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What
is a Portal?
A
Portal is a Web Site that brings together an
organized directory of all aspects of a Community
with direct Links to specific information
contained in hundreds of various Web Sites
maintained by Agencies, Organizations, and
Businesses in that community's area.
This site contains hundreds of direct links
to Area services and organizations. With web pages
providing information that bring regular daily
visitors. Featuring important items such as local
weather, news, school closings, special events,
financial new, sports, Memoriams and even local
gas price samplings.
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Why a Portal for Coles County ?
If
the local business community is to prosper we must
do all that is possible to keep consumer spending
in Coles County , and attract consumers to Coles County . A portal contributes a great deal to
this effort
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How does
it work?
The purpose of this
undertaking is to gather into one place all
Services and Coles County Area BUSINESSES that have
web sites and feature these local businesses as
the consumer’s FIRST place to LOOK for services
and products, To see what’s in Coles County FIRST.
And the consumer can do this before leaving home
or office.
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Do you want your business to be
on the Coles County Portal?
We
will build you a Web Site and list your business
in the appropriate section of our businesses
directory for a very low onetime cost.
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What
is the cost?
We build custom full color
web sites for a one time low charge, and they can
work for you indefinitely. A full color web page
can be built for you for as little as $185. The
only addition expense is a small monthly or annual
hosting fee.
(See
Hosting)
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What
should I do to get started?
Just
go to
ColesToday.com's
Business Directory and look at what your competitors are
doing. If there is no category for your business,
we will make the category, and you will be the
first to list under your type of business. Then
email us using our form or call us at 442 0823. We
can have your Web Site Business up and running, in
usually a couple of weeks or less.
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THE PROBLEM:
Creating an Internet Web Site indicates your
understanding of the value of an Internet Web
presence. However, as you likely know, a site does
not guaranty visits. The major reason for lack of
visits is: (1.) The typical consumer does not know
you have a site or know the addresses of your Web
Site, they often do not even know the name of your
business; and (2.), the hundreds of other
competing pages that come up in a search under
your key words.
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THE SOLUTION
TO BEING FOUND ON THE WEB IF MY NAME OR WEB
ADDRESS IS UNKNOWN TO SOMEONE?
THE
PORTAL:
The
Portal advantage is an obviously simple way for
the consumer to find and view your site WITHOUT
knowing your business name or web address. It
works equally well anywhere in the World of
course, because a typical searcher wanting local
business information would utilize a
Search Engine and search for “Coles County
illinois” first, or ‘Coles County illinois
businesses,' or “Charleston and Coles County”
etc”. We have submitted our site to
dozens of search engines which can show up on
any search using these logical key words. This is
the only proper method of searching because you
will find for an example, if you search for just
“auto dealers” on google.com alone, you will
get 114,000 site pages from all over the World.
What are the odds that they ever open your site?
On a local Portal business Category Page it is
nearly a one-hundred percent likelihood that a
searcher would open your Web Site! This website
had more than 29,000 page links at the start of
2005. Portals receive very high positions in
search engine results, often your business will
come up on or near the top of a search page.
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Try a search right now!
Remember,
if you put quotes “ ” around key words you
narrow your search. IE Coles County Businesses will
get you every site in the World with the Word
Coles County – or Businesses. But “Coles County
businesses” brings you right to town. TRY IT-
type in “Coles County businesses” or
"Coles County illinois portal" in the
search engine box below, or even Coles County
illinois directory without quotes and Coles County Area
usually comes up on the first page or two, out of
hundreds of pages, often at or near the top the
first page. But Search Engine page orders change
constantly.
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NOTE: COLESTODAY IS CURRENTLY
BEING SUBMITTED TO SEARCH ENGINES AND LINKS
MAY NOT APPEAR FOR A WHILE UNTIL SEARCH ENGINES
HAVE INDEXED THE ENTIRE SITE
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