Local Search Profile Optimization





Not only are local listings gaining valuable real estate on the search results pages, locally focused websites are appearing with more frequency for nonspecific search phrases as well, thanks in part to Google Instant and the real-time nature of today’s Web. So what can you do to leverage this growth?





Hopefully you have already
1) claimed your business listing and/or submitted your website to online services like Google Places and Yelp, among the many others,
2) promoted your website and brand on social destinations like Facebook and Twitter, and
3) become involved with location-aware applications like Foursquare and Gowalla.

All of these channels present excellent ways of getting local search traffic to your website. But often overlooked are the factors that influence how profile pages from these Web services are returned to users. Actively optimizing local search profiles improves search engine rankings and the chances that your website will appear in the first few positions on local query results.

About Profile Optimization

While not technically a page on your website, claiming and validating local listings on Google, Bing and Yahoo! can drive high-quality, targeted traffic and help your site rank higher within local search results. While unclaimed local listings can sometimes outrank claimed local listings, it is still vital to claim your profiles as it gives you complete control of what is  displayed to users and prevents someone else from claiming your listings (and reputation).

Here are the major ranking factors to consider when building your local search engine pages:

Location (Address): Does your business address need to be in the actual city of the search query to rank? For the most part, yes, particularly if you are located in a large city. There are some exceptions for smaller towns — if there are not enough matches then the search engine may take results from neighboring towns. But your business’ physical location is a major ranking factor when it comes to local search. Make sure to include as much information as possible, including longitudinal and latitudinal data.

Business Category: Make sure your business is categorized correctly — if secondary category choices are available, select a few over time to see which ones positively influence your position and traffic.

Business Name: Consider your business name the "title" Tag of your local profile listing. When you have a keyword(s) in your business name it will help improve ranking, but it is not  necessary (or advised) to saturate the listings with keywords. For example, if you own a hamburger restaurant named Chuck’s and your local listing displays only “Chuck’s”, consider changing the listing to “Chuck’s Hamburger Restaurant”. Many people will use the keywords “hamburger restaurant” to search for your business.

Citations: Citations are when your business is mentioned (but not necessarily linked to) elsewhere on the Web. Citations are like links, in that the more you have the better. Citations build trust with the search engines and give you a boost when it comes to ranking, especially with Google Maps. You can see your citations on your Google Places page under “What people are saying about”. Check out the competition and make sure you make an attempt to get citations from the same or related sources.

Reviews and Ratings: Not only will good reviews and ratings have a positive effect on your local listing ranking, it will also help the click-through rate of your listing. Encourage existing clientele to submit reviews and ratings and reward them when they do.

Complete Profiles: Take time to fill out your local business profile pages completely. Add business hours, payment options and craft a well-written description of your business. Even add pictures and videos if you have them. Also, be sure that the information on your local listing pages is consistent across all directories.

Remember to claim and submit your website to the primary local providers  and test different profile information combinations to see what influences return list position and website traffic. While often tedious to complete and validate (and for some, to create unique landing pages for each business location), these efforts will more than pay for themselves in the form of quality local traffic.





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Dante A. Monteverde
http://www.spiderbait.com
http://www.websitemagazine.com




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LINKBUILDING TIPS




To make this linkbuilding total I suggest you Google for relevant blogs to post a comment on, you can do this by Googling: "keyword" "blog". If you get tons of results attempt to select the ones rich in PR, you can figure out the high PR while watching page when you set up SEOquake plugin for mozilla firefox. Just google for this.

Sidenote: When you submit to post directory's and blogs I recommend you write a good 500+ word article yourself or even if your not a excellent writer, same like me, then you can buy one online for $5 up and obtain yourself a good spinner to spin all of them a 100 times.


ARTICLE DIRECTORYS
2 links
1 to your Website
1 to your Article


Suite101.com - PR 7
EzineAricles.com - PR 6
Buzzle.com - PR 6
Isnare.com - PR 6
Americanchronicle.com - PR 6
Selfgrowth.com - PR 6
Webpronews.com - PR 6
articlebase.com - PR 6
Helium.com - PR 6
Searchwarp.com - PR 5
Articlecity.com - PR 5
Ideamarketers.com - PR 5
Articlesnatch.com - PR 5
Site-reference.com - PR 5
ArticleAlley.com - PR 5
Web-sorce.net - PR 5
Thewhir.com - PR 5
Articledashboard.com - PR 5
Goarticles.com - PR 4
Submityourarticle.com - PR 4
ArticlesFactory.com - PR 4
ArticleSet.com - PR 3

