Craigslist approaching a billion hits a month.

Craigslist, the famous community center founded in San Francisco, announced that it is now approaching one billion hits a month. Its job postings are now more popular than any others.

What's really significant about this is how their success is happening despite their doing virtually everything the so-called "experts" say is impossible. It's mostly free, with the only income being from job postings in SF, and now NY and LA, and even those postings costing much less than in other job boards. It doesn't use any flash or fancy graphics at all. It doesn't advertise, or accept advertising itself. It doesn't appear to use any of the "search engine optimization" techniques that have become so popular. There's no registration required, free or otherwise. Nothing at all, except useful content created entirely by the community of users itself, and has spread exclusively through word of mouth. Pretty amazing.

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