Visitors may want to take control over their business presence in the directory. We will start with the simplest thing - a lead form asking for First and Last Names, E-Mail address and a message on who they are and why they believe this listing belongs to them.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

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We can now scrape and display reviews. The next step - make something useful: we can ask AI to analyze reviews and create a business description. TBD: 1) Decide if it should be a standalone field(s) 2) Decide if reviews data should be combined with website data

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

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SEO

Many users are asking about adding more UGC/UG actions. 1) Add “Upvote” to the Listing Page header 2) Display the number of upvotes on the listing cards 3) Add sorting by upvotes number to listing grids, apply default sorting as “most upvoted first” 4) Ask anonymous users to sign up/login once they click the “upvote” button. Just open login/signup pages in a new tab for the beginning.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

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Sometimes customers create their first directory, break it down, and want to get a fresh start. They are creating a new directory and would like to get rid of the old one.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

With the addition of search bar to the home page, it became completely unobvious how does the search work. We need either rework the /browse page or create a separate /search page to handle… Search.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

Currently it possible to drag&drop items, but it doesn’t work well with large components - completely unintuitive thing that sometimes even doesn’t work.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

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For example, a user visited a Listing page. He sees some “tag” and would like to see other items with this tag.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

Currently, it is somewhat solvable by using the “Text” custom attribute, but it doesn’t look good enough.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

Similarly to this plugin for GeoDirectory. https://wpgeodirectory.com/downloads/pay-per-lead/

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

Monetization

TBD: describe the events & conditions.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

Subj. Customers who manage listings via MakeADir sometimes need to create listings from another, exiting listings.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

Multiple users requested Airtable integration for their directories. For the first iteration, we can focus on one-way sync (Airtable → MakeADir). Support categories & listings sync with a column mapping interface similar to CSV import.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

hey, I hope you’re doing well. I liked your app but I want to build a directory in turkish language. I’ve seen that If I change site language the texts that I can not change are staying in english. Thanks for your help.

Mirat Can Bayrak over 1 year ago

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Sometimes users might prefer having a “list view” of listings when a single listing fills the whole row (like on Booking.com’s SRP).

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

Pretty much similar to filters, users might want to see categories on the sidebar to occupy less of the vertical space. It should work like Amazon categories: 1) Parent name/link 2) List of links of the categories on the same level 3) List of links of subcategories of the currently selected one.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

One of the popular features is to allow users who submit listings to create “Events” for them. It will allow to enrich directories and make them more useful to end-users.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

Directory admins may want to allow users to share listings / blog posts in social networks just with a couple of clicks.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

Blog posts with images usually get more views/engagement and are, generically speaking, more attractive to end-users.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

This might improve SEO a little bit by showing blog posts in different SERP features.

Bohdan Shulha over 1 year ago

SEO

this is a good example how easy it can be, taken from raindrop.io Tagging with AI - make it easy to get thing sorted #bildung #education Watch Video

No Film No Fun over 1 year ago