Classifieds websites can be general or focused to one niche.
On general classifieds you will have many categories and locations.
On medium niche classifieds website you may have some category and locations, and on small niche classifieds website you do not need to have any categories at all if your site is focused on one topic only.
As an example for small niche classifieds website can be: job board for programmers, pet classifieds like dog, cat or horse, property classifieds for some local real estate agency, car classifieds for dealer with inventory up to 100 cars.
Small niche websites are good for getting highly targeted visitors and has earning potential bigger than general classifieds in term of earning per ad.
For example for a niche job board you can charge 30$ per ad and having 30 ads posted per month will make 900$ income on average. However it will work only if you have focused traffic and reputable background like industry related established business.
As an example to small niche classifieds website can be kariyer.webrazzi.com , job board for tech related blog like Techcrunch in Turkiye. It charges 120$ (250TL) per ad x 50 ads per month = 6000$ on average income per month.
In this tutorial we will describe how to set up Classibase Classifieds script for small niche website without any category. After installing classifieds script follow these steps:
Remove all categories from admin panel
Navigate to “Manage” → “Categories” page on admin panel and delete categories by clicking delete button. View tutorial for how to delete categories.
Add custom fields
- Navigate to “Manage” → “Category custom fields” page from admin.
- Click “Add new” and select “All locations” , “All categories”. Then click “Submit” button.
- New page will load. Drag fields you want to display from “Available fields” to “Submit form” and drop in order you want.
- Click on “S” next to fields on “Submit form” to make field searchable. Click “L” button to make field value visible on ad listings
- Click “Save” button at the bottom of page
View tutorial about adding custom fields.
Add latest ads to front page and link to all ads
- Navigate to “Appearance” → “Widgets” page from admin panel
- Click on “Pages” tab on top right cornet
- Inside “Home Page” area you will see existing widgets.
- Click on “Edit” link on “Ads: Latest ads” widget. If there is no Ads widget then drag one from “Available Widgets” area to “Home Page”, then click “Edit”.
- Set title and other options. And at the bottom select checkbox “Display View more link”.
- Click “Save”.
Now if you navigate to home page on front end you will see “View more” at the bottom of latest ads.
FAQ
How to remove categories from showing?
I’m planning to have only and only one category in my whole site.
1) Is there a way to hide the category list altogether so that when you go to the main page, you immediately see the related custom fields (search)?
2) Is there a way to avoid the first step of choosing a category before posting an ad?
— Goiran Sputnik
Answer:
Yes, it is possible.
- Remove categories by deleting them from “Manage” → “Categories” page. After deleting all categories category field will not be displayed when posting a new ad.
- Then add custom fields to all ads as described in current article. Mark searchable custom fields.
- Place search widget to the home page. Edit search widget and make sure to choose "Display mode" as "Advanced". This will show custom fields (that you added and marked with "S" in step 2) inside search form.
Thank you. It works perfectly! That’s exactly what I wanted.
— Goiran Sputnik