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[T770]The Top 10 Games Online

by Lisa Park, Lis

When you head online to play a few rounds of dress up games, you have your choice of many different kinds of activities, but by far the favorites seem to be the characters we are most familiar with. In the case of fashion doll games, the most popular characters to dress up appear in Sue games, Bratz games and Barbie games.

Sue Games
In Avatar Star Sue games, or usually just Sue Games, the cute anime style character Se appears for both dress up and other styles of fashion games. You can give Sue an entirely new look including her clothing and make-up or just choose a new hairstyle that suits your current mood and what you think Sue might enjoy that day.

In many cases, when you have completed a new Sue game, you have the option of saving your completed creation as a avatar or image on your computer. You can use the pink little princess for any of your own purposes including your profiles on forums or other social networking websites. Even if you never save or print a doll you created during Sue games, you'll likely become addicted to the pint-sized online phenomenon.

Bratz Games
Bratz are easily one of the most popular fashion dolls both onscreen and off. Online, the Bratz dolls are easier to accessorize than ever before and girls are turning out in droves to enjoy their favorite characters on the internet with vast quantities of wardrobe choices and hairstyles available.

As with any doll, when you finish Bratz games, you have the option of using your creation for another purpose, but playing with dolls is so addicting that it's just as likely that you'll simply start a new round rather than treasuring a single fabulous outfit forever. The Bratz are known for their urban style and funky looks. Practicing putting these styles in Bratz games might even help you become a better dresser yourself.

Barbie Games
Before there were Sue games and Bratz games, there were Barbie games. Barbie is almost five decades old, but she's still going strong. Barbies still sell well in toy stores and you can find Barbie just as easily on many pages of the internet. Barbie games are among the most popular dress up games for younger girls, and it's easy to see why.

There are multitudes of fashion choices, many more than you'd ever be able to handle in your toy box. Dressing Barbie in the latest fashions is simple online and when you find an outfit you like, you always have the option to print our your online Barbie doll and use her as a paper doll during times you're offline. The more Barbie games you play online, the greater your fashion skills will grow and the more Barbie paper dolls you'll accumulate to go alongside your collection of true Barbie dolls.

More and more people search the Internet to find local businesses, making the yellow pages increasingly obsolete. You should already have a website for your local business to make sure your business stays competitive in the digital age. Once you have a website, making it popular for the particular service or product you provide is a lot more work than you realize.

However, there are some basic tactics you can do to make sure your website reaches people looking for your services locally. Local search is not nearly as competitive as the global search market. Search for “plumber” and then search for “Orlando plumber” to see an example of this dynamic. Here are some simple ways you can optimize your local business website to outrank competitors in your market with very little effort.

1. Submit your business to Google Local.

Over 60% of all searches done in America happen through Google. Google Local is a business directory for local, small businesses. Every time someone searches for a product or service on Google maps or Google your business will show up at the top of the search results along with other businesses in the area who have submitted themselves to Google Local.

2. Add your company name, address, and phone number to every webpage

The search engines recognize the addresses from websites and add them to their index. Using a standard format like this one will help you get picked up easier by the search engines:

Your Business Name
123 Main Street
City, State, ZIP
(123) 456-7890

3. Add Google Analytics to your site.

Google Analytics is a free script you place on your site that allows you to track important visitors' data and activity on your website. Knowing how your website gains visitors is critical in optimizing your online advertising strategy. You'll quickly be able to figure out what campaigns are working and how well they are working.

4. Double-check your page titles

Page titles are one of the most important on-page search engine optimization factors for search engines. Search engines use this information to determine what your website is about and whether or not it is relevant to a particular user search. Titles such as “Homepage” and “Welcome” do not tell the search engines anything useful. However, a title like “Atlanta Florist” or “Chicago wedding planner” tells the search engine exactly what your website is all about. Make sure to keep the titles under 65 characters and use your most important keywords first.

5. Submit to other free search directories such as

• Yahoo!
• Live/MSN
• Yelp
• Yellow Pages
• Super Pages
• City Search
• TrueLocal

Also search the Internet for directories related to your particular niche. For example, podiatrists have a directory at podiatrist.com.

6. Optimize Keywords

Write down any phrase that comes to mind when you ask yourself, “What would I search for if I was looking for a business that does what I do in my area?” These phrases and words should become target keywords for your website. That means you'll want to optimize your site to feature these keywords as much as possible in the title and H1 tags, Meta description, and page content. You don't want to overdo it and stuff your site with keywords, as most search engines will penalize you for trying to cheat the system. Just try and find a nice balance.

Another tactic is to link within your website using these keywords. For example, if you have a florist business in Atlanta, and your website has a Home, About and Contact page you can rewords these to “Atlanta Florist Home” and ‘About Atlanta Florists” in the title and H1 tags and links.

7. Create Webmaster Tools Accounts

Google, MSN, and Yahoo! each provide webmaster tools to help get your site optimized and properly indexed. Create an account with each of the three and you can see how each search engine sees your website, errors they spot, and you are able to submit your website's information to them.

• Google Webmaster Tools
• Yahoo! Site Explorer
• MS Webmaster Center

8. Create a sitemap

A sitemap is quite simply a map of your website. When first indexing your website, a search engine will use the sitemap to find out where everything is on your site. Sitemaps utilize a standard XML format and you can build one for free at XML-Sitemaps.com. After you have built your sitemap you can then submit it to Google, Yahoo, and MSN through their respective webmaster tools.

9.Validate your HTML

Having the syntax of the code of you website validated lets the search engines know your site is structurally correct. The W3C Markup Validation Service is free and will point out any errors in your HTML code.

10. Add Video

Internet video is rapidly becoming the future of how products and services are being marketed on the Internet. Any business who has successfully used video will testify to the huge increase in web traffic they've received as a result. Video is not expensive or particularly complicated to do and implement on your website. More importantly, you will need to submit your video to over 40 video sharing websites like YouTube and Metacafe to really gain the true benefit of online video. There are services out there that will produce and promote your online video for under $200, so if you're not up to doing it yourself it is recommend you seek one of these video service providers out.

These tips are designed to be a starting off point for getting your business the most exposure online organically. Granted they are ways you can pay to advertise your business, but many small businesses should first try to boost website visitation through organic, free traffic first. Most of the advice shared here can be done very quickly and with little technical skill. Get started today so you can take advantage of the “new” Yellow Pages: the Internet.

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