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LocalDelights.co.uk Account User Guide Adding and ammending your business listing is easy and can all be done online through your account control panel. The following guide is intended to give you enough information to allow you to quickly and easiliy set up your listing in the most efficient way, we therefore recommend spending 10 minutes reading this section before you start. Getting Started Before you can enter the details of your listing (text, pictures etc) you need to create a member account which gives you password protected access to the listings that you control. Use if the LocalDelight.co.uk services is subject to our terms of use and privacy policy, please make sure that you are happy to comply with these terms before signing up. If you havent already created an account (its FREE to do), all we need is a few contact details and for you to create a password/username etc, to create an account follow these instructions, - Follow the sign up links from the main website or click here
- You will then be promted to enter a username and password (please make sure that you remember these as these are used to access and protect your user account)
- Next you are required to complete your personal contact information (This is information about you, your business information is entered later on when your create the directory listing)
- Please make sure that your telephone number and email are accurate and current just in case we need to contact you, and to make sure your recive the email notifications and enquiries that come from your listings, also you may be required to confirm your registration by clicking on a link in the confirmation email we will send you shortly have registration.
- Lastly please copy the security code shown in the final section into the last box on the form and press register now (this is to prevent SPAM and prevent abuse)
If you have missed anything or used a username that is already in use, then the form will be re-displayed with an appropriate error message, simply correct the information and try again. Once the registration is complete, you will see a regsitration succesful screen, and a link to acces the user account area. You will also receive a welcome email which may require you to click a return link to validate your registration. Logging Into your Member Account - From the main website follow the link called "my Account" or click on the link in your welcome email/ registration confirmation page.
- Enter your registered Username and Password and again copy the security code into the last box and press login
If your login is correct you will see the member account area welcome screen with the following heading | MY ACCOUNT : | My Profile | | | My Business Listings | | | My Favourite Listings | | | Logout |
My LocalDelights.co.uk Business Listings ... From this page you can see the business listings that your have made and can control, for instance you may have 1 FREE listing and 1 premium Listing, so you will see both listings in the summary. If you have not yet created a listing you will only see the following | My LocalDelights.co.uk Business Listings ... |  | |  | Click this button to create
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Creating a New Business Listing - Click the red "Create New" button
- next you will be asked to choose the type of listing you want to create as follows
Choose a Listing Package ... FREE, Silver, Gold or Platinum, a summary of the feature differences betwen the listing types is also shown, however the following table and description of features may help you make a more informed choice, or you may just simply decide to try our FREE service and see how it goes. Feature | FREE Listing | Silver Listing (£29pa) | Gold Listing (£49pa) | Platinum Listing (£99pa) | Summary Description (Max Chrs) | 100 | 150 | 175 | 200 | Detailed Description (Max Chrs) | 300 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimted | HTML format for detailed description | NO | YES | YES | YES | Business Logo/Image | NO | YES | YES | YES | Mutiple Category Insertion | 1 only | up to 3 | up to 5 | up to 8 | Listing Pictures | 1 only | up to 2 | up to 4 | up to 8 | Listing Events/Offers | NONE | 1 only | up to 2 | up to 4 | Listing Online Documents (Pdf format) | NONE | up to 2 | up to 4 | up to 8 | Google Map Integrated | YES | YES | YES | YES | Link to Your Website | YES | YES | YES | YES | Link to Myspace or 2nd Website | NO | YES | YES | YES | Email Address Link | YES | YES | YES | YES | Tel No Details Shown | YES | YES | YES | YES | Simple Online Updates | YES | YES | YES | YES | Viewing Statistics (No times listing clicked) | YES | YES | YES | YES | User Ratings and Comments | YES | YES | YES | YES |
To help you choose the right package for you the following might be useful to know, Days before Expired is the number of days your listing will be active before it requires renewal - all our options are for a full 365 days (1 year) Max. Characters (Summary) is the amount of text (in characters) you can enter to give brief snapshot of your business (this is used to display a short summary int eh search results and summary lsiting pages), obviously the more information you present can lead to a better click rate to your listing. Max Characters (Detailed) is the amount of text you can enter into the detailed description of your listing, obviously with our FREE listing this is restricted to 300chrs in plain text format, however will all of our premium listings the text is unlimited and it can be formatted with coloured text, highlighted, bold or italics and includes numbered or unnumbered bullet points etc, amking it much easier to create a classy advert. HTML Format as described above the premiumlistings can be extensively HTML formatted using our built in text editor, while the FREE listing is plain text format only. Buisness Image/Logo Our premium listings allow you