Further development and site function

Sometimes during the course of any project, you can feel the enthusiasm wain slightly. Not that I am any less enthusiastic, just that I have hit a brick wall. The (brilliant) developer is working on the site this week and has had some really amazing ideas on how to progress the site further. Coupled with the implementation of the new phone number system we will be a site to be reckoned with.

The phone number system will automatically convert phone numbers to a personalised 070 number. This is not a premium rate number, although it is more expensive than conventional numbers. Revenue generated will go towards running the website. Clearly these costs will be paid by the buyer as opposed to the seller. Business will be able to compensate the buyers as their over heads will be less and they can be more competitive. This is a win win situation.

It will also mean that we will be able to offer free business hosting as well as free personal classifieds and also entire shop listing for the foreseable future.

YapYapOK free classified offers all the great functionality of the most popular selling sites and more.

PS this is a bottle of Faberge Vodka. Just listed on YapYapOK

Information forums on YapYapOK

The forum is eating a vast amount of my time.  Clearly it is not worth tweeting an empty forum for too long as sooner or later despite the hugely gratifying hits, the browsers will get bored.  Now I am adding information to the forums in order to make it worth Yapping about.

We have a recipe forum.  I can do this ish.  My mother is a trained chef and has always kept up to date with techniques and ingredients, it rubs off.  Whilst they may not rank well in the mitchelin kitchen they are tasty and simple enough for most people to follow. 

Our gardening forum is looking well frankly empty.  My gardening knowledge amounts to planting seeds for herbs and some basic vegetable planting.  Care etc is not my forte.  If they grow, then great.  I can cope with minor infestations of some pests such as mealy bug.  Beyond that I am hopeless.  My mum on the other hand is an excellent gardener.  Not only does she successfully look after a complex array of bi annuals, perennials, herbs and vegetables.  She also has a qualification in horticulture and knows most plants by their Latin name.  Clearly for this forum to take off, it needs some input from her.

We have also started a forum on household tips.  This was inspired after my husband came in with half of his new white stone island jumper covered in black engine oil.  I have been washing clothes long enough to know that this needed more than a Dr Beckman or Stain Devil application.  Hopefully in time our new forum will be such a great source of useful information it will be used as a one stop shop with information flowing freely.

We are lucky to have secured a talented investment banker who will drop hints and tips on the stockmarket.  So watch this Investment forum,  he will be a constant presence on the site in case you are in need of his services!

Our hit rate is a little stagnant as it is difficult to spread myself so thinly.  Most of this will grow with time, but I want it all now.  So if your reading this and you are a budding chef, gardener, or if you like to review books, films or games, then register now, "knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practise"

Ultimately the forum is there for fun, interaction& information.  It will support the advertisers and the browsers who choose to utilise the YapYapOK free classified website

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I have started the YapYapOK Classified forums. The recipe forum was clearly worth tweeting about as the views were hugely gratifying and instant.

I have decided to start an informative forum with household hints as well as investment tips aimed at creating a knowledge base from those better informed. The forum will enable users to interact & ask questions from experts and novices from all over.

Apart from Investments, reviews and recipes, I have been asked to include household tips, gardening advice and a lost and found forum.

My job now requires some investigation into who to ask to input on the forum and see if I can access some key personnel. Should not be too hard with Blogger!

YapYapOK a new class of classifieds

The advantage of Forums on webbsites

Today I started a new forum group on YapYapOK classified site Since Yapping is what we do best. That is we Yap about the site on Social media. We Yap about ads placed. We even have a forum enabling advertisers to Yap about their own classified and link to it to encourage visitors to that advert.

So today we started a forum for fun. So far it includes jokes, riddles, rants and even a recipe thread. Forums are a great way to  instantly see how many visits your getting.   I added  a joke, I Tweeted the link and was instantly rewarded with hits.

Apart from selling,  Amazon provide valuable information to site visitors.  By providing a forum we aim to invite interaction and give visitors what they want.  Since I fancy myself as a bit of a whiz in the kitchen, and since cooking is so popular, I decided a recipe thread may provide a great resource for website browsers.  Please feel free to add your own informative thread or suggest a new one!

Meanwhile I am off to promote my new fun forum via Digg, Stumble, Bleetbox and Buzz!

Watch this space

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Yapping about YapYapOK

Today I started a new forum group on YapYapOK classified site Since Yapping is what we do best. That is, we Yap about the site on Social media. We Yap about ads placed. We even have a forum enabling advertisers to Yap about their own classified and link to it to encourage visitors to that advert.

So today we started a forum for fun. So far it includes jokes, riddles, rants and even a recipe thread. Forums are a great way to instantly see how many visits your getting. I added a joke, I Tweeted the link and was instantly rewarded with hits.

Now I am off to promote my new fun forum via Digg, Stumble, Bleetbox and Buzz!

Watch this space

Ads wanted!

Yesterday I posted that I was procrastinating on Facebook.  I was so busy with social media that I just kept putting off updating some key meta data content.  We have got a crazy amount of pages on the site and updating it will be a long process.The rewards are coming.  Not only, as I reported yesterday are the Alexa rankings up but... we have more ads.  Today I have been procrastinating on everything!  Oh I have redone some key meta data, & I have done most of my other social sites only in very slow motion!  Kind of between ironing and cooking.  I cooked prawn pakoras just to walk away from the computer.  We weren't even hungry!  Not bad seeing as I am in a constant battle of watching my weight.  Deep fried - but very few carbs!  Worse they are so morish that there have been constant visits to the kitchen to eat more.

I digress amongst our new ads are 2 bronzes from world reknown artist and sculture Tim Cotterill aka Frogman.  One is Blue Boy.  The other is Flipper

More ads means that I have more to Tweet.  More to Buzz, Bleet and Stumble thus increasing online exposure not only for the advert but also for the site.  This is full time!

However we need more ads.  If you have a house or houses, a flat, a car, a tv, games music or anything and you want your classified item, business or service Buzzed and Bleeted, Stumbled and Tweeted by YapYapOK then list now!  

Yapping is what we do best!

YapYapOK the nations newest Free classified

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Upwards in the Rankings

I have been increasingly frustrated in the sudden steady daily drops in my Alexa rankings. I have been working tirelessly with the meta data and social media. The developer assured me that many of her clients and herself were also experiencing problems. This has been going on for about 2 weeks
No sooner have we decided that we needed a meeting to discuss the possible changes in the Google algorythm then it all changed back again. I can report an upward movement in Alexa by 140000. Woop Woop!  As I speak we are up to 2399000.  This is a record!

I have been Twittering several times a day and discovered another cheat in getting followers!  TweetLarge.com.  This sends followers direct, I received over 100 yesterday.  Clearly this is a case of quantity over quality.  Having said that, the more followers you have the less Tweeting is necessary to get your click throughs.  I also think that you create a crowd following with a reasonable number of followers.  For a start people join you so that they can attract your followers to their Tweets.  Tomorrow I am going to try some unrelated quality Tweets with a link through to see if that helps with my following.  

Bleetbox has also featured heavily this week. I have Bleeted on a couple of occasions but not realised that I could also Digg and Stumble via Bleetbox. This creates greater interlinking for my web lines. Maybe this is why my Alexa ranks are growing!

YapYapOk free UK classifieds is firmly on the map!

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