PalouseAds.com Classifieds

Border 104, NewsTalk 1150 and Cactus Computer & Internet have teamed up to bring you the best value in classified advertising - FREE classified ads promoted on the Radio!* You may have up to five classified ads running simultaneously free of charge. FREE classified ads are for personal property only. Classified ads selling business inventory and services are charged a small fee (coming soon).

According to Google® we had 117,517 page views in April 2008. Not bad :-) "The Power of Radio Advertising" really works. And so does PalouseAds!

We have added a new "Arts & Crafts" category. Also, the "New Account" sign-up page and the page that allows you to email the seller now check to make sure your email address is valid. It does this by checking your email address against your mail server. This check is intended to prevent typos that may otherwise cause sellers to not get inquiries and buyers to not receive responses from the sellers. This has worked with the mail servers we could test, but if you run into a problem, send an email to tony@turbonet.com. Please include the email address that failed to validate.

We fixed a bug that would cause some expired ads to continue to be displayed. Also, users can now be banned for gross misconduct or running (apparent) scams. For example, "work at home" ads will be assumed to be scams for this purpose if they require any out-of-pocket expenses from the employee such as buying supplies, paying postage, etc. even if the employer claims to reimburse employee.

According to Google® we had 117,517 page views in April 2008. In March we had 81,560 page views. So that's an increase of nearly 50% in one month! We have spent the last several days on bug fixes and formatting issues with various web browsers. The only major change is the order items are listed in; we now keep track of when an ad was last modified and they are now listed in descending order by date modified.

You may see ads for Cactus Computer & Internet pop up in unusual formats as we experiment with new ad types over the next several weeks. The ones that work out will be available sometime in the (hopefully) not too distant future.

Thumbnails!!!! If you upload a photo of your item, a thumbnail is created and placed next to your ad :0) A requested feature was to include the town the item is located in. If you are in Pullman looking for a bicycle because you don't have a car, you wouldn't be interested in bicycles in Lewiston (probably). This will also allow you to use the name of the town in the search feature when everyone has added their town. We increased the number of text lines displayed for each ad but from past experience we know that we must have a limit.

Now you can search the classifieds. In the upper right of any category page is a search box. If you want to find a "big box" type "big box" and click the Search button. If you want to find a "horse" or a "cow", type "horse or cow" and click the Search button. It searches the whole classifieds, not just the category you are looking at. An item may appear more than once if it contains any of your search words more than once (all search engines do this). The index is built once per day, so new items will appear in the search the next day. Enjoy :-)

"A picture is worth a thousand words." This new version of Palouse Ads allows you to include a photo of your item. The seller can now receive email inquires from the buyer without putting their email address in the ad. The category buttons on the left are now text instead of images so the site is faster for people on slow Internet connections. However, your web browser must now be HTML 4.0 compatible to use this website, which all browsers less than five years old should be.

You will need to have an account (email address and password) to place ads. We created accounts for everyone who had an ad running on the date of changeover and emailed you a password (which you may change after logging in). The accounts allow you to manage your ads, edit them, renew them, receive emails inquires without revealing your email address and more. It is different, but we think you will find it is much better than before.

* PalouseAds as a whole, not individual classified ads, is promoted on the radio greatly increasing readership through "The Power of Radio Advertising.