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CitySquares announces local feeds for local online publishers

PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Marissa Green
mgreen@citysquares.com
617-451-0099 x128

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

October 20, 2008

Boston, MA – CitySquares.com, a leading national hyper-local search website, has added “Local Feeds for Local Publishers” as a free subscription service for online publishers, such as local bloggers and newspaper websites. The Local Feeds service adds a consistently updated list of neighboring businesses to the subscriber’s website. This feature increases “fresh” content on the publisher’s site as well as improves the site’s search engine ranking and the amount of traffic driven from search engines.

The easy-to-use local feeds tool was designed to allow any member of the subscriber’s organization take advantage of the service. It requires very little specialized technical or Internet skills. The publisher can customize what content they want delivered through the feed by simply selecting the location and business category to be listed and how detailed the information will appear on the site. For example, a local feed displaying Restaurants in the South End neighborhood of Boston, MA would include:

  • Aquitaine
  • Union Bar and Grille
  • Gaslight
  • El Triunfo
  • Red Fez
  • Dublin House
  • Nicoles Pizza
  • Code Ten
  • Pita
CitySquares.com co-founder and CEO Ben Saren says, “Local online publishers want to make their site as useful and informative as possible. We added this feature to make it easy for these organizations to offer relevant content to satisfy their visitors and improve the user experience.”

About CitySquares:Since its launch in 2005, CitySquares.com has been providing local businesses with an opportunity to reach out to a highly targeted local online audience through its highly trafficked, consumer facing website. Businesses are able to fully customize their CitySquares.com advertising campaign with SEO tools, content management, content syndication tools, email newsletters, video, offline tools, and much more. Users are able to easily find this content, rate businesses, review them, and contribute other kinds of content.

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