Besma Bashier in USA

Besma Bashier has well arrived in the USA and for all those who missed yesterday’s call about image management, I would like to share with you Besma’s first impression of the country of unlimited possibilities (reminds me of YORGOO :-)).

USA welcomes Besma

Besma was overwhelmed by the cordial, almost exuberant welcome the Americans extended to her and her family.

Besma Bashier

Besma Bashier Shopping

This is the way the Americans create empathy in a fashion shopping mall, and Besma says: “Never shopping was so much fun!”

Besma Bashier gets new Shoes

It came as a real surprise to Besma to find Felisa Ryan’s Flyers all over the place at Global Sports Posh-Shoes-Store. But then, she knows, there is no sneaker, kick or high heal resisting Felisa’s attention.

Felisa Ryan Shoes

Besma Bashier Art

Besma needed those shoes to attend the vernissage of the latest Warhol posthumous Exhibition …

Besma Bashier by Andy Warhol

Besma Bashier in the Streets of New York

YORGOO Press inspires street artists on Madison Avenue. The face of Alejandra appears right of a YORGOO Press ad.

Alejandra Neri

Besma’s Coffee Break in a Wild West Saloon

Chuck Madere

The Music Clips in the Saloon Featuring Ute’s Swingle Singers

Great stuff but unfortunately Besma Could not grab the sound track.

Ute Schaedler Live

Alexandra Nestoridou in the News

Flipping through some newspapers, she finds another familiar face…

Alexandra Nestoridou in the News

Back on the Streets of New York

Strolling down Wall Street Besma’s attention is grabbed by some workers who are just replacing the American flag hanging on the front of the NYSE. ” When there is blood in the (Wall) streets, there is bucks to be made by those who don’t sleep”…Larrie Perkins comments. It seems, he is right: Sandra is the only smile left on Wall Street.

Larrie Perkins Online Tax Filing

Besma’s New Car

Fun in the City with the brand new Limited edition YORGOO Mini. Besma opted for this model for shopping in the City (most shops deliver home, so, no need for a big Limo).

Besma's New Y Car

Besma bumps into Paris Hilton

Some people you can bump into anywhere, when they don’t bump into you. Paris Hilton has a solid record of Bumpy Rides with her Bentley Coupe. Crisis obliging, she has found the ultimate solution to her Car Problems: Gene line’s Save Money on your Auto Spares and (Car) Parts. gene’s book is now available on CD and DVD with some hot bonus tracks: Paris under the Hood, Paris Chaning Slicks, Paris Carburating … ask the Barman.

Besma meets Paris Hilton

Beckham was there as well

The shift from Spice to Freesia is obvious. Ask Brenda Baker the model for the brand new Tattoo.

Beckham from Spice to Freesia

Besma is more interested in Fashion than in Car Parts

Besma prefers fashion to Spares and Auto Parts. Flipping through the latest edition of Vogue, she just bumps into another Paris, laetitia Paris, who is featured by the magazine because of her trendy hat collection.

Laetitia Paris en Vogue

Besma Bashier watches News on CNN

Besma is attracted by the inedited clips from the last Moonraker. Does she recognize Joe Cettina who has started brewing the Moon Malt: as you can see on the picture: green beer has it’s effect on the skin, contrasting nicely with the blues and the blacks of the environment. By the way: the new Planet rising at the horizon is Ceguna, a completely new world.

Joe Cettina walking on the Moon

From the news to the Movies

A quick stop at a move theater toi watch Alejandra’s preferred Hero, a recommendation which bears its charm.

Alejandra's Hero

New York Fashion

New YorkFashion is known as a trendsetter. Besma likes the most recent creations: the image features a demo of a new hair styling lotionl: it’s called wash and wear. Observe the movement and shine. (For those who are interested: the dress is the socalled Y Dress, the ultimate creation by YoYo Yanel for the spring 2010 collection. The elements are double faced and only INSIDERS know what the inner face faces…. ask Zo, she usually knows it all!)

YORGOO Fashion

Besma Basier’s relaxing evening

To finish the day, Besma joins the YORGOO Call where Bianca Gubalke distills her last words of the day. Note Besma’s company.

Bianca Gubalke on World Vision

Thank you besma for sharing your first impressions from the new world. We are looking forward for more.

PS: There was a lot more interesting stuff at last night’s call. Make sure you don’t miss tonight’s Session at 8 pm London Time at yorGOtalk.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Noordhoek goes live on YORGOO Media
2. 1.1 Noordhoek
3. 1.2 Noordhoek on Google
4. 1.3 Noordhoek on YORGOO Media
5. 2 Noordhoek Online Business
6. 2.1 noordhoek-realestate.yorgoomedia.com
7. 2.2 noordhoek-tourism.yorgoomedia.com
8. 2.3 noordhoek-accommodation.yorgoomedia.com
9. 2.4 noordhoek-horsebackriding.yorgoomedia.com

Noordhoek goes live on YORGOO Media

Noordhoek south of Cape Town has a new website! Bianca Gubalke publishes her Noordhoek blog on YORGOO Media, profiting from the features available for community building. The Atahualpa Theme is a nice solution for the site and Bianca’s configuration results in a sober, attractive and professional site.

Let’s see what YORGOO Media can do for a community such as Noordhoek.

Noordhoek

Located at the foot of Chapman’s Peak Noordhoek and the Noordhoek Valley is one of the preferred destinations around Cape Town. Rural atmosphere, the famous beach, charming accommodation make it an ideal place to go.

