Automotive Search Homepage

The Automotive SEARCH Network now has its own homepage at, where else, AutomotiveSEARCH.Net.

As announced previously, the Automotive SEARCH is a custom cooperative search facility powered by Google which is dedicated to offering search results only from an authorized list of automotive or motorsports related websites and directory categories.

Finally, we can use the results we get from Google, instead of having to search through the confusion of automated programs and utilities that are trying to reign in the "auto" keyword.

Finally, we can offer quality results and skip the spam, as we are using an exclusive list of quality automotive related websites to pull our results from.

Try it at: AutomotiveSEARCH.Net.

And be sure to sign-up as an editor at our Google Homepage if you have a quality automotive or motorsports related web resource. Note that we will not be accepting any MFA (Made-For-Advertising) websites that simply pass traffic and scrape off PPC monies for the webmaster. We are looking for original content and quality resources.

Automotive SEARCH

Automotive Search

Syd's Eastside Auto Parts, Used Cars & Rebuilders has started a custom Google Search facility for the automotive industry. This search engine only offers results from automotive related websites and directories. As it is a colaborative engine, others may join the search engine to add their own URLs. Plus, it is powered by Google's search technology.

Automotive Search also has a homepage on Google at:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=002762882416663179336%3Adiulax3hozc

That's quite a URL to remember, so it seems pretty obvious that if you don't add this customized search engine to a website or a blog, you pretty much won't see it and it won't get used. Therefore, we will be exploring our options as to how we will employ it. We may just devote an automotive website to this search engine. Or we may just devote a webpage to it on our current website.

However, that URL is important to us, as that is where someone could apply to help manage the Automotive Search engine. Managers can add their own automotive related website URLs to the search engine, as well.

Currently (at this writing), Automotive Search pulls results from 59 different websites and directories. These are real websites with real related content or associated real directory listings that came right out of our on-site automotive links directory. Many have been our link exchange partners, and hopefully this will offer our partners a little reward for linking a non-spammy website with us.

We are, of course, hoping that others will come along and join us to make this search engine even bigger and better, so that it will become a real resource for English language speaking automotive industry and enthusiasts in the USA.

We do know that we will not be allowing websites which simply show Google AdWords or Yahoo! Publisher ad blocks in order to create revenue for the webmaster who isn't helping anyone out with anything. This is exactly why we have started this search engine, anytime you search in Google or Yahoo!, it seems that your results are plagued with "scraper sites" that scrape a little Pay Per Click (PPC) revenue from the advertiser, and are otherwise totally useless. By limiting our search engine to only offering results from what we know to be real and relevant automotive industry resource and information websites, we hope to offer a great resource for the automotive industry, professionals and enthusiasts, alike.

- Syd's Eastside Auto Parts, Used Cars & Rebuilders

Syd's Eastside Auto Goes eBay

Syd's Eastside Auto Parts starting selling items on eBay on Friday, November 10th, 2006, offering a couple of sets of used aluminum alloy wheels as well as a Lifa 49.5cc motorscooter. An additional set of alloy wheels for a Jeep were added yesterday (Monday, November 13th, 2006) and there will be more auction listings coming soon.

Syd's Eastside Auto Parts is looking forward to establishing a reputable reputation as a great eBay seller and serving our customers through eBay even more. Currently, we are awaiting the opportunity to list fixed price items, and bulk items.

Current offers by Syd's Eastside Auto Parts include...

Sets of Alloy Rims:

1. eBay item # 330048751538: 4 '95 F150 15 x 7.5 10 hole Aluminum Mag/Alloy Wheels
2. eBay item # 330048825605: 4 1994 Cadillac Deville 16x7J Aluminum Alloy Mag Wheels
3. eBay item # 330049994616: 4 '96 Jeep Grand Cherokeee 16x7 Aluminum Alloy Wheels

MotorScooter:

• eBay item # 330048048175: 49cc Lifan T5s Step-Through Motor Scooter NR

Our user name on eBay is Syd's Eastside Auto, just like here at Blogster.

We at Syd's Eastside Auto Parts are excited about the ebay auctions, though we do know that we have quite a bit to learn about eBay. eBay was really setup for individuals, so conducting business on eBay as a business is a little different. ebay has quite a few issues it needs to address such as business ID verification and such. But we look forward to a great relationship with eBay as we help each other improve to meet the requirements of our customers.

Additionally, remember that we are a real auto parts & automotive salvage operation. Don't hesitate to call us if you need anything. 1-800-505-5119

Thanks! - Syd's Eastside Auto Parts

Free iAuto Trial!

We're announcing the Free iAuto Trial program. Those interested in trying iAuto before purchasing can request access to their personal copy of iAuto on our server to test all the exciting features of iAuto.