BLOG SITES
2 links
1 to your Website

1 to your Article in Article Directory

Knol.Google.com – PR 10
facebook.com - PR 10
wordpress.com - PR 9
Squidoo.com – PR 8
Webs.com – PR 8
Friendster.com – PR 8
Plurk.com – PR 8
Ning.com – PR 8
blogs.myspace.com - PR 8
Vox.com – PR 8
LiveJournal.com – PR 8
Blogger.com – PR 7
Quizilla.com – PR 7
Tripod.Lycos.com – PR 7
Blogpulse.com - PR 7
Zoho.com – PR 7
Multiply.com – PR 7
Hi5.com – PR 7
Bebo.com – PR 7
Jimdo.com – PR 7
Xanga.com - PR 7
Zimbio.com – PR 6
HubPages.com – PR 6

SOCIAL BOOKMARK SITES

1 link to your website
(might be a good idea to ping them)


digg.com - PR 8
buzz.yahoo.com - PR 8
twitter.com - PR 8
del.icio.us - PR 8
slashdot.org - PR 8
excite.com - PR 8
mixx.com - PR 8
stumbleupon.com - PR 8
newsvine.com - PR 8
mister-wong.com - PR 8
fark.com - PR 8
yigg.de - PR 7
ma.gnolia.com/ - PR 7
blinklist.com - PR 7
de.lirio.us - PR 7
diigo.com - PR 7
bibsonomy.org - PR 7
reddit.com - PR 7
delicious.com - PR 7
simpy.com - PR 6
blogmemes.net - PR 6
oneview.com - PR 6
Gather.com – PR 6
tweetmeme.com - PR 6
netvouz.com - PR 6
clipmarks.com - PR 5
backflip.com - PR 5
blogmarks.net - PR 5
a1-webmarks.com - PR 5
weblinkr.com - PR 5
fwisp.com - PR 5
sitejot.com - PR 5
unalog.com - PR 5



So when anyone add a couple of high Public realtions relevant blog comments I know your website can rise to the top with the results.
Of course it's a lot of work but it's well worth it!


Enjoy it!




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Benefits of Business Blogging



Businesses are now conducted both on-line and offline; but, a lot of and additional businesses have on-line sites thus that they will reach the way corners of the world. Several online businesses became successful and profitable and one secret's through web blogging.

Business blogging is changing into a necessity these days especially for online businesses. If you'll combine blogging with other keys to company success, your online company will carry on with the intense competition online.

If you want your business enterprise to become successful in the future, you have to learn the way to blog. You don’t want to hire the services of alternative bloggers as a result of you'll be able to blog yourself. By being your company’s personal blogger, you'll save money.

Rather than hiring bloggers to blog regarding your business, you can do it yourself and use the saved money to finance other expenses of the company. Several company house owners are into blogging because they will derive several edges from blogging. If others can do it, then why can’t you? Here are some of the advantages that your business will derive from blogging.

There are various kinds of businesses. If you would like to establish your company's name, you'll use blogging. Except for that, you'll familiarize your prospective customers regarding your explicit business enterprise. If your customers will connect with your business effectively, they can be additional interested to try to to company with you.

The businnes  commerce is huge and your emerging business is similar to a tiny dot. Through the use of effective business web blogging, you can turn that tiny dot into a massive and marked one.

If you want your business to make some noise on-line, you want to learn how to blog. Many people are currently reading blogs everyday and so you can expect that your business’ web site will have a lot of traffic. Blog readers often pass links to their friends, relatives, and loved ones. If you post fascinating blogs, your link can be passed on to others. You'll gain additional customers by having your link passed from one individual to another. Whenever you post business blogs, you have to catch the attention and interest of your readers and subscribers.

If you’re able to post effective blogs online, you'll be able to additionally enhance your website’s standing in search engines. If you’re among the simplest searches on-line, your business will have higher possibilities of success. Several people organize researches on-line and if your business is among the high searches, more traffic will come to your site.

With a lot of readers visiting and reading your business blogs, you'll be able to expect more customers to decision you up and place orders or obtain their required services. Hence, your business will surely generate colossal profits if you keep on blogging regularly.

If you’re thinking to put up an online based business, you must first find out how to blog. Web blogging isn't that difficult. You'll notice your required blogging resources online by conducting a bit of research. Once you’ve gathered all of your needed data, you'll begin posting blogs.

Your website should conjointly be easy to use. Clients and readers must be able to manipulate with no hassles within the pages in your blog page. This means, more internet users will go to your website repeatedly and they will even advocate your business’ website to different individuals they know.