I am sure Bianca will share with us what life in Noordhoek is all about.

Noordhoek Image

Click the image to see live size.

Noordhoek on Google

Checking out Noordhoek on Google I notice about just tourism related websites, an insignificant  Wiki entry and a Real Estate site. It’s time for a publication by, about and for people from Noordhoek.

Noordhoek on YORGOO Media

The YORGOO Media platform is an ideal place for communities to build an online network. First because the sites are tuned for high visibility, they are easy and quick to set up and best of all: they are FREE. Second because the personal sites are linked through the BuddyPress module which allows for the creation of a real social network. Setting up a Group called Noordhoek is a matter of 3 seconds. Inviting people from Noordhoek to join is an easy task - it’s enough to make it known that the facility exists.

Noordhoek Online Business

Let’s think about it:

You would like to launch a local online business but you don’t want to bother with technicalities, hosting, scripts and other distracting stuff. You neither want to spend a lot of money to start with, but you want to offer a real service to the community which can be financed by local and external advertisers.

Here is my plan:

1. Grab all Google top 10 positions on “Noordhoek” with Noordhoek related sub-domains on YORGOO Media plus use your own sites to get there as well. The point is: all these tourism and real estate sites need to buy advertising space either from you or from Google.

Examples:

noordhoek-realestate.yorgoomedia.com

noordhoek-tourism.yorgoomedia.com

noordhoek-accommodation.yorgoomedia.com

noordhoek-horsebackriding.yorgoomedia.com

2. Offer free websites to the whole population of Noordhoek and show them how they can use the social network as well as the blog.

3. Get a license from YORGOO Media to load a few themes for the users from Noordhoek; build local ads straight into these themes and adapt them as need arises. Make sure that on every site there is community news.

4. Get local contributors for the Noordhoek main site to make it THE authority site.

The nice thing about the plan: the population of Noordhoek shapes the online profile and image of their town instead of people from outside. This is all in line with our philosophy about: get in control of your name and brand. Why should Noodhoek not be master of its own destiny? Why should Noordhoek just remain in the hands of big brother Google and some smart agencies in Cape Town making the money on the brand name Noordhoek?

Hey guys and gals from Noordhoek: let’s bring the cash back home and let’s shape the Noordhoek Online Image together. YORGOO Media is ready to help and to support the project.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Configure Atahualpa like Africa YORGOO Media?
2. 1.1 Load the Atahualpa Theme
3. 1.2 Atahualpa Theme Options
4. 1.3 Atahualpa Body, Text & Links
5. 1.4 Atahualpa Layout
6. 1.5 Atahualpa Favicon
7. 1.6 Atahualpa Header
8. 1.7 Atahualpa Header Images
9. 1.8 Atahualpa Page Menu Bar
10. 1.9 Atahualpa Category Menu Bar
11. 1.10 Atahualpa Next/Previous Navigation
12. 1.11 Atahualpa Sidebars
13. 1.12 Atahualpa Widgets
14. 1.13 Atahualpa Footer
15. 2 Atahualpa for Africa YORGOO Media

Configure Atahualpa like Africa YORGOO Media?

Africa YORGOO Media is a customized YORGOO Media Blog based on the Atahualpa Theme. The Atahualpa on YORGOO Media is modified to work with Semiomantics tuning files. This post shows the customization applied to the theme to get the look of Africa YORGOO Media.

The below tutorial can be downloaded as PDF file HERE.

Load the Atahualpa Theme

First things first: from Appearance in your Dashboard Menu select and load Atahualpa. The theme is flexible and allows customization of most any area of the theme. It’s ideal for beginners who don’t want to bother with style sheet editing and on a WordPress MU installation, where you don’t have access to FTP, you are able to load images to customize your theme such as a favicon, a logo and header images.

Atahualpa Theme Options

Now you find under appearance a new tab, Atahualpa Theme Options, select it. The Option page opens a menu with 26 tabs leading to specific customization sections. I will not discuss them all as the theme can be configured to create thousands different looks; I will just show, what settings I used for the Africa YORGOO Media customization. My basic criteria are the color scheme of YORGOO which is Black, Gray and Red. I use basically the following color codes:

Black: 000000

Dark Gray: 333333

Medium Gray: 666666

Red: B30000

To make it simple, I stay within these colors for all areas of concern.

I will just indicate the tabs selected and the corresponding modifications.

Atahualpa Body, Text & Links

Atahualpa Body Text Links

My link color is close the the black color of the text fonts, here dark gray. The Link Hover (shows when you pass the cursor over a hyperlinked word or expression) color is obviously my standard red.

Note: I don’t underline links, nor edit them in bold fonts.

Atahualpa Layout

Here is my selection for the layout; I like flexible width (fluid), and I define minimum and maximum width.

Atahualpa Layout

Atahualpa Favicon

Obviously I want to load my own favicon called y-favicon.ico. You may use it as well by using the below settings. If you wish to use your personal favicon, we will load it for you, just send it to yorGOhelp in the correct format as indicated on the Atahualpa Favicon page.

Atahualpa Favicon

Atahualpa Header

Header Logo

I just use the default YORGOO Media Logo, a privilege when your name starts with a Y :-). You can load your own logo following the instructions on the menu: open an existing post and upload your logo without inserting it into the post. The logo file can be a .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp format. Just enter the name of the file into the Logo field. My logo is 56×56 px gif; if you want to use the YORGOO Media logo, just leave the entry as is: logo.gif.

