Frequently Asked Questions
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Why Should A Business Use the Local Business Listings?
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The Local Business Listings can show up in search results to local customers and consumers first before national results. They help to advertise your business for free. They help to promote any coupons, discounts, offers, promotions and events you might have for your business. They display on mobile devices while your local customers and consumers are traveling around town.
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Why should our business use local business listings when all of our stores have their own web page on our corporate website?
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Your website and the individual store pages may not be ranked for searches by local consumers. Even if they were, they may not be on the first page. Local Business Listings consistently show up in the first page of search results and will augment your store web pages on the corporate website. In addition to the ranking aspect, Local Business Listing data is shared around the web through many data services giving local consumers multiple sources to find products, services and business in their local area or when they are on the road. A individual corporate website cannot compete with the local business listings network through search engines, social communities, 411 websites, GPS websites, Mapping websites and Business Directories.
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How soon will my listing appear in local directories?
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The entire process can take up to four weeks for a complete updated listing, however, once the listing has been claimed the information is available immediately to be used as a marketing tool to reach local consumers. Search engines may take beyond the first 30 days before accepting any updates to your listings. Ranking reports and Analytics will help to monitor the progress.
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Where do you submit our local business listings?
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The monthly managed marketing efforts are focused specifically on Google, Bing, Yahoo, Mapquest, Local.com, Citysearch, Yelp. These sites are the primary focus of many consumers when finding a local business. In addition to the monthly managed marketing, we submit your business information as a data service through over 200 websites.
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Where will my local listing appear?
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Local listings appear within the top 10 of any search engine result on the first page. In addition your listing will appear not only on search engines, but also in social communities, 411 websites, GPS websites, Mapping websites, and Business directories.
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How Do You Show Up In Search Results?
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Keyword research needed to be performed about your business, products and services. Followed by Proper keyword title, description and information about the business. In addition marketing content like coupons, videos, events, photos, images will support local consumers from differentiating your business. Citations and Customer Reviews are also important in the ranking process.
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Why is local search important?
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Consumers have turned to the Internet and their mobile devices to find local businesses in their area for products and services. Consumers are also posting their reviews of local businesses to these local business listings.
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What Are Business Local Listings?
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Free Yellow Page Listings by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, other search engines, social communities, 411 websites, GPS websites, Mapping and Location websites, and business directories. There are over 200 active websites that maintain business information.
These are also known as the interactive yellow pages as this is not only about a business having their marketing information, but also about customers and consumers rating and reviewing a business at any of the above mention websites.






