Untangling The Web » PHP http://www.untanglingtheweb.org Training Small Business Owners How To Use The Internet Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:58:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Local Listings – You Should Be Listed Here! http://www.untanglingtheweb.org/2009/09/24/local-listings-you-should-be-listed-here.html http://www.untanglingtheweb.org/2009/09/24/local-listings-you-should-be-listed-here.html#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:41:47 +0000 Conrad Walton http://www.waltonwebdesigner.com/?p=2224 Continue reading →]]> You know that local search is important. This is a list of places that can help establish your local listing on the web.
Each of these listings will bring you traffic.

Each of these listings will bring you traffic.

Each of these listings will bring you traffic. Each should be pretty easy to use. Some offer paid listings as well as free listings.

  1. local.botw.org
  2. www.dmoz.org
  3. advertise.local.com/
  4. listings.yellowpages.com/
  5. selfenroll.citysearch.com/
  6. www.google.com/local/add
  7. botw.org/top/Regional/United_States/
  8. www.localeze.com/manage/
  9. www.dexsearchmarketing.com/
  10. list.infousa.com/dbupdate.htm
  11. searchmarketing.yahoo.com/local/business.php
  12. my.superpages.com/spweb/products/business-listing
  13. Friends, Family, Partnerships with websites. Ask if they would be willing to swap links with your website to help promote both of your businesses.


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]]> http://www.untanglingtheweb.org/2009/09/09/wall-of-fluff.html/feed 2 13 Places To List Your Small Business For Local Search Traffic http://www.untanglingtheweb.org/2008/11/24/places-to-list-your-small-business-for-local-search-traffic.html http://www.untanglingtheweb.org/2008/11/24/places-to-list-your-small-business-for-local-search-traffic.html#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:24:00 +0000 Conrad Walton http://www.websitestarterkit.com/?p=437 Continue reading →]]> Local search is getting huge. These are places that you can get listed to help establish you local listing on-line presence.
Each of these listings will bring you traffic.

Each of these listings will bring you traffic.

Each of these listings will bring you traffic, since no one uses the phone book any more. Each should be pretty self explanatory. Some offer paid features as well as free listings.

  1. www.dmoz.org
  2. local.botw.org
  3. advertise.local.com/
  4. listings.yellowpages.com/
  5. selfenroll.citysearch.com/
  6. www.google.com/local/add
  7. www.localeze.com/manage/
  8. list.infousa.com/dbupdate.htm
  9. www.dexsearchmarketing.com/
  10. botw.org/top/Regional/United_States/
  11. searchmarketing.yahoo.com/local/business.php
  12. my.superpages.com/spweb/products/business-listing
  13. Friends, Family, Partnerships with websites. Ask if they would be willing to swap links with your website to help promote both of your businesses.


]]> http://www.untanglingtheweb.org/2008/11/24/places-to-list-your-small-business-for-local-search-traffic.html/feed 0 How To Plan A Web Site http://www.untanglingtheweb.org/2008/11/19/how-to-plan-a-web-site.html http://www.untanglingtheweb.org/2008/11/19/how-to-plan-a-web-site.html#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:15:50 +0000 Conrad Walton http://www.waltonwebdesigner.com/?p=332 Continue reading →]]> No matter what kind of web site you are creating, no matter what size or what content, it’s always best to plan out what you need to do before you do anything.

I always start with a planning document. It can be formal or informal. It just needs to have all of the information you need in a way that makes sense to you.

It's always best to plan out what you need to do before you do anything.

It's always best to plan out what you need to do before you do anything.

Start out with the technical, web hosting issues. What is the domain name? Where will it be hosted? Are there any other technical requirements like SQL or PHP? You may not know all of these right now, but be aware of them. They might cause problems later if you don’t plan for them now.

Once you have a handle on the technical issues, which will take way more time to explore, the next step is a site map. This might be called the site architecture or site plan. There are various names for it.

You need to have a list of every page on the site and a description of the content for every page. You also need to know the relationships of each page, which will be defined with the menus.

Most sites have a list of things that are exactly the same on each page, so we call this the template. These things would be the header and footer, the sidebars, and the logo. Whatever else you might have can be put into the template.

If your site has nothing common on each page, then you’re better off creating them individually. You still need to make the site map.

You can make this list as a text outline or as a graphic with little boxes and lines running between them. Use whatever tools you have that make sense to you.



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