to upload your business logo or thumbnail picture image which is shown alongside your summary information, again making it more interesting to site browsers, the FREE listing does not have any Logo. Multiple Category Insertion - LocalDelights.co.uk is a leaiure and hospitality online business directory and is structured around key sections similar to a yellow pages or local business directory, this allows browsers to the site to search out specifically what they are looking for, for example they could browse through places to eat, to restaurants, to Greek Restaurants, and at each point they would be presented with business listings that are listed at that area. So if you had a Greek restaurant and you wanted to appear in evey search combination you would ideally be listed in all 3 areas of the directory (places to eat, restaurants and Greek Restaurants). you may however wish to also be included in the takeways and english restaurants section which would increase the number of inserteions. With our FREE listing you only get 1 insertion position, so you need to think carefully which point in the directory you want to be listed, whereas the premium listing can include up to 8 insertion points giving you maximum coverage. Listing Pictures - in the detailed listing view when someone clicks to see your listing you can upload pictures of your business for customers and prospects to see, ranging from just 1 picture (FREE listing) up to 8 Pictures (Platinum listing) Listing Events - You can create your own event or offer listings linked to our site calender, allowing localdelights.co.uk visitors to see whats on on the date they are looking at, this could include themed events, party nights, competitions, quizes, karaoke or just special offers that you want to advertise to the world. This feature is not available to our FREE listings while up to 4 can be created and advertised with our permium listings. The events are shown on our home page and regional home page events calenders as well as in the detailed listing view Listing Online Documents - With this great feature you can upload PDF documents to your listing for people to download and view (PDF is the best format for viewing documents on the internet, you can create PDF documents from most application such as word etc). This is ideal for menus, borchures, maps, guides, special offers and flyers etc etc.. This is not available with the FREE listing option while up to 8 online documents can be hosted with our permium listings Google Maps - all our listings wil feature an integrated google map on the detailed view of the listing, just make sure that you enter a complete address and post code for your listing. Link to your website - if you already have a website for your business, you can enter the url (www. etc) allwoing people to click through to your website from the directory listing, this is available for all listing types. Link to mYspace - this is only available for our premium listings and allows you to specify a second webste address or myspace address so that visitors can link from your listing. Email Address, and Telephone Number, all our listings will carry your own specified email address a telephone number allowing customers and prospects to contact you directly. Online Updates - all listings allow simple online updating through your member account, anytime day or night. Viewing Statistics, we measure the number of times your listing is viewed and display it alongside your listing information in the member account area, this is also used to measure your listing popularity with the highest scoring listings shown in the most popular section on the home page and regional home pages. User ratings and comments - LocalDelights.co.uk is an interactive website and we encourage visitors to your business to rate your business and leave comments for others, the score from the user ratings is used to rank the listing of search results on the site as well. Creating your listing Step 2 Once you have selected your prefered listing type, you will be asked to enter the basic listing details and select the parts of the directory you wish to have your listing featured in, as well as the business contact information. You can also enter the summary and detailed information for your business as well as the specific contact details for the listing. You cannot add pictures, events or documents from this initial entry page, but you can add them at the next stage Dont worry if you are not happy with the full information you have entered as you can change it yourself anytime through the member account control panel. Stage 3 How to Edit your listing and adding pictures, events and documents From the member account area, you should now see the summary of your listings shown as in this example Paddies Bar
 | | | | | ID | : | # 21969 | | Package | : | GOLD | | Expire | : | 16 Nov 2009 | | Viewed | : | 6 times | | Status | : | Approved |
| | Edit | | | Delete | | Pictures (1) | | | Documents (1) | | Events (1) | | | Comments (1) | | Upgrade | | | View |
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The lisitng name and current user rating is shown along with its unique ID number, listing type (package), listing expiry date, viewing statistics, and curent status. Alongside you will see tabs to select to - edit the listing (where you can ammend text, or change contact info etc)
- add or edit Pictures (in brackets is shown the number already present)
- add or edit Events (in brackets is shown the number already present)
- Add or edit Documents (in brackets is shown the number already present)
- View the commenst made by visitors to your business
- Upgrade your listing to another package
- View the public listing as it appears on the site
- Delete - completely delete the listing.
To add or edit pictures, events or documents, simply follow the links and follow the onscreen instructions
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