What Do You Recommend Flynax focus on Next

[Joe Can]

This weekend I am working on planning and researching developing a blog/news website section probably with WordPress; but, running into many issues:

- having to learn a whole new very, very complicated program
- difficult to find a simple template as many are just way too complicated
- WordPress requires various plugins probably costing me over 200 USD in total (file bird, template, template plugins, page builder, etc)
- accepting that your blog and website will not have the same format

I've realised that there are various topics to write about for a real estate website:

- City/Country Maps
- General
- Most Recent
- Promotions (sales & marketing campains)
- Real Estate News
- Real Estate Reviews (paid service)
- Top News
- Website Features

For me, I believe writing substantially improves SEO.

If there was an "Advanced News Plugin", I would easily spend $100 USD or more to purchase it in a heartbeat.

[Pete Young]

For me, I believe writing substantially improves SEO.

Because you can work directly inside of your current classified site and post directly into the related categories you do not need to worry about any of the categories etc.

For the bit above, both yes and no.

(for the record I have been bagged here because some people seemed to think I knew nothing about anything, so take it for what you will) all I will say is I am getting keyword phrases to rank and building my on-page and site metrics, is it perfect yet? no, will it be yes? but I can see I have been very big into learning this for years now and have written and use my own keyword tools for this purpose.

So what I have found is > for most people they think if they write content that the organic traffic will flow in the door. Probably so far from the truth it is not funny.

I see people set out and just write any crap and shove it up, and I see these same people repeat that process daily for hours, weeks, months, years and then they ask why is nothing happening?

They said if I write content it will come?

These people as above just write any crap without any real research into their content, first, most of the content is thin, in that it is only 300 words or similar and is just at best jibberish rubbish, combined with a lack of structure to the article.

What happens here is that first giggle will probably never rank that article of sorts ever, and even if it did see the light of day and giggle placed it in the search results it soon would fall out as giggle would see I high bounce rate when people land on the page pushing it back down the ladder and never to bee seen again. Google wants to deliver content people want to read no jibberish crap.

The same applies to long jibberish in short if it's just jibberish crap regardless of length it's not going to make it and probably most people do this, they hear the words post content and think then ok let's go and they just waste their time.

The better approach is to do keyword research into the topic and to find keyword phrases that have 2 things, low competition and low strength of competition, you need them both and one you have that information you then need to write a better article than any other article on that keyword phrase or as best you can, and if possible aim for a decent size article.

Yes, those things above are easy once you know how and where to do them.

The really cool thing is this will also work with a very small amount of words in that I also have my "claim this listings" working on the same setup, meaning I am starting to rank those listings as well as articles.

+ where possible always after producing content share it on your social channels to help drive some traffic back

Just too many things to cover here but yes adding content is great, just learn to do it correct.

[Joe Can]

A university student of mine told me he had the number one ranking in Google on a few topics.

I did not believe him and asked him to show the class.

When he showed us he was actually about the third result on the first page.

He spent hours explaining the process.

Basically, what he described was writing short articles on each subject using a basic essay format.

He also mentioned that you must use the following at least once: bolding, italics, underlines, images, font colors, etc. in certain places.

He pretty much said what Pete describes as producing quality writing that will engage the reader's attention.


...............................Example Format...............................

Introduction:

1. General Statement: The hook

2. Thesis Statement: I will write about: (1) boats, (2) cars, and (3) airplanes

Body:

Body Paragraph #1:

- Topic Sentence: I will talk about boats.

Body Paragraph #2:

- Topic Senteance: :I will talk about cars.

Body Paragraph #3:

- Topic Sentence: I will talk about airplanes.

Conclusion:

1. Review: I have talked about (1) boats, (2) cars, and (3) airplanes (repeat Thesis Statement)
2. Closing: Respond to the General Statement

[Joe Can]

I tried to add a blog / faq using the following method

1. Create a Listing Type called “News Blog”
2. Make the Listing Type "Administration Only" in the Listing Type Edit page (optional).
3. Create Categories for “New Blog”
4. Create a Listing Package for “News Blog”
5. Use Filter plugin to create a filter for the “News Blog” page
6. Create Articles in Categories
6. Edit: Go to "Account Types" and make sure Account Types have the correct permissions:
Admin Panel > User Account > Account Types > "Edit" Any Account Type > Options

All works except one thing: The description field only allows the maximum of 3,000 characters (edit: see code change below)

Edited to avoid confusion.

[kiowa]

Interesting. How can we make this work?

[Joe Can]

I asked for a quote from Flynax to make an adjustable character limit above 3,000 for the description field.

For example:

- Listings: 1500 characters
- Events: 2000 characters
- Featured: 4000 characters (Edit: I do not think this is possible)
- Blog: 10000 characters

Currently, you can only adjust the character limit for each but only to 3000.

Edit: A simple solution is to create more than one Description Field for the listing. That way each Description field has a limit of 3,000 characters each.

[kiowa]

So i have now setup my blog with a listing type like joe and pete did.
How do i disable the contact form on the listing type?
this listing type is for admin only and i dont want to show the contact form on details page.

Can this be done?