Pop Culture Stained Glass: 1,000 Year Old Craft Makes A Comeback
Friday, den 25. July 2008Stained glass, usually confined to church windows and depicting biblical scenes has been popping up in new contexts. The ancient art has recently been used to illustrate pop culture icons and modern icons such as… … continue reading
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10 Tips to Improve Your Local Search Rankings in Google
Friday, den 25. July 2008Web is going local - webmasters are working hard to improve their search engine ranking around specific geographical location for better business. Especially, this is a big boon for local service providers like a lawyer or a local grocery shop. The recent hike in oil price has turned people to online shopping in bigger number 
Here are ten tips on how to optimize your website to improve your local rankings in Google:
- Book a country specific TLD. .com TLDs are good from user’s perspective but .fr is a better option for Google bot to understand your geo-location.
- Host your domain in your own country. Google tracks IP location to determine the ranking of a website for local search.
- Sign in to Google Webmaster Tool and set your preferred geo location [tools > overview > Set geographic target]. This would give a clear indication to Google Bot about what you actually want. This is more important if you are using .com or .org TLDs and want to target some other country but USA. However, I would still prefer a country specific TLD, if you are sure about targeting a specific geographical niche. But in that case, you might not get the opportunity of going global with your domain.
- Submit your site to Google Local Business Center and also submit your site to other local directories like yelp (if you are from San Francisco). You should also look for local business listings, Google Base and others.
- Publish your address in the contact page along with a Google map showing the exact location of your office or business center.
- Promote your blog or site in your locality. If your local newspaper has an online publication, try to get a link from there.
- Influence people to visit your website directly via Ads and other methods - if people from a distinct place visit a website directly in huge numbers, it would send a clear sign to search engine about the relevance.
- Get links from websites with same TLDs. For example, if your TLD is .fr, get links from as many .fr sites as possible.
- Use the name of your locality along with the main key phrase as anchor texts for incoming links. For example, if you are a Florida based SEO Company and if you want to optimize your website around Florida, use keywords like Florida SEO or SEO Florida. However, do not overdo it.
- Optimize page content around your locality.
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Russia To Make Emo and Goth Music Illegal
Friday, den 25. July 2008First “The Man” says kids in Michigan can’t wear sagging pants, now, the Russian government is going to make emo and goth music illegal. Banning music and fashion styles? What century are we in?
Calling the… … continue reading
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Live Mobile TV Broadcasting with Bambuser
Friday, den 25. July 2008Swedish-based Bambuser is a new service that allows users to broadcast live streaming video directly to the web with their cell phones - kinda like mobile-TV, but the other way around.
With Bambuser, users can broadcast… … continue reading
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Bio Mapping: Charting Emotional Hotspots in the Cityscape
Friday, den 25. July 2008Like a mental weather map or traffic update, the Biomapping project visualizes emotional data within cities. Christian Nold, a London-based artist, used GPS coordinates coupled with a device that measured participant’s galvanic skin response as… … continue reading
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The Causeway: The World’s First Private Island Rehab
Friday, den 25. July 2008The Causeway is the world’s first private island rehab facility, offering treatments for alcohol and drug addiction, stress and overworking and general psychological problems. Located off the Blackwater Esturary in Essex, just 30 minutes… … continue reading
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When Design Overthinks: The Hang On Outlet
Friday, den 25. July 2008While we are very much against power waste from electrical technology and their vampire power-packs, we do have a strong negative reaction to this design concept that all the cool blogs are waving around. The… … continue reading
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Beijing Taxi Cards
Friday, den 25. July 2008What with the Olympics and everything, Beijing is also currently host to tourists from all over the world trying to navigate their way around a city whose street signs are sometimes nowhere to be found… … continue reading
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More Moves Against Urban Spam
Friday, den 25. July 2008This CBC news clip shows the moves against billboards that overstep their permit - or simply don’t have permits at all. It features Rami Tabello who has been fighting this urban spam with the sites… … continue reading
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Location Aware Technology and the Threat of Constant Connectivity
Friday, den 25. July 2008With location-aware applications and mobile devices becoming more mainstream, the issue of privacy grows. Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase offers an interesting perspective on the potential influence - and threat - of shared location awareness on… … continue reading
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