Gundog Central Reload 05-08-17
- Member Changes
Members who are signed in, can now favorite ads, making it easy to go back and find their previously favorited ads. You can now also vote on ads, giving them a 1 to 5 star rating. To do so, just find the five stars located under each classified ads photo, then just click on the appropriate number of stars you would like to assign to that ad, you can only vote once per ad.
- Premium Subscription
If you have a premium account subscription, from now on, when you place your ads, all of them will be watermarked as a "Premium Ad". All your ads will now automatically start out with a 5 star ranking. Classifieds posted by premium subscription members will now take precedent over all free ads posted on the same day. Updating your premium ad that's over 30 days old, will now place it back at the top of classifieds, just as if you placed a brand new ad.
- Featured Ads
Regardless of how many featured ad are in the system, only 5 ads will be displayed per page at one time. From now on, they will rotate in and out, just like banner ads do. They will be shown at the top of every single relevant classified page, not just the beginning of the classified listings. Your ads will also be included in the list of the non-featured ads with it's location being based on the day you originally posted your ad.
Other Boring Stuff
Gundog Central gets it's far amount of traffic, serving well over a 100 gigabits of data each month. I would bet that our bounce rate is one of the lowest in the industry, at one half of one percent. Meaning for every 100 visitors Gundog Central has, only half of one person got there by mistake. In other words, nearly every person that comes to Gundog Central, is there to look or sell bird dogs, our stats aren't inflated with meaningless traffic. Gundog Central has gotten so popular in fact, that I've had other sites trying to siphon off our ads to use on their own site. This wouldn't be a bad thing, but they don't honor my "sold", "expired" or "deleted" status, meaning your ads never get removed from these offending sites and you'll continue to get calls long after your dogs are sold or your ads expired, which makes me look bad. So I've built a new filtering engine into the site that allows me to permanently ban abuser, spammers and bots. If you get any suspicious emails or people offering to send you money orders, please forward these emails to me, so I can prevent them from access the site.
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Gundog Central Reload - 11/15/2019
Our banner ads are now twice as large and twice as likely to get the attention of new customers. Over 100,000 people visit Gundog Central each month and at any given time, we have well over 1,000 active classified ads in our system. We are one of the most popular places on the internet to buy, sell or brag about your hunting dogs. Our bounce rate is extremely low, under 1%, mean 99% of our audience is here because they are interested in your hunting dogs. To help you target this audience we offer featured ads and banner ad placement to help you and your business stand out in the crowd. You can read more about them here : Advertising on Gundog Central
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Ten Years of Gundog Central!!
Happy Anniversary to us!!! It's hard to believe but 2016 marks 10 years since I launched this site, that's a decade of bird dogs. Even after all this time site still continues to grow more and more each year. Today, the site receives over 100,000 visitors a month and serves over 1.2 million pages a month. Our bounce rate is less then 1%, meaning out of every 100 people that visit the site, only one person makes it there by mistake. I'd wager we have one of the highest page count and lowest bounce rate of any bird dog site out there.
Gundog Central Reload. 04-11-18
I've made some pretty major change to Gundog Central with this updated tonight. When submitting classified ads, you will no longer have the option to upload your picture or pedigree until after your ad is submitted. I was having an issues with excessively large photos taking a long time to upload to the server, that might cause your session to timeout or lose the data you entered. Also a detailed pedigree can take a while to type in if none of the dogs are in the database. So to speed up the process and ensure that your ad gets submitted the first time, you'll now have the option to add pictures and pedigree after your ad is created. Hopefully, this saves you time and causes less hassle. Gundog Central is a very large site and sometimes these updates can cause other problems, so if you experience any issues, Please contact me at [email protected] and I will do my best to get any issue fixed as soon as possible.
