Feature Requests

Please program so that every time someone goes to the Home Page and All Listings Pages, the listings rotate so that everyone gets a fair shot at being at the top of the listings and cycles back down until all of the listings have received the top spot and cycles up again. That way no one is stuck way down at the bottom. Keep Featured and Free Listings separate from each other, as usual.

Title: Include opens and closes values in auto-generated LocalBusiness schema Current behavior: SmartDirectoryAI correctly generates LocalBusiness JSON-LD from listing data, including business name, description, phone, email, address, images, and an openingHoursSpecification array when business hours are entered. However, the generated hours schema currently includes only the dayOfWeek values and omits the actual opening and closing times. Example of current output: { "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification", "dayOfWeek": "Monday" } Expected behavior: When a listing has opening and closing times entered in the native Business Hours section, the generated schema should include those values: { "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification", "dayOfWeek": "Monday", "opens": "06:00", "closes": "22:00" } For days with identical hours, grouping multiple days into one OpeningHoursSpecification object would also be acceptable. Why this matters: The visible listing page already shows the correct business hours, but the structured data does not expose those times to search engines and AI agents. This creates an incomplete schema record and may reduce the reliability of AI/search answers about when a business is open. Recommended implementation: Map the existing native Business Hours fields directly into the generated openingHoursSpecification, including: dayOfWeek opens closes handling for closed days handling for overnight hours, if supported omission of hours when no valid times are entered Important: This should enrich the existing auto-generated LocalBusiness schema rather than create a second duplicate LocalBusiness block.

If a business has a Google Business Profile without a public address (like plumber, electrician etc) the Google API doesn't bring them up. The Google API only works for businesses with a physical address. Please add the option to add the Google Place ID or Google map URL for business without a physical address.

My directory area has many recurring (weekly, monthly) events. It would be so helpful to be able to make an event recurring rather than create a separate event for each one. For example, a farmer's market (we have multiple ones weekly) that would be a chore to enter for the entire season.

Currently, every category page (plumbers, hairdressers, lawyers etc) uses the meta title and meta description that is set for the directory home page. That makes every category page identical to Google. If you have 100 categories on your directory, that's 100 blank pages on Google. If each of these pages generated its own metadata, even if that was just the category and town, that would help people see the category page, and it would drive more traffic to the directory rather than just individual listings. This would not compete with paid listings; it would send more people to the page where paid listings already appear first. When local people find and use the directory, listed businesses start seeing enquiries come from it. That is what makes a business claim its listing, upgrade, and take a call about anything else we offer.

Having the ability to draft blog posts so we don't have to save it if not ready to post.

Problem: Currently, directory snapshots serve a minimal initial HTML shell containing only a "Loading..." placeholder, relying on client-side JavaScript to render directory content and listings. While human browsers render this fine, AI search crawlers (Perplexity, SearchGPT, ClaudeBot, OpenAI) and search bots do not wait for client-side JavaScript execution. When crawling snapshot sites, bots see an empty page, preventing directory content and local listings from being indexed or recommended in Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). Impact on Directory Owners: The main value proposition for local businesses joining a directory is SEO and AEO visibility. Serving client-side rendered HTML undermines this core feature, as listings cannot be ingested by AI search engines. Requested Feature / Solution: Server-Side Rendering (SSR) or Static Pre-rendering: Provide pre-rendered HTML output on initial HTTP requests so crawlers receive full page content instantly. Initial Schema & Metadata Payload: Ensure JSON-LD Schema (ItemList, LocalBusiness, Organization) and Open Graph tags are present in the raw HTML before client-side hydration. Dynamic Rendering / Prerender Support: If full SSR is not feasible natively, provide built-in support or integration guidelines for dynamic rendering (e.g., via Prerender.io or Cloudflare Edge Workers) for bot traffic. Expected Result: Search crawlers and AI answer engines read full directory text, categories, and business structured data on the first request without executing JavaScript.

My site is county-wide, so the consumer needs to start their search with the City, then Category, and then subcategory. Example: City: Huntington Beach Category: Lawyer/Attorney Subcategory: Family Law City: Newport Beach Category: Restaurants Subcategory: Italian Cuisine Even more ways to dive into search would also be great if possible.

Footer is an important feature of a website. The current footer design is very basic without authority. Future design should include a robust redesign that can readily provides clickable links to the different pages on the site. It should include flaticons. Everything related to contacts e.g email, address phone number should be Itemize into a single column. Another column should be social medial icons linkable, another column for navigation for the site

Per our discussion on this weeks tech call. Please add a feature that will automatically rotate the sites that show as featured listings on the homepage and/or on the category pages when you implement featured listings on those. Please have a time setting like once ever 3 hours or once a day Also please let us do it by page. Homepage and each category page should have it's own setting. Good Idea Cameron Thank you