Build a POWERFUL listings and reviews geodirectory with Joomla!
Over 10 years, out of hundreds of websites built and thousands of Joomla components I’ve used, JReviews is my favorite. It’s the best Open Source tool available for making a wealth of information and content dynamically available on a website.
Reviews, recommendations, and listings functionality
With JReviews, users can interact with your site, submit listings, and write reviews of anything. It also allows you to set up editors to submit formal reviews. This can be used in conjunction with user profile systems, integrated right into social media, or eCommerce systems.
Great for the following types of sites…
- Product review websites
- Consumer reports and advocacy websites
- Restaurant, bar, and nightclub websites
- Movie reviews
Google Maps integration
Bringing the awesome functionality and global scale of Google Maps to your website. We can use the Google Maps or OpenStreetMap API to imbed cross-referenceable information specific to your business into a Google map on your site. Can be used in conjunction with user profile systems and integrated right into social media or eCommerce systems. Great for the following types of sites…
- Real estate directories
- Bar and nightlife guides
- Music and art
- Professional services
- Geospecific dating websites
- City guides
- Local flavor websites
JReviews for affiliate and product websites
One of the most common uses of JReviews is product reviews; ratings, and comparisons for consumer products, commercial products, and services. You can either add the individual products or listings on your own or allow others to submit listings through an easy-to-use form on the front end of the website. JReviews’ flexibility for comparing industry-specific criteria allows you to create ultra-high value content pages about products that will rank high in the search engines. The next step to generating affiliate sales is to add affiliate links conspicuously to these listings.
This ends up creating a quintessential ‘“authority site,” customers of the products will post reviews on your website and shoppers can compare competitive products. This is also a great way to get free products from manufactures for your own consumption, which they will send you in exchange for a detailed review, which over time builds your personal brand as a trusted authority in your industry.
Affiliate Product Listings Examples:
https://www.limitlessmindset.com/nootropics/763-neuro-stack
https://www.limitlessmindset.com/software-apps/1342-dual-n-back-pro
Affiliate Product Category Example:
https://www.limitlessmindset.com/nootropic-ingredients/335-piracetam
iPhone and Android mobile apps
JReviews seamlessly communicates with Open Source app builder software for iPhone and Android. This fetches listing data directly from your website and displays it in the App on the mobile. A few functionality features…
- Google Maps API so users can view the Google Map with listings on their smartphones.
- Apps can be found in Google Play and Apple App Store.
- Content — articles, blogs, audios, and even Youtube videos — is synchronized between the website and app.
- Users can create a profile in the app or use Facebook Connect to register.
- The listings information will be synchronized across all devices; if a new listing is added on the website it will sync to the app via the data connections.
- Interactive Google-Maps-style map on phone with GPS.
- Click-to-call, meaning that if people are using the app on their phone they can click the phone number in the listing to call it.
- Add images to the listings with the smartphone camera.
- Featured listings can appear on the home screen of the app.
- Mcommerce (mobile eCommerce) — mobile shopping via VirtueMart integration. If you operate an eCommerce store, users of the app can purchase items on the app.
- Integrates with JomSocial for social networking.
- Content and information synchronizes between the website and smartphone apps
- The app can be completely “white labeled” so it will have your company name and logo on it. Not the name of the software.
- The tool has a licensing cost of several hundred dollars, this includes tech support from the developer which is very important.
- This software tool saves a huge amount of time and expense in creating a smartphone app that highlights your business.
Mobile site
JReviews is a mobile-responsive Joomla component, meaning that when you visit the website on a mobile device JReviews can tell and readjusts itself to appear on the smaller screen.
Custom fields mapping
One of the areas in which JReviews really excels is the possibilities with custom field mapping. Do you need a listing field to auto-populate text, HTML, or media from an RSS feed? Information about a specific user, geodata, a special WYSIWYG button, or data from a completely different area of the site? Need custom fields mapping for specific review criteria? It’s all possible with JReviews!
