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Indian Classified postings
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how to submit a post
* how to reply to a post
* how to edit or delete a post
* how to repost
* how to show or hide email?
* how to include a picture
* how to add html tags and URLs in posting
* how to do
advance search on bharatpatal
frequently asked questions
* where is my post?
* where is my self-publishing
email?
* why was my posting deleted?
* what is basket for communication?
* I want to suggest a location?
* where can i advertise my services?
Indian Classified
postings
All postings (except for jobs) are self-service. Here's a quick
outline of the process:
* each posting stays active for 60 days.
* go to the home page for the bharatpatal city in which you want to post
* click on the "post to Indian Classifieds" link in the top left corner
* select the category in which you would like to post
* make the appropriate selections in the next few screens, until you get to the
main post form
* fill in the blank fields as needed, and select "continue"
* review your post, back up and edit if necessary, then select "continue"
* review the Terms of Use on the next page (at least glance at it!), then click
"ACCEPT the terms of use" if you agree
* review the information in the confirmation screen
* check your email for the self-publishing email message that should have been
sent to you
* use the link in that email message to access the publishing form for your post
* make any last-minute changes, then click the "publish" button
* once you publish your post, it will appear on the site within 15 minutes
* keep the email that contains your self-publishing link, because you can use it
later to edit or delete the post.
* if you lose or delete this email, you can have the edit/delete link resent
To reply to a post, click on the button
contact now, in the upper left corner of the posting.
If you get an error message when you click on
the address, or you do not recognize the email program that pops up, simply copy
the email address and paste it into an outgoing email from your own email
account.
If the poster has provided a reply email
address, you can directly contact by your own email editor:"
If you want to remain anonymous when replying
to a post we recommend setting up an online email account (hotmail, yahoo, etc.)
and using this when replying. We only provide the option to remain anonymous
when posting on bharatpatal.
To edit or delete a post, simply go back to
the email that you used to initially publish the post and click on the
highlighted web address. If you've deleted this email or can't find it, please
contact us with your email ID with which you posted the Indian Classified.
To edit the post, make any changes that you
need to the title or body and then click on "edit this posting." The changes
will take effect immediately. Make sure that you
refresh/reload
your browser to see the changes on the site.
* Editing your post does not bring it up to
the current date. To accomplish this you will need to first delete the existing
post and then submit a new post.
To delete the post click on "delete this
posting."
How to repost
The only way to bring an existing post up to
the current date (top of the list) is to delete the post and submit a new one
(the same process you went through to post initially).
How to
show or hide email in a posting
If you select the box next to email entry
field while posting your Indian Classified, then your Indian Classified will have email address also
displayed, we encourage you to include email address and have it showing on the
Indian Classified this will enable people to contact you immediately and they can send you
a message with no restriction on the length of the message. If you do not check
this box then the Indian Classified will not show your email address, the only way people
can contact you is by our message system which has a restriction on the length
of the message.
you can add pictures to your post in
various categories by different ways.
1.uploading photos to a third party website and including those photo links in your posting.Third party websites that can be used for this purpose are http://www.photobucket.com ,http://www.villagephotos.com, http://www.theimagehosting.com please note, we have no affiliation with these websites, these are listed here only for the convenience of bhartpatal users. You may use any third party website that allows linking from other sites for this purpose. Use <img> tag to include your pictures in the Indian Classified, following is an example
<img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y137/vic2005/officedesk.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com">
2. you can upload images to
bharatpatal server by using image upload feature when you create/edit/publish
the Indian Classified. The image you upload is constrained to maximum file size and will
be resized by bharatpatal if it happens to have larger dimensions than
what is supported at bharatpatal. Currently only jpg, gif,xmp,xmb and png
formats are suported if you upload images on bharatpatal server.
Can I add
HTML tags or URLs in my posting
Traditional processing, no HTML:
If you include a URL in the text, make sure you also include the http://
in front of the url or our system will not recognize it and make it an active
highlighted hyperlink.
You can use HTML in the posting body:If
you want, you can use HTML sparingly. We don't try to wrap HTML around your URLs
if we see HTML tags including <a, <li, <p. We just pass through your HTML
unchanged.
Please use only the HTML you'd use in the <BODY> of a
document, no <TITLE> or anything like that. We can't support JavaScript or
applets, anything like that.
* Note: If you use
HTML in any part of your posting you must use it throughout the entire body of
your posting.
How do I do advance
search on the Indian Classifieds on bharatpatal?
Normal Full-Text
Search
This mode is known as Full-Text
Search. We just call it normal to help distinguish between the modes :). This
mode simply takes the user input and performs a Full-Text search against each
word in it. You must leave 'advance' checkbox unchecked to perform normal
search.
