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Thursday, April 25, 2019

35 Local SEO Citation Sources For Your Website and Business

What are Business Citations and Why You need Them?

Starting a business from scratch can be a scary process. This is not only for the brick and mortal business, but also for online businesses. One of the important things you can do to gain visibility for your new business is acquiring business citations. By definition, a business citation is a reference to your business's name, address and phone number which is accessible online. It is usually abbreviated as NAP which stands for Name, Address and Phone number. It is believed that Google uses business citations when evaluating the online authority of your business. You can treat them the way you treat website links. Unlike links though, citations don't need to be linked to your business's website in order for you to be credited for them.

How do you find places to from which to get citations for your business?


There are many ways you can find them.
First, you can do a google search for business directory in your local area and you will get a list. This can be time consuming.

Another method is to use business citation services providers. These will help you list your business on websites that accept citation listings. It is easy but costs some money.

I personally prefer doing it myself because that way, I can control what information is displayed and have control over my business accounts on the respective sites.

If you are like me, here is a list of some directories where you can get business citations. you just have to sign up and create your listing.
I hope you like it.

List of business citation sources



You may Find This Video Helpful


Local SEO: Setting up your local business citations


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Monday, August 07, 2006

Your Home Business Can Succeed By Avoiding The “Later Syndrome"?

Your Home Business Can Succeed By Avoiding The “Later Syndrome"?


It usually sickens me when I see people fail in their home business just because of one problem.

Many home business people are discouraged from trying to learn new knowledge or skills that will take their businesses to a new level because of time issues. They already feel that their lives are too busy and they don't see how it is possible to fit more commitments into their already jammed schedules. Other home business entrepreneurs take an overly laid-back approach to business adventure. They sign themselves up for marketing forums and affiliate programs and then don't take those forums and programs seriously. At the end of the month or year they wonder why their business, income and lives has not improved!

This is as a result of the problem of the “later “syndrome. (Never do today what you can put off for tomorrow. Better yet, never put off 'til tomorrow what you can avoid altogether! ) The later syndrome is a very big hindrance to many home businesses. Does your home business also suffer from this syndrome?
What is the later syndrome anyway? This is where by a home business owner puts off what he/she should have done today, for a later time. Simply put, the “later” syndrome is “procrastination”. Other people prefer to call it the “tomorrow syndrome” Procrastination can manifest itself in ways as simple as taking too long to write an ezine ad, putting off article submission or letting slide the date when you promised yourself you'd start an advertising campaign.
The later syndrome in our home businesses is something we can be aware of and deal with over time. Procrastination is so lethal to your home business. You should avoid it. The future of your home business depends on you, just the same as with an athlete, an actor or anyone else who depends on peak personal performance to make a living.
That's why everyone who wants to be successful in their home businesses has to take steps to deal with the ” later syndrome” if and when it appears.
How do you deal with the “later” syndrome?

Try to ensure that you be disciplined. If you have scheduled a task to be done today, do it. Do not put it off for a later date or time. In other words, improve your time management skills.

Just remember that success in home business is a result of simple disciplines performed every day. Such simple disciplines include sticking to your work shedule no matter what. For example, if you are supposed to write an article for submission today, write it. Do not give room to any excuses that may tempt you to write it later.

Failure in any home business is a result of cumulative errors in judgment and decision repeated every day. Such simple errors include procrastination (Also known as the “later” syndrome.

Another technique is to create an environment where you can fully concentrate on your work. Not all people can concentrate in a noisy and chaotic environment. So have a well designated home business office with a conducive environment favorable for concentration.

So, if you think you need success in your home business, you should steer away from the “later” syndrome. In summary, you can fight the later syndrome in your home business by following these points.
· Make a list of what needs to get done. This can be listed in no particular order and will give you a handle on just what you need to accomplish.
· Prioritise these. My way of doing this is by deadlines. I arrange them in order of when they are due. You may also choose to rank them by how important it is to get them done. For example, writing an article and submitting it to article directories on time may be more important to your home business than replying to your friends email. Do that first.
· Get yourself a calendar with room to write notes in. I personally use a bound notebook and write in dates as I go. I make pages with dates for long-term planning and also keep a separate list that I transfer my short-term goals to.
· Take what's at the top of your priority list and determine how long it will take to accomplish it. If it's a quick task, put that down to be done the current day. If it will take a longer time, divide it into smaller tasks to be spread out over several days. Write this in your calendar with specific dates for accomplishing each. Include your deadline for completion of this task on your calendar as well.
· Keep filling your calendar until you have a time set aside to do each item while still meeting your deadlines. Be careful to not overbook yourself and allow plenty of time for delays. This will allow you to feel confident that you can accomplish all you need to in the time you have. Now you can relax and work on one item at a time without feeling you have to do it all at once.

