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 search engine Google, which allows websites to target their content to a particular region. We hoped that the new country code web addresses would help us rank better in Google and reach a wider audience.
However, quite the reverse happened. Over the past 2-3 weeks, traffic to Ah Yer! dropped, like a stone. We spent a week investigating and determined this was due to an obscure phenomenon called "subdomain sandboxing" at Google. Consequently we got rid of the subdomains and hopefully traffic will be back to normal within a week.
Thereafter it we should be back on the growth trajectory we used to be. Just some slight turbulence, ladies and gentlemen, we are still on track to soar ever higher. Keep uploading those listings!
| Posted: Nov 28, 2007 17:21 [Permalink]
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| Tags: improvements, maintenance |
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 overhaul will improve traffic and boost the number of incoming inquiries. The user experience remains the same, but, as you may have noticed, the locations of listings pages are now different.
We have tested the web site after implementing the changes, but if you notice anything odd or amiss, don't hesitate to drop us a line.
| Posted: Nov 07, 2007 04:23 [Permalink]
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| Tags: improvements, maintenance |
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 loading times, far more reliability, and in the coming weeks, a slew of new features which we were not able to implement at our hosting account.
| Posted: Oct 16, 2007 20:26 [Permalink]
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| Tags: improvements, server |
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 because of some long-running issues at our web hosting company. Since the web hosting company does not seem to have any plans to upgrade their servers, we will be moving to a new web host this week.
This will involve a temporary hold on account activity, perhaps about an hour. We will notify you in advance here, in the Update section.
Meanwhile, look forward to a faster website and more reliability from Ah Yer!
| Posted: Oct 04, 2007 16:17 [Permalink]
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| Tags: improvements, maintenance |
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
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
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
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
