Different locations, how can you make the site searchable. Now what is this all about? I’ll start with the fact that many people previously did similar things on Google maps, that is, my business. After the company began to destroy false points, that is, those who really are not at the address, everything became different. In simple terms, there are still real stores, offices, pick-up points, post offices and the like. Those who have one place and were able to confirm earlier, here they are for different services. There is no office, but there is a service area. Although, in truth, the map shows the point that is closer to the client, I once had several in Kyiv and it brought good results;)

What about those who have a good website, want to work throughout the city, region and do not know what is needed for this? I’ll show you using the example of an American company that created a resource for plumbing services in the suburbs of Chicago ... Read more »

Useful resources for working with the site, I would like to highlight the main ones and tell them in a more accessible language. For those who are starting to master website building and those who are actively managing their resources.

I'll start with images and texts. For free icons and the like, go to flaticon , a large format can be found on  freepik . Compression can be done with a simple drag-and-drop in  tinypng , and resizing can be conveniently done with imageresizer . For those who are too lazy to install and understand the free program xnview .

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I once wrote about what needs to be done to place company reviews from Google Maps on the website. That is, my business comes from the service. Times are changing and the elfsight website has stopped working. I started looking for an alternative, I don’t understand why Google developers themselves didn’t implement this for their users. All you can do is insert the map code as a frame. Everything else is for advanced people.

I tried several and settled on  sociablekit.com , simple registration through a Google account. The free version has 3,000 views and the ability to create five widgets. The choice of the latter is very large, that is, a lot of things can be displayed from your social networks using code on the site. 

The many settings for each widget for display were impressive, minus there is no language, but the reviews themselves are d ... Read more »

Photo gallery on the site, but is it needed at all? Owners of new resources and those who want to add a similar module to the site come to me with this question. Going back in time, I can say that more than 10 years ago I used the photo module to promote this site. Since there was an order of magnitude less of everything back then, by taking the description from Wikipedia and redoing it a little, you could almost immediately get to the top of the search results. 

What to photograph and how to add? Let's start with the fact that any image, if it is present on a search resource, must be well labeled and described. That is, the name of the photo and its description. And the gallery module in normal systems allows you to do just this. 

A striking example is my friends, plumbers from Chicago, for whom I recently created a website. Now they are very surprised that t ... Read more »