As a directory admin get insight into the most important data points (KPIs) to keep running and growing your business like never before.

Each listing can have a lead form for visitors to connect with business listing owners. All messages can be received and replied via the inbox within the user dashboard.

Let the business owners host an event and promote it on their listings. A separate event’s listings page is also created with more details and easy share.

Manage all email templates that are sent to users on an action taken or when a cron job is executed successfully.

Fully GDPR compliant with option to download profile data and delete to comply with regulation that requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens.

Internal messaging system allow business owners to receive and reply messages directly within the user-dashboard when a lead is generated.

Listing owners can drive more business by offering unlimited deals & coupons to their visitors, while also setting a count-down timer.

Users can flag a comment or listing and it will be reported to admin to further review and accept or disregard.

Schema automatically adds structured data markup for your directory listing helping to enhance the search results.

Business owners can use Google Analytics to gain insight into each listing by entering a UA code provided by Google Analytics in their dashboard.

Built-in Ads system that allows directory owners to monetize by enabling it for business owners to promote and generate more leads with targeted listing ads.

A next-gen responsive experience that gives a mobile app-like feel on any popular mobile browser without downloading any additional apps.

Restaurant and service businesses can showcase the price list of their food items or services to offer a dynamically organized menu.

The emoji rating system is designed to share visitors true experience allowing the business owners to understand how their customers felt.

GAUK Boats search is the most advanced and dynamic built-in search system on the directory market today, yet it is the most simple-to-use as it removes the out-dated complexities in the traditional directories by keeping the search fields to simply two fields (example: WHAT and WHERE).

GAUK Boats’ IntelliSense based search is the next-generation archive search system giving instant live suggestions for keywords, categories, listing name, and even in combinations (tags in category). The Location search is City (region) based. Cities can be added manually or automated with Google Maps.

In addition, when a user searches for something it can also take them to an archived page with all the listings containing the most relevant data according to their search, giving them the best possible results. The advanced search algorithm is designed from ground-up to dramatically change the behavior based on the way the directory admin has configured the settings in Theme Options.

For example, the search can be either static, were if the user type in car, only the listing that has the word car in it will show, or have your search more dynamic were if user type in the word car they can get listings that also have words such as auto, automobile, workshop, etc.

GAUK Boats includes a very comprehensive built-in Ads system that allows business owners to generate more leads with targeted listing ads that are displayed in various different prime spots throughout the directory to maximize conversions. There are three primary options to show the ads on the various locations, which are Spotlight Ads, Top of Search Ads and Sidebar Ads.

Targeted Advertising

When a business owner runs an Ad campaign to promote their listing, their listing is displayed as an ad on top of the organic results to customers searching for a specific category, tag (keyword) or feature in a specific location.

Maximize Eyeballs

The more eyeballs translate to high-conversion. Ads can be displayed on the home page or inner pages, listing details sidebar and of course in the search result above the organic results.

Smart Filtering

Your users can easily filter the search results by choosing from the following options available:

• Near Me
• Distance Radius (Works with Near Me only)
• Price Group ($, $$, $$$, $$$$)
• Open Now
• Sort by (Best Match, Most Viewed, Most Reviewed, Highest Rated)
• Categories
• Features
• Additional Details

Now your users can have even more flexibility while doing searches for specific activities that has multiple groups that may need filtering using features and additional details at the same time.

Social proof is the online version of word of mouth. Reviews and ratings are evermore the yardstick by which a business is measured.

• Multi-criteria rating.
• A customer can leave a rate & review with instant signup (with email) or by logging in (with email or social login)
• A customer can upload images
• A customer can vote (interesting, lol or love) on a comment.
• A listing owners can make public reply to all reviews from their user dashboard.
• As per industry best practice, a business owner is not allowed to edit or delete reviews received from visitors (reviews can be flagged for site-admin to delete).
• A customer (visitor) can edit their submitted review anytime.