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Major Overhaul of Adlandpro and Pressmania

If you tried to log onto Adlandpro or the Adlandpro Community within the last 24 hours, you may have noticed a few outages, quirks, and slightly strange behavior on both Adlandpro and the Community.

First, we'd like to apologize for the disruptions in service and we are working diligently to correct the issues that have risen as a result of merging Adlandpro's database with Pressmania's database.  The reason for the merge is to streamline the login processes and make tracking multi-affiliates easier for both sites. 

Here are some common problems and things to do when you encounter these situations:

• 1) My Adlandpro password isn't working. 
  Try - Try using your Pressmania password
   
• 2) My affiliate commissions and status are missing
  Try - Nothing.  We will look into this very shortly.  Rest assured that none of your commissions or credits have been lost in the move as everything is backed up to immediately prior to the merge. 
   
• 3) I'm getting an error message when I try to access this page.
  Try - Try to find the link to the page and contact me with the time, the date, the error message details, and anything else describing the problem.  This will go a long way in pinpointing issues that have come up which we may not be aware of yet. 

We are aiming to have all the systems up and running good as new by tomorrow afternoon.  Please bear with us while we make this large improvement for everyone.  If you have any problems, please contact me and let me know the exact nature of the problem so that we can ensure that everything is working correctly. 

How to Use Community RSS Feeds on Yahoo and MSN

So we showed you how to insert RSS and BLOG site feeds into Yahoo and MSN Pages in the latest Community Newsletter Article.  Now the question is:

How do I use this RSS Information to my advantage on the Community?

The article in the latest community newsletter showed you how to insert RSS Feeds into Yahoo and MSN.  However, I neglected to show you how to use these to your advantage with your Adlandpro Community Discussion Groups so this follow-up article will give you tips on how to drive traffic to your discussion groups where you promote your business and your ads and subsequently drive traffic to your website.

As the previous article had mentioned, BLOGS and RSS Feeds are currently an industry hot-button and Major Search Engines seem to love these two technologies because of their rich and rapidly changing content.  By adding an RSS link to your MSN and Yahoo pages, these two large search engines can be easily used to index your Community Discussion Group and promote your business.

Follow these easy steps to obtain your Discussion Group RSS Link and add them your "My Yahoo" and "MSN" pages.  (Please note: This article assumes that you currently have accounts with Yahoo and MSN and you have an active discussion on the Community).  If you do not, you will have to go to each one and create an account.  If you already have a forum or discussion, you can skip to Part 2.

Part 1. Creating a Forum/Discussion:

1. Log into Adlandpro Community Here:  http://community.adlandpro.com/UsersLogin.aspx
2. Go into your Forums section by clicking the "Forums" link on the left side of the page. 
3. Click on the "Create New Forum" button. 
4. Follow the Wizard Steps to configure your forum and forum members/participants.  If you would like more detailed information about each step, click here to view a previous article on "Creating and Maintaining a Forum"
5. When you're done, click "Finish" and you will now have a forum. 

Part 2. Finding your Forum RSS Link:

1. Log into Adlandpro Community Here:  http://community.adlandpro.com/UsersLogin.aspx
2. Go into your Forums section by clicking the "Forums" link on the left side of the page. 
3. Click on your Discussion in which you promote your business to open the discussion main page. 
4. Click in the full discussion or individual thread which you wish to use.
5. Look for the small icon upper right hand corner.  Put your mouse button over this icon and click your right mouse button.  A menu will appear.
6. Left-Click on "Copy Shortcut"
7. Paste this link into a Notepad window or some other text editor.  You will need this later.  You now have your RSS Link which you will use in a second!

Part 3. Pasting your RSS Link into Yahoo and MSN

1. For MSN, go to http://www.msn.com, click on "My Page" and login to your MSN Account. 
2. Once your login to your My MSN account you should see an "Add Content" link under the MSN logo to your left. Click on it.  A pop-up should now be displaying. Simply copy and paste your RSS Link from your Notepad into the web form provided and click the Search button (the green button with the arrow).
3. You should now be looking at Check Box with your thread/discussion's name beside it. Check off your RSS Link URL and then press the OK button at the bottom.
4. For Yahoo, go to http://www.yahoo.com and click on "My Yahoo".
5. When you login, you'll be taken to your Yahoo! page immediately.  What you want to do next is go look under the Yahoo! search box to the left and click on the "Add Content" link.
6. This will bring you to a new page. From there, over to the right by the "Find" button you'll see an "Add RSS by URL" link, click on it. A new window will open with a "Web Form". Simply copy and paste your "Site Feed URL" from Notepad into the web form
   and click on the "Add" button.
7. Now, you should see your Discussion's name in front of you. Simply click on the yellow "Add To My Yahoo!" button on the top right and your feed will be added.

You're done!  In both cases you will see breakdowns of each of your discussion along with current threads posted in the last several hours. 

Now, I can't stress this enough.  MSN and Yahoo are powerhouses in the Search Engine game and instead of waiting for a search engine listing which may take days, sometimes weeks, these pages get indexed regularly; often within hours.  If you use your Community Discussions creatively, you could divert a lot of traffic to your website quickly and with very little effort! 

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