For a successful and profitable on-line company, strive business blogging. The advantages are endless, thus why not attempt web blogging?




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Health Benefits of Maple Syrup



When you think of maple syrup, you often imagine it flowing gently alone piles after piles of pancakes also waffles. You care and avail it on bread, which makes an well-formed alternative to jams and preserves. Some kin even use it to drizzle now foods that are already nice by itself enjoy bananas, arrange cream, cupcakes, and pies. But is maple syrup all just about its sweetness? Does it conclude anything else to instance than sugary goodness?

Within its thick and viscous syrup, maple is said to be at least three times additional sweeter than sugar cane. Maple syrup is derived from the sap of the maple tree. While most people would normally think that the liquid is already the whole Canadian maple syrup itself, however it is not the fact. Only a derisory percentage of the sap is made of the actual syrup and it takes a long and boring stir before the actual maple syrup power stage extracted. This is probably one of the reasons why a jar or bottle of maple syrup is distant from in that cheap.

So how healthy can maple syrup produce? rightful is rich significance vitamins, particularly vitamin B12 which is also known as riboflavin. Aside from its sugar content, it is the vitamin B12 that makes the maple syrup an excellent prelude of vivacity. It enhances our body’s metabolism, boss to more efficient again faster radiant of energy. Maple syrup besides has zinc, which greatly aids mastery speeding up the remedial process especially cache wounds. factual is also delightful in the mineral, manganese, which is a fit antioxidant. This makes maple syrup an full play booster and helps the body fight off the nasty liberate radicals that can exterminate havoc to our cells. These and many more other properties contribute to the fact that maple syrup is a very vigorous also current food. set about it a daily habit to eat maple sugar and to alternate it with using regular embrace every once in a while.




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25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself



As usual, still awake and working. Hopping from one website to another. Can you live with that? I'm used to this since... for quiet some time now... While listening to one of my favorite band  "The Calling", the band that sang the hit song "Wherever You Will Go" and while creating some accounts to various websites, I came across with this very interesting ebook as it was featured on the site. Kinda old but I still downloaded it. It is entitled "25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself". 


Here are the simplified version of the ebook, well, it's too long to put the whole content, right?







                                     Why should you distinguish yourself?

               ~ Simple, being part of the commodity crowd erodes your value.

 

  Care as if it’s your own
  Do your daily work with passion!
  Build strong relationships
  Dream BIG !
  Set the right expectations
  Ask for help
  Celebrate small victories
  Set higher standards
  Know your values
  Pursue right memberships
  Help people help themselves
  Be a reader
  Plan by outcomes
  Think Long-term
  Embrace uncertainty with ease
  Ask the right questions
  Engage with a coach
  Be relevant
  Get back on your feet FAST !
  Lead a volunteer effort
  Balance Innovation and Continuous Improvement
  Learn to sell
  Learn systems thinking
  Walk away from free
  Influence the influencers





 Gotta finish reading this one. Bye for now. Ciao




Credits
Check the Blog of Rajesh Setty for the elaborated version.
You can also get the ebook here




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Agusanon Pride - Naliyagan Festival




The Festival

Naliyagan Festival is celebrated annually, highlighting the commemoration of the founding anniversary of Agusan del Sur every 17th of June. Also called the Bai Naliyagan, the week-long event showcases the culture and products of the province.

The event starts with a Manobo ritual where high priest of the Manobos called the baylan summons the spiritis of the forest, giving them a safe day in celebrating the occasion, same time driving away the evil spirits to avoid mishaps. A hog is butchered as its blood is offered by the priests, praying to appease the evil spirits in exchange of the safety of the people. Tobacco, eggs, fowls, gin, candles, fruits, and leaves chewed by natives, used as a concoction called mama, are also offered.

After the spiritual ceremonies, an event called the raising of the colors is held. Each barangay has their own flag raised at its designated flag pole in the Naliyagan Plaza. Soon, a giant balloon along with small balloons are released, representing dreams, hopes, and aspirations of the people of Agusan.

From day one to day six, an array of activities are prepared to be witnessed, especially by local and foreign tourists, who are drawn in every celebration, and keep on increasing year after year. One factor the Naliyagan appeals to the crowd is the holding of the Bai Naliyagan Beauty Pageant, participated by local beauties from 13 towns.

