Jacksonville Maplist Launched

Jacksonville, Florida, USA Maplist has just launched.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for Jacksonville: http://jacksonville.maplist.org.

Nashville Maplist Launched

Nashville, Tennessee, USA Maplist has just launched.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for Nashville: http://nashville.maplist.org.

Milwaukee Maplist Launched

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA has just launched.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for Milwaukee: http://milwaukee.maplist.org

Austin Maplist Launched

Austin, Texas, USA has just launched.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for Austin Area: http://austin.maplist.org

Providence, Rhode Island has its own MapList now

Providence, Rhode Island, USA has just launched.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for Providence, Rhode Island: http://providence.maplist.org.

Good article: meta keywords and meta description

http://yellowhours.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/ideas-meta-keywords-and-meta-description/

Though meta keywords and description play a less important role in nowadays’ search engine ranking algorithms, we still believe that concise and relevant keywords and compact useful description in the page metas are still very important in improving YellowHours’s quality.

Yesterday, we spent a good amount of time to improving metas of some modules and hope it will impact positively in the long run.

Charlotte MapList Launched

Charlotte, North Caroline, USA has its maplist now.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for Charlotte Area: http://charlotte.maplist.org.

Effect of PageRank in crawling your sites by google crawlers

Almost everybody knows PageRank plays a great role in determining your site’s position in google’s large webpage database, but less people have noticed that PageRank also determine how many pages or how fast the crawlers from google will index your pages.

Here is my own experience from MapList.Org. About a month ago, when maplist has a PageRank of 3 and some of the local sites, for example http://toronto.maplist.org, have 3 too, Google indexed about 400,000 pages.

Then, due to some reason, the PageRank dropped to 2 and now the pages for MapList in Google’s database has dropped to 40,000 and the number is still decreasing.

As for how to increase your PageRank, everybody has his own answer, but one of the most important one is to improve your site quality and so that more natural links will appear for your site.

Virginia Beach MapList Launched

Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA has its maplist now.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for Virginia Beach Area: http://virginiabeach.maplist.org .

Indianapolis, Indiana MapList Launched

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA has its maplist now.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for Indianapolis Area: http://indianapolis.maplist.org.

Columbus Ohio MapList Launched

Columbus, Ohio, USA has its maplist now.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for Columbus area at http://columbus.maplist.org.

San Jose MapList Launched

San Jose, California, USA has its maplist now.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads for San Jose area at http://sanjose.maplist.org.

 

Las Vegas MapList Launched

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA has its maplist now.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads in http://lasvegas.maplist.org.

Kansas City MapList Launched

Kansas City, Missouri, USA has its maplist now.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads in http://kansascity.maplist.org.

San Antonio MapList Launched

San Antonio, Texas, USA has its maplist now.

Please feel free to join us. Free mapped classifieds and business ads in http://sanantonio.maplist.org.

Orlando MapList Launched

Orlando, Florida, USA has its maplist now. Please feel free to join us. Mapped classifieds and business ads in http://orlando.maplist.org.

Sacramento MapList Launched

Sacramento and its area now are served with http://sacramento.maplist.org.

Please join us!

Cleveland MapList Launched

Cleveland area has its maplist now. Please feel free to join us. Mapped classifieds and business ads in http://cleveland.maplist.org

Cincinnati MapList Launched

Cincinnati, USA has its maplist now. Please feel free to join us. Mapped classifieds and business ads in http://cincinnati.maplist.org

Portland Oregon has its maplist now

http://portland.maplist.org is lauched today for Portland, Oregon. Please come and post your business and classifieds. It’s free.

Pittsburgh now have its maplist

http://pittsburgh.maplist.org is lauched today. Please come and post your business and classifieds. It’s free.

Denver MapList launched

Please join us at http://denver.maplist.org

St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Baltimroe now have maplists

Please join us at:

http://stlouis.maplist.org

http://tampabay.maplist.org

http://baltimore.maplist.org

San Diego MapList Launched

Pleased to annouce that San Diego, California now has its own maplist: http://sandiego.maplist.org

Please join us!

Minneapolis MapList Launched

We are happy to announce that Minneapolis and St. Paul is now covered by MapList.

Please join us at: http://minneapolis.maplist.org

Small Website cannot afford downtime

I thought it was nothing to move maplist.org from one host company to another. But it turns out the 2 day downtime is a disaster, especially for Google indexed pages.

 It has been two months since this downtime but the indexed pages in Google are still declining, which means  the number of vistors are declining quickly as well.

 Google seems to destroy all of the previous indexed pages when its robots found out a long downtime, say more than one days.

 So, be careful, my dear webmasters. Don’t let you sites down for more than one hour or you will certainly feel miserable like me.

MapList upgradings have been finished

We are glad that the long upgradings have been finished and the maplists are now running smoothly.

Thanks for all the support! And please continue to support maplists.

Riverside, Phoenix and Seattle now have MapLists

Welcome to post free mapped ads at:

riverside.maplist.org

phoenix.maplist.org

seattle.maplist.org

Six New USA MapLists Added

Current USA maplists:

New York:

• New York City

California:

• Los Angeles
• San Francisco

Texas:

• Dallas
• Houston

Illinois:

• Chicago

Pennsylvania:

• Philadelphia

Florida:

• Miami

D.C.:

• Washington DC

Georgia:

• Atlanta

Michigan:

• Detroit

Massachusetts:

• Boston

Three New USA MapLists

Dallas

Philadelphia

Houston

Welcome!

Updated MapLists

Canada MapLists:
Ontario: Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, Hamilton-Burlington, London, Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge-Quelph, St. Catharines-Niagara, Oshawa-Whitby-Clarington, Windsor-Lakeshore-LaSalle, Barrie, Sudbury, Kingston Quebec: Montreal, Quebec City British Columbia: Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna Alberta: Calgary, Edmonton Manitoba: Winnipeg-Manitoba Saskatchewan: Saskatoon-Regina-Saskatchewan Nova Scotia: Halifax-Nova Scotia New Brunswick: Moncton-Saint John-Fredericton-New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador: Newfoundland and Labrador P.E.I.: Prince Edward Island

USA MapLists:
New York: New York City California: Los Angeles Illinois: Chicago

Updated MapLists

Up to date, MapList has already set up below maplists:

Ontario:

• Toronto
• Ottawa
• Hamilton & Burlington
• London
• Kitchener & Waterloo

Quebec:

• Montreal
• Quebec City

British Columbia:

• Vancouver

Alberta:

• Calgary
• Edmonton

Manitoba:

• Winnipeg – Manitoba

Saskatchewan:

• Saskatoon – Saskatchewan

Nova Scotia:

• Halifax – Nova Scotia

New Brunswick:

• New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador:

• Newfoundland and Labrador

P.E.I.:

• Prince Edward Island

All the maplists are in Canada.

New MapList on the way

Winnipeg – Manitoba

Halifax – Nova Scotia

Saskatoon – Saskatchewan 

WordPress are more search friendly than blogger

I am considering swithing to use wordpress instead of blogger if you are just considering your blog as a marketing tool for your websites.

WordPress has tags and all the blogs are more public, while blogger is more private oriented.

A better way for classifieds and directory

Maplist.org is trying to provide you a better idea of posting and reading classifieds in a big city. Though the idea of looking up classifieds on a map is no longer a new idea, rarely any major websites have attempted to implement a well interactive map for classifieds.

 Hope MapList will make your life easier!

 Join MapList Today!

Introduction of this weblog

It is the backup blog of www.maplist.org. The official blog is maplist.blogspot.com