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Tip of the Week 
Have a topic idea? Let us know 
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Tip of the Week
 
Increasing Your Online Visibility
 
This week we have several Tips for you to increase the visibility
of you and your business online:

-Facebook- Claim your UserName
-Bing- Not just Microsoft's new search engine, but a new way for
your business and website to be found
-Google Local- Add your Business to Google Maps 
-Yahoo Local- Add your Business to Yahoo Maps

Facebook- Claim your UserName

Instead of having a series of meaningless letters and numbers to
describe your facebook page you can now claim your own Facebook
Username.  To do this, just go to:
http://www.facebook.com/username/ and claim your name.  
NOTE: Do this as soon as possible, so you'll claim your name before
others get to it first!

Try to get "www.facebook.com/firstname.lastname" first (if it's
still available), e.g., http://www.facebook.com/karl.kasca.
Otherwise you might need to get creative in uniquely identifying
yourself.
For more info on this see: How To Secure Your Facebook Username
(Vanity URL) 

If you have a Facebook Fan Page for your business you can also
claim a custom username for it as well, but you'll need to have a
Facebook Fan Page and wait until June 28th, 2009.
For more info on this see: Good News: Small Brands Can Get Custom
Facebook URLs Too 

And if you don't have a Facebook Fan Page yet, then log into IOP
and see our article/video on:
Facebook: How To Set-Up A Facebook Fan Page 

Bing- Not just Microsoft's new search engine, but a new way for
your business and website to be found.

You've probably heard that Microsoft has a new search engine called
Bing.  It's actually a relaunch of MSN, which later became MS-Live
search. 

In any case, for website owners it's a new opportunity to have your
website be found.  To enhance being found you can do two things: 1)
Create a Business Listing and 2) Submit your site's URL (web
address) so Bing will find your website and crawl it.

1) Create a Business Listing

-First go to the Bing Webmaster Center and click "Sign in to use
the tools" 
-You'll be prompted to sign in with your Windows Live ID.
◦You may have one of these IDs already if you have a Hotmail or
Microsoft account. 
◦Otherwise, you'll have to sign up for a Windows Live ID.
-Click on Business Listings* under "Drive more traffic"


2) Submit your site's URL

-While you're at the Bing Webmaster Center, also Submit your site's
URL* so Bing will crawl the links on your website and find your
other webpages 
And note that you don't have to sign in to do this.


Google Local- Add your Business to Google Maps 
Of course Google also has a way you can be found locally:

Go to Google Maps 
Click: Put your business on Google Maps
Login to Google & go to Google Local Business Center

If you don't have a Google account (e.g., Gmail), you'll need to
create one.
Click: Add new business button 
If your business has many locations you can Upload a data file



Yahoo Local- Add your Business to Yahoo Maps
Go to Yahoo! Local 
Click Add a Business way down under Local Resources

And no, you don't even have to sign in!

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Have a topic idea?
 
The primary reason that Karl and I've together this website is to
help you make more money. We know the things that you need to know,
but we also want to hear about the topics that are of special
importance to you.
 
Email me with your topic ideas at:
 
rick@increaseonlineprofits.com
 
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New article for Members

Alt Tags Text- Using alternative text for images can supercharge
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