Activities in the festival are the Agri-industrial Fair, where indigenous cottage and agricultural products are displayed for sale, essay writing, cock derby, native games such as spear throwing, boat rowing, boxing, night concert on the culmination night, various sport competition, airsoft tournament, rappelling exhibition, which is participated by several teams all over Mindanao, the Naliyagan Agri-lympics featuring the biggest farm produce, fastest manual rice miller, mudfish relay, fastest fir maker contest, piglet catching, tribal street dancing competition that highlights the colorful ethnic display of the Manobo dance that has proven to be the top crowd drawer during the festivity.

All the natives of the river valley of Agusan del Sur come together, displaying their very own dances, songs, products of both agricultural and cottage industries, and handicrafts that pictures the lifestyle of the early natives.

 

Origin

Due to the continous support of the indigenous people of the Agusan, the Governor of the province came up with an opportunity to feature these indigenous people, showcasing their cultural heritage, products, artifacts, and their practices, in an event that fall the same day as the foundation anniversary of Agusan.
To have it addressed by a fitting name, the Governor sought the help of the Manobo elders, and chose naliyagan, meaning the chosen one and the most loved. Thus the Naliyagan Festival is born, being celebrated at the Naliyagan Plaza, same space where official celebration in the province and official programs are held.





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50 THINGS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW



 

I was taking a break from work when I decided to drop a visit to my favorite torrent site and I bumped into this file. I got curious what is the  content of that ebook since it's title is very intriguing and so I downloaded the file.





50 THINGS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW

01. The Ten Commandments We Always See Aren't the Ten Commandments
02. One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book
03. The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year
04. The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan
05. After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistan's Food Supply
06. The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains
07. The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
08. The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon
09. Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina
10. World War III Almost Started in 1995
11. The Korean War Never Ended
12. Agent Orange Was Used in Korea
13. Kent State Wasn't the Only — or Even the First — 

     Massacre of College Students During the Vietnam Era
14. Winston Churchill Believed in a Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy
15. The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number
16. Adolph Hitler's Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State
17. Around One Quarter of "Witches" Were Men
18. The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism
19. Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion
20. Black People Served in the Confederate Army
21. Electric Cars Have Been Around Since the 1880s
22. Juries Are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts
23. The Police Aren't Legally Obligated to Protect You
24. The Government Can Take Your House and Land, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations
25. The Supreme Court Has Ruled That You're Allowed to Ingest Any Drug, 

      Especially If You're an Addict
26. The Age of Consent in Most of the US Is Not Eighteen
27. Most Scientists Don't Read All of the Articles They Cite
28. Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn't Support His Theories
29. The Creator of the GAIA Hypothesis Supports Nuclear Power
30. Genetically-Engineered Humans Have Already Been Born
31. The Insurance Industry Wants to Genetically Test All Policy Holders
32. Smoking Causes Problems Other Than Lung Cancer and Heart Disease
33. Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus
34. Most Doctors Don't Know the Radiation Level of CAT Scans
35. Medication Errors Kill Thousands Each Year
36. Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually
37. Work Kills More People Than War
38. The Suicide Rate Is Highest Among the Elderly
39. For Low-Risk People, a Positive Result from an HIV Test Is Wrong Half the Time
40. DNA Matching Is Not Infallible
41. An FBI Expert Testified That Lie Detectors Are Worthless for Security Screening
42. The Bayer Company Made Heroin
43. LSD Has Been Used Successfully in Psychiatric Therapy
44. Carl Sagan Was an Avid Pot-Smoker
45. One of the Heroes of Black Hawk Down Is a Convicted Child Molester
46. The Auto Industry Says That SUV Drivers Are Selfish and Insecure
47. The Word "Squaw" Is Not a Derisive Term for the Vagina
48. You Can Mail Letters for Little or No Cost
49. Advertisers' Influence on the News Media Is Widespread
50. The World's Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes

 I have read a few only of the 50 articles,  it's very interesting. 
Try it for yourselves, it's really a good book.




Credits:  Russ Kick  




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One Fine Day at Bigby's




 

The idea that Zaki wouldn't be seen in any other resto than Jollibee has ended. I guess the Snow Sheen experience really paid its part of embedding into Zaki's mind that Chicken is Chicken, where ever and however. Today, we are celebrating Zaki's Papa Dandan's 57th year of existence and we've headed our way to another resto -- Bigby's

So, strictly no Jollibee for today and perhaps in another month or so.






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Butuan and Balanghai - A Journey Through Time



I'm about to sleep and I stumble to this blog post. I really find this one very interesting.

