Comments on: Tuesday Push – Mytown.ie http://www.apeofsteel.com/707/tuesday-push-mytownie In Pure Water, No Fish Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:53:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tuesday Push - Whoseview.com | Dave Concannon http://www.apeofsteel.com/707/tuesday-push-mytownie/comment-page-1#comment-824 Tuesday Push - Whoseview.com | Dave Concannon Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:19:38 +0000 http://www.apeofsteel.com/?p=707#comment-824 [...] expansion into other major Irish cities and beyond. A little more focused than the approaches by mytown.ie and loopthing.com who are trying to list all Irish businesses and all businesses everywhere [...] [...] expansion into other major Irish cities and beyond. A little more focused than the approaches by mytown.ie and loopthing.com who are trying to list all Irish businesses and all businesses everywhere [...]

]]> By: Garry Bennett http://www.apeofsteel.com/707/tuesday-push-mytownie/comment-page-1#comment-814 Garry Bennett Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:51:51 +0000 http://www.apeofsteel.com/?p=707#comment-814 Dave, your feedback on www.mytown.ie is very much appreciated. Your suggestions are very useful, I will respond in the order which you have listed them in: 1. Free text search is something which we plan to do later this year. We did not initially include a free text search because we were still working on the content; we did not want users searching only to find no-results. Now that content has expanded, a free text search of listings and classified ads will follow. 2. As above (in point 1), the free text search will allow users to search for clubs from the www.mytown.ie homepage, or access this search from any page on the site. 3. Claims to be "number 1" in any area are often open to interpretation. Clearly boards.ie gets much more traffic; in my opinion boards.ie is a forum website rather than a local community website. Boards does allow users to select regions (counties/cities), so I guess it depends on the definition of a "local community". We are continuing to work on new development on mytown.ie. The local forums is a new addition to the site, and it is going to take time to build up participation in that area. Much of the traffic that comes to mytown.ie does come from search engine users (eg. looking for the local plumber). We are not trying to establish another directory website, our ambition is to become the online resource to find local information online. The business directory will be one of the resources that we provide, and this is one of the areas where we can generate revenue. But as you mentioned, we also want to be a resouce to find local events, classified ads, clubs, photos, news, weather and forums. Again, thanks for taking the time to review the site. Please let me know if you have any further feedback or suggestions. Garry Bennett - Founder of www.mytown.ie Dave, your feedback on http://www.mytown.ie is very much appreciated.

Your suggestions are very useful, I will respond in the order which you have listed them in:

1. Free text search is something which we plan to do later this year. We did not initially include a free text search because we were still working on the content; we did not want users searching only to find no-results. Now that content has expanded, a free text search of listings and classified ads will follow.

2. As above (in point 1), the free text search will allow users to search for clubs from the http://www.mytown.ie homepage, or access this search from any page on the site.

3. Claims to be “number 1″ in any area are often open to interpretation. Clearly boards.ie gets much more traffic; in my opinion boards.ie is a forum website rather than a local community website. Boards does allow users to select regions (counties/cities), so I guess it depends on the definition of a “local community”.

We are continuing to work on new development on mytown.ie. The local forums is a new addition to the site, and it is going to take time to build up participation in that area.

Much of the traffic that comes to mytown.ie does come from search engine users (eg. looking for the local plumber). We are not trying to establish another directory website, our ambition is to become the online resource to find local information online. The business directory will be one of the resources that we provide, and this is one of the areas where we can generate revenue. But as you mentioned, we also want to be a resouce to find local events, classified ads, clubs, photos, news, weather and forums.

Again, thanks for taking the time to review the site. Please let me know if you have any further feedback or suggestions.

Garry Bennett – Founder of http://www.mytown.ie

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