Need help in making a dog park search site in Australia, using thesis

  • Hi All,

    I am a dog walker in Melbourne Australia and we have a lot of restrictions as to where you can take your dogs. There are a few government resources to help find specific council areas. But I want a more interactive, more verified information source for people with photos they provide.

    My nearest ‘competitor’ seems to be doggo DOT com.au. THE issue I have with this is that they are a wordpress seo company, they have nothing to do with dogs, it seems that the whole content is user generated, no verification etc. Just a trail of user comments (to provide seo benefits).

    I want to do something halfway between fully automated, and completely manual. As I have my main dog walking site to look after I dont want to spend every day meticulously ‘pawing’ over information, but I do want to provide maybe more information, on maybe on less parks.

    Does anyone know how I can automate some of this process, presumably with some sort of plug ins? For instance there are seven main capital cities in australia, People in each of those will probably want to search for dog friendly beaches or dog friendly parks. Be good to have a wordpress app that I can tie a location on a google map with. And when someone searches for a suburb such as 2000 (sydney) that the map pulls up the location and the surrounding parks and beaches.

    I am new to wordpress (previously used joomla) so I am not sure how I could for instance provide an automated form for people to submit information without me getting spam,

    At the moment I am using thesis 182 (as it was recommended to me ages ago. If i can somehow use a few modules on this theme it would be great.

    Cheers Bruce

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  • Just a trail of user comments (to provide seo benefits).

    This a fallacy, provide good content…comments, even in high numbers are not going to make poor content more relevant.

    Thread Starter dogdude1

    (@dogdude1)

    I could be wrong, but I dont have comments on most of my sites, because i dont want to moderate, and I dont want to block spam or have a no follow rule on their websites to stop link power dilution.

    I did think though that google likes to see sites changing, so if you have visitors leaving comments, you can go away forever, and google will consider that your site is active, and so not slide it down in the serps. Is this wrong?

    Is this wrong?

    Yes.

    Thread Starter dogdude1

    (@dogdude1)

    ok.

    The Major sites you see being updated at Google pay heavily through their ad network and paid distribution services…consult with them for major sites.

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