New Brunswick Web Design Blog

I have started using bing and I like how it works and I’m not going into comparing Bing with google as I like both Search Engines. However after using it there is a couple of things that I’d like to touch on as it affects businesses with websites and without.

1. No Auto Map?? – Now I figured this would be standard with any good search engine that if you search for a business name with location information that if there it should show it on the map. I was disappointed to find that when doing this type of search that wasn’t readily available.
The Search – elitegd saint john new brunswick
Bing Result
Google Result

How this effects you? – Well if your like me and you have a website doesn’t really effect you to much as you can see i’m showing in the top 4 returned results directing them to my website. However if you do a search and someone only has the Local Business Listing through Google Maps you now won’t show up at all.

The Search – laundry mat saint john new brunswick
Bing Result
Google Result
If there was any Laundry mat with even a basic website up they would receive 100% of the web traffic from Bing as currently none of them show up at all, even though all three are listed on Google Maps. This is why you don’t want to always focus on Google but focus on reaching all search engines.

2.  Bing Local Listing Center

Now I was very dissapointed when I went to add my own business that being from Canada there is no way to add yourself to Bing’s Local Listing Center, similar to google’s Local Business Center I have tried doing multiple searches to figure out a way for Canadian businesses to add their listing to the Bing Local Listing Center and haven’t found a way. This should be  a staple as well for any real competitive search engines, to at least be able to take submissions if your going to offer local searches. Hopefully this is just in the works and once I find a way I will be doing a post on adding your business to both Bing Local Listing Center, and Google’s Local Business Center.

Recommendation if you are relying on Google Map ( Local Business Center) to deliver your information invest in a small informational website so that you can make sure that other search engines that people use will direct people to your business and not a competitor’s.

Stay tuned i’ll be doing another reaching your target audience for Laundry Mats next after realizing this when researching for this post.

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Well there is all kinds of different options for handling web albums and feel free to look around and find the one that works for you. I will be using picasa as I like how you can quickly upload images, and intergrate them into a website in a variety of manners, either single image, or the slide show as you can see on the lower right or on the photography page, or you can parse the RSS feed.

So with all of the different options i’m also leveraging this for Calais Events which has gain many visitors and delivers all kinds of information for the City of Calais. This will make this easier for them to implement photo’s that people would like to share around the city.

Yes Yes I can here people saying well if you do a search you can find the same local pictures, true but now you don’t have to search and hope that they are tagged correctly to be found, the can easily be displayed by Calais on thier website so visitors can find them rather quickly.

Also NHousman Has Released a new Gamer video on the New Ghost Busters Video Game over at Talknb.com, Rumor has it we might have Amanda back writing some reviews and providing information on movies, most likey on new releases to video stores.

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Now TalkNB has been on hiatus as I had a new baby join the family and it’s a bit difficult to find the time to try and do everything and have fun at the same time =).

So we have shot another Video and are launching Season 2, I also took some time to do a gamer update on WOW. For Now I’m going to try to maintain both websites but I will be posting the video’s here on my blog as well along with the description but feel  free to check out TalkNB.com as well.

TalkNB Season 2

Are we back well yes the writer strike you heard about is over but will we maintain Talknb.com well for now we will, but we might just merge it into my blog over at http://blog.elitegd.com

So like tv we are going to have some downtime and have to fill your screen with re-runs but we won’t repost them and hopefully we’ll be able to produce some likable vidoe’s and here is the first one for you enjoyment.

Gamer Update – WoW – Mid Summer Festival

TalkNB Season 2, Gamer Update, first game we’ll be looking at is WoW I know I’m a few years behind the band wagon. However it’s Mid Summer Festival in the World of Warcraft as I finish off the achievement list to get my title.

For everyone else working on this I hope you are enjoying your world tour.

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