Craigslist Phone Verified Accounts and Craigslist

Are you curious as to which sections or parts on Craigslist require Craigslist phone verified accounts? There is some confusion as to which areas require and don't require verified accounts. The reason behind this stems from how Craigslist operates and the complex set of spam filters and other control measures they have in place. Understanding how Craigslist operates will help to know and better understand which sections on Craigslist will require a phone verified account if you wish to post ads. Knowing this could save you a lot of time and help you know in advance if you will need verified accounts or not before you begin posting.

Craigslist deals with an immense number of posts from members each day. It is the world's largest online classified website and as a result has to not only handle the average daily posts from normal Craigslist users, but also filter out posts from people who may be posting too many ads or spamming Craigslist on a daily basis. Why do you need to know this? Because this directly affects which sections on Craigslist require phone verified accounts. Many people assume that only the services section on Craigslist requires phone verified accounts. In part they are correct. However, they are also wrong. The truth is that every section on Craigslist can require the use of a phone verified account before you are allowed to post a live ad. Every section? Then why do some people assume that it is only the services section which requires Craigslist pva? The reason for this is that it is true that the services section requires verified accounts to post ads. Services was the first section to implement the use of verified accounts. No matter if it is your first post or 100th post, posting any ad in the services section requires a verified account. If you don't have a verified account you can't post an ad. Now, this is where things get a little tricky. Every other section on Craigslist "can" require the use of a verified account. The trick here is to understand why you sometimes need and sometimes don't need a phone verified account to post in these other sections. As mentioned above, Craigslist deals with a huge number of posts and a lot of traffic each day. To control and regulate this traffic they have implemented some filters. One of these filters is the number of ads posted from any one IP. Each time you post an ad on Craigslist, the IP it came from is logged. If you post an excessive number of ads from any IP, eventually it will be flagged. This flagging is not a banning of that IP from posting on Craigslist. It is simple a "soft" flag. When this happens, you will be forced to use a phone verified account before you can continue posting on Craigslist. This is the filter Craigslist uses for every section outside of services. This is also why you may find that suddenly a PVA is required to post an ad whereas one was never required before.

While originally it was only the services section which required a PVA, in actual fact now almost any and every section on Craigslist can require the use of a Craigslist phone verified account. Knowing this will help you understand which sections to use a PVA in and why you may suddenly need a PVA before you can continue posting.