WhyPark has been in the press a bit this week and I thought I'd pass on a couple of links. Thanks to the bloggers who reported about WhyPark. You may get a chuckle from the perp walk at the end of this post!
Last week Craig Rowe, WhyPark's president, attended the T.R.A.F.F.I.C Down Under conference to deliver a speech titled, Web Development, Content is King. Presented below are the slides from his presentation.
The intent was to provide an unbiased view of different types of domain development projects and contrast the pros and cons of each. Without further commentary, here is the presentation.
At WhyPark we provide content to populate your sites. However, by writing your own article and syndicating it among your sites or via article directories you can help tell search engines what your site is about. The effective use of anchor text that links back to your site, is a statement of what your site is about.
Here is an example of an article I wrote to promote my retail site kidscoats.com, but it could have been just as easily used to promote another of my sites at WhyPark like kidsdresses.com.
Girls Coats to Match Your Family Lifestyle
Fashion and function are two words that go great together when choosing girls coats. Gone are the days when your kids coat looks more like a cartoon billboard than a fashion forward piece of outerwear.
When we're asked what is a good choice for little girls coats we ask that you think about your daily lifestyle. During a typical day my girls go to school, are shuttled to dance, gymnastics and kids play dates, go back and forth from the car to our house as well as friends and relatives houses, occasionally walk or go ice skating with us outside, play with their friends in the school yard, come with us to events like hay rides, holiday parties and movie outings and occasion play in the snow. Yes, we do get our share of snow storms here in Massachusetts.
If your lifestyle is something like this a Corky coat is a perfect choice for your girls outerwear. Each year our girls pick a beautiful Corky hat and coat set that brings tons of compliments and a very inexpensive nylon winter coat (we get no compliments on these coats!) for those rare days when they want to play in snow or go sledding. The great thing about a Corky coat is that they are lined in super warm fleece, can be worn everyday and are dressy enough for a special occasion. Kids winter coats are probably most expensive piece of apparel that you will buy all year, but it's also the single piece of apparel that will get the most use.
Matching your outerwear choice to your lifestyle is very important. If on the other hand, your kids are skiers and not girly girls like mine you should probably choose to invest in a high tech ski parka. The ski parka can also serve as your girls everyday coat, but you'll probably need to buy another coat for those dress up occasions. Be careful when choosing a wool girls coat because they are not machine washable. We are obviously biased towards, Corky coats, but they are less expensive than a nice girls wool coat, are machine washable and look great on any special occasion.
KidsCoats.com has a large selection of toddler coats. If you're looking for unique baby coats we have great selection of brand names.
Submitting a sitemap through your Google webmaster tools account and WhyPark is an easy way to increase the probability of having your domain crawled and indexed. But, did you know with WhyPark you can also easily submit your sitemap to Yahoo and Microsoft! Here's how.
Here is view of the WhyPark control panel for my domain ChildrensCoats.org. Notice that I have three Meta Name tags in the sitemap verification block. These are the verification codes provided by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
Google Webmaster Tools
Microsoft Webmaster Center
Yahoo Site Explorer
You'll need to create a free webmaster account with each search company and that is about the hardest part of submitting your sitemaps to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. The benefits of using the tools of all three are pretty substantial.
There are some awesome ideas for enhancing WhyPark built sites using widgets at the blog Widget Wonk. Suonim, a customer of WhyPark, started the blog to share some of the neat widgets he's used to spiff up his WhyPark sites. I've used some of his suggestions like the Google translate widget and they add an impressive level of interactivity to my sites with very little effort.
Here are some samples of his sites using some of the widgets highlighted in his blog.
A few days ago we highlighted a customer's domain Go Telepresence as one example of how you could use WhyPark to quickly build sites. Since then he has made a few tweaks and put the site on a Name Pros Wed Site Design Review thread. The feedback consensus is "this isn't a parked domain."
The idea to use Google Gadgets to customize WhyPark sites wasn't mine. It came from Wayne who notified me of his RSS feed gadget on his telepresence site. I took three sites to show how gadgets can be used on almost any domain.
