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Populating a Local Directory?

by Dennis Cheesman
8 replies
I have created a local directory site with some awesome features, and was wondering what is the best source to populate it with local business listings, I would like the business listing to be added to my database?

I appreciate any help..

regards,
Dennis
#directory #local #populating
  • Profile picture of the author freelanceronline
    If you want to populate than you need to offer a free submission service and give Your URL people like me who give this type of services of citations submission.
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    • Profile picture of the author attorneydavid
      or you could go to odesk and hire someone to scrape some source data
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Grable
      Originally Posted by freelanceronline View Post

      If you want to populate than you need to offer a free submission service and give Your URL people like me who give this type of services of citations submission.
      Great suggestion.... Where do i go to find folks that provide that service?

      Thanks!
      chris
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  • Profile picture of the author dancome89
    Buy or scrape some data and import to your site.
    Offer free submission service.
    Do smo, cheap and quick method to promote your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author vishwa
    Since you are operating a Local Business Directory, Try to Convince your Local Marketers to List their Company or services in your Directory. Some Users Does not like A Blank Directory.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Grable
      Dennis,

      I just populated my first micro-niche local directory with info scraped from yellowpages.com with a tool called ypscraper.... This is pretty basic data... but its a place to start. Tghe app is inexpensive or i am sure you can find someone to run some searches for you.

      vr
      chris
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  • Profile picture of the author thaicompanypro
    well u need to find or write the code for data scrapping. One of local directory is i developed which data is put in many ways through scrapping, manual and caching.
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    All about thai business listings. Great website to explore Warriorforum is such a good forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author brettb
    If you fancy a trip out to the offline world then public libraries often have loads of business reference directories.
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