We hope Craigslist publically release the standards which are being used to review the ads on Craigslist. We also hope Craigslist explicitly tell advertisers the reason why their ads are deleted.

Few weeks ago, Google shut down its search engine in China because of China’s unreasonable censorship. If what Craigslist is doing is different from what China is doing, Craigslist should explain the difference clearly.

Please sign the petition here and help us make Craigslist a transparent marketplace.

Sincerely,
The GoGoPin Team

GoGoPin wishes everyone had a prosperous year and ready to start a great new year. We are truly grateful for all of your support and interest and hope GoGoPin continues to be your online partner in the new year.

Please continue to let us know what you would like to see in terms of GoGoPin and we will do our best to deliver.

Sincerely,

The GoGoPin Team

Now, it came to our attention that some of our users’ computers are infected with Malware which can cause trouble using GoGoPin and possibly other sites.

If you are seeing a screen like this, it doesn’t necessarilly mean the site you are trying to visit is harmful, but it DEFINITELY means you have a malware to uninstall from your computer.

So when you see this, make sure you scan your computer and remove those malwares.

For those of you who have problem scanning and removing malwares, we have found this instruction on this site: CLICK HERE. Even though we are not associated with this site at all, it seems their method works.

We just wanted to share this news so that our GoGoPin users have no problem using GoGoPin and other Web sites.

Have a great Thanksgiving weekend! =)

As we all know, it is one of the best shopping season as well. However we know what this can lead us to – a little too much shopping that can’t be refunded!

We really wish it doesnt happen but if it ever happens, make sure you create awesome ads with GoGoPin. We are certain that it will help you feel better.

Anyways, enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday with your friends and family!

In the post below (Enhancements) you can read more detail about choosing any URL to make your GoGoPin Ad clickable when posted in .HTML.

“Descriptions”, Much More Important!

Some unforeseeable and sudden adjustments to Craigslist had us typing in a flurry! The  necessary updates are already in place. Descriptions are now more important than ever. For best results, pack the description of your ad with as many important keywords as you can. The comma separated list of keywords no longer appears in the .HTML output, so make sure you incorporate keywords in the Description Field upon saving or exporting.

Other Formats

Comma separated keywords appear with handsome icons in other formats including:

• .PNG (Picture)
• .PDF (Printing)
• Post to Facebook
• Post to Twitter

So keywords from your description are still necessary in the event you should use one of the above formats in addition to .HTML output.

Website Building

Gotten comfortable building GoGoPin Ads? Imagine a business transactional website! You may wish to apply your GoGoPin Ad designing skills to build and manage your own business website. Click here to receive an invitation code and we’ll happily send one along good for a complementary trial of GoGoPin Business.

Let Us Know

If it isn’t measured, it doesn’t happen. Comments and suggestions from you are our compass. Our success is measured by yours. Please let us hear everything you have to say about GoGoPin. Yes, everything (support@gogopin.com).

We invite you to follow us on Twitter and join our group on Facebook.

Sincerely,

The GoGoPin Team

Thank You!

New enhancements are already in place for improved performance.

Hyperlink Your GoGoPin Ad

You can now choose to make your GoGoPin Ad ‘click-able’ and hyperlink it to any public URL you wish. You will encounter the same Save/Export Dialog as before (Title, Keywords, and a Description) with an additional place to include any public URL or Web Address you wish. Essentially your GoGoPin Ad becomes a free clickable Banner Ad.

Note: The link you enter will only work when you post your ad using  HTML code.  For help posting your ad in HTML click here.

Additional Clip Art

Fresh customized clip art include designations for Better Business Bureau, as well as new professional designations for Real Estate, and pet policy badges for Property Managers. See picture below or click here for samples.

Change Background Color

Select a background color from standard color selections, or use slide bars to exact RGB specifications. Adjust the length of your ad, and the background color extends as well. These options are adjustable in the lower right portion of the workspace.

Improved Text Editing

Sometimes the best improvements are ones that you don’t even notice. Rich text editing is cleaner, and more stable than ever now. Get what you want on the page with fewer clicks.

Refreshed Tour Page

If it has been a while since you last logged in, or if you wish to share GoGoPin with others then you’ll want to visit the GoGoPin Ad Tour. The Tour includes a video introduction, samples, and screenshots for your own reference, and for easy sharing without signing in.

Complementary Trial of GoGoPin Business is Underway!

Extend the reach of your online marketing efforts by building your own unique business website. Connect, book appointments, or simply sell items live from your home, office, or third place. To request an invitation code to begin a complementary trial of GoGoPin Business click here.

Thank You!

Please continue to let us know what you would like to see in terms of GoGoPin Ad enhancements and we will do our best to deliver:  support@gogopin.com . Until the next newsworthy announcement, we always remain available for help via
support@gogopin.com as well.

We invite you to follow us on Twitter, and join our group on Facebook.

Sincerely,

The GoGoPin Team

Designing and developing  technology can’t be everyone’s strong suit.  Small business owners must play to their strengths, and most of us are lucky to speak a second language much less write software. GoGoPin is a small business that has technology at its core, and was recognized by Microsoft’s /web profile.  Tech savvy? Take a gander. (No? Read on…)

Entrepreneurs wear many hats, but inevitably attending to core operations in any small business comes at the expense of time spent tending to tasks outside their comfort zone,  like online marketing.

Now business people from all sectors can manage their own online content using solely a keyboard and mouse, entirely from an internet browser.

Blog Today; Build Your Own Business Website Tomorrow.

There are as many blogs as there are specialists and then some. But only a few years ago, the number of people dubbing themselves ‘author’ was far smaller. Luckily, many tech savvy developers compiled blogging platforms for the rest of us. Those developers (you know who you are!) made publishing content on the web accessible to more people from all compass points geographic and virtual.

Technology developers and designers have core skill that affect practically all sectors of business today, and they too stand on the shoulders of giants.  Developers and designers at GoGoPin are using tools that you may never need to know (or want to). Tools such as:

• ASP.NET Framework
• IIS Web Server
• Visual Studio
• Silverlight

Each of these tools are continually under development as well, and the observable result is the convergence of design and development. Microsoft’s BizSpark program has provided  GoGoPin with an integrated development environment (lots of software and more). Subsequently, GoGoPin has designed, developed, and produced applications that affect businesses of all kinds.

What’s in it for Me?

What’s good for small business is good for all of us. What’s in it for small businesses is the ability of online business activities from people who never dreamed they would manage such activities for themselves. GoGoPin aims to put the power of the web in the hands of small business owners who aren’t technology developers or designers.

What’s in it for GoGoPin is the opportunity to play to GoGoPin’s strength: empowering offline businesses with online tools they can manage themselves.

Microsoft has recognized GoGoPin among other developing small businesses for taking the tools and running with them for a noble reason: That small business owners may build and manage a business website that serves their core business operation, without requiring specialized technical skills.

A Head Start for Small Business

GoGoPin Business Website building is rapidly maturing,  and you have the opportunity now to sign up and get started on a complementary basis. By giving feedback, corner cleaners and pizza chefs can take the reins of their own website and blog in one fell swoop.  Closing the gap between offline and online takes a little time that is well spent.  For now, it requires no money whatsoever!

Hi,

We have recently received this question from a lot of users – “how to make my ad clickable so that users can be directed to my Web site by clicking it?”.

Well, we have a plan to add this feature in the next version, but until then, there is a way to do this with the current version.

Here’s how:

STEP 1. Export your ad.

STEP 2. Get the HTML code. Copy and Paste it into a plain text editor (e.g. NotePad in Windows).

STEP 3. Find the highlighted code block (file name can be different).

<div><div>

<img src=’http://ad.gogopin.com/repos/xx-xx-xx-xx-xx.png’ alt=’GoGoPin Ad’ title=’GoGoPin Ad’/>

</div><div><b>Description:</b></div><div>1231232321</div><br>

<div><b>Keywords:</b><div>keyword1, keyword2</div><br>

<div><a href=’http://ad.gogopin.com/Landing/Page1.aspx’ target=’_blank’><b>GoGoPin Ad – Make Free Classified Ads</b></a></div></div>

STEP 4. Rewrite this block as below. In this example, your Web site address is http://www.mysite.com.

<div><div>

<a href=http://www.mysite.com><img src=’http://ad.gogopin.com/repos/xx-xx-xx-xx-xx.png’ alt=’GoGoPin Ad’ title=’GoGoPin Ad’/></a>

</div><div><b>Description:</b></div><div>1231232321</div><br>

<div><b>Keywords:</b><div>keyword1,keyword2</div><br>

<div><a href=’http://ad.gogopin.com/Landing/Page1.aspx’ target=’_blank’><b>GoGoPin Ad – Make Free Classified Ads</b></a></div></div>

STEP 5. Copy the new code and paste it into Craigslist.

That’s it. Please be extra careful if you are not familiar with HTML because editing this code block could cause your ad un-displayable on Craigslist.

Thank you for using GoGoPin Ad.

Making Ads and Flyers Online Gets Better with Every Tweet!

Nowadays more GoGoPin Ads are being posted than ever before, and the following enhancements are by no means the last. GoGoPin Ad will now be presented in Microsoft Silverlight 3, as we continue to provide you with the most nimble online content creation possible.   Direct Distribution via Twitter! The main idea here is not to watch Twitter grow like a weed. Rather, we want to help your business flourish by ‘tweeting’ your GoGoPin Ad. Twitter is a perfect way to distribute a simple link to your GoGoPin Ad. It is not too late to start with Twitter if you haven’t yet. Both Twitter and GoGoPin Ad are free. Twitter is very effective for sharing links, and is a perfect fit for posting GoGoPin Ads quickly: Type your Twitter Username and Password Type 140 Characters that invite your buyers to view your GoGoPin Ad (include keywords). Include #[insert keyword1], #[insert keyword2] to help searchers find your ad on Twitter .New to the Twitter Idea? Read this blog post “The Era of Free Marketing” for a few words on Twitter. In our experience with Twitter it is best to learn by doing. That blue bird doesn’t bite.   What Else? Thanks to your loyalty and satisfaction, we have recently earned BBB accreditation and Verisign verification for your peace of mind and for that of people new to GoGoPin (we welcome your referrals). Besides posting to Twitter, what you’ll most likely enjoy is: Snap to grid : easily auto-align text, images, shapes, and tables within your ad. New alignment tool : easily align multiple elements all at once. CTRL + Click to select multiple elements on the canvas and group them, reposition, and etc. Maintain image aspect ratio. Add border and roundness to images and shapes. Various arrow types. More shapes (circle and triangle). More clipart (e.g. “FSBO”, “OBO”, “Hot!”, and etc). Switched from JPG to PNG format to improve image quality. Official support for Safari 4.0 or higher   Thank You! Please continue to let us know what you would like to see in terms of GoGoPin Ad enhancements and we will do our best to deliver: support@gogopin.com . Until the next newsworthy announcement, we always remain available for help via support@gogopin.com We invite you to follow us on , and join our group on Sincerely, The GoGoPin Team