Atahualpa YORGOO Media Logo

Atahualpa Header Fonts

As before, I just apply my colors and I print in normal and not in default bold.

Atahualpa Header Fonts

Header Styling

Note, I don’t like dashed lines, so either I remove these lines or I print them solid. To make a dashed line solid, just replace the word ‘dashed’ by ’solid’ in the style sheet entry. To make it disappear, either remove the whole line or set the with of the line to 0px (zero pixels).

In the Search Box field, I put the border weight to 0 pixels, the horizontal bars I print ’solid’ whereas the first bar with a weight of 2 px and the second thinner with 1 px.

Atahualpa Header Styling

Atahualpa Header Images

I have created 8 header pictures in the format 1200×150 (corresponding to the max with allowed under the Layout definition). The pictures are named:

atahualpa_header_1.jpg

atahualpa_header_2.jpg

…

atahualpa_header_8.jpg

atahualpa_header_1

atahualpa_header_2

atahualpa_header_3

atahualpa_header_4

atahualpa_header_5

atahualpa_header_6

atahualpa_header_7

atahualpa_header_8

To upload the images, just open an existing post and load them using the same file names as indicated and don’t insert the images into the post. You may load as many as you want, just change the number in the image name accordingly.

If you load only one picture, then you are all set. If you load multiple pictures, then configure the rotation. My settings are to rotate the pictures in an interval of 10 seconds.

Atahualpa Header Rotator

I don’t want to preload the 8 pictures as it would slow down the loading time of the first page visited. Clicking on the header will lead visitors back to the home page.

Opacity

I use the default white opacity 40% and on a width corresponding to the width of the sidebars on full width.

Atahualpa Header Opacity

Atahualpa Header Opacity Right

Atahualpa Page Menu Bar

Most is default, I just delete borders and adapt the colors:

Atahualpa Page Menu Bar

Atahualpa Category Menu Bar

Just adapt color.

Atahualpa Category Menu Bar

Atahualpa Next/Previous Navigation

I select in the first field to display the previous to the right and next to the left. Then I just modify at the bottom the styles by drawing ’solid’ lines and modifying the color of the lines to my color B3000.

Atahualpa Next/Previous Navigation

Atahualpa Sidebars

Here are my width settings for the sidebars as well as the style modifications:

Atahualpa Sidebars

Atahualpa Sidebars Style

Atahualpa Widgets

Just adjust colors as per screen shot. Click on the image to see the original size of the table.

Atahualpa Widgets

Atahualpa Footer

Just change the border to solid and 2 px as well as adapt the color:

Atahualpa Footer

Then add your Copyright notice:

Atahualpa Copyright

Atahualpa for Africa YORGOO Media

The Atahualpa Theme is flexible and can be adapted to needs easily. Once you know what kinds of styles you like, you just focus on the few modifications needed to customize accordingly. There is a lot more you could modify as you can see from the Options Menu; however the default settings are quite fine on many of these features. My goal was to quickly have a user friendly site up and running and then move to the next instead of spending hours on the ultimate golden cut.

May this tutorial help.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Great Brak River South Africa
2. 2 Accommodation Great Brak River
3. 3 Great Brak River Accommodation
4. 4 Great Brak River
5. 5 Garden Route Great Brak River
6. 6 South Africa Great Brak River
7. 7 Great Brak River Bed and Breakfast
8. 8 Great Brak River Resting Palms
9. 9 Resting Palms
10. 10 Publishing Online: Benefits and Value
11. 10.1 Africa YORGOO Media

Great Brak River South Africa

Great Brak River Accommodation and Accommodation Great Brak River were two key-phrases Hanno Coetzee suggested this morning for a tagging test and contest. The issue was about: how to tag and publish in the most efficient way a post targeting people who are looking for accommodation in Great Brak River on the Garden Route in South Africa.

I had told Hanno that I have been testing different methods recently and that I had some astonishing results with a ‘new’ or a different way of tagging bringing the Semiomantics tuning advantages yet to another level.

To increase the challenge, I wanted to use a brand new blog, in fact I started posting from the blog we set up last night at during the Ycademy call. The site is at Africa YORGOO Media and if you check it out: the configuration of the site is not yet completed, however the basic Semiomantics set up on YORGOO Media gave me the necessary confidence to take the bet.

The post content suggested by Hanno was a recent post on Garden Route Directory by Hanno Coetzee which we just copied and pasted into the new site.

Here are some of the Results:

Accommodation Great Brak River

All Accommodation keywords in South Africa and on the Garden Route in particular are difficult to conquer as there is fierce competition and active publishing by sites which have been there for ages.

Our result is astonishing anyway:

Accommodation Great Brak River on Google

Our best result is with Africa YORGOO Media on rank 7, beating YORGOO Publishing which ranks 9th.

Great Brak River Accommodation

This is probably closer to what a visitor would type into Google and again, we are visible on top 10 on Great Brak River Accommodation.

Great Brak River Accommodation on Google

Similar result as before, we come in under Great Brak River Accommodation with Africa YORGOO Media on number 9, ahead of YORGOO Publishing.

Great Brak River

Great Brak River is the name of a town on the Garden Route in South Africa. We test this tag as well and again we make it immediately to rank 9 with the new site at Africa YORGOO Media.

