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.tel for City/Town - Geo Directory Explained Building a .tel directory for every city, town or village is very simple. "Register your city/town/village name now, before someone else grabs it!" [size]You can start building your geo directory with a limit of approximately 2975 premium tel pages (leaving 25 tel pages for categories) based on the Telnic's limit on sub domains (which is 3000 at present). Following is an example how to build a .tel directory with 5 categories (you can increase this according to your needs) Step 1 - Create a directory tree with 5 categories as follows: bakeries.mytown.tel boutiques.mytown.tel caterers.mytown.tel dentists.mytown.tel groceries.mytown.tel - these are the "links to folders" going to be visible on main page - note: It's better not to have too many categories on the main page, 25-30 is advisable (again its up to you anyway). Step 2 - Then keep on adding anything (names of business/shop etc) you want as follows: (IMPORTANT! When you use the CTH to create folders, there is checkbox labeled "Create a link to this folder". If you check this the folder you create will be visible on the telpage. But, remember that you cannot reverse this using the CTH. However, you can hide or display this newly created folder by using TELcp at www.telcp.com.) bakery.mytown.tel - (to be listed under the premium name for category "bakeries") greengrocery.mytown.tel - (to be listed under catergory "groceries") thedentist.mytown.tel - (to be listed under catergory "dentists") doughnuts.mytown.tel - (to be listed under category "bakeries") partysupply.mytown.tel - (to be listed under category "caterers") partydresses.mytown.tel - (to be listed under category "boutiques") - you can create up to about 2975 sub domains like this - note: This way you can have a nice n short address for your .tel page, And its the one that .tel page user will display on the namecard/bizcard or in the letterhead. Easy to remember. Biz name + Name of city+town+village .tel. note2: If you do not wish to use the services of TELcp at www.telcp.com, then you must note down the list of sub domains and their URLs. And make sure that you leave the checkbox labelled "Create a link to this folder" blank. Step 3 - Now you must select the telpages you created under Step 2 and add tem as "Contact Information" under the categories you have created under Step 1. note: Once again remember there is limit for the number of records per page (which is 100 and it includes images, text ads etc). Step 4 - Now, if you use TELcp at www.telcp.com, select the root domain and "Hide Folder Link"" by selecting "Manage Folder Links" on the popup menu. If you followed note2 of Step 2 (that means you are not using TELcp), you do not have to do anything because those folder links are not visible from the right beginning. - That's it. The idea is to provide each telpage user a unique identity in their own city/town/village. You can start this type of a geo directory small and grow gradually. Even if you charge US$5 a page you will get 5x2975. But this will not happen by magic. "Check here if the city/town/village you live is still available. If available register it now, before its too late !" - Cheers! P.S. [/size]
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common categories If you guys like this idea then we all can get together and create a nice looking set of category names to be displayed on the main page. Then it will be a kind of unique identity for the .tel based geo directory. However, this (the names of categories) will vary from country to country. Still, its better to have a common identity. Others may be having better ideas than this. You can spell it out here. - Cheers! |
Better SEO approach and Better Presentation Poorly constructed URL of a .tel page: [size]tommys-furniture.furniture.shopping.mytown.tel [/size] Corrected URL for better SEO and better presentation: [size]tommys.mytown.tel [/size] How to Correct .... [size]In order to achieve a corrected URL with sub categories, create folders as follows: 1 - create "shopping" folder under mytown.tel and leave folder links "visible" on the main page 2 - create "furniture" folder under shopping.mytown.tel - result is furniture.shopping.mytown.tel 3 - create "tommys" under mytown.tel and DO NOT make it visible on the main page- result is tommys.mytown.tel (hidden) 4 - Now go to furniture.shopping.mytown.tel and add "tommys.mytown.tel" as a "Contact information" select "Go to a .tel" End result is the new owner of "Tommy's Furniture" will have a nice and short id for the bizcard - tommys.leeds.tel, tommys.fontana.tel etc Hope this helps to understand our directory building method for the .tel[/size] |
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Definitely the best way to achieve better urls. Just a word of caution when doing this for large directories, unless you have a really fast computer with a ton of ram and a lightening processor, a thousand or so folders at route level can take an age to load in the Telnic Control panel. So be prepared for this. I have over a thousand in taxinumbers.tel and use an alternative method of populating as it takes so long. But there are some things you can only do from the CTH. However, it's still worth it, to achieve great looking urls.[/size] |
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exactly. the CTH is a deadset bomb for building large directories at ROOT level. get a blazingly fast browser/java machine before you even think about trying this. ...and put a LOT of thought into how you will later reference/group your data. It will be really really important when you come to use Henri's awesome group mapping tool. this is where "short" url's are a necessity. so much to share... no time as yet.[/size] |
