Question 1

What are the DirectoryQR Terms of Service?

Accepted Answer

These Terms govern your access to, usage of all content, Product and Services available at XCOD LTD website (the “Service”) operated by XCOD LTD (“us”, “we”, or “our”).

Your access to our services are subject to your acceptance, without modification, of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules and policies published and that may be published from time to time by us.

Please read the Agreement carefully before accessing or using our Services. By accessing or using any part of our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to any part of the terms of the Agreement, then you may not access or use our Services.

Intellectual Property

Third Party Services

If you use any Third Party Services, you understand that:

Any use of a Third Party Service is at your own risk, and we shall not be responsible or liable to anyone for Third Party websites or Services.

You will be solely responsible and liable for any activity that occurs under your account. You are responsible for keeping your account information up-to-date and for keeping your password secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account that you use to access the Service. You shall not share or misuse your access credentials. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorized uses of your account or upon becoming aware of any other breach of security.

Termination

If you wish to terminate the Agreement or your XCOD LTD account, you may simply discontinue using our Services.

All provisions of the Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.

Disclaimer

Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

The proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to the Agreement and any access to or use of our Services will be the state and federal courts located in Nigeria.

Changes

If we make changes that are material, we will let you know by posting on our website, or by sending you an email or other communication before the changes take effect. The notice will designate a reasonable period of time after which the new terms will take effect.

If you disagree with our changes, then you should stop using our Services within the designated notice period, or once the changes become effective.

Your continued use of our Services will be subject to the new terms.

Question 2

What are the steps for setting up the Google API for DirectoryImport?

Accepted Answer

Step 1a. Initial setup of your Google Maps API Key

This integration uses the Google Key setup at the website settings. If the Google Maps API key has not been setup, please follow these steps:

Brilliant Directories Guide 10. How to Enable Maps with Google Maps API

If you are setting up for the first time, Google has a new option to setup the HTTP referrers right way. If you see this popup, select "maybe later" to not setup the restrictions as you will remove it later anyway.

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You will also need to skip item 7 if the BD checklist as the API dynamic loading requires the key to be unrestricted.

If your key has already been setup you will need to make some adjustments to ensure this plugin works properly. If you see this popup warning in the Import tool, that is probably the issue:

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Continue to step 1b below, otherwise continue to Step 2.

Step 1b. Google API Adjusted Setup - Remove HTTP Referrers

The API dynamic loading for Google requires the key to be unrestricted. If you have already installed your Maps API key, you will need to make the following adjustments:

Login to your Google cloud Maps API here: https://console.cloud.google.com/google/maps-apis/credentials

Ensure you have the credentials for the appropriate website. Use the dropdown to select the appropriate property.

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In the main screen either click the API key used for your Brilliant Directories site or click Edit KEy" from the three dot drop down menu. Keep in mind the API key will not be called the same as you see on screen. The API Key could be named anything depending on what you originally added in for the title. If you have multiple and are unsure of which on is the correct one. View the key and compare it to the one in your Brilliant Directories site under Settings > General Settings> Integrations tab.

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The Edit API screen will now appear.

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In the application restrictions section, change the API restrictions to none then scroll down and hit save.

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Step 2. Ensure Billing is Setup for Google

If you already have the Google Key setup, follow these steps to ensure billing is setup in your project:

When you create a new project, you're prompted to choose which of your Cloud Billing accounts you want to link to the project. If you have only one Cloud Billing account, that account is automatically linked to your project.

If you don't have a Cloud Billing account, you must create one and enable billing for your project before you can use many Google Cloud features. To create a new Cloud Billing account and enable billing for your project, follow the instructions in Create a new Cloud Billing account.

Even if you have an account already setup be sure to check your billing information to ensure the credit card is not expired or about to expire.

Browse to your billing section with the following link. https://console.cloud.google.com/billing

In the Billing Account Overview Section that should appear, make sure you billing health is all green of fix any potential issues Google is flagging.

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Next, in the left hand billing menu, select "Payment Method" to open the billing screen.

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Ensure that you have a billing card in place and is not showing any errors, is current, and is not ready to expire.

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Your Google account should now be ready!

Question 3

What Integrations does DirectoryMessaging have?

Accepted Answer

DirectoryMessaging can connect to thousands of websites with its native Zapier integration.