Great Brak River on Google

Garden Route Great Brak River

Searchers may want to zoom in using Geographic criteria and look for Garden Route Great Brak River. So did we and again we find our post on spot 8, this time with YorgoNestoridis.com:

Garden Route Great Brak River on Google

Let’s look further along these lines.

South Africa Great Brak River

Our best shot is Africa YORGOO Media again on rank 26 for South Africa Great Brak River:

South Africa Great Brak River on Google

It’s rank 16 by now, not 26 … we are moving up fast.

Great Brak River Bed and Breakfast

Other people may look for a special type of accommodation in Great Brak River such as bed and Breakfast. Here as well we score well with our post:

Great Brak River bed and Breakfast on Google

Africa YORGOO media comes in on number 5, our best performance.

Some people may just want to know more about the place where they have booked to stay and therefore they may type into the Google search:

Great Brak River Resting Palms

The Google search on Great Brak River Resting Palms returns an absolutely smashing result:

Great Brak River Resting Palms on Google

Again, Africa YORGOO Media comes in on top, this time on number 1. The other market sites are sites syndicating YORGOO Publishing or sites which have been there before, such as Hanno’s Gardenrouteaccom.co.za, a smashing site in general (but we beat it) as well as gardenroutedirectory.com, which we beat as well.

Interesting: there are two sites from YORGOO Media on these top 8, demonstrating the power of our new Publishing framework at YORGOO Media.

Resting Palms

Finally, let’s just do a search on the name of the accommodation: Resting Palms. Google returns over 1,800,000 results and here is where we come in:

Resting Palms on Google

Our best shot again is Africa YORGOO Media! Rank 6 -9 or 4 out of 10 is a nice result.

Publishing Online: Benefits and Value

Imagine you are the owner of Resting Palms in Great Brak River and you would like to become visible on Google so that tourists and travellers can find the place when searching Google. You have two possibilities: either you pay for advertising on Google or top ranked sites, or you get your own site set up to grab the keywords of your interest. Google ads are probably way too expensive over the long run if you want to reach a statistically significant result.

Advertising on well places sites such as the Gardenroute directory is a convenientsolution for multiple reasons: low cost (compare with Yahoo directory where a minimum entry is $200 per month and you don’t see these guys hardly on Google, but still cheaper than Google ads.), great presentation and editorials and a fast spreading presence on thousands of South Africa related keywords: probably the best deal on line right now namely for people taking long term contracts as the site is young and fast growing. Contact: Lalakoi or The Garden Route Newsletter.

Get your own web site. For a one man show business (like many bed and breakfast facilities are), a solid publishing solution such as YORGOO Press or YORGOO Media could be ideal provided the owner publishes regularly content about events, stories and so on about the business, town, area and so forth. Cost wise it’s the best solution for people who have a long term ambition for their business and who want to spend the time to take care of an own site (needs may be some learning).

For questions about pricing of our services, please contact Bianca Gubalke in South Africa at bianca(at)ycademy.com. By the way: Africa YORGOO Media is for sale :-).

Yorgo Nestoridis

Africa YORGOO Media

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

Great Brak River Accommodation

Our earlier post on the Great Brak River Accommodation facilities was in support of Graden Route Directory and to test different methods of tagging.

Great Brak River Accommodation vs. Accommodation Great Brak River

Under Great Brak River Accommodation our post was not to be seen on Google within 10 minutes, while under Accommodation Great Brak River we have a tangible result:

Great Brak River Accommodation on Googe

We come in on Rank 25 immediately and we are sure it will improve within the hour.

Watch out for Great Brak River Accommodation on Google.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

Great Brak River Accommodation Resting Palms Bed and Breakfast

Resting Palms, Great Brak River Bed and Breakfast establisment is a brand new Bed and Breakfast in the town of Great Brak River. Great Brak River is between Mossel Bay and George and is ideal situated for holiday makers and business persons. Here you are only minutes drive from two of the biggest towns in the Garden Route, the George Airport, many of the tourist attractions, activities and golf courses. The beach and river is a stones through away!

Great Brak River Guest house Bed and Breakfast

The owner of Resting Palms B&B, Linda Rademeyer, has created a stylish yet comfortable oasis where you will feel right at home.This Great Brak River guest house offers five individually decorated en-suite bedrooms each have an outside entrance ensuring your privacy. Guests are also welcome make use of the facilities the house offers. This includes the mini home gym, jacuzzi, lounge area, conference table, dining room, indoor braai facilities and lapa with braai facilities over looking the lush garden with swimming pool. The kitchen is also available to guests.

Resting Palms Amenities

Coffee & Tea Making Facilities in bedrooms, Colour TV in bedrooms, Mini Gym, Jacuzzi, Guest Lounge with DSTV, Indoor braai area, Lapa with braai facilities, Dining Room, Swimming Pool, Non Smoking, Secure parking on property

5 En-suite bedrooms
Bedroom 1: King Size Bed, En-suite bathroom with spa bath
Bedroom 2: Queen Size Bed, En-suite bathroom with shower
Bedroom 3: 2 x Single Beds, En-suite bathroom with shower
Bedroom 4: Double Bed, En-suite bathroom with shower
Bedroom 5: Double Bed, En-suite bathroom with bath & shower

Resting Palms Rates/ Rooms from:

R330 per single person per night
R495 per double room per night
R680 for Honeymoon Suite per night
* rates includes breakfast.

*** Opening Special ***

R195 per single person per night - including breakfast
R350 per double room per night - including breakfast
- Subject to availability.

