Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

New Yorkers enjoying a beautiful Spring day in late May 2008 on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Dropped a pretty penny at Tavern on the Green. Took the extended family for brunch and since I guess I look like the rich one in the group, was handed the check no questions asked.

Tags: Central Park, New York City, Julio Hernandez-Miyares

“Congratulations!! If you’re reading this, you are now officially a part of the Yelp Elite Squad! Woohoo!……”

With those words from Yelp, I finally made it to the big time. I am part of Yelp’s New York Elite Squad.. This is a tremendous honor and privilege. Well, I am exaggerating to some extent of course but its still good fun.

I suspect I will need to continue to work at keeping my Elite Status as my little badge says ‘07. Now when you see that badge on totally unrelated posts, you will know what it represents.

Tags: Julio Hernandez-Miyares, Yelp, New York Connoisseur

I am a heavy user of Yelp and like to see myself as a contributor, check out
Julio Miyares’ Yelp Reviews or else, look at that widget on the right hand side of the page cycling through all my reviews.
Nevertheless, I wonder, how much traffic is the self-proclaimed “New York Connoisseur” shunting over to Yelp when perhaps I can build and then keep that traffic to myself. I started thinking of that when I noticed that Super-Developer Dossy Shiobara was posting his superb Restaurant reviews both on Yelp and then on his own blog. Check this one out on a Turkish Restaurant find
The fact that Dossy appears to feel everything he finds in New Jersey is of 5 Star quality is immaterial to this. Instead, I like the fact that with good SEO which Dossy has in spades, perhaps those looking for the rare plums of good eats in Jersey will stumble upon his site.

Well, I am going to start the same technique here on my Musing site. I will “double publish” of course. I want my fans on Yelp to continue to benefit from my culinary wisdom.

What does the Brooklyn Diner post have to do with anything? Well that is the restaurant I was going to review but I will leave that to my next installment. Its been a long day.

Tags: Julio Hernandez-Miyares, Brooklyn Diner, Yelp