Major New Project
We will soon roll out a new tab, called FEATURES. Clicking on the FEATURES tab will take the user to multi-page spreads with lavish photos and customer-designed layout. The FEATURES will be kept completely separate from the regular listings.
If you are promoting a major development, drop us a line to discuss advertising rates. The first client to take advantage of our FEATURES tab will get a major discount.
| Posted: Feb 07, 2008 00:37 [Permalink]
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| Tag: advertising |
Happy New Year!
We wish all our users prosperity and rapid sales this year. After a dip in traffic in December - due to technical reasons which have since been resolved - traffic to Ah Yer! is now on a strong upswing and we will be delivering you the inquiries you have come to expect from our site. Keep uploading those listings!
More Listings Per Page
We are now displaying a maximum of 10 listings per page. It used to be just 8. This is because an analysis of our statistics revealed that the clickthru rate for pages 2 and beyond are lower than expected. Consequently we increased the listings per page to 10, to increase exposure a little.
However, users might feel that 10 listings per page is too many and that the page looks to crowded, and that individual listings will get lost... What do you think?
| Posted: Dec 26, 2007 22:21 [Permalink]
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| Tags: listings, adjustments |
Oops!
We were doing our daily backup of the listings data when we accidently moved a live directory, causing all listings to disappear. The error was detected and rectified within 10 minutes. We regret the error and blame it on the beers consumed during lunch.
| Posted: Dec 12, 2007 19:02 [Permalink]
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| Tag: temporary problem |
Adding a New Listing?
If you are adding a new listing, you no longer need to go into "My Listings." We added a "Add Listing" link to the shortcuts you see after you login.
| Posted: Dec 08, 2007 19:13 [Permalink]
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| Tags: improvements, listings manager |
Massive Realignment, Again - We have stopped using country code web addresses, which we introduced a few weeks ago to take advantage of "geotargetting", a new feature at the searc...
Nov 28, 2007 17:21
Slight Hiccup - Hopefully you didn't notice, but our system was not behaving properly for about 20 minutes today. This is because we were re-engineeering the arrangement of our...
Nov 28, 2007 17:17
Profuse Apologies - Our website was down for half a day. It was a very long outage. We take full responsibility for this. Unfortunately, since we are 100% free, we do not hav...
Nov 14, 2007 23:29
User Listings Reordered - User's listings, found on the user's page, are now given in reverse chronological order instead of chronological order. That means, the newest listings show up ...
Nov 10, 2007 19:15
Missing Photos Found! - Pursuant to the major overhaul the day before yesterday, during which we completely reorganized the website, some users kindly notified us that listing photos h...
Nov 10, 2007 15:32
Major Re-Engineering at Ah Yer! - In order to take advantage of a new feature at one of the major search engines, we have overhauled the systemic structure of our web site. We hope that this ove...
Nov 07, 2007 04:23
New Handling of Logos for Corporate Accounts - At Ah Yer! you can choose between an individual account and a corporate account. We strongly recommend you go with an individual account. If your company...
Nov 02, 2007 02:04
More Accurate Conversions - We have improved our system for updating foreign exchange rates and converting prices into the local currency of your choice. The converted prices displayed are...
Oct 20, 2007 20:57
Sluggish Loading, FIXED! - We noticed that our website wasn't responding today. An investigation revealed this to be because our brand new webserver had not been adequately tuned for a hi...
Oct 19, 2007 00:03
New Server! - Ah Yer! is now running on a new server, a VPS (Virtual Private Server) at eBoundHost.com Expect much better performance from our web site. That means faster lo...
Oct 16, 2007 20:26
Hardware Upgrade Coming! - You may have noticed that our website occasionally returns "Internal Server Error" instead of the web page it was supposed to be displaying. This is becau...
Oct 04, 2007 16:17
Problems Logging In? - We received a complaint that, after logging in, the user is for some reason logged out again. The server would say "You have to be logged in" even though the us...
Oct 03, 2007 06:59
Conversion Tool Fixed - The currency and units of measurement conversion tool was not working properly on the pages showing individual listings, for users with only one listing. Our ap...
Sep 28, 2007 05:14
Better Image Display System - Hitherto there was a slight problem if you clicked on a small thumbnail on the listing page, and the larger version of the image hadn't fully loaded yet. You wo...
Sep 28, 2007 05:13
Better Punctuation - We previously did not allow various symbols in your posts. Things like semicolons, colons, hash marks, apostrophes, and quotation marks were either automaticall...
Sep 24, 2007 13:33
Fixed a Few Bugs - We received notice today from a user that there was a problem with the form for adding farms. That has been fixed - apologies. In addition, it came to our...
Sep 24, 2007 13:27
Maintenance Completed - The maintenance referred to in the preceding post has been completed. You can already log in again and start adding more listings. Note that for a while y...
Sep 24, 2007 12:22
Database Maintenance Today - We will be carrying out brief maintenance work on our system. For about an hour from now, all account related functions (such as adding or editing listings) wil...
Sep 24, 2007 11:31
Improved Security Captions - We fixed a slight bug in the security captions. Security captions, you will recall, are the automatic imprinting of your web address onto any photos you upload....
Sep 21, 2007 14:19
South Africa is in the House - Our South African version is in beta and will be released later this month. If you have listings in South Africa, or friends with listings, or relatives, or acq...
Sep 19, 2007 08:22
Automatically Add Security Captions to Photos - We have improved our Listings Manager further by adding a new feature. Your username and web address is now written automatically onto all images you upload. Th...
Sep 18, 2007 05:34
List Place Names Alphabetically - If you get out a magnifying glass and look very, very closely at our site, you might notice two tiny buttons near the list of place names in the left-hand margi...
Sep 18, 2007 05:33
A Little Eye Candy for International Users - We've added flags to make the list of "Other Currencies" more palatable to the eyeballs. Note that the property price and/or rent in other currencies is hidden ...
Sep 16, 2007 08:39
User Profiles for All - Previously, User Profiles were available only for users offering listings or resources. We have taken your feedback into account and instituted User Profi...
Sep 11, 2007 09:36
Slow Server - Our apologies, our server was a little slow today, due to some technical issues on the web server. But our web hosting company fixed it pretty quick, and things...
Sep 11, 2007 09:17
Better News System - We have been using a blog at WordPress to keep you updated about changes at our site. From now on, though, we will be using this section here, called Upda...
Sep 08, 2007 08:39
