Now you can run your own Web Repository or Directory
Includes many features you simply won't find anywhere else
Facilities for Site Visitors:
Worldwide local search.
Worldwide Local Search destination selection integrates map, location database and postcode searching:
Enter a (UK) postcode or (US) zipcode and see its address and map location.
Search on full or partial City/Town or Village names and choose between list of matched locations.
Select matched locations via drop down menus and see a corresponding map with every selection.
Click on the map and get its corresponding location pre-entered for you in the drop down region/country/state/county/city selection menus.
Automated geo-targetting of labels for the above. E.g. State or department or Province or Automous Community etc - whatever is appropriate for the current country you are searching.
Instantly search the directory for nearest entries to your selected city.
Worldwide Local Search destination selection integrates map, location database and postcode searching.
Integrated automatic resizing Maps showing the relative geographic location of listings on every results page.
Maps with clickable icons to listing web pages or web sites.
Option to Show or Hide maps for Site Visitors.
Geotargetting - delivers pages tailored to visitors' location.
Searchable Image Catalogues.
Searchable RSS News Database.
Integrated cross Segment, Classification/Category and Catalogue Matrix Search.
Search Wizard Assistant for Site Visitors - pre-searches possible related pages to present visitor choices.
Choice of Search Views (detailed listings and tabular formats).
Search History shows previous searches and browsed pages plus a list of previously viewed entries.
Ability to sub-search previously viewed entries.
Choice of search page delivery formats (to browser, for printing and download as a .csv formatted spreadsheet.
Choice of search sorting criteria (by distance from target location, by title, by popularity, relevance, date added or additional criteria like grading or quality assurance ratings for example).
3 Dimensional Drill Around Navigation Menus - Interactively explore a 3 dimensional information space to find what you want by location, Function and Criteria.
Links to rate an Entry, view or submit a testimonial.
Link to send an advertiser an enquiry email.
Link to send a single enquiry to multiple selected advertisers on one go.
Site maintains your viewing and search preferances between sessions and across pages.
Facilities for Site Subscribers:
Choice of subscription types.
Choice of payment plans.
Add your own publicity.
A single Entry can get published to multiple category pages (as is appropriate).
Content Management System to update your own publicity including your searchable gallery.
Referrals (traffic) manager with detailed metrics and configurable (email) notifications settings.
Referrals manager tracks traffic by source, target and agent differentiating between visits by humans and search engines.
Publicity add, modify or upgrade forms all include integrated maps, email and url validations, automated address validation, image upload, resizing and validation plus a fully integrated preview facility.
Map in forms automatically show your location based on your address.
Maps allow you to refine this automated location interactively.
Preview facility also shows what you could get by upgrading your publicity, with an instant upgrade activation option, and an 'I've changed my mind' link.
Secure login area allows subscribers to manage multiple publicity entries via a single login.
Login area provides instant facility to renew or top-up subscriptions via on-line payments.
Affiliation manager (if actived) allows subscribers to automatically track and collect earnings from their own recommendations to other paying subscribers.
Email forms maintain privacy of subscribers email addresses and include extensive anti-spam filtering and anti-piracy emailing authentication
Top publicity subscription types include automated search engine optimisation of subscriber pages, news feed generation and inclusion of these pages within google site maps
Facilities for Site Owners:
Publishes a sophisticated web repository or directory search engine.
Template based input forms, output skeletons, headers, footers, menu bars and search dialogues.
Customizable nested listing templates - only shows data that's available with no empty fields.
Customisable icon display - e.g. for quick identication of individual listing features.
Multiple owner configurable Entry Types.
Complex Entry Structures (master Entry with multiple dependent Entries).
Publish single Entries to multiple categories.
Content Management System (CMS) for yourself and your subscribers.
Powerful versatile model driven Affiliate Marketing System - fully automated with earnings from Sales, Renewals and Downlines.
Live tracking of subscription sales pages.
Detailed Search Metrics.
