Promote your Business Locally

It’s always good to promote your products and services where most people search for the same. While almost every marketer will be searching for the Internet spaces where people look for services, I have discovered the spots for effective online promotion. I am proud to offer my discovery as a unique marketing service and I call it “The Local Business listing”


What, where and how do I list?

I’ll list your business in the appropriate category of the most popular Local Search Engines, yellow pages and local Social Networks of United States like yahoo local, ask city, yp.com, and much more. These popular local listing websites are the places where most Consumers search for services and products BEFORE they go out and buy the items in local stores. Hence more people will find your business and which in turn will get you more sales. Google's Matt Cutts recommends listing businesses in local search engines and maps. According to Matt:

 "If you're a brick-and-mortar business, you can show up for free in Google Local and Google Maps. This helps us, and it helps you, because you can be found, often the business listings in Google local shows in the top of regular search results".

 Hence you will get more exposure to your business locally. If you have a website representing your business, the local listings in these local search engines will drive more traffic to your website and in turn increasing the visibility in search engine results. If you do not have a website you can still take advantage of the local listing service as one is not required, but highly recommended.

Some of the Local Business Data centers like Superpages will share the listed business information with thousands of affiliate local sites.

Google Local Listing

Yahoo Local Listing

 

Most of the popular local search engines like yahoo local, Google local and Bing local needs separate mail accounts to be created prior to the submission. Submitting your website in the local listing websites is very much time consuming and confusing. I take this challenge to show my expertise in the field of online business promotion. Here's what I do:

  1. Create unique email accounts for your business in these local search engines as necessary (username and password will be provided to you in the report once the project is completed)

  2. Fill in the appropriate fields with your company information manually including website url, office hours, email, address and more

  3. Ensure that the listing has been done properly  and added in the appropriate category.

  4. Provide you with detailed reports including the user name and password associated with every listing so that you can get total control over the listings for any future updates

  5. Upload any pictures of your business and/or products*

  6. Link to your Video(s) online*

  7. Enter any special discount or coupon for your customers*

What are the Benefits?

There are countless numbers of benefits in listing your business in these local websites. A very few of these bunch of benefits are:

  1. Attract more customers online through these local listings even if you don’t own a website.
  2. If you have a website representing your business, these local listings will drive more traffic to your website too.
  3. Promote your business by distributing the online coupons along with the local listings. Generating instant savings for your customer and bringing them to your business
  4. Adding videos, images and maximum information about your business to the listings to personalize your business from the rest.
  5. Get listed in online maps so that people can find the exact location and directions to your business easily.
  6. “The best marketing strategy” as explained by Google's Matt Cutts.
  7. Grab the attention of more local customers by being found everywhere they look.

Local Listing Guidelines

  1. Local listings refer to a business that has a physical location. Standalone online businesses cannot get benefited through local listings.
  2. All the listings are subject to approval by the respective administrators of the local websites.
  3. Some of the popular local search engines like Google local and Bing local will verify the contact address by sending a postcard. You will have to activate the listing by following the instructions mentioned in the same.
  4. You should have the complete authority to market the particular product or business.
  5. Though the listings will be done in 2-3 working days, they will appear on the Internet only after after the website approval process which can take as long as 60 day. However, most are done in a week or two.

Contact Me today for your free phone consultation and see how a local business listing can help your business at (813) 421-5116

*not all local directories offer this service and each website has their own limits

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