We will install a default copy of iAuto on our server and you will have access to it for 15 days.

The difference between the live demo and a personal copy of iAuto is that you can modify your personal copy any way you like it. You'll have access to the admin area, you'll be able to modify templates to fit your banners or visual design enhancements. You'll be able to see how Smarty tags work, add iAuto modules and functions, customize the look and feel of featured ads, add Flash to the default template, manage input, display and search forms to set custom data fields, translate iAuto template into your own language and much, much more...

To request your free trial installation of iAuto, please contact our Support Dept at support@iautosoftware.com. For any pre-sale questions, feature explanations, etc. please contact our Sales Dept at sales@iautosoftware.com.

The Halloween Sale!!!

Following a very successful v3.0 introductory sale, and having a few potential clients that have missed the sale, we've decided to give our fans and potential customers a Halloween present.

Here it is. Anyone who buys iAuto Standard or iAuto Special edition between 10 Oct and 1 Nov, is eligible for a hefty 20% discount off any purchase over $150. That includes our iAuto Standard Edition, and, of course, our iAuto Special Edition! Yes, iAuto Special Edition will cost $175.20 until 1 Nov 06, and iAuto Standard Edition will cost only $415.20. We just love giving away presents to our potential clients!

And here's a Halloween present for our current clients. Anyone who purchased an iAuto Special Edition is now eligible for FREE LIFETIME UPGRADES! Please contact our Sales Dept for additional information.

Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage is proud to announce that we have a complete, secure and encrypted website set up for searching through our online inventory of used parts. We have even licensed the Hollander Interchange database which allows for easy cross-referencing of relevant interchangeable parts between makes, models and years.

The website has been around a while, though we are just starting our blog, now. It is available as Syd's Eastside Auto Parts. We have shortened the web address for the web to the more locally familiar name of SydsAutoParts.com. Shopping is secure and incrypted, you may buy from Syd's Eastside with confidence!

Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage has been leading the auto recycling industry for some 25 years. Our online presence, just started this year, is a continuing effort to enhance our leadership in the industry and expand our market reach.

Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage not only offers a nightly updated inventory of our readily available auto parts, engines, transmissions and automotive assemblies online through our searchable index, but we also will custom order new aftermarket auto parts (whether we have a used version or not) for our customers at 1-800-505-5119. Also on the website is a browsable catalog of our current (mostly late model) used cars, trucks and rebuilder vehicles.

Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage, Inc. is a member of the Yankton Area Chamber of Commerce, the Better Business Bureau and the South Dakota Retailers Association. Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage is a licensed auto dealer in the state of South Dakota, authorized to buy, sell or otherwise deal in used vehicles. Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage also conducts business as Syd's Eastside Auto Parts as we expand our brand and market reach. To simplify our web address and make it easier for our customers to remember, we use SydsAutoParts.com and therefore are also known as Syd's Auto Parts, which is a familiar brand within the local community.

Syd's Auto Parts is striving to provide quality recycled auto parts and automotive assemblies through its growing salvage inventory, to offer custom ordered new automotive parts, to sell quality used automobiles, trucks, and rebuilder vehicles, and to offer great service to our customers.

We hope you will enjoy the website. SydsAutoParts.com is one of the first online sites to offer e-commerce functionality in the used auto parts business. Syd's Eastside keeps a large inventory of searchable used automotive parts and assemblies online and updated nightly. The inventory even includes larger car part assemblies and units such as automotive engines, transmissions and differential units.

Link:
http://www.SydsAutoParts.com - Syd's Eastside Auto Parts

The Unprecedented iAuto Offer

We've been working on the new release of iAuto too hard and too long, and it seems that some damage has occurred with our brain cells. How do we know that? The answer is simple:

Who else in a sane frame of mind would offer a 30% discount on every copy of iAuto Standard or Special for the next three days, starting from 5 October 2006 and ending midnight 8 October 2006????

Yes, during the three-day period between 05 and 08 Oct 06, iAuto Standard Edition v.3.0 will cost $363, and iAuto Special Edition v.3.0 - ONLY $ 153!!!

We are dedicating this October Madness event to the new release of iAuto, and we hope that you are quick and wise enough to jump on this opportunity!!!!

iAuto v.3.0 Is Released

Finally! It's been a challenging week for our team, but we are at the end of the release process now, prepping up for the work ahead on the new release of iAuto.

We have managed to develop and include every functionality we have originally planned to include into the release. It took a reasonably big planning, implementation and testing effort on our developer's team to come up with an extremely useful upgrade of our system, Smarty (tm)-based template management system. We realized that our existing template system was very unflexible and not very usable as far as changes and modifications to templates are concerned.

