Bakeries on Google Local Maps

Well I talked about Google making some changes to our bakery ranking lately. This picture shows us ranking #2 for Chinese Bakery in the Maps local area of Manhattan. So we somehow got classifies as a Chinese Bakery even though the word Chinese does not appear anywhere on the home page or in the tags under the page that web designers use.

Well with everything there is some good news and some bad news. Somehow we got moved down in rankings for :Manhattan Bakery” which is the phrase that got us up to 3,000 unique visitors a month. We like that one. How many visitors will the Chinese Bakery phrase get us? We will have to wait and see.

The entire website is going to be upgraded soon anyway. Most of the images I am going to migrate to our new site at NYCBakery.org once it’s launched next week. I’ll have a site for the Century Cafe and Bakery, but instead of a 100 page site like it is now, I’ll cut it back to about 5 pages. The images I’ve collected over the last 6 years I am going to put up so people looking for a good bakery can compare the different possibilities.

What’s Up With Our Google Rankings?

Century Cafe and Bakery was #1 on Google for the phrase Manhattan Bakery for 2 years until recently. A site took over that is a pure spam site. 50% of the site is pay per click Google advertising. The other 50% is stolen content… that’s right, it’s a “scrapper site” or an “MFA – made for adsense” site. The funny thing is that another site pulled ahead of Century Cafe for”Manhattan Bakery” and it has only a single backlink compared to Century’s 150 backlinks and it’s not as old as Century’s site and it only has a few pages. Century’s site has 1,000 images and almost 100 pages.

What’s Going On With The Google Rankings?

I’m going to work hard to get that MFA Made for Adsense Scrapper site removed from the #1 position on the phrase Manhattan Bakery. MFA sites are just internet spam and I like to take out the trash.

I’m also going to ask every SEO friend I’ve got to look at this site and try to figure out why a 5 page site with 1 inbound link moved ahead of a 100 page site with 1000 images and 150 links.

Century Cafe and Bakery was moved up to a #1 position on Google Local Maps for the phrase Chinese Bakery:

Manhattan Bakery Website with 1000 Photos

We got it. First to 1000 with an image slideshow that can keep you entertained for hours. It will entertain us for hours anyway. Take a look on the top nav bar of teh website and look for “Photo Gallery”. When you get there… well there are 4 different pages you can go to as you can see the tabs on the bottom of each page… click the “Slideshow with Piclens” text and get ready for stunning gourmet bakery visuals!! In the lower right hand corner of the screen there is a button that will allow you to expand the slideshow to full screen. Wow !!  Just click on teh escape key to get back to the normal size.

Most of the images in the posts can be clicked 2 or 3 times to make the strawberries as big as your screen – and it’s all in high resolution so you should be able to see it so clearly it makes your mouth water. If YOU want a website like this please call Web Design Workplace owner Mal Milligan at 201-696-5375 for a quote.

Picture Menus

Click every Cake Picture on this site 3 times for HUGE PHOTOS. You have permission to use them for FREE desktop wallpaper. There are several picture menus at the Century Bakery. But basically you can order anything in 5 languages when the owner Tom Lau is there… which is most of the time. You can read menus in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and you can order in Thai and Vietnamese as well. This is the main picture menu in the background and I’ll show it to you in much better detail later. And by all means talk by pointing and using hand and body language… it’s very acceptable here.
[click this picture for a larger image, click again for a HUGE image]

The Middle Counter

At the middle counter you can buy all the baked items in the store, along with cookies, sandwiches, and drinks. Keep an eye out for specials… here is how that works. In many Asian stores if you see it you can buy it. You can always ask to see when something is going to be available. The fresh bread tins go fast. But they are replenished fast. When locals buy fresh bread they want it to be minutes old. Literally. So when you see the fresh bread at the middle counter it is steaming hot and chances are – right out of the oven.

Menu Board

You will see prices in Chinese and American English for everything in the Cafe. Here is the drink menu board. Notice they generally have 3 sizes. Regular or small is 12 ounces. Large is 16 ounces. And Ice Coffee or Ice Tea.

Sunday Breakfast at the Century Cafe and Bakery

I love Sunday mornings when I have a chance to bring the kids to the Century Cafe. The kids mostly go for bakery stuff these days while I go for the hot foods. I love a good rice soup and theirs is probably the best in Manhattan… they have fresh ginger and it’s got a silky texture. [Read more]

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