Getting unwanted responses to my Craigslist Ad for my home childcare services

[Momof4]

This is good to know, thanks ladies. I've never advertised on that site, just this site and Godaycare and kijiji. But when I hear back from people who found me on kijiji I'm really cautious with them, because I feel they haven't researched for better quality providers like they find on this site. I don't know, is that snobby?

[playfelt]

Mostly it is word of mouth on where to look for care too. Things like kijiji have a reputation as a place to search for what you need - including daycare so people go there. Since there are usually so many listings they can find several to choose from without going any further. Some of the other sites come up more by chance than routinely. If you type your city name childcare not all of those other places will be in the list so it depends on what terms the parents are using in the search box.

[jec]

This is good to know, thanks ladies. I've never advertised on that site, just this site and Godaycare and kijiji

I tried entering in Godaycare but it asks for your address and that scares me- do you just enter in a dummy one?

I've never used Criags list as I've always found people speak badly about it. I've had some success with Kijiji with the new place I've moved to but always had luck with Daycare bear

[Inspired by Reggio]

I tried entering in Godaycare but it asks for your address and that scares me

It needs your address so that the map feature works so that clients can search for providers closest to them - however there is the option to check the 'do not show street address to public' ... so that you show up on the map for a general idea but the exact address is not given - just the 'street'.

Or you can put the correct street name and put 00 for the house and see if it would accept that ... IMO you would not want to put a 'dummy' address though cause clients seeking care based on location would be turned off by that... your street should be a safer choice.

[WAHM]

This is why kijiji doesn't allow you to post an email address, to avoid SPAM mail. I would stick with your phone number on craigs list ads.

[WAHM]

P.S (don't mean to hijack) How can you guys tell where all your traffic comes from? On Google Analystics?
TIA

[Inspired by Reggio]

P.S (don't mean to hijack) How can you guys tell where all your traffic comes from? On Google Analystics?
TIA

My website has a 'statistics' option that shows me where people arrive to my website from.

I have never used the google analystics though - how does that work?

[country girl]

I have not had any issues with kijiji (other than one ad that I replied to & it turned out to be a scam) however as soon as I posted an ad on craigslist - TONS of spam emails. Luckily my hotmail settings have picked them up but I've since deleted my ad on craigslist - terrible site! Other than that I just use this site and used ottawa...I tried signing up for godaycare.com but for some reason it won't work even after I adjusted my settings so I gave up.

[apples and bananas]

Ive only had one call from godaycare.com in the last year... you're not missing out on much.

[Momof4]

Ive only had one call from godaycare.com in the last year... you're not missing out on much.

Some of my friends swear by that site as getting good results, but I have never had any requests through them. Most of my clients are from word of mouth referrals or from daycarebear. When I advertised on kijiji for an opening I had in June I didn't even get one request from there either.

So I'm a big daycarebear fan! To answer a question asked on the first page, I look at my freewebs.com website statistics too so I can tell where the inquiries originate.