Kijiji USA is now eBay Classifieds

Kijiji was the second most popular free online classified ad listing website of the USA. Kijiji was acquired by the auction monster eBay years back. Now eBay willing to use their popular brand name to make their free classified site more popular has changed name of their free classified site. Kijiji USA is now named as eBay Classifieds. Note the incorporation of their brand name eBay into their classified site. Kijiji was a foreign language word which means village. US english speaking people was never familiar with this word. I guess this has made eBay to change the name to a more English familiar name.

eBay is already in legal feud with their mighty rival Craigslist. The main difference between two sites is that craigslist supports HtML ads while eBay Classifieds (formerly kijiji.com) is plain text based. Since the ads are plain text kijiji is much more spam free than craigslist.

The new eBay Classifieds has introduced a nice iPhone app found here http://bit.ly/ebcapp

If You Liked Kijiji, You’re Going to Love eBay Classifieds. It's more family friendly and controls spamming very strictly.

Although kijij is a worldwide network available in some other countries like Canada, Japan, Italy for the time being only Kijiji USA has been changed.

Gumtree quits USA market

Around one year ago gumtree, a popular free classifieds site of UK and Australia starts it's USA mission with 3 cities namely Boston,  Chicago and New York.  gumtree newtwork is a partner of kijiji network. Being heavily promoted by eBay kijiji has got enormous popularity in the USA. So gumtree has decided to leave USA market instead of competing with it's partner site kijiji.  

Now  boston.gumtree.com redirects to  Boston Kijiji, chicago.gumtree.com redirects to Chicago Kijiji and newyork.gumtree.com redirects to New York Kijiji. Combinely gumtree-kijiji network is the largest and most popular network of free classified sites around the world. Although craigslist.org has huge popularity in USA the site fails to get that much popularity outside USA and among the non-english speaking nations. Grumtree-kijiji network has captured the non-US and non-English markets of online free classifieds very well.

Popular Searches : new feature of backpage

Backpage.com has introduced some new features :

- Popular searches by users a newly introduced nice feature.
You can view popular search terms by category. It will help you write better postings and get more views. Example: Popular Searches on Dallas Backpage and Popular Searches on Las Vegas

Kijiji already has this feature. Check out this Popular Searches on Toronto kijiji and Popular Searches on New York kijiji

Other new features are:
- Upgraded search engine optimization: Your backpage postings will appear more frequently on Google searches.

- 15 new cities launched. Those are: Alaska backpage , Harrisburg, PA backpage , Jackson, MS backpage , Burlington, VT backpage , Calgary backpage , Maine backpage , Colorado Springs backpage , Columbia backpage , Dayton backpage , New Jersey backpage , Des Moines, IA backpage , Edmonton backpage , Eugene, OR backpage , Omaha backpage , Fresno backpage

Kijiji entered into the USA market

Finally kijiji has entered into the USA market. Now kijiji.com home page shows a map of USA and list of US cities. The list of other countries/regions is now show at the bottom of the home page.
I guess kijiji will be a strong competitor of craigslist in the USA. Kijiji.ca is already a competitor of craig's list in Canada.
At this moment backpage is the second most popular free classifieds site in the USA. Hopefully kijiji will soon be the second most popular free classifieds site in the USA. Kijiji has the biggest network worldwide.
At present kijiji is very much popular in Canada and Japan. Also it's partner gumtree.com is the most popular free classifieds site in the UK.

Kijiji is one step advance of craigslist in the sense that it support local languages while craigslist support only English.