Year in review - 2006

2006 was a good year for us with more users using our classifieds listing service than any of the previous years. We also went live with 6 new international sites, Australia, China, New Zealand, South Africa and UK, this year. More than 50% of the listings received were for Indian real estate property listings - which includes a combination of rental, paying guest accommodation listings, residential land, and commercial land listings. Listings from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai topped again this year compared to other cities in India.

We also released lots of new features to enhance the user experience while keeping our site open viz. without requiring logins or registrations to post, view listings at our site.

We now offer 24 hour guaranteed sticky listing in our homepage for all premium ads for maximum visibility. Some of the key features introduced this year includes the ability to manage (edit/delete) your listing without registration, ability to post mobile classifieds from wap capable mobile phones to get your listing published, hourly delivery of our site content through RSS feeds across all categories and cities, and some key backend system management capabilities to weed out spam.

Approximately 25% of the listings that we receive are spam but the good news is it does not make it through our spam management system - though it consumes lots of our time trying to figure out ways to weed them out.

We are continually working to expand our service offerings with new features for you to list and connect with other users quickly and easily. Watch out for more new features coming out in the first quarter of 2007 and as always please keep those new feature requests coming. We look at each and everyone one of them very closely and include them in future releases should we determine that it will be of use to a larger audience. We hope you find our service useful and we wish you happy holidays and the very best for 2007.


The Team
indianClassifieds.com

New feature - Listing rating system

We are in the final stages of testing a "listing rating system". For every listing that is posted at indianClassifieds.com, users can rate and review each of the listings. This feature can be used both for new listings as well as previously posted listings. This will enable us to not only identify good/bad listings but will also enable us to dynamically assign appropriate ranking and exposure to each of those listings.

We are expecting this new rating system to be fully tested and should be online in the next few weeks. Happy holidays!

Monthly stats for Nov. published now

Each month we publish the top 10 most viewed ad listings from our actual web logs. We publish the following monthly:

• most viewed individual ad listings,
  
• most popular categories and
  
• the most widely searched region at our site.

We have published the stats for November and you can see them all here.