Google Pin Point.jpgAt this point you would have to be crazy if your business is not located in the major Internet Yellow Page search engines. Or perhaps you don’t know about them. If the latter is the case, welcome; visit the sites below and begin placing your business in as many of these sites as you can!

What are the Internet Yellow Page search engines (IYPs)?

you ask, well my friend they are a number of websites that list your company or organization based on a geographic location. And many of them are FREE! I won’t bore you with unnecessary jibber jabber, I’ll just list a number of IYPs I’ve found over the years. And please bookmark this page as I will be adding to this list as I continue my everlasting search. Do visit these sites and take a few minutes to add your company. It will help us die-hard local searchers find your company, and bring you additional customer to boot.

Without further ado, in no particular order, the list:

Nationwide Internet Yellow Page Web Sites:
Click the “Add my business” link to add your business today.

Local City Guides and Recommendation Web Sites:

Region Specific Internet Yellow Page Sites:

Mobile/Cell phone Friendly Internet Yellow Page Sites:

Coupon/Savings Internet Yellow Page Sites:

Info/Data Companies for Internet Yellow Page Sites:

If this has helped you in anyway let me know. Leave your comments below. Thanks.

10 May | Post by Jermaine Primus. Filed under Internet Marketing, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Local Search.

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The Florida Weekly, a publication whose “Coverage includes news, entertainment, health, the arts, business and real estate” (Full Corporate Fact Sheet) featured Unique ID Web Design in their January 17-23 issue.

FLORIDA WEEKLY - PHOTO EVAN WILLIAMS

Photo Credit - Evan Williams

Here is an excerpt of that article:

Today’s Internet is still roughly where the automobile was during the era of Henry Ford’s Model T,” wrote Microsoft Corporation Chairman Bill Gates in 2000. “We’ve seen a lot of amazing things so far, but there is much more to come. We are only at the dawn of the Internet Age.”

And much more has come, said Zach Katkin… click here to read the full article.

You can also download the PDFs here: Unique ID Florida Weekly , Unique ID Florida Weekly Page 2.

24 Jan | Post by Jermaine Primus. Filed under Community.

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We are proud to announce our newest site, www.NaplesMusicClub.org.

Naples Music Club

“The Naples Music Club is a not for profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to enriching the musical experience in the Naples [Florida] area by presenting musical events, offering performance opportunities, and providing awards and scholarships to local music students.”

The site is built on a Content Management platform so that the site’s administrators can easily update, add, and delete pages. It also contains a blog that is being used for news updates only.

03 Dec | Post by Jermaine Primus. Filed under Site Launch.

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Answers the question: How do I add my logo to a browser’s address bar?

It’s been awhile since I first installed Mozilla Firefox. One of the things I noticed was a fancy logo next to the address bar in the browser. Then with tabbed browsing I saw a logo for each web site. Microsoft added this ability when it introduced Internet Explorer 5.5. Now with IE7 you can see the logos in tabbed browsing as well. Here’s how you can place your logo next to the address bar. It will also show up when someone bookmark’s your site or adds it as one of their favorites.

I should clear up that the logos are referred to as favicons and it’s full file name is normally favicon.ico. Click here for Troubleshooting tips for favicons

Unique ID Favicon

Our favicon

First create a favicon

Here are a few places to create favicons for free. You will need the image that you like to show up in the address bar. Make sure to name the file favicon.ico

After you have created the favicon, download it to your computer and follow the next steps.

Next upload the favicon

The best place upload the .ico file is in the root directory of your web site. In most cases this is the same place where your index file is.

Finally, link your favicon.ico file

Link this on every page of your website. If you have a header file (header.php or header.asp etc.) then this will just take a few seconds.

Copy and past this link between the head tags (<head></head>) on your pages.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />

This is a common way to link the icon using XHTML and the one that we use on our site.

Here is another way:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

And yet another way:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">
<link rel="icon" href="http://yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">


Troubleshooting and Tips

What if the favicon you just added isn’t showing up? Here are some things that may help if you cannot see your favicon:

  • Make sure it is uploaded and the link is in the proper place
  • Try deleting your browser’s history and cached Internet files - How to delete usage history
  • Try restarting your browser, this should be done after you delete your browser’s history
  • Try adding a question mark after your favicon link:
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico?">
    This will force the server to look for a new favicon every time the page loads.

If you follow those steps you should see your new logo appear in the address bar of your favorite browser.

01 Dec | Post by Jermaine Primus. Filed under Web Design, Web Basics.

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I received an e-mail this morning stating that BlueDot.us is now Faves.com. Personally I like the name change. Faves.com is much easier to remember.

What is Faves.com?

Simply put Faves.com is a social bookmarking site.

From their website:

“Faves is a site about websites that are rated and organized by real people into a wide variety of topics. Our community is finding new web sites every day.”

Learn more about Faves.com here.

Should I join Faves.com?

Joining Faves.com and adding your website to Faves.com may help increase traffic to your site, but here is a word of caution, this is a social community website that recently launched a new anti-social twist. It seems that your bookmarked sites, faves, need to be posted to the relevant topics and you must be a known as someone who continually bookmarks sites to relevant topics. All this plus, each bookmark can be voted on by others.

So, should you join? Probably.

How popular will your site be? Well, that depends on how much you are involved on faves.com.

Currently, the site receives about 1.1 million visits each month, so it may be worth the time.

12 Nov | Post by Jermaine Primus. Filed under Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization.

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