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craigslist

www.craigslist.org · a site they built themselves

Read them at www.craigslist.org → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

craigslist publishes poems at www.craigslist.org, a site they built themselves. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index.

2 writers vouch

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured
Front page
60 KB, 4 scripts, 0 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
1 other writer in the index, 5 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-09-22, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

housing56angele121bestofcraigslist3legal181vega49sacramento16sale398hiring24bike69safety141fraud31skilled33estate99scam39

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches2 writers in the index

2 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

craigslist: los analbanycraigslist: los an5 sites outside the indexcraigslist
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to craigslist: los angeles jobs, apartments, for sale, services, community, and eve.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: essays, stories, or poems · vouched by 2 other writers

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 1,267 in the top million domains.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • Carries a full set of search-engine tags. This site is trying to be found, and the almanac scores that against it.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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