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about_the_mall
The CityStar Marketplace contains more than 6,300 Web site links and business listings. When you use CityStar's search pages, you are searching within that data set. The content contained in the Mall reflects the fact that CityStar is based in Colorado. If you want to find other sites or national/global information, you may click on the select_different_city button, or you may use CityStar's web_search page, which also contains links to major search engines.
home_page
On the CityStar Marketplace home page, you can search by category or search by keyword. By default, you will be searching all sites and listings in the Mall, which consists mostly of Colorado resources. If you are looking for something in another area, click on the select_different_city button.
You may also select the maximum number of results to be displayed per page. By default, a maximum of ten (10) results will be displayed per page. If more than one page of results is found by your search, there will be a "next_page" button displayed at the bottom of each results page.
When you select a category, the "go!" button will automatically be pressed for you. When you enter a keyword, you will need to click on the the "go!" button to start your search.
If you wish to search within a category for specific keywords, you should type the keyword first, then select the category, and once again the "go!" button will be automatically pressed for you.
select_city
The select_different_city page allows you to select a city from a drop-down menu. When you select a city from this menu, the "go!" button will automatically be pressed for you, and all of CityStar's indexed sites and listings related to the selected city will be found. There are special buttons for Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado, which will take you to pages for those cities that allow you to define your search further. The select_different_city page was engineered this way because the majority of sites and listings in CityStar Marketplace are about Southern Colorado.
web_search
The web_search page is powered by Overture and Inktomi®. This page allows you to search the entire World Wide Web, not just the 6,300 resources contained in the CityStar Marketplace database. The web_search page also contains links to other major search engines, including Google, the world's leading search engine.
site_map
The site_map page is designed to help you find other resources contained in CityStar Marketplace, and Internet services offered by CityStar Group Inc. The category links on the site_map page enable other search engines to index the contents of the CityStar Marketplace.
search_by_url
The search_by_url page allows you to find all of CityStar's links to a particular Web site. This search form searches the URL (uniform resource location) field in CityStar's mall database. This page is most useful to CityStar Marketplace advertisers and other Web site owners.
When you use the search_by_url page, type a domain name, i.e. "mycompanyname.com" (without the quotes) into the search field and click on the "go!" button.
search_results
In every CityStar® Marketplace, all resources are assigned a ranking called Page StatusTM, a number from 0 to 10. Higher status resources are displayed above lower status resources. Resources are awarded Page StatusTM for their class (i.e. Featured Listing, simple link, public service link), and within each Page StatusTM, resources are displayed in alphabetical order by business or organization name. Page StatusTM is awarded as follows:
- 9.00 > Featured Listings with an additional graphic
- 8.00 > Featured Listings without an additional graphic
- 7.00 > simple links
- 6.90 > sites hosted by CityStar®
- 6.10 > public service links to CSCVB* member sites
- 6.00 > public service links to BBB** member sites
- 5.90 > other public service links
- 1.11 > free listings (not linked) of BBB** members
- 1.10 > free listings of CSCVB* members
- 1.00 > other free listings, weighted geographically
Additional incremental Page StatusTM is awarded for linking back to a CityStar® Marketplace, for purchasing online display ads, and for purchasing other CityStar® services. For example, a site that links back to a CityStar® Marketplace is awarded 0.01 in additional Page StatusTM.
Again, within a particular Page StatusTM, the results are displayed in alphabetical order by name.
The exception to the above guidelines is in the New Sites category, where all resources are displayed strictly from newest to oldest.
*The Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau
**Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado.
Page status system and individual resource status numbers subject to change without notice, not affecting contracts currently in force.
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