Contact Details
We are only an e-mail away! Please use the Booking Enquiry Form on this page or contact us on the following numbers and use “gardenroutedirectory.com” as your reference.

Resting Palms Contact Details:

Linda Rademeyer
Tel/fax No: + 27 (0) 44 620 3349
Cell No: + 27 (0) 76 371 4390
Address:

BOOKING FORM

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Global Sports News
2. 1.1 Global Sports powered by YORGOO Press and YORGOO Media
3. 1.2 Global Sports Product Header
4. 1.3 Global Sports new Home Page Look
5. 1.4 Global Sports People Display
6. 1.5 Global Sports Music
7. 2 JP Esq on Global Sports
8. 3 Shola Ama on Global Sports
9. 4 Nike, Adidas, Jordan and Friends

Global Sports News

Global Sports powered by YORGOO Press and YORGOO Media

The brand new Global Sports web site is progressing. Some new features have been added, namely flash banners for the header and a 120×600 skyscraper to feature snap shots from the life at Global Sports. New Media modules have also been installed.

Global Sports Product Header

The top flash banner consists of 4 header banners rotating using a flash rotator providing also the random shutter transitions.

Global Sports Header image 1:

Global Sports Header Image 1

Global Sports Header Image 2:

Global Sports Header Image 2

Global Sports Header Image 3:

Global Sports Header Image 3

Global Sports Header 4:

Global Sports Header Image 4

To see the banners in original size, just click on any one of the images and navigate from the overlay browser.

Global Sports new Home Page Look

The look of the site changes completely with these dynamic elements. The header can be used to feature hot products, custom products, promos or any other item by just replacing the existing banners. (Full size view on click.)

Global Sports Online

Global Sports People Display

The Side banner is composed of 7 separate banners which are loaded to a flash rotator similar to the head banner. I will not display them all here but here are some of them:

Global Sports People 1:

Global Sports People 1

Global Sports People 2

Global Sports People 3

How about Music while visiting the site?

Global Sports Music

Visitors to Global Sports may like to get the vibe by listening into some of Global’s preferred tracks by using the small but hot YouTube player. The idea is simple: Create a play list on YouTube and load it to the player.

For the test run we have just selected tracks from friends of Global Sports, such as Shola  Ama and JP Esq.

The music player is located on top of the People’s Gallery:

Global Sports Media

JP Esq on Global Sports

Some of the sequences have been shot at the Global Sports Store in London!

Shola Ama on Global Sports

Try to find Shola Ama on the Featured Peoples’ Gallery :-).

Check it out on the site.

Nike, Adidas, Jordan and Friends

A second YouTube module is on display right under the featured Images on top left of the site. We are testing the home page holding 3 YouTube players now, the third one being in the sidebar right, close to the bottom of the page.

Adidas Nike Jordan and Friends

This second player displays brand ads Nike, Adidas, Jordan and others. It’s just one more media component which can be used for other purposes, for example to display video clips of customization of sneakers and caps or Limited Edition products.

Just for the record: the third video, located in the right sidebar at the bottom is the latest clip loaded to Global Sports US own built-in video gallery.

Global will select which features it wants to display. As they are all loaded, one can also imagine a changing display, depending on the mood, the weather, the price of tofu, or other good, scientific founded reasons.

More soon.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

How to Make Money with Images

My earlier article made it immediately to Google’s top 10 under “How to make money with images”:

How to Make Money with Images on Google

There are 129,000,000 search returns and one shut was enough to reach top 10 with YORGOO Publishing.

Go to Google top 10 with YOUR YORGOO Publishing

YORGOO Publishing is a Semiomantics site which has served as a playground for development over the last 15 month. The result is a highly visible site an any keyword targeted by YORGOO Publishing.

You too can have a YORGOO Publishing site! There are two ways of getting one:either you get a Semiomantics YORGOO Publishing installed on your domain and host or you grab it from YORGOO Media. The advantage of your own site is clear: your domain, your full control; the disadvantage is also evident: the cost.

The YORGOO Media solution has it’s advantages as well: the cost and the fact that you don’t have to care about any web master problems, hosting problems and such like. The disadvantage: you may not be able to give it an additional tweak, nor is it installed on your domain.

Learn about the YORGOO Publishing Concept

YORGOO Publishing is a concept which has been well described by Bianca Gubalke on a video loaded to YouTube. Contact Binca for further information at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 How to Make Money with Images
2. 1.1 Go to Google top 10 with YOUR YORGOO Publishing
3. 1.2 Learn about the YORGOO Publishing Concept

How to Make Money with Images

My earlier article made it immediately to Google’s top 10 under “How to make money with images”:

How to Make Money with Images on Google

There are 129,000,000 search returns and one shut was enough to reach top 10 with YORGOO Publishing.

Go to Google top 10 with YOUR YORGOO Publishing

YORGOO Publishing is a Semiomantics site which has served as a playground for development over the last 15 month. The result is a highly visible site an any keyword targeted by YORGOO Publishing.

You too can have a YORGOO Publishing site! There are two ways of getting one:either you get a Semiomantics YORGOO Publishing installed on your domain and host or you grab it from YORGOO Media. The advantage of your own site is clear: your domain, your full control; the disadvantage is also evident: the cost.

The YORGOO Media solution has it’s advantages as well: the cost and the fact that you don’t have to care about any web master problems, hosting problems and such like. The disadvantage: you may not be able to give it an additional tweak, nor is it installed on your domain.