Sell More To Your Current Leads

Never miss a sales opportunity

Set it and forget it

Find out more HERE.

Question 4

What is a Review Form?

Accepted Answer

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SmartAvatars

Publish to other platforms

Incentivized requests

Live previews

Question 5

What is DirectorySocial?

Accepted Answer

In a dizzying era of social media freeware, platforms, vendor mergers, widgets, apps, specialists, consultants, visionaries and hourly technical innovations, this software reduces the complexity of delivering clear, effective messages to highly targeted audiences by integrating mediums across the leading social networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

It is a powerful new social analytics solution for businesses seeking to build and sustain a large social community and automate hundreds of mundane IT tasks that would otherwise require hours of attention daily.

It frees up your time to focus on more strategic tasks. The tool is ideal for small, mid-sized and large companies as well as advertising, marketing services, and public relations agencies.

It also adds extreme control over where images, video and associated content is published and how viewers can engage with a brand, a product, their peers and a larger social community.

This approach to better social results is based on years of experience by its founders and an appreciation for why many social campaigns don’t work—because the devil is in the details—which we deliver through an impressive workflow that saves time and money while improving reach and results.

Question 6

What is DirectoryTestimonial?

Accepted Answer

DirectoryTestimonial is a customer testimonial automation platform. It allows you to automatically collect and display reviews from customers as well as publish customer feedback to other platforms.

Question 7

What is scraping?

Accepted Answer

Scraping, harvesting, or extracting is a process of getting all the information from some public site. It automates manual exporting of the data. If you buy a list from anyone online to add listings to your site, chances are they are scraping data from another source such as Google Maps to give you that information. This is using the same process only automates it for you to auto add to your directory.

Many court cases have ruled that automated scraping of publicly accessible data does not violate the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Court cases change over time and there may be location specific laws to your specific regional area or country. DirectoryImport always suggests you seek the counsel of an attorney in your specific area to ensure compliance with the laws in your jurisdiction.

It is always an option to not use the data scraping option to import listing data information. In that case, the Google API will be used to load information dynamically from that API each time a listing is loaded and will be subject to usage limits/charges per the normal Google API agreement.

Question 8

What is the difference in the two DirectoryImport search types?

Accepted Answer

Nearby search:

Can sort listings by distance and reviews.
Uses a point in the map as a center which gets defined with the location inputs.

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Text search:

No sorting functionality.
The location is not a latitude/longitude value which lets you search broader address types.
Yields more results with less specific terms compared to nearby search.

Question 9

What is the pricing of Outscraper API?

Accepted Answer

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. So basically, every API account gets 500 businesses, 500 domains for Email & Contact info, 500 reviews, and 500 photos free each month. This means any usage of the product below 500 requests during a month will be for free. 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.

**Google Maps Places API **- fast and easy API to fetch Google Maps results in real-time.

Free Tier - FREE usage up to 500 businesses per month

Medium Tier - $ 0.002 / business for 501 to 50,000 businesses (Basically up to $100 mo spend)

Business Tier - $ 0.001 / business after 50,000 businesses

Examples:

Google Maps Reviews

Free Tier - FREE usage up to 500 reviews per month

Medium Tier - $ 0.002 / review for 501 to 50,000 Reviews (Basically up to $100 mo spend)

Business Tier - $ 0.001 / review after 50,000 reviews

Examples:

Google Maps Photos

Free Tier - FREE usage up to 500 photos per month

Medium Tier - $ 0.002 / photo for 501 to 50,000 Photos (Basically up to $100 mo spend)

Business Tier - $ 0.001 / photo after 50,000 photos

Examples:

**Email & Contacts **

Free Tier - FREE usage up to 500 domains per month

Medium Tier - $ 0.002 / domain for 501 to 50,000 domains (Basically up to $100 mo spend)

Business Tier - $ 0.001 / domains after 50,000 domains

Examples:

Question 10

What plugins use DirectorySettings plugin for configuration?

Accepted Answer

We are in process of adding all our tools for configurations into this plugin, but currently only DirectoryRelated uses this plugin. Other plugins such as DirectoryImport and DirectorySlider have their own Pluing Configurations on your Plugin Dashboard menu. All other plugins or widgets currently have the configuration in the widget itself.