I hope you have learned alot from this post.

Now Before I sign off, I was affected by the later syndrome the last few weeks. All along I wanted to inform you of my new articles about jobs but I kept on procrastinating till now.

So dear reader, Let me take this opportunity to inform you that I have started up a subdomain dedicated to jobs and how to easily get a job. here is the website
http://www.jobs.homebusiness-4-enterpreneurs.com

Have a sister, brother or friend who is looking for a job?
Do them a favor and send him/her over to this website for first class informaton and help

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

YOUR HOME BUSINESS ONLY NEEDS THIS TO SUCCEEDE.

In most of my articles, I give tips and Ideas on starting and maintaining a home business. In fact, one of my first ever article was titled, "Can every Tom, Dick, and Harry start a home business?"

My answer to this question was a "Yes”. But not every Tom, Dick and Harry could grow a home business. I gave the 11 things you needed in order not to be a home business starter, but also a home business success. This article can be found around all the article directories. You just need to go to google and type in my name (Mary Janet Namuli) or the title of the article. Remember that all these articles are free for you to reprint. Just make sure that the author's bio is included with an active link back to where ever it should point.

Well, back to this current article.
Haven’t you read countless times that the key to success in your home business and offline is marketing and promoting? I am sure you have come to believe such statements 100%

But wait.

The real secret to success in any home business is only one. “It is your mind”.
You can never take off on the Internet without knowing this secret. Some people (even You and me) did not know this secret but they have used it unknowingly to take off on the Net. Those have been a bit lucky.

There are a lot of free ebooks, and articles like this one out there telling you how to succeed with your home business. But doesn’t it surprise you that one reads them and follows them to the letter, yet achieve no significant success?

It is because these books and articles haven’t been telling the real key to success online. Now in this article, I’m telling it to you again. “You need only your mind to succeed with your home business.”

Yes, it is your mind. The other tools, ebooks, articles, software and Online marketing and promotion information that you may buy or get for free is useless if you do not have a positive mind.

When your mind is programmed for success, it will use many ways to keep closer to success. You will meet the right people, get lucky breaks, and receive useful free ebooks for online marketing and promotion, get training from a qualified mentor, find a need to fill, become focused, take the right actions at the right time, take risks, be willing to sacrifice, have the right
attitude etc.

That is the only truth and key to success with your home business. It will continue to be this year, the coming years and it has been the past years. You must get your mind right at first; the rest will be done with ease. You will even enjoy doing them.

Success mentors have said that you must 100% want to succeed and be wealthy. Not 99.9%, no grain of fear, hidden doubts and dislikes. You must honestly desire to be rich.

Here is what I read from an article:

Examine your self; are you on the road to success? Is your mind programmed for success? If not, when your mind is finally changed, success will finally come gushing into your life, seemingly from nowhere. You will wonder where it has been hiding all those years. It was hiding behind your own
self-doubt.

With your mind tuned and programmed for success in any home business, you will steer clear of poverty, sniff any scam and avoid it. Your mind will steer you clear of poverty thoughts, and the wasting of your time, money, friends and talents. No more wasteful preoccupations and wastefulness. Others will watch in awe and wonderment, as it seems that things always turn out in your favour. You will begin to freely give, as your newfound wealth spills over to other people’s lives.

But it all starts with your mental programming. Very few
know, or will tell you this fact. With the right mindset,
you can become

fabulously wealthy. It is all in your mind. It is mental.
That is the truth and success about wealth and success in
any work at home business. It is the most important tool
you will need to succeed online this year.Even to be
successful in your work at home marketing and promotion
efforts, you need to have a mind that has already

been programmed for success.

If you had never know this fact, all the marketing and

promotion tools, tips and information I give you in most of

my free ebooks would be useless. You would easily get

discouraged, you would think that you need a product

(different from what I recommend in my free ebook at my

site), or company that will make you instantly rich. You

blame other people if you will experience failure, You

blame your parents that they are not wealthy, You believe

that there is something out there that can really help you

succeed with your home business and in life. No! Success

lies within you and it starts in your mind.

When you fully digest this secret, nothing will stand in

your way. I discovered this secret and my work at home
business took off so easily. Despite the fact that you may
live in a remote

country with few privileges for online success. You will

manage to make it and here I have given you the key. Use it

as the primary tool and then use other tool and implement

what I and other experts recommend, you will achieve the

success that you have always wanted with your work at

home/home business. Your mind and attitude is the most

important work at home business/home business marketing

tool you will need to succeed online this year.

Have success and take care.

Mary Janet Namuli.




