Promoting your website

[geomodules]

What about teenagers stealing and breaking them?

[pensacoladaily]

Well, anything is possible. That's true. But..., I have been watching the signs in the area for a few months now. They seem to stick to their locations pretty well. I haven't seen a single one of them disappear yet.

Could also be the area they are in. Bad areas may generate vandalism. These are main roads and intersections in pretty decent areas.

I'll give it a try after the new year and let you know how it's going.

[wendy_fnp]

Where do I add the Bookmark Script ? Great idea.

[wendy_fnp]

Someone said to add the bookmark HTML to my template, sorry to be so new, but where's my template? Thanks

[rweeden]

I am curious how everyone else is drawing in customers...

May be out of reach, but radio, all free Ads, and time is a pretty good formula!

[timamie]

I am curious how everyone else is drawing in customers...

May be out of reach, but radio, all free Ads, and time is a pretty good formula!

I am hoping you can help in this matter as well I have no traffic problems.

Just user issues, today 15 members demanded they be allowed to display there emails or they would pull there ads from my site.

so I placed the code back in the templates to display emails if customer so chooses

Now the problem is how do I get credit for the site traffic when a person clicks the email

Possible solution edit php code in browse_display_ad file to fill the subject line with the site name + ad title

so when they click on the live email the subject line is filled in with your site information

This way the site still gets credit for traffic

I beleive I have located the code that is responsible

Browse_display_ad.php


if (($this->browsing_configuration->PUBLICALLY_EXPOSE_EMAIL) && ($show->EXPOSE_EMAIL))
{
$template = str_replace("<<PUBLIC_EMAIL_LABEL>>",stripslashes( urldecode($this->messages[1344])),$template);
$template = str_replace("<<PUBLIC_EMAIL>>",stripslashes(urldec ode($show->EMAIL)),$template);
}
elseif ($this->browsing_configuration->PUBLICALLY_EXPOSE_EMAIL)
{
$template = str_replace("<<PUBLIC_EMAIL_LABEL>>","",$template) ;
$template = str_replace("<<PUBLIC_EMAIL>>","",$template);
}

there might be another area where this needs to be done instead of here

[identity]

Personally, I'd make sure they realize that posting the email address on a forum, a classifieds site, any heavily trafficked site, or any site period, is one of the worst things they could ever do.

The average person complains about how much SPAM they get. The average person, until they come and use one of these sites, has never had their email address out publicly on a website. The average person has no idea what "getting" SPAM is. Their notion of SPAM is like drinking from a garden hose. Those of us who deal with the web and have multiple sites that we are involved with and often must end up with a few email addresses being visible, experience SPAM in a the drinking from a fire hose point of view.

I would just make sure that you have fully warned them and let them know that this is the risk they take.

I'm not sure what traffic credit you are referring to though, unless you mean having the seller know that a buyer came to them from your site.

[timamie]

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[identity]

Haven't tried it, but give this a shot. I think you'll need it set to have public email exposed, but otherwise, that should be it.... I think.

<a href=mailto:<<PUBLIC_EMAIL>>?subject=ClassicCarMall%20Ad%20#<<CLASSIFIED_ID>>%20<<TITLE>>>contact seller</a>

Just place that on your page where you want it, or replace the "contact seller" with an image.

One issue I just thought about with that though is the if the title has spaces in it, then only the first word will be shown, so better off just using the ID number.

[identity]

Well, I didn't have much luck with it, but I didn't try to hard either. I don't know if that email tag is still a current tag or not, and I was thinking there was somewhere in the admin control panel where a setting could be made regarding public email, but can't find it... so maybe not.

The other option with this would be to use an optional field instead of the email tag, and have them fill it out if they wish, which might be better than fully exposing everyone's emails.

I'd still try to explain why it would be a bad idea to begin with though to.