Learn about the YORGOO Publishing Concept

YORGOO Publishing is a concept which has been well described by Bianca Gubalke on a video loaded to YouTube. Contact Binca for further information at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 How to Make Money with Images
2. 1.1 Attractive Display of Images
3. 1.2 Associate a Payment Gateway to each Image
4. 1.3 Protect your Images: Watermarks
5. 1.4 How to Make Money with Images: learning

How to Make Money with Images

Make Money with Images starts with the Display

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To Make Money with Images associate a payment gateway with the image.

In order to make money with images, you first need to enable visitors to see the images in a meaningful way.

Attractive Display of Images

To get the best out of pictures, make sure you use very good quality pictures and then display them in the most impressive way possible. Quality and Size matter!

Take the above example: the top sideshow can be viewed in full screen mode and it will display great quality screen shots in large size.

Associate a Payment Gateway to each Image

If you are selling images or products represented by images, make sure you associate a payment button with the image, allowing the viewer to immediately proceed to the check out. In the above case there are PayPal Buttons associated with the images. Each button may have it’s own value allowing thus to specify prices individually for each picture of a gallery or slide show.

Protect your Images: Watermarks

Associate a watermark to each image, namely to the large sizes and specially if you display high quality images.

How to Make Money with Images: learning

The above gallery and payment gateway integration are largely automated and do not require advanced knowledge nor the creation of paypal buttons. We have added this feature to the collection of Semiomantics Tuning Tools and we will implement it on a larger scale at our Ycademy online Seminar which takes place on May 30 and 31, 2009.

This feature is interesting for people selling graphics, art, photos or any product which can be represented by a picture. It replaces a shop in as much as it can be configured either with a buy now or a add to cart button, using basic PayPal features.

By Creating a static or dynamic product page, the products can display in form of Pictures in Grid View, and as above, a slides show representing all items can be added to make the place more attractive and to display detail views or large size views on full screen mode.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Best Buy Nike Sneakers
2. 1.1 Global NYC (Global New York)
3. 1.2 Global London (Global Sports London)
4. 1.3 Best buy Nike Sneakers on Google

Best Buy Nike Sneakers

Where to best buy Nike Sneakers? It’s a matter of semantics: in New York you go to

Global NYC (Global New York)

In London? You don’t buy Sneakers in London, they have Kicks or Pumps. But still they have the stuff at

Global London (Global Sports London)

Best Buy Nike Sneakers in specialized shops or even better in specialized online shops as often you can grab a coupon somewhere (don’t ask me where) to get Kicks and Sneakers at a Reduced Price. Discounts may also be available, namely if you are a nice guy or gal.

Best Buy Nike Sneakers at any Global Store.

Best buy Nike Sneakers on Google

Google attracts quite some advertisers on Best Buy Nike Sneakers; a good reason to save money and to go for organic search engine ranking on the left side of the page to save a buck for every click or more.

Best Buy Nike Sneakers on Google

I am sure in an hour or so we will look better there; join our call at yorGOtalk in 5 minutes and we will show you how we are going after Nike with commercial search engine marketing Semiomantics style.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Best buy Nike
2. 1.1 “Where to Buy Nike Kicks in London” is already under control
3. 1.2 Nike Kicks in London
4. 2 Best buy Nike Kicks in London
5. 3 Best Buy Nike in London
6. 4 Best Buy Nike on Google

Best buy Nike

I told you 15 minutes ago to wait for an hour, but…Google shoots faster than our shadow.

“Where to Buy Nike Kicks in London” is already under control

Here is the Google search return:

From 2 entries we doubled to 4 on the top 5 and just wait what’s coming in a while.

Best Buy Nike Kicks in London

Please note that the search returns increased from some 22,000 to some 30,000 just with a few shots.

Nike Kicks in London

Some synergistic results can be found on on other key-phrases, such as Nike Kicks in London: I let you check it out from HERE: 8 of the top 10 are our sites!

Best buy Nike Kicks in London

Google returns 8 Semiomantics results on the top 10 under Best Buy Nike Kicks in London:

Best Buy Nike Kicks in London on Google

You see the impact? There are hundreds of top 10 entries with all sorts of keyword combinations which have been created within just a few hours and some are there to stay.

How about

Best Buy Nike in London

Now here we go straight for the Brand Nike and Google just sent us more flowers:

Best Buy Nike in London on Google

Best Buy Nike on Google

Here it’s getting a little bit more difficult with over 19,000,000 search returns and we just hit rank 33. Now, rank 33 is about as useless as any rank beyond top 10, reason for which we may just give it another shot:

Best Buy Nike on Google

Let’s see where we go from here :-). But Nike in London is a nice little target and the kind of keyword Nike sellers should conquer.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Where to Buy Nike Kicks in London?
2. 2 Buy your Nike Kicks in London at Global Sports London!

Where to Buy Nike Kicks in London?

It didn’t even take 30 minutes to get the answer from Google! Watch out:

Where to Buy Nike Kicks in London

We landed immediately on Rank 1 with YorgoNestoridis.com and on Rank 3 with AuctionTalkLive.com.

We are obviously not Kick sellers but our friends are:

Buy your Nike Kicks in London at Global Sports London!

You see, it can be done fast and efficiently and I bet: if you check Google in a hour or so, you will find many more of our network Partner sites right on the top 10 and top 20 of Google. It’s Semiomantics Marketing and it can be learned. Ycademy Online Seminars are designed to let participants implement the best of our knowledge.