Mary Janet is an enterpreneur who has wide knowledge on starting and growing any type of home business. Visit her website: http://www.homebusiness-4-enterpreneurs.com/homebusiness/index.php

Monday, July 10, 2006

My site re-included. Thanks For your prayers

I wish you could see the smile on my face. This is because my site has been re-included in the google index. You remember my previous posts about my site being entirely de-indexed.

I think I should be grateful to the guys at google.Who ever is responsible.
If any one from google indexing team can read this post,please tell all your colleagues that I the owner of this blog is grateful for the fact that my site: http://www.homebusiness-4-enterpreneurs.com has been re-included in google index after almost 2 months when over 30,000 of my pages were re-indexed. I am very great full. Now I would request you to rank my site.Give it a page rank so that I can start geting visitors from google search engine.

For my readers, I would like to inform you that now I will be back to business,posting valuable information on home business right here on this blog. I had temporary stoped posting so as I wait for google to re-include my site. The post here are complimenting my site. so since my site is back in google, be confident that I am going to post relevant information on home business at this blog almost every week.so please come back every week to check out what is new and what home business tips I have for you.

Before I conclude this post, some of my readers have written asking me how I was able to have my site re-indexed by google. My answer to them and to you who might have experienced the same problem is this. Go to google sitemaps, open up a google sitemap account . Inside your account, you will find the instructions for a re-inclusion request and the guide line for webmasters.
To open up a google sitemaps account, go to:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

Wish you the best.
home business

Monday, June 12, 2006

MY site completely deindexed

My dedicated readers, I have been off of recent.Remember my last post was on a site map and its ability to get all your website pages indexed by google.

well, I created some sitemaps and infact in three weeks, I had over 40.000 of my website pages indexed by google. When I created the site map, I posted it in my google site maps acount and this caused a flood of crowlers on my site.

Unfortunately, I do not know why, but it seems my entire site has been de-indexed from google.I suspect that may be it is because I submitted wrong formats of my site maps.Google preferes XML formated sitemaps. So please when you are planning to create a sitemap,create it in the XML format and submit it to google through your sitemap.

I think My sitemap is going to be re-indexed this week because I submited a reinclusion request to google. This is possible within your google site maps account. I will be telling you when my site is back.

Note: To avoid what happened to me, Make sure you do the first thing right. Create the best accepted format of your sitemap before you submit it to google site maps.
for guidelines on how to create your sitemap, go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

wish you the best and pray for my site to reappear in the googles index.It was not banned but just de-indexed.
Check out my website and the new xml formated site map I have created for it.
http://www.homebusiness-4-enterpreneurs.com
http://www.homebusiness-4-enterpreneurs.com/sitemap2.xml

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

The perfect site map 2

Dear readers,

I would like topost back the results to my recent post on sitemaps and indexing.
By the time I posted this article, I had only 16 pages indexed in google.
But in only one week after the post, I had 700 pages indexed.
I think that is incredible.

But the downside is that, in a the second week, over 100 pages have been deindexed.
I dont know why but I am sure it is not because of it.
Word of caution: Google has formats for site maps that are perfect.
The suggestion here just works to show my folders. So please look around for the perfect formats. But it works.

janet mary Namuli

Thursday, May 11, 2006

The perfect site map for your website-Create one like this

One of the easiest ways to get your home business site indexed by the search engines is through blog and ping. With this method, your home business website can get indexed within only 7days instead of 4 or more weeks. This is what I did to get my site: http://www.homebusiness-4-enterpreneurs.com/homebusiness/index.php indexed in the search engine of google in only four days. Yes four days.

But how about if you want over 500 pages of your site indexed?
The answer is to create a site map with all the pages you want indexed, then you may write a small article that will include your site map url. Post this article on any of your blogs and then ping the blog and the posts.

How do you Ping?
Go to your browser address bar and type in www.pingomatic.com and click go.
The pingomatic webpage will open and you should fill in all the fields and click on ping at the bottom. This will update your blog atthe weblogs and send search engine spiders rushing to your blog, recognise the sitemap Url and the links on the site map page.

I believe this will get your pages indexed.

Well, I havent tried this yet but it is what iam exactly doing at this moment. I am writing this article,posting it on this blog and pinging it.
Here is my site map Url that contains all the webpages I want indexed. http://www.homebusiness-4-enterpreneurs.com/sitemaps.html

But I would suggest that you create one like at this site: http://www.homebusiness-4-enterpreneurs.com/weddingdress/sitemap.php

Now I hope this will get my pages indexed. Please check back in two weeks time as I will be posting the results of this test on this same blog.

Plus you can also try this out and inform us about your results by posting a comment on this post.

Yours,
Namuli Mary Janet
http://www.homebusiness-4-enterpreneurs.com/homebusiness/sitemap.php