68 Classifieds Blog

Exporting your users

68 Classifieds allows you to export your users to a csv file or excel spreadsheet. This can be beneficial depending on what goal you are trying to achieve. Some example reasons you might want to do this include:

• Creating a snail mail list
• Creating a contact list
• Creating an email newsletter list
• Creating a holiday mailer

You can export your users by visiting the Administration then clicking the Users tab and finally Manage Users. Toward the bottom of the list of users is an excel icon. See the screen shot below:

Once you click this all the users will be exported to a csv file.

You can also export specific users based off user group, search term, or by the letter. Once you perform the user search just click that same icon and a list with all the users shown will be generated.

Google Releases Ad Manager

I just heard about this today and it sounds like it would be a great resource. I can see this as a nice solution for those of you running classified sites and want to start running banner ads. I would also like to point out that it says, “Directly-sold”. Meaning you would be responsible for the billing on your end.

Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory.

Features

Ad Manager offers a wealth of features to help you with:

• Inventory management
• Yield optimization
• Ad targeting
• Trafficking, ad delivery, and order booking
• Creatives and rich media management
• Reporting
• User interface navigation
• Account administration

I haven’t had a chance to create an account and test this yet and if anyone does please feel free to let me know how you like it.

Using RSS to stay in contact

Did you know 68 Classifieds allows you to publish an rss feed of your listings? You can use RSS feeds to help your site stay in front of users and help get repeat traffic to your site.

Some of the advantages of RSS are:

• Private - Users do not have to subscribe by email and do not have to worry about receiving spam.
• Instant - As soon as a new listing is added the rss feed is updated. Your users will always see the latest listings.
• Secure - RSS can not carry attachments or viruses.
• Not Blocked - You do not have to worry about getting black listed and you do not have to worry about the listings finding the bulk mail folder.
• Feed Readers - Users can read the rss feed in a number of applications including, Gmail, Flock, My Yahoo, their desktop, and many more places.

Now, lets look at some other simple promotion tips:

• Auto Discovery - By adding one line to your layout file, you can allow browsers to auto-discover your rss feeds. For more information please visit: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/use-links
• Submit to RSS aggregators. - By submiting your rss to aggregator sites your content will be picked up and linked to by other sites.
• Use Pinging - Pinging allows you to submit your rss feed to popular sites like Technorati, Feedster, etc. You can use a service like Ping-o-Matic

For more information on the different settings and how to integrated RSS feeds with 68 Classifieds please refer to the knowledge base.

Welcome to the 68 Classifieds Blog

We decided to create a new blog for all things 68 Classifieds. The initial plan is to make one post a week with some type of tip and post any important news. Since this is the first post I think it might be a good idea to tell you a little about our company.

68 Classifieds is owned and operated by 68 Designs, LLC and our office is located in the nice little town of Belmont NC. About 10 minutes from Charlotte NC. We have been in business since May of 2003. 68 Classifieds was first released in 2004.