Get Your Business Listed on Google, Yahoo & Bing - Free
Thursday, February 18, 2010Besides submitting your website to the big search engines, you can now easily submit a "Local" listing for your business, including address, phone number and information about your company.
Prospective customers now have another means of finding your business, but in addition, people can find you who weren't even looking for you to begin with. Let me explain...
For example, with a Google local listing, you get your business location marked on Google maps. This appears when someone views the map area where your business is located - even if they are looking for another nearby business.
You can submit for free here:
Google Local Listing
Yahoo Local Listing
Bing Local Listing
Best of the Web Local Listing
Labels: best of the web, bing, google listing, google local, local advertising, local listing, local listings, online local, Yahoo jobs
posted by News Update @ 6:23 AM
1 Comments:
Hello,
I completely agree with you regarding getting local business listings claimed at Google, Yahoo and Bing. Certainly the Internet is becoming a better business tool for the local company to market to the local consumer.
What I am most concerned about are small and local businesses having to contend with multiple websites when it comes to their local listing. What I'm really talking about are "time resources".
Afterall, there are over 60 websites in four different categories specifically geared towards local listings. How can a local or small business have the time resources to cover this space.
Even if you made a conscious decision to not manage all 60, there are well more than Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. The space goes to Local.com (they went public), Yelp, Merchant Circle, and many others.
Consumers will be the ones deciding which of these local listing websites they will go and post their experience through consumer reviews. This adds to the burden that no one single local listing website will do the trick.
Therefore, my argument is that "getting listed" is not the real services needed. The local business still has to claim, update and maintain their local listing at multiple local listing websites.
"Getting listed" is an admirable starting point, but it will not address the long term need of the local business and their local marketing efforts.
Something we recently read at KillerStartUps are companies that are offering a low cost service to update then manage these listings for companies. You can read about this at KillerStartUps here:
http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/smartfindslocallisting-com-be-found-online
It is a changing world and the local business will benefit. There will be some adjustment to this space needed.
Good information from your post and hopefully varying opinions help give perspective.
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