Although Craigslist has been around since 1995, it has remained surprisingly clean and spam free throughout the years. There are many unscrupulous marketers, entrepreneurs, and criminals who seek to exploit the popularity of Craigslist. The primary way Craigslist has maintained its sovereignty, is through its community of dedicated users. Craigslist has provided community based moderation tools and built-in systems which have evolved over the years to protect it from being overrun it with spam.
One of these Craigslist rules states: Please choose just ONE craigslist site for which your ad is most relevant - this should generally be the site closest to where you are located. If your ad is equally relevant to all locations, your ad does not belong on local craigslist sites at all, please find another service. Posting the same ad to multiple locations is considered spamming, and is prohibited. This rule has helped keep Craigslist relatively clean, spam free, and a viable resource for consumers after all of these years.
So the answer to your question is that it is against the rules to post the same classified ad to multiple cities on Craigslist. Rest assured that if you're posting in a city which is part of a metropolitan area, you ad will be seen by those in the entire metropolitan area. So there isn't any reason to post to different cities in the same metropolitan area. Help keep Craigslist free and clean by not spamming Craigslist with the same ad in multiple cities.
Dave_Bath
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