We usually  hear this word  around  this  time  of summer as  we usually equate it with the  city’s  display of culture and tradition as well as its opportunity to show  the  development  highlights it has travailed in its a thousand  years  of existence, from an influential maritime  kingdom in the  Sri Vidjayan and  Madjapahit Empires, to a gold  finders paradise in the early 20th century… to a  booming timber-town in the 50’s.  From a  fragile, perennial  calamity hit locality… to  a rising highly urbanized  regional  capital of today…to that  of vigorous  shining metropolis  in the near future. Let us again take a review of Balanghai, and how this great Indo-Malay  word came  to represent this  city’s journey through the past millenia.


Golden VoyageSince the 10th  century,  Butuan  appeared to have been in good relations with  the Srivijayan Empire. Being  located on the coast of Mindanao,  balanghais are  often docking at the Butuan bay keeping good business  between the local  people of Butuan and traders from the neighboring empire.

During the 1970’s,  these  balanghais  were exposed through an  excavation to the modern  time and found that through carbon-dating process, the boats were almost a thousand years old.
Building  balanghai requires  teamwork and  unity among workers which is why it was  used by the Philippine  Government as a term to  refer to the smallest political unit, now became popularly pronounced as barangay.

Butuan’s Early Balanghais
A  balanghai, or some refer  to it as balangay,  is a wooden boat adjoined by planks, and  believed that  the term originated from an  Italian archaeologist named Antonio Pigafetta  in the 16th century  when he mentioned  the word spelled “balanghai”.

The  balangays did not serve just a  wooden boat  but stood as a symbol for social unit. In the 16th century,   Spaniards found  out that balangay also referred to the smallest unit of politics among Filipinos.
Balanghai Boats


Late 1970’s,  balangay boats were  discovered in Butuan City by the National Museum archaelogists.  Nine were  recovered during the excavation. The first is being presently preserved and displayed  in the museum in  Libertad, Butuan City. It had  undergone carbon-dating  and  dated at year 320.  The second  boat, dated 1250, is presently located at the Maritime Hall of National Museum in Manila. The third  was  transferred to Butuan  Regional Museum while the six other boats are under the process of  excavtion and  preserved,  remaining to their original waterlogged condition to protect the artifacts.

The Historical Butuan
The city of Butuan is the home  of treasures such as the  Tara, golden  figurine of Buddha’s consort, an array of lustrous,  most intricate jewelry, a collection of priceless ceramics  from the Sung Dynasty, and  the remains of the early balanghai.

These precious  treasures of Butuan  are now found around the globe.  The Tara is now at the Field Museum in Chicago, the Chinese  precious findings and the restored  balanghais are being displayed  at the National Museum,  and the incomparable gold jewelry is the Metropolitan  Museum of Manila’s grandest collection.

The first mass in the  Philippines is believed to have  taken place near  the Agusan River,  and it is said that Ferdinand  Magellan himself dropped the anchor of the ship in 1521 at the Agusan River, and held a  mass to  commemorate the event.


BALANGHAI FESTIVAL
The Festival


Commemorating  the coming of the early settlers from Borneo and Celebes, Butuan in Agusan  del Sur is celebrating Balanghai  Festival during  the third week of May, coinciding the feast of Butuan’s patron  saint, Saint Joseph.

The balanghai,  also known as balangay and Butuan boat, is  the first water vessel to have  excavated in Southeast Asia, serving as  evidence to the craftsmanship of the early Filipinos in attempting to transport on water.

Balanghai Festival is  one historical event commemorated  through a  night of exotic performances, costumes in an array of colors and creativity, and dazzling floats. One can also take part in the festivals activities such as contests, exhibits, and many other events.
 




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Once Upon a Time in Snow Sheen




     After a "few" visits to fastfood chains like Jollibee and KFC, as well as Manok Republik and Siomai & Lumpia sa Tipolo, we finally got the chance to go back to Snow Sheen, a Chinese restaurant located in the crowded sidewalks of downtown Cebu. They serve the best fried rice in town. Your all-time favorite Dimsum delights like Chopsuey, Pancit Canton, Pancit Guisado, Chaupachin, Buttered Chicken, Maki, Siopao and Chinese Lumpia are among their most requested dishes.



Fried Rice - Buttered Chicken - Pancit Canton

Fried Rice - Buttered Chicken - Pancit Canton

Fried Rice - Buttered Chicken - Pancit Canton

     It was fun to know that Zaki, after eating 3 pieces of Buttered Chicken and some rice, totally forgot about the usual fries-and-sundae meal from her favorite Jollibee. Both me and miko were also busy putting our mouths to work, and of course, with bellies full.

     Try it for yourself! If you happen to visit Cebu, don't forget to put Snow Sheen in your destination list.

     Happy chow time!




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