Saturday, June 19, 2010

Compatible - At Last

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Alexa movement is slow but we are expecting better things today due to heightened activity. 

You may remember that we were affiliating with another Free Classifieds site.  This has taken a long time due to compatability issues.  I will be spending alot of my time making our Free Ads site compatible with the other Free Classifieds site we are integrating.

There are the obvious issues such as the category name but also the grouping.  Additionally they all have special fields specific to the category which we dont incorporate yet.  For example a car has special fields such as make, model, registration etc.  A property may be number of bedrooms, garage, garden etc.  So every category and sub category must have a compatible field written into our Free Ads site.

The format in which the Free Ad is received is also another development problem.  We could have had it integrated fairly easily with the API but in order to benefit us so that we benefit form the meta data ( one code is in java so that was not an option), we required the code to be written into a new program that ensured we receive the data in a format that is aesthetically pleasing and also one which is SEO friendly!

The biggest obstacles are overcome and we are at last compatible!

It is not up and running as yet since this is far more complex than I could have imagines and requires a little more development work.  Fingers crossed for Tuesday!

Here is todays random video

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