Business Listing - Good SEO?

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Hello friends, I have been thinking lately if business listing is a useful activity. Many business listing sites are there and SEO guys post business listings on all of them, but how far is it good SEO? Is it still recommended for back-links?
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  • Profile picture of the author JoseBarreiro
    Originally Posted by apsarasisodia View Post

    Hello friends, I have been thinking lately if business listing is a useful activity. Many business listing sites are there and SEO guys post business listings on all of them, but how far is it good SEO? Is it still recommended for back-links?
    Hi,

    Business listing is really good for any business if you do this on good websites. This is also one of the ways to create good back-links for you website and help in getting good traffic as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author mathompson
    it is also good for business. you should have a choice. and using some tool to check them before apply all of them
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    • Profile picture of the author apsarasisodia
      Thank you, Jose and Thompson for your responses. Business listing has been a good source of back-links, provided that those sites have good PR ratings.
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  • I think it's a waste of time. It's very mind disturbing work. Do social bookmarking instead of these business listings.
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    • Profile picture of the author patco
      Originally Posted by Digvijay singh kashyap View Post

      I think it's a waste of time. It's very mind disturbing work. Do social bookmarking instead of these business listings.
      Sorry, but I should really disagree with you! Business directories are a great source of strong backlinks (*because of the high DA of the websites). I can't find such a good Social Bookmarking list with HIGH DA... And moreover they are already spammed to death
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  • Profile picture of the author abdulquddus
    Yes Business Listing is Very Good. Especially if the listing goes instantly on google. You can get your domain on google within a day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ditmar
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  • Profile picture of the author vic1
    Business directories are useful as citations for local business.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Stavrou
      Originally Posted by vic1 View Post

      Business directories are useful as citations for local business.
      Strongly agree!

      I wouldn't expect Business Directories to pass along incredible link juice since they link to thousands of other websites but for local SEO I would recommend them.
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  • Profile picture of the author tekruiter
    Business Listings is still consider a positive activity in the Link Building Activities for the promotion of the websites.
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  • Profile picture of the author NathanJames
    I have a directory listing for abroad,Asia for specific for about 2-3 yrs now,it challenging to rank it on search engine but the key is continue doing it.

    Nathan
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim3
      Originally Posted by NathanJames View Post

      I have a directory listing for abroad,Asia for specific for about 2-3 yrs now,it challenging to rank it on search engine but the key is continue doing it.
      Not surprising you're finding it a challenge, using Asia as your anchor text, on an IM forum that uses rel=nofollow links.
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      • Profile picture of the author NathanJames
        actually it has a follow links, one of my links from site came from contributing to this forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author sivermans
    Business listing is very good for SEO. If you have a business site that its very important that your business must register on various business listing sites. It also good for creating links for your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason1975
    This is nice to hear since I've been spending a lot of time listing on different directories.;P
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  • Profile picture of the author alishahndrsn
    Yes, you will try to add your website in good business listing website. You get strong backlink. I already try this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pdomain
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    Can you please clarify how business directories are good for SEO?

    What I think is if the directory doesn't have unique content then it doesn't rank high in Google, and if you submit your website to this directory, your website will be treated accordingly.

    However, if your website deals with any location, the local directories will be helpful if it is heavily moderated and only unique content is kept in the directory. Same thing applies to niche directories...

    Approx. 3 years before, I tested directory submission, submitted my website to approx. 1000 directories, but my website was approved in approx. 150 directories... and I got good ranking in Google and Bing...... I was too happy with the work...... but when penguin was updated, my website was lost and it is still not recovered.....
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