Once discovery has done its work you can be looking at hundreds of opportunities, and doing anything to them one at a time gets old fast. Tick the checkbox on any row and a bar appears with the actions you can run across the whole selection at once. Selection carries across pages, so you can filter, sort, tick your way through a few screens, and act on all of it together.
Adding many at once
Add moves everything you selected into In Progress. Because adding an opportunity also has Serpfeed go and find the right contact and the best page to pitch, this is the point where credits get used, so you get a short summary first: how many you picked, what it will cost, and what your balance is. Nothing starts until you confirm.
If the total is more than your balance covers, Serpfeed tells you so and preps as many as it can. The rest still move to In Progress, and you can prep them later once you top up. Listings you submit yourself are always free, and the summary counts them separately so the credit figure is never a surprise.
Watching it happen
After you confirm, the rows start moving on their own. Each one shows what is happening to it right now, first queued, then reading the site, finding the contact, and so on, and a bar at the bottom of the list keeps a running count of how many are done and roughly how much longer the whole batch will take. You can leave the page. It keeps going without you and picks up where it was when you come back.
Submitting many directories
When your selection includes directories with forms Serpfeed can fill, a Submit for me action appears alongside Add. This one is different in kind: each submission is a real listing posted to someone else’s site, and it cannot be taken back. So it always shows you a summary first, and that summary is honest about what it can and cannot do right now:
- how many of your selection can go now, and how many have to wait
- what it costs in credits, against your balance
- roughly how long the batch will take to work through
Submissions go out a few at a time on purpose, so your listings arrive at a natural pace rather than in one burst. That is also why a single click is capped at a batch: it means one wrong click can never spend a large part of your month. When the cap applies you are told, and you can start the next batch as soon as these finish.
Stopping a run
Changed your mind halfway through? The progress bar has a button to stop the ones that haven’t started. Anything already under way is allowed to finish, and that is deliberate: interrupting a submission that is midway through a form would leave it half done on the other site, which is worse than letting it complete. You are never charged for anything that was stopped before it started.
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