While it is difficult to get multiple first page results for your organization you can give potential visitors multiple ways to find your site by leveraging these directories SEO abilities.
1. Search Engine Locals- Google, Yahoo, and Bing all have local services to help consumers find the regional xyz store, organization, etc. These results frequently show up first in SERP’s so register an information rich profile at each service, and dominate.
2. Yellowpages.com- Yellow page listings are as plentiful as those infamous yellow books themselves.
3. LinkedIn- Linked in is a social network for business networking and Linkedin profiles also frequently shows up in regional search results.
4. Merchant Circle- Merchant Circle is a directory of local businesses, and their profiles are quickly indexed, and often rank quite well.
5. Service Magic- Servicemagic.com is a paid directory of service industry professionals. While it does cost money they can get you ranked well in local searches.
6. Yelp.com- Yelp.com is a local business directory that allows local people to review area businesses. These pages do very well in regional SEO.
7. Superpages.com- Superpages.com is another yellowpages type services that ranks well particularly in Bing and Yahoo.
8. Kudzu.com- Kudzu.com is a directory for businesses that specializes in regional search their basic profile is free.
9. CitySearch.com- Citysearch is a city by city overview of businesses, events, etc. Does cost money but great SEO results.
10. Local.com- Local.com is a small business directory that ranks well in SERP’s.
Bonus- Localtype.com has an extensive listing of local directories check it out here.
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It is a very useful and applied post.
You are so cool,I am looking for the information these days,happy to see it.
I think the local business listings in Google is the best way. It can generate many visitors and doesn’t cost anything like some of the others like yellowpages.com.
@sam you are correct about that I have generated a lot of focused traffic for small businesses with Google Local. But also grab a Yahoo and Bing local account don’t assume your customer is loyal to Google or as tech savvy as you.
I think that Google business listing provides amazing results alone. Is there a correlation between Google Adwords and Google business listing? It seems that times in which I invested a bunch in Adwords, my Google business listing would drop a couple of pegs. Pretty strange, huh.
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@joseph I have not observed that behavior but thats interesting I’ll have to investigate that on some of my campaigns. -will
I have had much success with local listing ads on google.
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Great tips. Some people tend to over look the power of local listings and local rankings.
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it seems that most people like to use google,
at least here in China, although we have the local search engine as “baidu”.
But people in Hongkong China, prefer to use yahoo a lot.
anyway, thanks for your sharing.
I’d heard that China’s own search engine had something like 70% of the market in China, and way more than Google. And of course, Google has now threatened to go leave China because of the hacking incident recently – not sure what’s happening on that front now though.
Very cool list, thanks. I didn’t know some of these existed.
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Good list. This is fairly common stuff, but exactly what you need for a good page ranking.
Great list of local directories. I think all of these directories are need for achieving a certain level of rankings withing the local community. Plus, some of these directories are needed to have success in Google Local (like yelp). In my opinion money shouldn’t matter. For the most part these fees are small. Just my thoughts…
How helpful is that! Everything in one list, a great big platter of gourmet Local Search websites. Excellent! Keep up the good work it’s a pleasure to read this blog.
Timely, I have a potential client requiring local SEO work!
Thanks.
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thanks i’s very usefull post
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Bing uses yellowpages.com for as their results in local search. A good tip for people to keep in mind when signing up for local directories is that to select the ones that are a good fit for your business as some tend to overdo it and end up pushing their own website to the 2nd page.
Local search will play a big role this year and staying on top of your own results as well as competitors will keep a company a step ahead of all the rest.
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Well done. It’s great to see knowledgeable treatment of this subject that covers the issue without spinning it to death. SEO Tips
Looks like I need to look into doing local SEO. I’m just getting started on this new career path so it seems that I have my work cut out for me.
Some of these sites like the yellow pages are over looked but a little time now can have a lot of benefits in the future.
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I just know the first, learning from here the others
I’m much more familiar in number 1. But the other nine is not very familiar with them. Thanks for this post.
How much is the overall local scope of each site though?