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Added structured data markup across all pages, helping search engines better understand your content.
Search engine optimization is crucial for directory websites. We've implemented comprehensive structured data (JSON-LD) across all pages to help search engines better understand and display your content in search results.
Structured data provides explicit clues about the meaning of your content to search engines. By adding this markup, your directory can appear with rich snippets, enhanced search results, and better visibility in Google and other search engines.
We've implemented structured data markup for various elements. This includes organization and website elements like your directory's .
Content types covered are individual tool or product listings, category and tag pages, blog posts, articles, and breadcrumb navigation.
Additionally, we've added business information such as products and services, pricing information, reviews and ratings, and business hours and locations.
Implementing structured data is one of the most impactful SEO improvements you can make. While it doesn't directly affect rankings, it significantly improves how your content appears in search results, leading to:
This foundational SEO improvement helps ensure your directory content is presented in the best possible way across all search engines.
Track your directory's financial performance with new revenue charts and an improved dashboard.
Understanding your revenue trends is crucial for growing your directory business. We've added comprehensive revenue analytics and redesigned the dashboard to give you better visibility into your financial performance.
The centerpiece of this update is the new revenue chart that visualizes your earnings over the last 30 days.
Key Features
Upload images and media files directly through forms, making it easier to manage visual content across your directory.
Managing media files is now easier and more intuitive with our revamped upload experience. You can now upload images and other media directly through forms. Just drag and drop files, see instant previews, and enjoy seamless integration with S3-compatible storage.
At the core of these improvements is the new FormMedia component, which ensures a consistent and reliable upload experience across all forms, from tool submissions to user profile updates and admin listings. It handles image optimization, preview generation, and robust error handling.
We've also prioritized performance with strict file validation, secure presigned URLs, and optimized upload flows. Direct-to-S3 uploads reduce server load, and lazy-loaded previews help pages load faster, ensuring a smooth experience on any device.
Introducing smarter, faster, and more user-friendly AI content generation.
AI-powered content generation is one of Dirstarter's most valuable features for quickly populating your directory. We've made significant improvements to how AI generation works, making it smarter, faster, and more user-friendly.
This feature was already available in Dirstarter, but we've made significant improvements to how it works.
Smarter, more reliable AI: The AI now processes your requests with greater accuracy and provides clearer feedback. If something goes wrong, it recovers more gracefully—automatically retrying when possible and showing better error messages.
Real-time, relevant suggestions: As you fill out forms, the AI instantly suggests related tags and categories. With debounced suggestions, you get fast, relevant results and a smoother experience, even with large amounts of data.
Higher quality content: Description generation now matches the quality of main content generation. Results are more consistent, and the AI uses more of your input for context, giving you more relevant and helpful suggestions. Prompt building has also been improved for even better results.
A new feedback widget allows visitors to quickly share their thoughts and suggestions about your directory
A new feedback widget allows visitors to quickly share their thoughts and suggestions about your directory.
Users can now report issues with listings, request new features, and provide general feedback - all through a simple interface that makes communication effortless.
The widget is automatically displayed when the user has taken a certain amount of time and acted on the directory. This is to prevent the widget from being displayed too often when the user may not have any feedback to giv yete.
The exact thresholds are:
You can configure those thresholds in the configuration of your directory.
We've also cleaned up and reorganized the admin dashboard to make it more useful:
The schedule is now on a dedicated page to enhance focus, the layout is cleaner with improved information hierarchy and intuitive navigation, while metrics feature updated revenue labels, better data visualization, and improved performance with large datasets.
Having clear financial insights helps you:
Whether you're just starting out or managing an established directory, these analytics tools help you understand what's working and where to focus your efforts on revenue growth.
To get the most out of AI-powered content generation:
The improved AI generation system is designed to help you build your directory faster while maintaining high content quality. It handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on growing your business.