The monthly Ycademy online seminar on May 30 and 31 will deal with Monetization of your web site. the spectacular combination of Semiomantics YORGOO Press and YORGOO Media will be at each participant’s fingertip. Unfortunately there are only 10 seats available and I am not sure any spots are left.

Please check it out with Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com or with Zo Nicholas at zo(at)yorgobox.com if your site is not performing as well as ours; may be we have a solution for you too.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Nike Kicks invaded by Semiomantics
2. 1.1 Nike Kicks London on Google
3. 2 Where to buy Nike Kicks in London?

Nike Kicks invaded by Semiomantics

When a few hours ago we reported about our targeting of Nike Kicks London, we immediately scored high on Google. Now Nike kicks London is just invaded: 8 of  the top 10 sites are Semiomantics sites part of our global publishing network.

Nike Kicks London on Google

Check out the results for Nike Kicks London:

Nike Kicks London on Google

Any Questions about Semiomantics? Contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca (at)ycademy.com and find out how you too can get a Semiomantics Publishing Framework.

Where to buy Nike Kicks in London?

I will tell you in one hour; watch out for the incredible answer!

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Nike Kicks in London
2. 1.1 Nike Kicks London on top 10 on  Google
3. 1.2 Nike Kicks NYC on Google
4. 1.3 Brand Marketing with Semiomantics Frameworks

Nike Kicks in London

A few minutes ago I posted about Nike Kicks and then just went to see what Google would do with it.

Nike Kicks London on top 10 on  Google

Within minutes Google picked up, indexed and ranked the post on rank 3 under the keyword search Nike Kicks London:

Nike Kicks London on Google

Mind you, this is not a big keyword with only some 59,000 returns, but have you seen the advertisers’ interest on the right side? Check it out: under Nike Sneakers London there are more than double the number of returns, but less advertisers. It means what it means:-).

Nike Kicks NYC on Google

Playing the same game on Nike Kicks NYC we get a similar result: we rank number 2 of over 1,200,000:

Nike Kicks NYC on Google

Brand Marketing with Semiomantics Frameworks

A few months ago we tested Semiomantics on Brand Names such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci or other Mini Coopers with incredible results. The above is just a reminder: Semiomantics can conquer most any keyword on Google with a minimum effort: in the above case it was just a small post.

We keep monitoring.

PS: Global Sports US is powered by YORGOO Press

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 Nike Kicks at Global London
2. 1.1 1. Kicks, Sneakers or Pumps
3. 1.2 2. Keywords: Nike Kicks, Nike Sneakers, Nike
4. 1.3 3.  Nike Kicks AIR MAX 97 PLAYSTATION EDITION
5. 1.4 4. Global, Global London, Global LDN, Global NYC, Global Sports London?

Nike Kicks at Global London

Our Sneaker, kicks and pumps project for Gobal Sports London is progressing and we are about to finalize the site. In connection with this commercial project, there are a few interesting questions arising  which will impact on the further development of the site and its conversion rate.

1. Kicks, Sneakers or Pumps

Semantics are of the utmost importance on any commercial website, even more when we are talking about a trendy product with a primary target market in the age group between 12 and 32. Kicks are more than shoes or sportswear, they are a means of communication. What earlier would have described as a status symbol is today the expression of individuality, style, taste, it’s groovy!

Interestingly Microsoft has created a product called Groovy: “Object-oriented language alternative for Java platform”. This is exactly the phenomenon we are looking at here with our Nike and other Kicks: object oriented language or way of expression.

The remaining problem is: what is the name for these symbols of a whole generation? If you just call them gym-shoes, trainers or by such like old fashioned term, you are definitely out and grooving besides your Pumps. Sneakers is still in namely in the USA while Kicks or Pumps are more likely to be understood and used in Europe and elsewhere.

Nike Kicks are Nike Sneakers in the widest sense.

2. Keywords: Nike Kicks, Nike Sneakers, Nike

What is true for the designation of the shoes is true for the whole language used on a web site: it is the goal to create empathy and to communicate with the targeted public choosing a vocabulary understood and used by a majority of potential prospects. The same applies for the choice of meta keywords: what good is it to use terms such as sports shoes and to be fundamentally right, if you are the last remaining dinosaur on the planed who cannot call a Kick a Kick?

The result would just be: you would be targeting other dinosaurs who have not the slightest understanding about the importance a kick can have in the brain of a rapper.

What would a typical Kick freak type into Google to find those Nike Kicks he is looking for so desperately? Probably not: sports shoes but rather Kicks or Sneakers or then just the brand and model, or part of the model description.

3.  Nike Kicks AIR MAX 97 PLAYSTATION EDITION

Here you have a great example: what would people type in to find these Nike Playstation Kicks? Nike or Playstation Kicks? Or would they go for their preferred shop?

And if they went for their preferred shop, how would they call the shop? Global Sports US or Global Sports, or just Global? Would they add London to the name? Or the street name?

Target assessment is of paramount importance here.

4. Global, Global London, Global LDN, Global NYC, Global Sports London?

For shop owners it is important to know, how customers refer to the shop in order to tag the relevant keywords. Global Sports US is the domain name. I come across names such as Global Sports USA, Global Sports, Global, Global NYC, Global LDN or Global London and more. Branding the shop’s name is difficult with such an array of expressions. May be a customer query could give some conclusive ideas. besides the shop name, I would guess that the brand names in relation with the City could be an interesting hook as well as links to UK, Europe or USA  for what concerns Global NYC.

