Question 1

How do You End a Recording for DirectoryCourses?

Accepted Answer

Using the "end meeting" button: It closes the meeting room right away and kicks everyone out. It also starts processing the recording right away.

Using the "leave meeting" button or just leaving by just closing the browser tab: The platform waits for 5 minutes for a moderator(guide) to re-join the meeting. If no moderator joins in 5 minutes, the meeting is ended by the platform. This is to prevent ending meetings when the guide experiences technical issues.

So both would work fine for recordings but ending the meeting before leaving as the moderator(guide) is better because the other option would create 5 more minutes in the recording file after the guide leaves.

Question 2

How do you get and use a Yelp API Key?

Accepted Answer

What is Yelp API?

The Yelp Fusion API allows its users to get local content and user reviews from millions of businesses of hospitality and service industries across 32 countries. The Yelp API is used by DirectoryImport to load listing data, images, and reviews.

How do I get the Yelp API Key?

Getting your Fusion API key is fast and easy. To do it, you have to follow these simple Yelp API guidelines.

Step 1 – Create an account

First you have log into the developers portal with your existing Yelp account or create a new one

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You can continue working with Yelp service through Facebook, Google, or Apple account. The other option is to sign up with your email address. In this case you’ll get a confirmation email – don’t forget to follow the link in it to verify your account.

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You’re going to have to verify you’re not a robot by completing a reCaptcha.

Step 2 – Get started with Fusion API

Once you’ve logged into the Yelp developers service, go to https://fusion.yelp.com to get to the Fusion API section of the portal. Press the Get Started button.

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Step 3 – Create an App

Create your first Yelp App to receive your personal Fusion API key. Fill in the required fields in the form, agree to Yelp API Terms of Use and Display Requirements. Then prove you’re a human, and press Create New App.

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After that you’ll get your API Key.

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Copy the API key and paste it into the configurations tab of your DirctoryImport Plugin

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Remember to keep your personal Yelp API key to yourself! It is the credential for your call to Yelp’s API and must be used only by you.

If you need to get back to the API at a later point the best way is to browse to this link and sign-in. You should see your API at the top of the page. If you try to use the normal page to login it goes to your personal account and makes it very hard to find this page again so use this link: https://www.yelp.com/developers/v3/manage_app

What are the limits of the API?

By default, any client is limited to 5,000 API calls per 24 hours. This count is reset every midnight UTC.

Can I choose which reviews to display in an API query?

DirectoryImport only displays the data presented by Yelp. The sort and order of reviews are determined by recency, user voting, and other review quality factors to help consumers make informed decisions. The Yelp API cannot be configured to draw any alternative or hand-picked review excerpts.

Why is the Yelp API not delivering content for businesses I know are on Yelp?

Yelp API only returns the info for businesses that have some Yelp user-generated content added. Specifically, they must have at least one customer review.

Question 3

How do you get and use an Outscraper API Key?

Accepted Answer

What is Outscraper API?

The Outscraper API extracts places data from Google Maps and companies' web sites.

How do I get the Outscraper API Key?

Getting your Outscraper API key is fast and easy. To do it, you have to follow these simple Outscraper API guidelines.

Step 1 – Create an account

Click Here to open the signup form and create an account at the Outscraper Service with your email and password of choice as seen in the example image below.

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You’ll get a confirmation email from Outscraper Team (no-reply@outscraper.com) – don’t forget to follow the link in it to verify your account.

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Step 2 – Setup Billing

Outscraper defaults to the FREE level and only charges when you go over the free monthly quota. There is no inherent cost to use this service up to certain levels like Google API. The Free Tier is the amount of usage you can use for free each month. This means any usage of the product below 500 requests during a month will be for free. So basically, every API account gets 500 businesses, 500 domains for Email & Contact info, 500 reviews, and 500 photos free each month. So you can continue to come back and use these 500 items each month and never have any out-of-pocket costs. Or you can do more at scale in one month and pay a bulk per item fee above the free limits. See FAQ on pricing for complete details

There are two options for billing, Prepaid and Postpaid.

Option 1: Pre-Paid

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To setup prepaid amount, click on "Billing Information" and add desired amount and payment method to add credit.

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Option 2: Post-Paid

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When you run a task without any prepaid credits, a new billing period will be created. Once you have any amount due (IE above the free limits), you can stop it manually by clicking "Generate Invoice". Otherwise upon completion of your billing period, you will only receive an invoice for the use above the free tier.

If you choose post-paid you will need to add a card on file, just like you had to for the Google Maps API. Select "Billing Information" and then Add button.

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Step 3 – Copy API

Go back to your main account tab. Yours may not say "support" with this logo. It may be your site or username with your icon or first initial. But click this button above the billing and your main account info will load.

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Your Outscraper API should now be filled in. Click the copy icon to copy the API code.

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Paste it into the configurations tab of your DirectoryImport Plugin. Be sure to hit "Save Changes"

Question 4

How many different widgets can I have for DirectoryRelated content?

Accepted Answer

You can create multiple widgets for related listing or post content to allow various settings and display styles for different locations on your directory.

Question 5

How To Connect A Live Domain Name to Your BD Site

Accepted Answer

Digital Download: Printable Ebook

How To Connect Your Domain

STEP 1: Point your domain

The first step is to point your domain to the BD servers through your domain registrar (Uniregistry, Go Daddy, etc.) by using either the Nameserver Method or A Record Method.

Why Do I Need To Connect My Domain?

When you launch a new Brilliant Directories website you get a "Staging URL", which is a temporary URL that you can use while you build your website. Some of the advantages to having a staging URL is that it affords you the time to work on your site without impacting your eventual domain. This allows you to have it live on your old service until your new directory is complete. Some users prefer to wait until their website has all of the proper keywords and settings set to avoid having their websites indexed before it is ready.

