Craigslist traffic still exploding

The good news is sites will classified ads grew an average of 47 percent in unique users over the last year. The bad news is half of that growth is due to a continued explosion in Craigslist’s growth, up 99 percent year to date. In some markets, Craigslist now surpasses all news sites in traffic. And I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again. Craigslist should be considered a direct competitor to TV sites, not only because of its classifieds, but because it’s a HUGE draw in community content — events, discussion and now even a local news category.