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I have found Opera to be one of the quickest of the popular browsers for the task, but there is probably a quicker trimmed down one out there.[/size] |
good thread - but bear in mind using this strategy means the inbuilt breadcrumbs won't work and you'll need to rely on your user using the browser back button to go back to the previous page. i.e. shopname.shopping.city.tel when viewing shopname the breadcrumbs allow going back to the shopping listing in the proposed strategy when you jump to shopname.city.tel there are no breadcrumbs and only way back is the browser back button one other point, i've personally experienced better traffic by going after the long tail seo keyword rich subdomains vs the shorter cleaner subdomain names. |
@TELcp, have you built a geo directory that we could have a look at please? |
No way Jose Instead of having for example: restaurants.miami.tel doctors.miami.tel I would rather register: miamirestaurants.tel miamidoctors.tel and so on It cost only $10 but looks so much better and clear |
Good Good Good post Telcp Super Super Super good post Telcp |
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Understand your concerns. Well, we realized this difficulty in the begining of Q3 in 2009. So, we decided to overcome this difficulty and few others at CTH when planning to design TELcp. As a result TELcp powered solutions will not encounter this problem. Quote: [/size]
Yes, you are correct. But we believe that losing of breadcrumbs for navigation is not a problem for mobile phone users as most of them use back/fwd buttons as a habit. Pc users can use the "Back" button of the browser. However, at he end of the day it is the mobile user who will dominate the .tel usage. Thanks for the feedback. It encourages us. For the benefit of those who would like to compare good and bad sides of our method please see below: Advantages of having short tel page URLs: [/size]
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[size] Link to demo tel domain - www.mytown.tel Link to - "How create a tel domain like mytown.tel" Cheers ![/size] |
Great work TELcp. I have been doing something similar here with my directories and with lots of success, too. I will study your structures further to see how I can improve when I move onto other city directories. |
What do you think of the one I found www.mylondon.tel ? |
Please note that the name of the town "mytown" in our sample directory is fictitious and is used in place of a real name of a "town", for demonstration purpose only. An ideal geo domain should contain only the actual name of a city, town, village or a name of a place (i.e. 42ndStreet, Oceanterminal etc). Cities may also continue as newyork-city-ny, miami-fl, miami.fl (in the case of fl.tel) etc. Cheers! |
You are right but how many ideal geo domains can you still register ? I'll take anytime www.mylondon.tel with a content than www.london.tel with nothing in it |
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Quite right marimax, this is a great thread about populating .tel directories, whilst most good geo domains are still lying empty. I wish someone would explain to me why and why they expect them ever to be worth the ridiculous amounts they often ask for them. This is the main reason in my opinion, that .tel is struggling to reach any sort of critical mass and not because it is missing all the different bells and whistles that each individual developer wants to satisfy their own personal usage. Didn't mean to spoil the thread TELcp. In fact I couldn't be more pleased with with taxinumbers.tel (structured with over a thousand root level folders), jumped from 0 to 2 in the latest PR update, only been populated 2 months and showing well above lots of other traditional taxi directories in lots of SERPS. So no drawbacks SEO wise with your methods. Rant over, back to adding a few more paid listings to my .tel directories.[/size] |
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Not quite sure how many yet to be registered? However, we hope this thread will help the current owners of empty geo domains to open their eyes and see what they can do about their domains? We will also be populating few recently acquired geo domains of cities/towns (mainly expired names). Yes, agree. Anything populated is better than the ones with no content. Quote: [/size]
In fact, taxinumbers.tel is a good example to demonstrate how combination of keywords (taxi+numbers) can make a powerful "Keyword Directory" if properly planned and present to the end user. Cheers![/size] |
Good timing. Our short url method is ideal for the info window of the ".tel Mapping Tool" updated by Henri. See the latest blog here http://www.telnic.org/blog/ |
Anyone can help anything else??? With the tool of Henri you can do many things, but someone have may a css for them??......... You must use the contact us, but the css at last??? The path to the stylesheet to use, for example: http://hosted.telnic.org/cgi-bin/con...h.com/your.css I have made I test to check how can work, only with the tools, and only I´ll need the good css to look great. In the menus, I´ll put the differents maps (now doesn´t work), but the problen is at the bottom The test is in here http://paratorpes.es/telrural/indexok.php If someone help me with a beautifull .css , I think will be good for all, because to do that is only 1 minutes |
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ha! only 1 minute....and then some hehe Tindaya, I feel your pain. I've got some really really cool pages being created just now. Anyway, its all based on css, php, and html5 (you can do some incredible things) my advice ASAP. get "hype" for mac. (html5 awesome) get "coda" for mac. (css layout "made easy") I will be showcasing in the next few weeks what I have come up with. I will be able to help you once my work has been completed. Sorry I sent you a PM for now[/size] |