Boolean Full-Text
Advance Search
You must check 'advance' checkbox to
perform advance search.
Advance
Search Operators
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+ |
A leading plus sign
indicates that this word must be present in every row returned. |
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- |
A leading minus sign
indicates that this word must not be present in any row returned. |
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" |
A phrase that is enclosed
within double quote ('"') characters matches only rows that contain the
phrase literally, as it was typed. |
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( ) |
Parentheses are used to
group words into subexpressions. Parenthesized groups can be nested. |
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> < |
These two operators are used
to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned
to a row. The > operator increases the contribution and the < operator
decreases it. See the example below. |
Advance
Search Examples
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apple banana |
Find Indian Classifieds that contain
at least one of the two words, also normal search. |
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+apple +juice |
Find Indian Classifieds that contain
both words. |
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+apple -macintosh |
Find Indian Classifieds that contain
the word ``apple'' but not ``macintosh''. |
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"apple juice" |
Find Indian Classifieds that contain
the exact phrase ``apple juice'' , it will only show Indian Classifieds which have
"apple juice" phrase in it. |
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+apple macintosh |
Find Indian Classifieds that contain
the word ``apple'', but rank rows higher if they also contain ``macintosh''. |
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+apple +(>turnover <strudel) |
Find Indian Classifieds that contain
the words ``apple'' and ``turnover'', or ``apple'' and ``strudel'' (in
any order), but rank ``apple turnover'' higher than ``apple strudel''. |
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apple* |
Find Indian Classifieds that contain
words such as ``apple'', ``apples'', ``applesauce'', or ``applet''. |
frequently asked questions
Free postings don't post automatically, you
must publish them
first.
All Indian Classified postings (except for jobs) take
approximately 15 minutes from the time you publish the posting until it appears
on the site.
Posts take approximately 30 minutes to
register in our search engine.
To see your posting, go to the category where
you posted it, look under the date it was submitted and
refresh/reload
your browser.
If you've correctly followed our
posting directions,
waited 20-30 minutes, refresh your browser on the correct category index page,
and your posting still is not there - then it may have been flagged and
deleted by the bharatpatal community.
You can check on the status of your posting by
following the link provided in your self-publishing email.
Please note that editing your post does not
bring it up to the current date.
If you have successfully submitted your
posting and still have not received the email to publish your post, here are
some things to consider:
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If you are using a free email account
(like Hotmail and Yahoo), make sure you have not exceeded your mailbox
storage limit, and check your bulk/junk/spam mail folder(s).
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Make sure you entered your email address
correctly on the posting form - it only takes one typo!
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Some email providers and ISPs have
implemented "spam filters" which we have found are often badly designed or
misconfigured - sometimes resulting in self-publishing & other bharatpatal
emails being intercepted.
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Network problems between ISPs can delay
email transmission, sometimes for many hours - consider stretching out,
getting some fresh air and checking back later.
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Your posting may have expired. Free
postings (except for resumes and events) remain up on the site for 10 days,
unless specified.
Resumes remain on the site for 30 days. Event Indian Classified stay up until the
date range expires.
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Heavily-flagged postings that are
determined to fall outside our posting guidelines are subject to removal
by BP staff.
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Our flagging system has all the
imperfections of a democratic system. If you're confident that your posting
adheres to the letter and spirit of bharatpatal, please feel free to repost
it!
If you need to contact multiple list owners
then you can add them to your basket for communication. This feature is provided
for your convenience.This way you can save yourself time and lot of typing and
or pasting the content of the message you want to send to list owners. You can
either contact each list owner on individual basis or keep on adding them to
your basket for communication(max such entries that can be added in this basket
are 10 Indian Classifieds). When you are done adding Indian Classifieds to basket you can click on
the link basket[#] to view the lists you
have in your basket for communication. If you want you can delete Indian Classifieds from
this view or go back to search results to add more Indian Classifieds to the basket. From
here you can proceed to send your communication to the owners of all the lists
in your basket, same message is instantly sent to all list owners.
We tried to capture and list as many locations
(cities, zones within cities) as we could gather our data for. Nonetheless we
continuously strive to make this site better and usable for a larger Indian
community. If you think a particular location is missing on the list on
bharatpatal, or if you think some zones should be separated or combined as one
zone, please do write to us, we and Indian community will be thankful to you and
update the site as per your feedback. Please
click here to provide
information to us in this regard.
We accept commercial posts under "services
offered." You are welcome to advertise your services there. It's
FREE.
Commerical posts submitted to categories outside of services offered are subject
to removal.
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