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.
@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
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.
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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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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Hi Will
That’s a great list, I’ll be sure to use it. One thing I would say is worth doing if your tryng to rank highly for a specific area such as Hotels or restuants is to look and see where the top ranks are getting their citations from in a very competative area (such as a food district of a large city).
great article well written, i always love reading posts here
There is a good advantage of listing in the local SEO at time, this top 10 will like help to achieve it.
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Great list. I have been thinking of LinkIn as a community for Job seekers. But after reading this article I review it and found that it is great for business promotion activities as well. Regards
Apart from Google Local Search everything else is not going to benefit much to you. I am telling you from personal experience.
Most of the people search Google for all kind of information including local.
Great list. Thanks for sharing. I’ve been using some of these. I’ll definitely try the others.
Good directory list here that’s sure to help out your SEO. I’ve been using some of these, but I’ll be sure to submit to more directories.
Great list! People tend to overlook the benefits of local listings even though they can boost your SEO efforts.
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I am new to Internet Marketing and found this article very enlightening as it provides a number of social marketing sites that could help get traffic to sites. Reads like using these site will help me get traffic to my sites.
great websites! thank you!
It was a pleasure reading it, in fact I’m so glad that I will add your blog to my RSS, of course if that’s ok with you. I have also bookmarked this page. I hope you would keep us informed about coming archives in future as well.
These top 10 websites are really good site for SEO. They are usually and commonly used because it is accessible and convenient to use.
We just launched a huge network of local business directories (1,000+ unique directories and counting) at DeclareMedia.com. Check them out and let us know what you think.
I agree that local listings can be great for small regional businesses. What I like about yahoo and bing local is they do not require “phone verification”, although the postcards do no always show up, or get lost in translation….