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Originally Posted by enam
Thanks for sharing. But I don't agree with above statement. There is no reason that craigslist will remove an ad because it is getting visitors from other websites. Google normally indexes craigslist ads within 24 hours. If an ad is flagged after google has indexed it, google will take time to remove it from it's index. So you may face this situation with old ads where you get an ad by google search but the ad no longer exists.
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No, it's not because of an ad getting visitors from a website. Craigslist has a script that the website runs that removes ads that are of a certain age. I believe it's 60 or 90 days, after that if someone clicks on the ads either from craigslist, search, etc, it checks the ad and puts it on need to be removed from the database, because it's old.
Sorry if it sounded like it was removed for clicking on it, it was removed because of the age. When I had noticed the backlink in Google analytics, I followed the link to see what it was, and thats when it said this ad will be removed, because of the age of the ad.
This script is how Craigslist gets rid of old ads that are outdated, but in most cases the ads can stay for a long time with no removal because it's no longer at the top of the list to be seen or reviewed, but it still counts as a backlink if you have a href tag in there.