Automatic resizing Map publication showing the relative geographic location of listings on every results page.
Publishes Maps with clickable icons to listing web pages or web sites.
Geotargetting - delivers pages tailored to visitors' location (ideal for pages with prices shown - or for address entry).
Fully configurable pricing model (by region, new or upgrade choice, entry type, geographic region and payment plan).
Fully configurable Offer Code model for special offers on the above.
Automated Offer Code and Pricing prefilling - run campaigns with offer codes and pricing choices pre-entered.
Image upload and validation.
Virtual Catalogues - automatically creates Gallery, Virtual Tours and Shopping Pages from subscriber Catalogues.
News Feed aggregation and generation.
2 Inbuilt Customer Relationship Management (CRM) facilities (full HTML CRM and Plain Text CRM Lite).
Full CRM integrated to whichever database tables you want (eg. Directory data and/or extra Prospect databases).
Full CRM includes automated live tracking link generation.
Plain text CRM Lite fully integrated into Admin Search manages a library of personal and systems emails and the resending of these on the fly to single or multiple selected Entries.
Powerful Web Crawling and Location Data Mining utilities to help populate your directory.
Full range of mining options including options to selectively hide incompletely addressed or classified Entries.
Powerful model driven re-classification facility (allows you to change your information model and automatically retrofit existing entries to this).
Seamless integration of site access, subscriber CMS pages and Admin Console search facility allows instant access to any subscriber page direct from the Admin console.
Admin Console multi-search supports multi-criteria, cross table searching with its powerful built in SQL query generator.
Configurable search lexicon for synonym based site search matching.
Multi criteria site search relevance algorithms.
Multiple User Views - up to 25 user specific views + an Administrator View (show different site views to different classes of user).
Automated Escalating Subsription Renewal Reminders - with configurable Reminders messages and date settings
Facility to Hide and Reveal Entries selectively.
Automated Search Engine Optimization.
Notification of new subsmissions, entry upgrades and changes plus full management of these.
Automated Search Engine Optimization.
Virtual Directory Support - publish and manage up to 26 related directory/search engines from the same database and admin console.
Automated site map, navigation and configuration generation linked seamlessly to all affected Admin Console functions.
Re-generation of the above done selectively only when required and as a background task.
Powerful Entry editting Moving, Copying facilities with automated management of affected classification and catalogue structures.
Best of both worlds site page generation: generates all pages dynamically on the fly but with static HTML page addresses for search engine friendliness.
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Our special repository/directory consultation service can advise on all aspects of your state of the art search engine:
Objectives
Design
Subscription types
Pricing Model
Ontology
Construction
Hosting and Publishing
Developer Training
Marketing
Administration
Testing
Maintenance
Price is just £9,995 including 2 weeks of bespoke customization to suit your target application and market. Normal delivery timeframe is 4 weeks for your published directory/repository or Search Engine (minus subscriber entries of course).
(Estimated resourcing to build your own equivalent facility from scratch is 3 person years at Technical Architect and Senior Developer level with an estimated minimum elapsed time of 9 months for delivery).
Contact Us for details.
