RSS FEEDS FOR NYC BROKERS
Good news for you brokers out there in NYC! Broker postings in New York can now use paid feeds in RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0. They can be submitted manually by the interactive bulk upload page or automatically...
View ArticleBACKPAGE.COM BLOGGED
Click here to see people are saying about us according to Technorati.
View ArticlePOPULAR SEARCHES FEATURE LAUNCHED
Find out what people are looking for on backpage.com. For example: bartender is the most popular job search in Dallas and Astoria is a popular search for an apartment for rent in New York City. Find...
View Article15 NEW CITIES
To celebrate our users helping us hit half a billion page views a month, we decided to add 15 new cities to give you guys more places to post. Those 15 new cities are: Syracuse Greenville Greensboro...
View ArticleNEW SPONSOR AD DISCOUNTS THIS MONTH
You can now get a 5% to 50% discount by running your sponsor ad for multiple weeks. The discount varies by category. Sponsor ads increase results, increase referrals to your web site, can not be...
View ArticlePOPULAR SEARCHES FEATURE
Find out what people are looking for on backpage.com. For example: "bartender" is the most popular job search in Dallas and Astoria is a popular search for an apartment for rent in New York City. About...
View ArticleDEVELOPMENT UPDATE
User authentication: You can now show your first ever posting date on the site or links to your other ads. This info adds to your credibility. You’ll see this option... on the posting form. I think...
View ArticleSAVE15 PROMO CODE
Any paid upgrades help us pay for staff and start new cities. The following promo code is good for a 15% discount: SAVE15. This promotion will expire Sept. 30th, so you'd better jump on it!
View ArticleAFFILIATE PROGRAM
Now you can get paid for helping to promote us. We have had a number of users’ request we build this. We now have a beta version for select clients. Here's how it works: Simply place a text link or...
View ArticleCHARGING ADULT CLIENTS TO POST
Craigslist will start charging for erotic services soon. Backpage.com has been doing this for years. It is perhaps the best way to reduce the prank postings, illegal postings, and postings by under...
View ArticleBACKPAGE.COM JOINS IN ON ‘BAILOUT’ CRAZE
No doubt, times are tough. We'd like to help out any way we can by making it easier for job posters to staff that position they have available now that they gave that overpaid Steve from accounting the...
View ArticleBACKPAGE.COM AFFILIATE PROGRAM BETA TEST UPDATE
Back in October we announced our intention to publicly launch beta testing for the Backpage.com affiliate program wherein users can earn commission payout's for referring users to post on Backpage. On...
View ArticleUPDATES ON AFFILIATE PROGRAM, AUTO REPOST, NEW MARKETS
We've been pretty busy adding to our infrastructure. We’ve had some growing pains and some of our sponsor inventory is sold out temporarily. We’ve put in place a solution for this and the problem...
View ArticleINTERMITTENT SITE OUTAGES
I wanted to quickly address the outages we've been experiencing here and there lately. To put it simply, we've seen a pretty big spike in traffic over the last 2 weeks that we basically weren't 100%...
View ArticlePUBLIC AFFILIATE SIGN UP ACTIVE, NEW CITIES
Thanks to our loyal user base, affiliate beta testing has now concluded and the Backpage Affiliate Program is now live and available to the public! Affiliates earn 10% commission on new users they...
View ArticleNEW MARKETS TO CAP OFF ANOTHER GREAT MONTH
As promised, we're launching more and more new cities for users to post in all the time. As of today (7/31/09), we've expanded even further into parts of Arizona, Canada, California, Florida, Oklahoma,...
View Article“YOUR CAPTCHA OFFENDS ME. PAY ME $320K!”
We all know that CAPTCHA, the challenge-response security feature found on most websites nowadays, is a pain. However, most people also understand that it’s a necessary evil. We here at Backpage use...
View ArticleLATEST PHISHING SCAM
We've had a few complaints over the past few days of users responding to ads, specifically ones in our Adult and Personals sections, and receiving a phishing email from an auto-responder. These emails...
View Article2009 YEAR IN REVIEW
Wow! Thank you for a great year. Users like you are the sole reason why the site doubles in traffic each year to now nearly a billion page views per month. [caption id="attachment_183"...
View Article2010THANKS PROMO CODE HAS BEEN EXTENDED
Due to an overwhelmingly positive response from users about the 2010THANKS promo code, which applies a 10% discount to purchases on backpage.com, we've decided to extend it until June 15th! Feel free...
View ArticleBACKPAGE EXPANDS TO INCLUDE OVER 400 CITIES, REGIONS
I'm proud to announce that we've finally crossed the 400 site threshold. Backpage.com is now available to users from New York to Los Angeles, Tijuana to Toronto, Washington D.C. to Washington State,...
View ArticleBACKPAGE CONTINUES TO GROW; SETS NEW RECORDS FOR AD POSTINGS, TRAFFIC
2010 has gotten off to a great start! We've set new records for ad postings and traffic. Alexa seems to be the most reliable and accurate public reporting site recording our increases in traffic. The...
View Article“STUMBLE” UPON BACKPAGE
By far, one of the coolest ways to explore the internet these days is StumbleUpon. From Wikipedia: StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and...
View ArticleIPAD GIVEAWAY
Starting June 7th, I'll be giving away a free Apple iPad (yes, a freggin’ iPad!) to job posters every single month in July, August, September and October. We call it helping "put America back to work"...
View ArticleFIRST IPAD WINNER ANNOUNCED
In my last blog, I announced that I would be giving away free iPad’s to one job poster per month from June until September. When documenting this momentous occasion, I feel it is likely that historians...
View ArticleAUGUST IPAD WINNER
We have selected another user to win an iPad. Nichole, a coordinator for Lucky Strike Lanes and a frequent poster in our Jobs section, is now the proud owner of a brand new Apple iPad. “I place hiring...
View ArticleSEPTEMBER IPAD WINNER
As promised, we're keeping the ball rolling with our iPad Giveaway. For the past several months we have been selecting users posting ads in our Jobs section to win free iPads. This month's winner is...
View ArticleINTERNET SAFETY EXPERT HIRED BY BACKPAGE.COM
The safety and security of our community is a top priority for Backpage.com. Backpage.com has just retained Internet safety expert Hemanshu Nigam of SSP Blue to partner with us in implementing a...
View ArticleBACKPAGE STEPS UP SAFETY EFFORTS, CALLS FOR NATIONAL TASK FORCE
Over the last several weeks, Backpage.com has been working closely with our Internet safety expert, Hemanshu Nigam, and his company SSP Blue, to identify areas where we can put up stronger defenses...
View ArticleOCTOBER IPAD WINNER
We have selected our final iPad winner; Debbie from Denver, CO is the lucky winning job poster for the month of October after posting an ad in our Jobs section. Now Debbie can read applicant's resumes...
View ArticleSAFETY AND SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS
Backpage.com is committed to preventing those who are intent on misusing the site for illegal purposes. We have implemented a series of new safety enhancements over the past several months to better...
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