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Archive for September, 2006

RSS 2.0 Feeds Added!

Posted by admin on 30th September 2006

We have added RSS feeds to the home page and every city page. These are dynamic RSS feeds that are constantly updated as new ads are posted so we can keep you up to date with the latest ads via RSS. The home page RSS feed gives you the latest 15 ads for the entire site whereas a city page RSS would give you the last 15 ads for that city. Along with the industry standard RSS feed button we have included buttons to add the feed to; My Yahoo!, Google and My AOL.

If you have any questions about RSS feeds please feel free to contact us.

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This is going to be wonderful!

Posted by admin on 17th September 2006

If you visited the site you saw we were down briefly last night. No worries. We were doing a server update and installing a few things so we can move forward and give you a better experience at The Date List and the Gay Date List. This new update coming out should increase the amount of posts giving you more ads to read and more ads to answer. BUT….make sure you post your ad too and remember ads with a pic get 10 times the responses and ad without a pic does.

Now, with the server update instead of having some wacky looking link we can make them user friendly. For instance if you live in Albany, NY and want to get just the Albany page you can type in and/or bookmark:

albany-ny.thedatelist.com.
albany-ny.gaydatelist.com

We added the two letter state abreviation in there seperated with a hyphen as in some instances we have more than two cities with the same name such as Portland, Maine & Oregon. Also, note on multiple word cities to remove the spaces. Thus New York City would be newyorkcity-nythedatelist.com.

If you make a mistake in typing it out and hit enter do not worry as by default (as long as you spell the domain name correctly; thedatelist.com or gaydatelist.com) the link will take you to the home page for the site.

The next implementation we will be making soon will render women seeking men, etc. as follows:

albany-ny.thedatelist.com/w4m/
When this is ready I will let you know but it should not be too far off.

If you have any questions or suggestions please contact us. Thanks!

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More Updates!

Posted by admin on 13th September 2006

Four new categories added to the date list: MW4M, MW4W, M4MW and F4MW.
Plus a lot of other updates that are directed at search engine compatibility to increase the number of ads on the site.

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Updates!

Posted by admin on 9th September 2006

We are in the works of adding new and helpful features to The Date List and will also implement them on the Gay Date List. Dates have been added to the titles of all posts. We have also added a linking structure that basically shows you where you have been on the site so on the page you are on their is a link to the pages you came from. Here is an example:

The Date List ~ Albany, NY ~ Women Seeking Men ~ (the add you are looking at)

This will be listed right above the categories.

We also are working on adding RSS feeds to every city page so you can pull in the latest ads automatically without even having to visit the site as well as redesigning the home page and a bunch of other minor changes to enhance and ease your use of the site.

If there is anything you would like to see that is not there please let me know.

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