Since introducing the changes to the business directory in October last year, we've fields a few suggestion from members on how we can make the directory better, and the business listings more valuable. The suggestion and what we did, are listing below

Suggestion (1)
The links on your business directory pages are not visible to search engines…. Can you change this?

OK  Before when all listings were free, we were not able to check each listing and could not thus guarantee to Google the sites met out terms of service. Now we can, so we have no problem making the link search from the paid business listings visible to search engines.

We hope they help your website rankings!

Suggestion (2)
It seems unfair free listing owners can list hundreds of products for sale with images, whilst I had to pay to add images to my business listing.

OK, fair point, listing of products now limited to paid listings. There is no limit to how many products you can add to the classifieds section but its only open to Paid Listing owners.

Suggestion 3.
OK, super featured listings get to have an advertisement on all pages of the forum... but they aren't very big... can you make them a bit more prominent?

OK, no problem. The forum features are now much larger and more visible as are the links to the listing detail page.

Suggestion 4
I'm a yoga teacher and there seems no category that's really relevant for me..... can you add a new business category?

OK - a new Yoga / Pilates / Exercise category now added. If you think YOUR business needs a more specific category, let us know by emailing webmaster@naturalparenting.com.au

The community's had another busy month, more long term readers joining us as active members & lots of new users finding us through the rejuvenation of our facebook page

We've had 6 new births recently, 2 mums were labouring over mothers day which was very exciting.

Congratulations to all the new mums & welcome earth side babies, its been so lovely following along your pregnancy journeys & now hearing of your births & 'meeting' your little ones too. We've birthed another new forum called Early Daze specifically for newborn information, support, general chat & to better help accommodated our ever growing village.

The Perth, Sydney & Brisbane Get Togethers all now have dates & a Melbourne Get Together is gathering momentum. Our Homebirth Forum is powering along, as more & more women join the village looking for homebirthing support & information in a laid back yet empowered community. Its nice to see student Midwives & Doulas come in to the Birth Support (Midwives/ Doulas/ Students) section looking for 'follow throughs' to offer free birthing support to. It feels 'right' to be able to help Midwife & Doula students to complete their training & gain further experience. The simple act of taking on a student means we are helping, impacting & continuing the homebirth experience for many generations of women to come, we are not just receiving from Midwives & Doulas we are giving back to them also.

The Kids Creative Corner is growing nicely & is a wonderful place to come for creative ideas...feel free to share your own creative ideas & escapades as well. Our New Teens forum (Talking Teens Learning & Beyond) was launched in May & will grow steadily to help better support parents stay connected as our children grow.

The Special Needs & Disabilities Forum is also under way to better assist our community & to also support the growing number of children with ADD & ADHD whose parents are looking for alternative treatments & therapies. As you can see the Month of May was all about growth. Supply & Demand some may say : )

This month (June) we're hoping to do a fair bit on connecting our community & will have another PM day, we're also going to look at a few big topics like Women & Body Image & also Mummy Guilt. What an amazing journey to take together, sharing natural parenting information & supporting each other as we each move toward more connected, gentle & natural parenting.

Peace Shiremum