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How Website Owners and Publishers Can Use Foursquare Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:01 AM PST While some people consider Foursquare to be nothing more than the latest shiny cat toy for social media gurus and badge collectors, I’ve recently found a few uses for both business and pleasure. I recently took a trip to Disney World in Florida. After checking in at the Orlando Airport, I got a pop up from Rae Hoffman about the expert travel lane. Foursquare’s assumption is that I am more likely to trust information that comes from people I trust and who are my friends. As I traveled around Disney World that week, I got tips from Chris Brogran, Jennifer Laycock and others and, in most cases, I found the info useful, helpful, and interesting. Foursquare Tips from Orlando A few weeks later I was traveling through Midway Airport. When I was looking at tips, two of the places that stood out as places to eat were Potbelly’s and Harry Carry’s–both were places I had eaten before and both were good Foursquare tips from Chicago If you’re looking to build a website and don’t have any on the ground, first hand expertise, using the tips from Foursquare is an excellent idea… So as a publisher how can you use this? When you are building a website about a topic you aren’t an expert in or are looking to capture natural language queries for, one of the place you look is Yahoo answers (“how do I do X”, “what’s the best way to do Y” and “Is X doing Y” type of stuff). If you’re looking to build a website and don’t have any on the ground, first hand expertise, using the tips from Foursquare is an excellent idea. For example here’s a list of tips from people who stayed at Disney’s Polynesian Resort. Now you’ll have to do the obvious spam filtering and reality check, but to be honest I haven’t seen a lot that in Foursquare tips, especially tips that have been done by multiple people. For now the social proof seems to be holding. Related posts: Foursquare Promotions Spotted In my most recent column on Search Engine Land I... Yahoo Doesn’t Like Web Publishers One of the great things about ging to Pubcon is... How to Diagnose and Improve Website Crawling When you are reviewing a website, whether for your own... Can Google Detect an Affiliate Website One of the questions that often comes up is does... How To Silo Your Website: The Footer This post is part of a series on How to... Advertisers: Text Link Ads - New customers can get $100 in free text links. BOTW.org - Get a premier listing in the internet's oldest directory. Ezilon.com Regional Directory - Check to see if your website is listed! Page1Hosting - Class C IP Hosting starting at $2.99. Directory Journal - List your website in our growing web directory today. Content Customs - Unique and high quality SEO writing services, providing webmasters with hundreds of SEO articles per week Majestic SEO - Competitive back link intellegence for SEO Analysis Glass Whiteboards - For a professional durable white board with no ghosting, streaking or marker stains, see my Glass Whiteboard Review Need an SEO Audit for your website, look at my SEO Consulting Services KnowEm - Protect your brand, product or company name with a continually growing list of social media sites. Scribe SEO Review find out how to better optimize your wordpress posts. TigerTech - Great Web Hosting service at a great price. This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review. How Website Owners and Publishers Can Use Foursquare

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