Ocala Photo Ads Grace the Homepage

September 27, 2006 | Comments Off

Have you ever wanted your ad on the home page for everyone to see? No problem! We've just updated our homepage so that ads with a photo will automatically appear. Any photo ad placed in the last two weeks will be featured on our home page at no additional charge.

Sep

22

Welcome Back!

September 22, 2006 | Comments Off

Richmond, VA. Dominion Electric customers experienced power outages today in the Richmond Tri-city area. Unfortunately, a very important computer responsible for routing Internet traffic was also affected. Real time map of the outages.
You may have been unable to connect to our website, located on just the other side of that router. Imagine a narrow […]

Sep

22

Local Battle of the Bands

September 22, 2006 | Comments Off

Saturday Sept 23. 10-10pm Cafe on the Rock presents "Jam for the Lamb" battle of the bands. After three weeks of runoffs, 6 local bands now compete against each other. Upside Down, PDA, In Light of Darkness, Mark Stevens, Song of Judah, and the Springs youth band, District 5. There will be a motorcycle stunt […]

Sep

18

Sign prank?

September 18, 2006 | Comments Off

Looks like someone rearranged the letters on our new sign to say "Ocala4sale Rool3s!" I noticed the change as I arrived at the new parking lot here at our World Headquarters.
To those who were involved in these shenanigans, we appreciate the sentiment. And indeed you are correct, but allow me to correct your spelling. It […]

Sep

12

Over 200,000 Ads in Ocala!

September 12, 2006 | Comments Off

In February of 2005, Ocala4sale.com started handling ads with the help of a database where each ad is assigned a new number. By the year's end, we had processed more than 100,000 ads.
Last night, we approved ad number 200,000! Which means we have processed another 100,000 ads, but four months ahead of our record […]

Sep

7

Is Hotmail Cooling Off?

September 7, 2006 | Comments Off

Recently Hotmail (and MSN email) updated its mail filters to help reduce spam and other junk mail. But it seems to be over-aggressive. I ran a couple tests on my own account and found that while I received the confirmation email after placing an ad, I did not receive email responses to the ad. […]

Sep

6

Online Classifieds On the Move

September 6, 2006 | Comments Off

Just noticed this report from Media Metrix: Traffic to online classified ad sites has increased 47 percent for the year ending July 31. That comes as no suprise to us around here. Last month our sites logged more than 400,000 visitors and published up to 800 new classifieds every single day. Good thing […]