Local-Yokels.com, is for all Locals and the occasional Yokel residing in Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and the County of Parkland. It will hopefully create a useful dialog for our local communities discussing the issues of the day while maintaining a healthy dose of humor.
Initially Local-yokels.com was an effort to develope strategies to bring local web traffic to local websites and businesses. But it has taken on more of a life of its own. As I started to examine various topics and issues in our area, interesting circumstance and events begain to appear that could not be ignored or at the least should not be ignored. None of the other media in our area seemed to be addressing these issues so here is local-yokels.com.
Local-yokels is about creating an open transparent dialog between and with the residents of our communities. We have a free forum where we encourage residents to engage in dialogs as well as the events calendar to add events as well as comment on our blog.
Local-yokels is also about creating a venue that helps local business get noticed. By adding your business to our free business directory you get another link to your site. In the world of Search Engin Optimization, every link counts.You can also send us your story, event or sale and we will publish it for free.
As you partake in the site it’s ok to be a little weird but we expect everyone to practice the Golden Rule. So be nice, or else.
Have fun, enjoy!
A local Yokel.
Local-Yokels.com can help your business. It is a place that can help get you noticed. If you have a web presense, having links to your site from other sites is extremely important for search engine ranking. But not all links are equal. Relevant links count more. If you are a dog goomer, links from a tire store might not be so relevent but a link from a kennel would be more relevant and count more.
So how is local-yokels.com relevent to your business? If you have an event, a sale or grand opening or whatever happing at your business just send us the story with links to your site and we will publish your story for free. What could be more relevent than a story about your business? Search engines love text content and rate the link to your site by judging if the text around your link is relevent to your site. That is assuming that your site has been optimized for search engines in the first place.
If you don’t have a web presense or don’t know what SEO or Search Engine Optimization is we can help with that as well, as our creator and webmaster is the owner/operator of Konbrio Software. Check out his site for details.
Other ways you can get links is to comment on ours or any blog posts, and make sure you leave a link to your site. We often have to remove posts from spammers with links back to payday loans in the USA. I guess that shows you how important links are.
There are two other ways to increase your web presence a Local-Yokels.com. First you can add your event to our events calendar. And Second you can start or join a discussion on the Local-Yokels forums. . Just remember to include your link in your signature.
Don’t wait get started and best it’s all free.
Local-yokels now boast an editorial page which we will
update as often as possible. The story that appears in our editorial page is a feed from our blog.
You can view and comment on all the articles if you follow the blog link from the menu at the left of this page.
If you have a story or stories you would like to appear in Local-Yokels.com please send them on to me. If you want to contribute often please contact me and we can talk.
To encourage an open dialog for locals I have inlcuded the Local-Yokels forums.
Our hope is that residents will engage in courteous dialogs discussing local affairs of concern.
I have included an Events calendar where locals and even yokels can add community events. You can also follow us on Twitter @localyokels.
Vote on various issues with the Yokel Polls
With the additon of polls to local-yokels we can start to get a feel for how us yokels feel about various issues not to mention it could be fun. If you have an issue that you think would make a good poll please let us know about it and we will try and include it on the Polls page.
I have included a News page with the latest news off the web for our local area.