Ranking services
When local listings are properly used, businesses can achieve higher search engine rankings and attract new customers. Publishing to these directories is a time-consuming task. Hundreds of local listing directories exist, and information must be submitted by hand. To publish at all directories could easily require more than 100 working hours.
Many businesses submit information to the major search engines and think this is sufficient effort. Those who do not submit to numerous directories will not be able to capitalize on all the benefits associated with local listings.
Business Local Listings
Each directory listing provides an inbound link. Quality website links help improve search engine rankings and allow published businesses to be easily found. Anyone with a website knows how challenging it can be to achieve good rankings, so it is important to utilize the power of business local listings directories fully.
In addition to publishing business information via local listing directories, companies should also consider submitting to online phone directories, data providers and aggregators, and social listings. Submissions will be an ongoing project because new directories are added frequently.