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There are a few things that everyone here should do, that are easy to do, that will benefit them directly, but that almost no one IS doing.
What of YOUR Goals for the site? Site GOALS?? More link industry goals.
Site Newsletter - Release Date: 9/24 07
Newsletter:
Event search results now show a color coded listing quality level. Events that have little info besides name, address, date, phone will be RED. Events with most questions answered will be GREEN. Most red ones are listings we imported from tourism web sites, no other info is available on them. We can ONLY either list them with their little info as we do or not at all. We list them since they still are leads and all have phone numbers that I know many folks still use and want! For those of you that don't want them, there will soon be a search criteria option for that and an account setting.
There are now lots of links on the bottom of every page throughout the site. These are the most recent URLs ( website page addresses ) that sent us a click, displayed a banner exchange ad, or had a content syndication impression. The idea behind this is that those that send us the most traffic or branding impressions will receive links back to there site more often, and from EVERY PAGE of our site. This will help generate you some traffic directly, but more importantly will probably raise YOUR Google page rank, being linked to from more places.
The site now self balances itself better under high load. It will now turn off certain features as load gets worse. Eventually even event searches can be disabled to at least keep the site up under the most extreme moments, when before it crashed until I restarted servers or software processes. If you are blocked from searching ever, know that the links in your past received newsletters or Google will still get you to event details pages. They stay up unless site is non-functional.
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There are a few things that everyone here should do, that are easy to do, that will benefit them directly, but that almost no one IS doing:
EVERYONE NEEDS TO:
* Start using our Google gadget. WHY?: http://www.craftlister.com/api/google_modules/
* Re-display our listings on YOUR site: Why?: http://www.craftlister.com/help/link_to_us.php?ShowOtherSitesWithOurListings=TRUE&ShowReferersAtTop=TRUE
What else can you do? Should you do?:
I've added a 'My Goals / U Help Site' and and linked it from the footer of the site and here:
http://www.craftlister.com/help/goals.php
It details HOW you can HELP, if you care to. Including:
Using our Google event search gadget/module
Displaying our event listings on your site!
Referring friends
Adding event listings and event comments
Telling promoters and exhibitors about EventLister.com
Printing and distributing Handouts
Educating yourself and others – our newsletters and articled are printable and re-publishable
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Amongst the goals is more uses of our 'local event list' Google 'Gadget' that I am trying to get exposure for:
Google allows developers to submit content in the form of what they call 'Gadgets' that their users can choose from to have appear on their iGoogle homepage or on their Google Desktop. Google has a directory of available gadgets that users can select from – and gadgets need to have a critical number of hundreds or thousands of users to appear in the directory and a much higher usage rate to appear anywhere worth while. To have Google users see the EventLister.com local event list gadget as an AVAILABLE gadget to them, more people must start using our gadget on their own. Again: To have more CUSTOMERS see our, your, event listings, by having them see and so be able to select and use our content gadget, ALL ARTISTS AND PROMOTERS SHOULD USE OUR GOOGLE GADGET so it ranks high enough to be included in their browsable gadget directory.
ADD our gadget to your Google homepage by clicking here: http://fusion.google.com/add?moduleurl=http://www.eventlister.com/api/google_modules/event_search.xml
Or add the gadget directly by it's xml url:
http://www.eventlister.com/api/google_modules/event_search.xml
TELL OTHERS – CUSTOMERS, EXHIBITORS, PROMOTERS to also use the gadget!
If your events are listed with us, it behooves you to help our listings reach the largest readership possible. Content Syndication of our Event database will benefit all promoters and exhibitors, so please do your part to help! Help me help our industry...
Much more help and support is needed, by orders of magnitude!
Help today to enable me to be able to help everyone that this info and site can help more fully. Drastic efforts are needed today FOR tomorrow!
Louy
800-568-2634 ( cell )
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