Please Read These Three Tips Before Connecting Your Domain:

You must update your domain nameservers OR A Record BEFORE connecting your domain. Skipping that step and connecting your domain will make it impossible to view your website. Name server changes usually take 24 to 48 hours to fully start working. This period, called propagation, is the projected length of time it takes for root name servers and cache records across the entire web to be updated with your website's DNS information. Therefore it is recommended this step be done several days before trying to add your live domain to your BD site.
If you are currently using a 3rd party service for emails and do not wish to have any email interruptions, BD recommends pointing your domain using the A Record. NOTE: There are known issues with GoDaddy Email Services and BD does not recommend using them for your emails.
When you change your domain, in rare cases it can take up to 48 hour for the new domain to work. See if your website is online here: https://geopeeker.com, or http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Domain Pointing Methods

Nameserver Method

EASIEST: This is the recommended method to update your domain. You can connect your domain by pointing your nameservers to the following URLs:

HELPFUL LINKS:

A Record Method

This method is popular when using a sub-domain. Connect your domain by pointing your domain's A Record to its assigned IP Address. To find out which IP to point your a record to, please go to SETTINGS >> DOMAIN MANAGER and scroll to the "A Record" section. You will see your IP address here. Please note that the IP address will vary depending on the server that your website is on:

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STEP 2 Update The Domain Of The Site In The Domain Manager

This area of the Admin allows you to specify the domain of the website.

Go to Settings - Domain Manager

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Add your domain in the "Set New Primary Domain" box. Please note that if you are adding a primary domain you will need to add the "www." even if you plan on setting your website as a non-www website. If you are using a subdomain you must not add the "www." If for any reason you forget this information, the system will not allow you to proceed until you've entered the domain correctly:

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Once you have entered your domain with the proper format you will be asked to add it in the "Confirm Domain" box:

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Once you've complete that final step you may proceed to click on "Add Domain"
You will be prompted by the system to confirm that you would like to proceed.
Click on "Yes, update domain".
Your website is now live. You can confirm that your domain is live all around the world by using this free 3rd party tool: https://geopeeker.com

Important: If you are part of our VIP add-ons or have purchased a SSL certificate with BD you will be asked if you wish to install your SSL right away!

Click Yes, to finish installing your SSL certificate or No if you don't wish to install it right away.

Once the domain has been updated, continue to edit the Default Website Email and the Email Domain in the General Settings section of the back-end.

Question 6

I have a question on my invoice, what do I do?

Accepted Answer

You can send comments and notes back to us directly from any Invoice you received. Just use these steps:

Open the Invoice, Estimate or Proposal
Click on the text bubble at the top of the Invoice, Estimate or Proposal
Type in your comment
Then when you're done, press the Send button. We will receive an email with your comment automatically.

Note: You do not need to create a Client account to see an Invoice, Estimate or Proposal, to print or save as a PDF as long as you have the link.

Question 7

I'm having an issue editing sub categories or sub-sub categories for individual listings after I search.

Accepted Answer

Category pre-selection in yellow below allows you to add a top, sub, and sub-sub level category prior to import to automatically fill that pre-selection into each search result to prevent the need to re-add to each listing before import. However if the sub or sub-sub category is not initially filled out completely as seen below again in yellow, the items will be empty as expected in each search result to mirror the preset selection.

If you want to add a sub-category later for each listing as highlighted in red, the system will show no results and not allow picking up the query at that point to add sub-categories. To retrigger the category query to add sub or sub-sub categories below, you must "start over" by reselecting the top level category again for that particular listing as seen in green.

To restart the query you must pick a different top level category to restart the selection engine. So if it is set as Category B for example, select Category A to trigger the engine then switch back to Category B again to the original selection and the sub-categories will now be triggered and allow adding the follow-on subcategories in red. So in short, either fill in the complete desired categories at the beginning or re-add the entire category structure individually as required using the process detailed.

Question 8

Is it legal to use Google & Yelp photos?

Accepted Answer

In general there are no federal laws against web scraping in the United States as long as the scraped data is publicly available and the scraping activity does not harm the website being scraped.

We do not use Yelp photos in our solution only for reviews. And we do not store any data from the Google API as it is against their Terms of Service for that provided data. We use he Google API for search and map display only to use for initial lookup and display of info only. The storing of the data comes from a third party API from Outscraper which is used to get the images.

We have configuration settings that can turn off the image download option for listing creation if that is a concern. If you are in a location or jurisdiction that only permits text and data mining you can turn off the photo download capability of DirectoryImport and DirectoryPhotos and simply have them upload their own images to display with DirectorySlider so all images are self added. So we allow you to turn on or off as your specific needs or requirements change.

Scraping publicly available information on the web in an automated way is legal as long as the scraped data is not used for any harmful purpose or directly attacking the scraped website’s business or operations. But you should avoid scraping personal data or intellectual property, or confidential data. Outscraper answers the legality issue for public data on their website here: https://outscraper.com/faq/ The regulations or limitations of course may vary by location, as this is a US only example and legal precedence may change over time, or vary based on your location. We are not in position to provide legal advice for you or your company and advise. For professional legal advice, please talk to a certified lawyer in your country.

Question 9

Is there a connection DirectoryLimits and the process in the BD Pay per Post plugin? How does the Pay per Post fit in the process?

Accepted Answer

The pay per post plugin integrates onto the DirectoryLimits seamlessly, which lets you monetize the content that your members are trying to publish. Reference the settings required in steps above to execute the logic correctly.

Question 10

Is there a limit to how many tags we can add?

Accepted Answer

Technically no, but we recommend keeping the number low to highlight the desired post types as its effect can get confused if you add all of your post types in the results.