Putting Your Business on RocWiki

The Putting Your Business on RocWiki page provides information and resources for business owners, or their customers, to create a presence for the business on RocWiki.

RocWiki is a great place to provide basic information about Rochester region businesses - no matter how small or large - even home-based businesses.

If you have a business or wish to share information about a business located in the Rochester region that has a product or service to offer our residents, then, the business should appear here on RocWiki.

Type Name - Click2View

Search Result - Click2View Create Options - Click2View

• Gather Data together to put in the entry:
  

• Name, Address, Phone, Hours, Handicap Access, Alcohol Sold, Website, Email or Contact, Review Links
  

• Create a brief Neutral Point of View description of the company start it with a topic sentence beginning with the company name in Bold, perhaps the city/town/village where the business is located, the type of business.
  

• For unfamiliar terms and abbreviations, locate a Wikipedia or other online reference and link the term to the reference. For Example:
  

" ... startup company providing prestidigitation and mashups to ..."


• Sign on to RocWiki - See Registering on RocWiki if you are not a RocWiki User yet.
  

• Type Name for the page into the Search Box (make sure you capitalize) and click Search Button. For Example My New Company LLC
  

• Click on the "Create a new page with this title?"
  

• Click on the "Create as Business" option - this will provide a template for making the business entry - see Template Info.
  

• Edit the Template using the company's information.
  

• Save the Page
  

• Create Links to your page - Find a RocWiki category for the business or other RocWiki pages that relate to the business and edit them with links to the new page. Simply click on Edit, scrolled down to the list (usually alpha or by locality) of businesses like the new one and enter: ["My New Company LLC"] - provides help and examples.
  

• Food and Beverage: Bars, Restaurants (click down through categories)
  

• Retail Stores and Services - see Shopping and click through to related category
  

• Business Services - in addition to Shopping, see Small Business Resources and Companies
  

• Search RocWiki for keywords describing the business to see how other editors have linked similar subject pages.
  

• Things to Avoid
  

• Duplication of website material - Let the interested viewer go to the company website for information. A terse quotation of the business or organizational mission or services might be in order if the typical viewer would not otherwise understand what is offered.
  

• Inserting multiple website links - lots of links to the company's website (in the listing or on other RocWiki pages) may appear to other editors as "spamming" or attempts at "search engine optimization" and could impact on RocWiki's "Spam Index".
  

• First person and solicitation language - don't use We or I - the page is RocWiki communicating to the viewer, it is not your company's ad, brochure, or other promo.
  

• Solicitation language - RocWiki pages should not solicit business; language like Call us, Email us, Visit our website, etc must be avoided. RocWiki provides information, but does not recommend or direct the viewer to take action.
  

• Other References:
  

• Wiki Community - The top level of help about our RocWiki Community
  

• Wiki Community/Manual of Style - information on RocWiki suggested standards for entries
  

• Wiki Community/Welcome Business Owner - RocWiki's Welcome page for business owners with things to keep in mind.
  

• Wiki Community/Welcome Business Owner/Talk - a discussion page regarding the above page.
  

• Templates/Business - the actual location of the Template for creating a business listing - may be subject to change
  

• Business Template/Talk - a discussion page - some historic efforts on template
  

• Most Prolific Editors - Users by Edit Count - you can see what things get changed and maybe why. Click on the Users Name, then the "Info" button, and finally their "Users Info" tab to see the list of their edits.
  

• Whose Been On Lately list of Users sorted by Last Page Edited date

• Deals - you may list the company here if it offers coupons or special discounts for RocWiki browsers