This new template management system allowed us to optimize the code while integrating it with the classifieds engine, and gave a number of new opportunities to iAuto users, including:

* the ability to easily alter the look and feel of the website
* a tool to create localized versions of the software
* the ability to easily integrate classifieds engine's functionality into the existing websites
* familiarity with Smarty templates saves time and effort for web designers in modding templates for iAuto

We've introduced a number of other changes as well, including a new WYSIWYG editor to replace the old one that didn't perform very well, and streamlined the publications section turning it into a useful . The full list of new and existing features can be found on our Features page.

Our work with our existing customers and our potential customers on adding and implementing features requested has been extremely useful. Special thanks to Mr. Joe Martin from http://www.xtremeautotrader.com/ for his highly valuable comments, suggestions and recommendations that helped make our product better. Particularly, the entry batch processing functionality and mods to the way features are shown have been implemented based on his request.

Also, we've received a number of useful comments and feedback via our web site, and all the requested features are carefully identified, evaluated, prioritized and planned to be included in the future major and minor releases of the software.

To order your copy of iAuto v.3.0 Standard ($519) or Special ($219) Edition today, please visit our Order page at http://www.iautosoftware.com/order.html.

For iAuto Standard Edition owners, upgrading is extremely easy. Please contact our Sales Dept at sales@iautosoftware.com, and we will email you the download link. For iAuto Special Edition owners, upgrading is very easy and it costs only $49.95. Here's what you need to do. To order your copy of iAuto v.3.0 Special Edition today, please follow the link below:

Order iAuto v.3.0 SE Upgrade

In any event, we've already updated our demo with the new version, and you can check it out from our Demo page.

Look forward to your comments, suggestions, ideas and feedback

New iAuto release, v.3.0, is coming soon

We are progressing towards the end of the current product development cycle and are expecting to issue a final release of our new version, v. 3.0, at or around Monday 25 Sept.

We are going to make an announcement on our website and we will send the new release announcements to those who have previously inquired about the new release. The new version is going to have a new Smarty template system that will allow users to modify the look of the website much quicker and easier, as well as provide greater flexibility in terms of applying own or custom design templates to the actual software.

Of course, many bugs and minor system improvements accumulated since the last version's release have also been included in the software, improving the overall stability of the system.

iAuto Product Updates

It's been a while since we last posted into this blog, although there has definitely been a lot to write about.

First, we've added a few great functions into the software code. For instance, we enabled batch processing of ads/listings by the admin, changed the visual appearance of listing details and options and implemented the long-requested presentation of the listing options. Now, the system just lists options instead of giving an annoying "yes/no" status for each option.

Second, we've fixed some English language issues, i.e. capitalizations, certain system messages, etc. We'll continue on with this work and will have many, if not all, those errors fixed in the new release.

We've done some other changes and if any of our current buyers eligible for upgrade are interested in obtaining a copy of the software with the new functionality, please contact our Sales Dept.

v.3.0 Update

It seems that in order for us to preserve the quality of the product development process outputs, we need to push back the release date from 6 Sep '06 to 25 Sep '06.

Even though we do not like these developments, we feel that compromising the quality to meet the deadline is not an option. Based on the XP philosophy we're implementing now for the development process, the quality must not be sacrificed, and reduced functionality and timeline extensions are the only viable alternatives our team has.

New Minor Release Available

We are proudly announcing that a minor release of iAuto, iAuto 2.0.5, is now available. We added a couple of new features such as improved search result display and several visual ehnancement and minor features that improve the overall functionality of the software. Any of our current clients that require the update please contact our Sales Dept.

Future Membership Plans

We've had a meeting to discuss the future of the membership plan system to be implemented in the upcoming releases. We've reviewed the membership plan options and variations that are requested by our current and potential clients.

The new functionality will give the webmasters additional flexibility as far as making money off the vehicle classifieds websites generated by iAuto.

iAuto uses Smarty

The next release of iAuto, scheduled for September '06, will present a totally refactored version of iAuto software. The software will have a new template system based on the Smarty "template/presentation framework" (quoted from here), which will allow users to easily change the look and feel of the software, incorporate their own templates and integrate the software into the existing websites.

Just as a reminder, all buyers of iAuto Standard Edition are eligible for free lifetime upgrades of the product, so make sure you visit our blog and website for news and status updates of the product development process. All buyers of iAuto Special Edition will be able to purchase an upgrade to the new version for only $49.95.

The iAuto Blog created!

After little deliberation, we decided to go ahead and create a product blog where we're going to cover the process of turning iAuto into the best vehicle classifieds software money can buy. All the relevant information on our product can be found on our website, http://www.iautosoftware.com/.