An exciting new feature has been added to the directory for the Featured Listings. Your pupils can now leave feedback/a review of your driving school.

All they need to do is to browse to your listing where they will find a link to add their review. The link will be on the summary listing on the main ‘towns’ pages and also on your full listing if they chose to view that.

None of the reviews will appear until you have had a chance to review it and then approve it from within your members area.

Like any content submission form on the web, they can be subject to ‘low life’ trying to push their latest life enhancing wonder pills. A CAPTCHA image will need to be completed before the form will submit so hopefully that should stop the ‘bots’ auto submitting. You will be able to delete reviews if required.

If your driving school has reviews, the number of reviews will show on the summary listing – the full reviews will be on the expanded/full listing.

It is important to encourage your pupils to leave feedback. The more positive comments on your listing, the more likely it will be for potential pupils to want to make contact. Also, as the number of reviews will be on the summary listings, the more you have, the greater the chance of it catching a browsers eye.

An additional benefit is that as all listings are now a separate web page (that change was made about a month ago), the more content that is added to them the more the search engines will want to spider them and therfore, a greater chance of your listing page itself being found in the search engines.

This new feature really is a win/win situation.

As usual, feedback, good or bad, is always welcomed – just drop me an email.

Mark.