Important: Customers who don’t know the shops URL by heart must be able to find it on Google: I would type in Global Sports London for example; but would Global’s customers do the same?

More soon.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

Global NYC Soho Grand Opening Party Video

VIDEO

Heads up to all of our New York readers. A new store by the name of Global NYC just opened it’s doors last week, and Sneaker Addicts DVD was on hand to bring us exclusive video footage from the party. The United Kingdom based store stocks high end sneakers like Gucci, Prada, Fendi, and more. They also stock Adidas, Nike, Air Jordans, and they currently have a few Jordan Spiz’ikes in stock including the Euro exclusive Cool Grey & Black/Gold colorways. Global NYC also carries a ton of clothing from your favorite brands, too many to name.

Mickey Factz also performed at the party, and you can watch his performance by checking out the video. If you live in NYC or visit often, make sure you swing by Global NYC and tell them TheShoeGame.com sent you.

Global NYC

129 Grand St
New York, NY 10013
(212) 625-0200

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.

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1. 1 BuddyPress powers YORGOO Blaster
2. 1.1 BuddyPress new perspectives with YORGOO Blaster
3. 1.2 YORGOO Media, BuddyPress and YORGOO Blaster a FIRST
4. 1.3 Work from Home good News
5. 1.4 YORGOO Media BuddyPress outlook
6. 1.5 The ultimate benefits of YORGOO Media
7. 1.6 YORGOO Media Themes
8. 1.7 Next Step

BuddyPress powers YORGOO Blaster

Vouliagmeni, May 10, 2009 by Yorgo Nestoridis

BuddyPress new perspectives with YORGOO Blaster

YN - YORGOO Blaster, the most efficient low cost Search Engine Marketing system has been hooked to BuddyPress in the YORGOO Media Framework. First admin tests are  on the way and here is an invitation for all users to set up and to test YORGOO Blasters on YORGOO Media. The fact to combine YORGOO Blaster with BuddyPress opens new perspectives, namely because of the way we handle syndicated authors: check out the  fast growing members list which gives an indication about the lead generation potential of YORGOO Media. But there is more, much more.

YORGOO Media, BuddyPress and YORGOO Blaster a FIRST

For the first time we have realized an application which combines high speed lead generation with high tocuh ads delivery. While in the past, lead generation was separated from product marketing, YORGOO Media sets a new milestone in online marketing and business development. Our numbers prove it and we will report about the progress over the next few days.

Work from Home good News

Home business developers and people working from home: this is the best news we could ever release: YORGOO Media is the perfect combination of Social Networking, Social Network Marketing and Product and Business Opportunity Marketing ever: the performance is unique and the cost just about peanuts. Working from Home often means mobilizing huge means to outsource marketing in order to reach significant results: this is over with YORGOO Media. YORGOO media can be run as a one-man show or as a network; imagine a Networking Team in  MLM Business using YORGO Media to generate leads, to promote products or services and opportunities and to socialize in a relaxed atmosphere where pros and consumers meet communicating about topics of common private and professional interest!

YORGOO Media BuddyPress outlook

We are not yet sure about the future of YORGOO media; originally we have set it up to test a new Social Media Marketing concept, combined with the benefits of Semiomantics Search Engine Marketing. The efforts of our 10 beta testers deserve respect and recognition. Maybe we will just create a closed small community of users letting them continue to use the system also in the future?

The ultimate benefits of YORGOO Media

YORGOO Media, as it is set up at present, replaces for the user YORGOO Blaster and all related tasks as unlimited numbers of blogs can be created on a mouse-click; it also replaces the need for an authority site as we have loaded multiple authority site scripts, namely the original script from YORGOO Publishing; it furthermore replaces the need for an Authors site as we have loaded the original Yorgo Private theme as featured on BiancaGubalke.com, and again, users can set up as many of these sites as they want.

There is more: YORGOO Media is a hosted and managed solution: no need for a hosting account, no problems with cpanel and FTP, no need to edit HTML or php, no need to sort out technical problems, it’s all included.

The best of all: YORGOO Media in it’s present configuration is the first and only WPMU Social Network that is run as areal members program in contrast to all the owner’s programs: all users enjoy the same privileges as admin in as much as performance and monetization related features are concerned.

YORGOO Media is an ideal network according to YORGOO’s sharing philosophy! However, there are limits and these limits are amongst others of financial nature: we expect exploding hosting cost with increasing active user accounts and the freedom to create unlimited numbers of sites, all equipped with the ultiate Semiomantics tools and integrated in the social network powered by BuddyPress. We are trying to evaluate the impact and to compile some numbers to evaluate the future we can possibly reserve for YORGOO Media.

YORGOO Media Themes

Here are a few examples of YORGOO Media themes(click a picture and navigate on the overlay:

The YORGOO Press Theme is not yet available, but be sure: we will get there. Also we will add our best themes and scripts ever produced, such as the dublicator script, the autiontalklive script and the yorgonestoridis script, which are all built on Semiomantics and have outstanding results on Google.

Next Step

Set up a few blasters and test the themes; we will monitor closely the behavior of the site and report back to you. the test phase is extended for another week, so the beta users have time to test grab as many benefits as possible. We are still struggling with some technical issues and the ride will not yet be as smooth as desired, the results however will be there!

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.