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Local Listing Advertising...Any Ideas?

by George Pitts
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I had a client of mine ask me yesterday about putting her sites and or profile on as many listing sites as possible. Is there a list or ebook of sites that are broken down to list clients for listings. For example (Yelp, YP, super pages, etc)?
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  • Profile picture of the author TK1
    Originally Posted by gmoney38 View Post

    I had a client of mine ask me yesterday about putting her sites and or profile on as many listing sites as possible. Is there a list or ebook of sites that are broken down to list clients for listings. For example (Yelp, YP, super pages, etc)?
    Can you tell us which field your client works in or doesn't it matter?

    TK
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    • Profile picture of the author aprillove80
      A local business social popularity platform which enables businesses to list and have recieve votes by customers. Listings are ranked according to votes. Free sign-up needed to participate as a business or voter.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Pitts
    It is a law firm
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  • Profile picture of the author Jagged
    Major directories such as merchantcircle, yelp, hotfrog, local.com, yp.com, superpages are easy to find by performing a search for just about anything.....look through the first 3-4 pages & you will see the major players.

    Find local directories by looking into local radio / tv websites, daily / weekly local newspapers....most of these have a local biz directory. Also do a targeted search for your local area, (ex: tucson business diectories) to find a lot of local online directories....also look into using angies list, craigslist, backpage listings.

    Find targeted trade / service related directories by doing a google search for "lawyer directories"...you will find sites like ilawyersource.com, targetlaw.com, findlaw.com (a bunch more there)

    Get listed in each....remember to use the same information for each directory (business description, contact #'s, keywords, etc...)

    Good luck...
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  • Profile picture of the author AmyBrown
    I was updating my own list of directories and came across this site:

    HowTo Get Your Business Listed on Local Search Engines, Online Yellow Pages & Local Social Sites


    Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Randy Miller
    Originally Posted by gmoney38 View Post

    I had a client of mine ask me yesterday about putting her sites and or profile on as many listing sites as possible. Is there a list or ebook of sites that are broken down to list clients for listings. For example (Yelp, YP, super pages, etc)?
    Hello gmoney38,

    Through the good folks at getlisted.org I learned about Universal Business Listing (www.ubl.org). UBL provides several different listing packages but I usually stay with the $30 option. It provides listings in over 200 directories.

    There are 5 big info aggregators and UBL is one of them and they will provide your listing details to the other big 4 major aggregators (infoUSA, Express Update, Acxiom, D&B).

    In addition to that, they provide your clients info to many review sites as well as GPS and geo-location sites.

    I recommend building the $30 into the price you charge your client and let UBL do all the work for you.

    Good luck,

    Randy
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    • Profile picture of the author GeorgeO7
      Originally Posted by Randy Miller View Post

      Hello gmoney38,

      Through the good folks at getlisted.org I learned about Universal Business Listing (www.ubl.org). UBL provides several different listing packages but I usually stay with the $30 option. It provides listings in over 200 directories.

      Randy
      I hand submit Google Places, Yahoo Local and Bing Local... the rest I use UBL. There are agency account available if your volume is significant. With their agency program you can get their basic listing for $20.00.
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  • Profile picture of the author rohnsmith
    just paying high budget will not work. you have to digg little bit deeper on the websites in which you are paying . you have to analyze its visitors and other things to get good return on investment..
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  • Profile picture of the author ddague
    Absolutely. Localeze. We're the largest business listings identity manager for local search (we can also be found on getlisted.org). We maintain direct relationships with the largest network of local search platforms on the Web, including the likes of Facebook, Twitter, TomTom, and over 120 others. We also have a robust Authorized Channel Partner network.

    Check out the program at localeze.com

    Regards and we look forward to hearing from you!
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    • Profile picture of the author Randy Miller
      Originally Posted by ddague View Post

      Absolutely. Localeze. We're the largest business listings identity manager for local search (we can also be found on getlisted.org). We maintain direct relationships with the largest network of local search platforms on the Web, including the likes of Facebook, Twitter, TomTom, and over 120 others. We also have a robust Authorized Channel Partner network.

      Check out the program at localeze.com Regards and we look forward to hearing from you!
      Hello ddague,

      I just wasted 15 minutes stuck in what I'll call a feedback loop on the localeze.com website. I jumped through page after page after page of partial or "teaser content" to try and understand just what localeze is offering?

      I finally found my way to the Contact Us section, made it through a few pages before finding the request information form. Having spent all this time getting to the request info form, do I want to bother getting info on the services that localeze offers and the prices that are charged? I'm not sure...

      I do know that I can go to the UBL site, click on 1 link (See Packages Now) and learn everything I need to know about services and pricing. And for full disclosure, I neither work for nor am I an affiliate of UBL.

      The one thing that I don't have enough of is time.
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  • Profile picture of the author thomasmps
    I thought getlisted.org posted that they were recommending you guys anymore?? if im wrong please correct me
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    • Profile picture of the author virginiad
      Originally Posted by thomasmps View Post

      I thought getlisted.org posted that they were recommending you guys anymore?? if im wrong please correct me
      did you mean "...not recommending..."?


      Localeze is listed on the getlisted.org website:

      Rank Higher in Google Places and Yahoo Local | GetListed.org

      Hope this helps

      Virginia
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjere
    I like AMYBROWN's link here... She's pointing you in the right direction. Also Jagged is right too, all you really have to do is a google search and see what the top ones are, like "Yelp, CitySearch(owned by City Grid Media), yellowpages, yellowbook, local.com(owned by supermedia), most of these are owned by 4 or 5 major companies, so when you track that down, you pretty much have them all covered. And I like the advice to use all the same info - good for SEO. Great advice..

    Hope this helps.

    Jeremiah R.
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  • Profile picture of the author jsherloc
    Yes, I'd recommend using LocallyType to get a solid start on finding all of the "major player" business directories that you need to submit to. I have used that site for what seems like years, and he's got the basic citation foundation covered completely.

    I've been crazy busy the past few weeks, but I am in the process of combing through a list of hundreds of thousands of potential directory citation sources and organizing them appropriately. The goal of this project is to provide an evolving and highly-organized citation list of the best geographic-specific and/or industry-specific directories to submit our clients to. I've had several Warriors submit their own local/niche-specific directories as well. You can check it out here: Small Business Directories and bookmark it for later use if you'd like. Should have a TON of good directories organized on there soon.

    - Jim
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  • Profile picture of the author JordanBanks
    Perform a search in your area in a category that usually generates lots of reviews -- such as restaurants, hair salons, event facilities, etc... see what review sites show up in your local search results (citysearch, insider pages, etc...) and start with those.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Pitts
    Thanks everyone for your input. It helped me out alot
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