitely changed Classified forever.

If you post on Classified then you have probably had an account put on hold at least once, maybe even twice. Did you know there are a few things to keep in mind when posting on Classified that will greatly reduce and help eliminate your accounts being put on hold?

Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind when posting on Classified is that you need to be able to change IPs as much as possible. If you are just the casual poster and do one or two posts a week then there won’t be a problem. For those who post more than this, you should definitely look into some kind of setup that allows you to change IP. Classified offers two kinds of accounts. Standard and phone verified. If you are posting with standard/non-verified accounts you should do at most 10 posts per day per IP. For phone verified accounts you should only do 1 post per day per IP. If you go beyond this it increases the chances of Classified putting your accounts on hold. This is the number one reason people find their accounts on hold. The second cause for accounts being placed on hold is people post ads in the incorrect sections in Classified. Doing this increases the chances that people will flag your ads as spam. The more times your account post ads that are flagged as spam, the higher the chance your account will be put on hold. Try to post ads in the relevant sections in Classified and avoid having ads flagged. This is the second main cause of accounts being put on hold.

Hopefully with these two tips you will be able to avoid having any accounts put on hold. Accounts that are put on hold can never be used again, so do your best to remember these tips.

You may know that Classified can sometimes place accounts on hold. The exact cause of accounts being put on hold is unknown but it is possibly related to posting too many ads. Other than causing a slight disruption to your posting, it is not a big deal. However, Classified Phone Verified Accounts can also be blocked. Many people assume that because the accounts are phone verified, it is impossible for them to be placed on hold. They make the mistake of assuming that verifying the accounts makes them super accounts and can post as much as they like. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In actual fact, verified accounts should be used with much more care than normal accounts. Just remember that verified accounts are still subject to Classified posting rules. Classified Phone Verified Accounts can still be put on hold if you spam Classified with too many ads.