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• not knowing how to edit or create a web page?
• think the cost for a web page is too high?

Worry no more, as we have made it easy for you to put your restaurant or business online. For pennies per day, you can have your own web page within the RestaurantsInSarasota.com web site exposed to users 24/7. Updating your site is as simple as typing information into a form. You can tell about your restaurant or food related business, put your menu online, and provide a link to your home page if you already have a web site.

Your total cost is just $250 per year. (To simply update the information in the basic free listing, click here).

"I already have a web site. Why do I need another page on your site?"
Having a web site of your own isn't the end of the story. You need to get links to your web site in order to get search engine traffic and visitors. Creating your own page on RestaurantsInSarasota.com with a link to your site will help drive more traffic to your business. If a web page is never linked to in any other page, search engine spiders cannot find it. Have you searched for your restaurant name online? Chances are your page on 4Sarasota.com/RestaurantsInSarasota.com is already listed. Search one of the major search engines like Yahoo!, Google or AOL. (Be sure to add Sarasota to your search in case there's another restaurant by the same name.)

"Search engine databases are selected and built by computer robot programs called spiders. Although it is said they "crawl" the web in their hunt for pages to include, in truth they stay in one place. They find the pages for potential inclusion by following the links in the pages they already have in their database (i.e., already "know about"). They cannot think or type a URL or use judgment to "decide" to go look something up and see what's on the web about it. (Computers are getting more sophisticated all the time, but they are still brainless.)"¹

Did you think about the location of your restaurant before your opened? Do businesses with greater visibility attract customers? Just as location is important in business, it's equally or even more important online. 4Sarasota.com is already in the major search engines and is routinely crawled by them looking for links. 4Sarasota.com sites are constantly top ranked by major search engines for many of the keywords or phrases your potential customers are using.

Next to beaches, dining is the second most popular activity among people coming to the Sarasota area for vacation. Fully one-third of the thousands of people a week visiting the various 4Sarasota.com group of web sites have already made reservations and are looking for more information on planning their trip to the sun coast. If your business is not available online you will have to wait until your potential customer arrives in Sarasota and then try the much more expensive traditional print or broadcast advertising in hopes of reaching them. By reaching out to your customers before they get to the Gulf coast, you have a much better chance of them knowing about your restaurant before they get here. See our sample page.

¹ University of Southern California - "Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial"