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How To Efficiently Run Your Online Classified Ads

Classified ads scripts, is exceedingly advanced and powerful PHP script to run the clients classified site. Its main potential is to generate very high revenues for the client. The script is built with a focus to increase the ease of users and the webmasters profit. Thus it is very user friendly and also revenue friendly.

Classified ads scripts are highly customizable, very attractively designed with full features. It has got easily operated classified system for running free or commercial ads listing service. It is an open site for clients and also it collects payments for listings of ads (general advertisement) such as banners, Google Ad sense etc. It is generally installed on windows hosting with the support of the most popular types of data base such as MS-Access, My SQL, and MS-SQL etc.

Set Up and Installation:

The client should fill SQL configuration data into configuration file (classifieds with MS Access does not even require this step) and run an automated setup script. Within few minutes the database is built and classified is ready to operate. For customizing the scripts freely, the application uses an open script source.

After that the template are required to be designed. The application comes with almost 30 to 35 css style sheet templates. Templates can again be edited online through content management or it may be done offline. Those who are advanced users can edit the header as well as the footer to integrate classifieds into existed site or just change the classifieds appearance. Special OGIM based templates utilize background images generated in OGIM Engine.

Reference for each image is generally provided so the client can generate and save new set images on the fly, thus changing the appearance in some cases even without css customization. So the classified script becomes more user friendly as well as revenue generating.
Administration: Administration control is very well organized.

Almost 100% site administration is done through admin tasks panel. Everything, such as, ads, accounts, categories, option, content management etc is done on line without the FTP being used. Exceptions are there such as some configuration must be done by editing files in editor. Opening page and User edge: The site is tapered with header/footer, portal/side blocks and center content. Top (header), bottom (footer), left/right (portals/side bars) sides enclose the center content - "corral".

The adaptability of Content Management allows dynamically build the "enclosure".Features such as dynamic content builder, editors, pick ads, hot ads; top posters are rarely present in other classifieds application. The center page is an entrance to your classified. This page could be conveniently customized internally with WYSIWYG in content management or in any other external editor, in which case resulted code could be pasted into the template and saved online.

SEO friendly:

Every group may have a sole title, Meta keywords and description. Display pages automatically inherit ad subject as page title, keywords and description. Ads catching (html format) with optional ad name in URL. Google Site Map XML builder - create a standard XML file on-line and submit it to Google.

Category import utility:

If the client is planning to build a large category structure, then this utility is there to help it. This imports all categories in one attempt from a spreadsheet and save time entering categories info manually. Utility has .csv templates included.

It generates revenue from a general site advertisement. Special features like- rotates images, flash, java script or HTML advertisement, could be submitted by clients or site administrator. Zones could be included into templates in content management or directly into any page. Relative content management - create templates filled with advertisement code and link to any category or group of categories. Linked content would be displayed at the category specific pages (category browser, search, ads display... etc).

Multilingual support:

Application comes with the support for English only. However, all static text on web pages throughout the application located in special lingual pages. Which mean, if you need to translate rapid classified application into other language, you only need to translate a set of variables in a few lingual pages, instead of going through over 200 pages searching and translating a text? However, administration pages accessible by site owner only cannot be translated with lingual pages.

Running multilingual site is also possible with some limitations. So, it can be said that with all this features available the Classified Ads Script not only help to earn revenue but also makes the website fairly interesting as well as distinguished.

About the Author

Ron McNeil promotes classified ads script to easily start a site with an auto classifieds software powered by WebScribble

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