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How Blast the Community works

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Search

The most important part of the site is the Search Bar. Best practice is to pick your listing type, select the first three letters of your category or listing name, or city into the location bar and click the search button (the magnifying glass). If you select a city from the dropdown, you’ll only see listings in that specific town, not listings nearby. The gear box is the search filter. Just depressing the search bar or magnifying is a general search.

Listings

Depending on listing type, the listing owner can input and display as much information as they desire.

Some Features

  1. Ownership Badge which is searchable
  2. Featured Listing
  3. Favorite Listing
  4. Save listing in a public/private list
  5. Edit or upgrade listing
  6. Report inappropriate listing

The difference between a category and a tag in keywords to search

Category:

Purpose: Categories are used to group listings into broad topics or types.

Hierarchy: Categories are hierarchical, meaning they can have parent and child categories. For example:

Parent Category: Restaurants

Child Category: Vegan Restaurants

Child Category: Fine Dining

Example Use: A listing for a bakery could fall under the category “Food & Beverage.”

Tag:

Purpose: Tags are used to provide more specific or descriptive keywords about the listing. They are more flexible and granular than categories.

Hierarchy: Tags are non-hierarchical, meaning they don’t have a parent-child relationship.

Example Use: The same bakery listing could have tags like “gluten-free,” “family-owned,” or “open late.”

Claim Listing

Click the “Claim” button and fill out the pop-up form to claim the listing (you have to be registered and logged in to claim a listing). After your claim has been approved by the administration, you will be able to edit the listing in almost any way you please!

We are constantly adding new content, features, and capabilities to the site. It is our ultimate goal to become the Internet’s most complete, accurate, and useful independent business listing, event and profile database.

Add a Listing

Click on add a listing, it’ll take you to the pricing table for each listing type. Pick the listing tier and depress submit. You are presented with the appropriate listing form. If you chose you could upgrade or downgrade to a higher or lower tier if you desire before proceeding.