Website monitoring via SMS with Bingdom

For bloggers and webmasters, the uptime or availability of the websites or blogs is of utmost importance. To ensure that the website is always up and running, administrator should continuously monitor the status of the website and web server or web host. It’s impossible to sit in front the computer to check the status though, so most people resorts to web-based free web site monitoring services or tools such as URL Guard and Tiny Site Watcher.

Pingdom is a web-based service that tracks the uptime, downtime, and performance of websites. What set Pingdom apart from other website monitoring service is that it’s an established and reliable monitoring service which gives accurate status. In addition, Pingdom monitors websites from multiple locations globally so that it can distinguish genuine downtime from routing and access problems.

Tips On How To Optimize Your Google Place Listing

Listing in Google Places

This is just some tips we have found helpful to increase your ranking for your business listing inGoogle places.  So let’s get on to it:

1.  First you have to claim your business listing if it exists in Google places, if not just create a new listing
2.  You need to have a physical address in the place you would like your listing to appear
3.  In the “Category” field you need to put your relevant keyword
DO NOT OVERDUE, and you will have to choose one category that Google suggest.
4.  Make sure your site/business is visible through other channels than just your own (yellow pages etc)
Make sure that the business name is the SAME in all channels.
5.  “Of page” factors (outside Google Places)
- Almost as important as “regular” SEO
- Links pointing to your site
- Quality (authority, relevance…etc)
- Quantity