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Features
Benefits
Web Directory
Maximum of 3 Email Data Sources
Maximum of 100 recipients per run
No Limitation on Data Source size
No Limitation on the number of runs
Repository Technology
Rich multidimensional searching
Ontological Searching
Entry Categories
Entry Catalogues
Keywords
Lexicon
Search Syntax
Configurable Search Algorithm
Integrated Search
Directory, Mall, Gallery Catalogues and News Feeds all searchable from the same dialogue
Search Dialogue available from any page if you want this
Category and Catalogue searching incorporated
Many searches require no typing - point and click only
Relevance Search
Sorts Search results based on sophisticated Relevance calculation
Keyword searching
Single and composite search terms supported
Search syntax supported
Local Search
Sorts results based on proximity to specified geographic location
Works worldwide
UK locations obtainable from Postcodes
Configurable Entry Types
Any number of Data Sources
Any Campaign run size with automatic batching
Multiple Repository Segments
Segments access different databases
Segments can possess different information models
Segments are combined transparently via the Integrated Search
Adds depth and scope to the Repository
Configurable Categories
Supports sub Directories
Supports sub Segments
Catalogue Name
Category Header
Category Sub Header
Description
Meta Title
Meta Keywords
Meta Description
Sub Categories
Related Categories
Hidden Categories
Configurable Catalogues
Adds additional search dimension
Cuts across whole directory and every Category
Also applies to Repository Segments
Lexicon
Automatically enriches user searches by applying synonyms to keywords
News Feeds
Total flexibility and control of your valuable data
Run Campaigns for Customers too
Administrator Content Management System
Full back office content management of the Repository
Subscriber Content Management System
Users maintain their own entries
Users manage their own image catalogues
Supports subscription upgrades
Interactive entry validation
Checks many user inputs as the form is being filled in
Emails
Field sizes
Entry length counter displays
Extensible text boxes
Web Addresses
Postcodes
Addresses
Prevent automated submissions with optional image validation
Configurable Entry contents
Core entry model
Extensible entry elements
Optional and Mandatory elements
Automated Image Upload
Verifies images by size, type and name
Uploads images
Automatically resizes images
Automatically displays images back into entry form
Image Catalogues
Catalogued Images
Title
Description
Copyright messages
Pre supplied Links
Bespoke Links
Choice of Link buttons
Allocate to Entry and/or to Repository Segments
Detailed Import Results Report
Totals number of items inserted or Replaced
Totals Items Successes, and Failures
Lists all updates item by item
You know exactly what has happened
Use with confidence
Fully Template based
Templates for everything
Entry forms
Page outputs
Searches
Listings by entry type
All emails
Headers
Footers
Catalogue includes
Category includes
Geo Targeting
Automatically identifies the site visitor's country of origin
Use to personalize page displays
Integrate into pricing model
Integrate into Local Search
Integrate into Entry Forms to pre-fill higher address levels
News Feed Generation
Automatically generates News Feeds for all key pages
News Feeds for Subscriber Entry Pages
Supports Directory Access with a Semantic Web Browser
News Feed Aggregation
Configurable News Feed Aggregator
Supports Searchable News area
Supports image display in News Feeds
Full Pricing Model
Set prices by:
Entry type
New or Upgrade
Upgrade from what to what
By Geographic region
By currency
By subscription period
Set start period and start rate
Set renewal period and renewal rate
Offer Code Model
Set special offers by
Valid from and to dates
Country
Currency
Subscription start and renewal period duration
Subscription start and renewal period rates
Supply optional extra entries offer code
Banner Advertising
Up to 5 banner image slots per page
Sharable banner slots based on weighting 1 - 10
Banner hit counter
Slot expiry date
Slot size
Slot link
Administrative Functions
Approve, Reject, Edit (with or without accompanying email)
New subscriptions
Updates
Testimonials
Regenerate Site
Manage Categories
Manage Templates
Manage Emails
Pay Per Click Management
Banner Manager
Hit counter
Optionally count hits to Entry Web Sites
Optionally counts hits to Entry page
Testimonials Form
Invites and displays user testimonials for subscribers
Rating Form
Invites and displays rating votes for subscribers
Spam Free Email Form
Sends emails to subscribers without disclosing their address
Forward a Friend Form
Sends an email with a link to the current entry
Customer Relationship Management
Full features of METAm8 Campaign Professional
Plus powerful targeting selections based on Subscription:
type
order date
expiry date
hits
country
state
category
keywords
Plus powerful personalization based on just about every piece of data stored in entries
Data Mining
Full Features of METAm8 Mine with the Postcode add-in
Plus specific integration to METAm8 Directory Tables including:
Import to an Entry Type
Import to a Category
Update Entry Counts
Update Entry date
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