Popular Cities

Popular Cities

This page describes the phpYellow Popular Cities tool. This tool is a standard component of phpYellow Pro EditionTM.

What is it?

Popular cities is designed to feature cities of your choice and increase depth and local interest in your directory.

Example Popular City page ~ Seattle

About Seattle

Visitors may click on thumbnail images for created cities. The link takes them directly to the main city page.

Benefits of creating Popular Cities

Strategic advantages

  • adds more depth to your directory
  • increases local presence
  • highlight special cities unique to your directory
  • adds more weight to featured listings in popular cities
  • makes it easier for your visitors to search locally

Value benefits

  • new item: Featured listings in major cities
  • the value of listings in your directory is increased
  • you offer more value to paid advertisers

Website impact

  • the quality of content and richness of detail is enhanced
  • average visitor time-on-site will increase
  • your site gets stickier
 Featured Listings for each Popular City

How does it work?

webmaster menu tasks Use the webmaster Menu Tasks to:
  • add a new popular city
  • edit an existing popular city
  • remove a popular city
  • upload a thumbnail or main image (you supply)

Components

  • clickable thumbnails (7 included)
  • main image (7 included)
  • google map (automatically created for each city)
  • city informative text (7 included)
  • featured listings in the city (from your dataset)
  • all yellowpage categories in the city (from your dataset)
  • webmaster menu tasks / backend (included)
Point and click tools to edit existing data

Content sources

7 popular cities are installed. These present enough information to showcase Popular Cities. This application also gives you the database and programming layer to create an unlimited number of popular cities.

Image sources

Other than the first 7 cities, images are supplied by you. A thumbnail and main image are needed for each city.

City text source

City text data may be used with credit to Wikipedia as per their license (default credit is already published on each city page) - or use your own city text source.

Database data sources

The Featured Listing in city is dynamically constructed from your existing phpYellow data.

The Yellowpages in the popular city is dynamically constructed from your existing phpYellow data.

Additional content available by order

Additional custom data made to order for your unique cities is available for an additional fee. Please inquire for details.

Localization: A Key to Relevance

Popular Cities Popular Cities lets you focus your directory on popular cities in your area. The tool improves the performance of your directory by offering significant strategic, value and website benefits. Of these, the shift towards LOCAL presence is extremely important. Localization is the key to relevance for your directory visitors.

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