In my career, I’ve worked at 2 of Ireland’s busiest and biggest classifieds listings sites and have come up with a list of default/standard features that are common to most sites of that sort. Some of these I’ve implemented on menucosm, some are in the pipeline and I guess some aren’t applicable. For certain ones, e.g. save to favourites, you can either implement proper user accounts, or save the info in your local/sessionStorage. Hopefully I’ll add to this list over time, but here’s what I’ve come up with so far:

General Pages

• About Us
• Contact Us
• HTML Sitemap (publicly visible)
• Blog
• Terms and Conditions
• Cookie policy
• Media & Press
• Careers
• Saved favourites (see below)
• XML Sitemap
• favicon

Homepage features

• Recently added listings
• Recently viewed
• Total listings
• Social Media links
• Ads / homepage takeover
• Search interface
• Website description / unique selling points
• Press coverage

Search Results page

• Recently viewed
• Ads – inline text, banner, skyscraper (not all 3!)
• Search filter, with used filters preset and clear ‘search option’
• Links to sub-sections of each listing
• Total number of results, what page of results you’re on
• Results per page options
• Pagination – prev / next / first / last / individual pages in search
• SEO text
• Search by map
• Breadcrumbs
• Lazy load images
• RSS Feed
• Sorting options
• Email alerts (for new content)
• Save search
• Different viewing options, e.g. ‘gallery view’ vs. ‘listing view’

Listing page

• Add to favourites
• Flag content
• Static mini map
• Social media share links
• Interactive map with other nearby listings
• Recently viewed
• Back to search link
• Other listings from this user
• Nearby / similar listings
• Description
• Main image, image thumbnails, carousel – lazy loaded
• Send to friend
• Inline email the listing provider
• Call listing provider (for mobile sites)
• Comments
• No. of times listing has been viewed / emailed to etc.
• Printable page
• Shortcode link
• Ads – banner, skyscraper
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