Written by: Jophiel Silvestrone
Jophiel Silvestrone has written 326 posts in the Tech Blog.
Jophiel grew up on a ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana near Chico Hot Springs. Working on the ranch instilled work ethic and self motivation. Filled with this drive, Jophiel started mowing the local school's yards twice a month throughout the summers, at the age of 12. He moved to Billings in 2004, where he has been deeply involved in the local business community ever since. A serial entrepreneur, Jophiel has ran multiple businesses in our local community. The first business, a janitorial and carpet cleaning company, founded in 2005, has employed over 50 locals. Moving on to the media industry, Jophiel and several partners founded Green Directory Montana in the spring of 2007. Green Directory's sustainability ranking software awarded points based on sustainable or "green" actions. These points counted towards a business's total "Green Score," which in turn ranked them against other businesses in their category and throughout the entire site. It also featured a limited edition print version distributed annually. A business acquisition allowed Jophiel to focus on new projects, and a few close business colleagues and Jophiel started Rocky Mountain Mr. & Ms. Magazine, a lifestyle publication for men and women in the Magic City. After a year and a half at the helm of RM3 Magazine, the business was purchased. He now runs a web development company SkyPoint Studios and fathers his son Jaoquin, who plays football, basketball, soccer, and is learning snowboarding from his dad. Recently, has expanded to locations in Havasu, Arizona & Vegas. SkyPoint Studios is a market leader in both Billings & Havasu and Jophiel is working on building that same level of market dominance in Vegas. Specialties: Extensive experience in online and offline business. Especially savvy at WordPress, and operate several sites, one example is the blog: skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com/tech-blog. Check out skypointwebdesignbillingsmontana.com for the latest projects from SkyPoint Studios.
Free Online Real Estate
Did you know that there is free real estate to be had online? I’m talking about business listings that you can claim for free!
There are many different profiles online that are just waiting for you to claim them. To claim them, simply fill out your business information on each profile site. Each one of these profiles adds benefit and value to your website and your online presence.
They come with a free backlink and this backlink has SEO value to search engines like Google and Bing. It’s important to pay attention to these profiles and to fill them out as completely and accurately as possible.
Now this means having the correct N.A.P. or Name, Address and Phone Number. If you don’t have an address, you won’t be able to fill out these profiles. It’s important to have an address for your business displayed online. Without an address displayed online, your business will not be as competitive as other businesses who have an address.
So gather up all of the information for your business you have like logo, business description, address, hours of operation, website link, phone number and head out and fill out all the profiles you possibly can.
To give you a hand in this, I’ve assembled the top 50 business profile sites that you can fill out for free.
This could be a pretty daunting list to complete, so I recommend doing 2 to 3 per week if you can handle it. Once you’ve completed this list and you have a bunch of real estate online claimed, go back and check your search engine results and see how well they’ve improved.