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Author Are you looking for a local directories list? This is a comprehensive list of the best local directories to submit your local business to. We have scrubbed this list and added to it over the course of a year. If you have an addition, please leave us a comment. If you are a reseller and want to resell the listing service please call us at (949) 945-3005 to get your account set up. We have discounted reseller rates available.
The benefit of adding your local business to this local directories list is not only to get exposure within these directories, but to also help your Google Local listing rank higher by adding citations. These citations will help your site rank higher overall in Google Places (formerly Google Maps).
Now you can get into many of these by using universal business listings. However, we aren’t big fans of this service. The reason being that they use a feed to supply data to most of these sites. And many times the feed leaves out a lot of data like URL, photos, business description, videos hours, etc. We have found that the feed just doesn’t get enough information into the directory sites. Unfortunately the only way to get robust listings with photos, hours, business descriptions, hours etc. is to manually set up your listings. This is a massive task. You can do it yourself or have Local Site Submit do it for you. You could say that we are a direct competitor of UBL, but really this is a premium listing service. A local site submission is more than just getting your company in directories. Its helps establish you on the web by adding a video to YouTube, creating a blog for you on Blogger, and adding you to several business related social sites like Enterpreneur Connect and Biznik. If you have reviews we will psot them to sites that we know syndicate to Google Places. Plus, you get hundreds of backlinks to your website. This should be the very first step you take in your local SEO journey.
Here is the list:
- Bing Postcard submit only (takes forever!)
- Yahoo – Direct Feed to Google Maps (Helps ranking in Google Places)
- Merchant Circle
- Biznik
- Intuit Business
- HotFrog – Passive Feed picked up by Google
- Zoominfo
- Partner Up
- YellowPages.com – (YP.com must phone verify your listing (Watch our for the upsell, I suggest only the FREE listing)
- AOL – get listed here via yp.com
- CitySearch – Passive Feed to Google and also direct feeds to Insiderpages and MySpace.com
- Superpages.com - Active Feed to Google Maps – Get listed in 411.com and whitepages.com and several others
- MapQuest - Supplies data to some mobile GPS systems
- Yelp I have a love hat relationship with Yelp (recently sued for extortion)
- Local.com – Just do their Free listing (great for getting lots of backlinks)
- Dex
- BizJournals.com
- LocalRollCall
- Navteq GPS
- TeleAtlas
- CityVoter – passive feed to Google
- Kudzu – passive feed to Google
- Best of the Web passive Feed to Google
- Discover our Town – Actively Feeds Yahoo!
- LocalEze - Free and directly feeds Google, Yahoo!, Bing and others
- CitySquares Passive Feed to Google
- Justlclicklocal
- LocalDatabase
- Judysbook
- InsiderPages – Direct Feed to Google
- MojoPages
- Genieknows
- Switchboard – Via Supermedia.com
- Metrobot
- Yellowbot -
- Angies List - Passive Feed
- Brownbook – One of my personal favorite directories – Get lots of links from this one.
- Magic Yellow-
- Manta - Ranks well in Google
- Best Deals on
- twibs
- YellowPageCity
- Soprano - Not a big fan of this one
- Zipweb
- Myhuckleberry
- AmericasBestCompanies.com
- ChoiceVendor.com
- Yellowassistance
- USYellowPages
- CitySlick
- Showmelocal
- Bizjournals.com
- ThinkLocal
- Infignos
- Rate it All
- MatchPoint
- UsCity.net
- Local Site submit – Local Directory Submission Service
- MyCity
- Outside.in
- Foursquare
- InfoUSA – Primary Data Aggregator – Direct Feed to Google
- Axciom – can add only via phone – Major Data supplier to Google and others
- MySpace
- Orkut
Canadian directories
Tags: Here is a list of the Top 50 Press Release Sites to submit your local press release regarding your local business. Every time you have a new news announcement, you should submit a press release. This is also a good way to get backlinks to your site. If you are backlink hungry and trying to rank well in the search engines, this is a good excuse to submit a new press release.
Make sure you submit the press release with the proper anchor text. And its always a good idea to deep link within your site. If you need press release distribution services. please let us know. We charge $50 for a distribution to about 17 sites that we know also syndicate to a ton of sites. You get a lot of bang for your buck. Or $200 to submit to all 50 on this list.
As we continue to fine tune the Local Directory Submission process, we are adding directories or replacing some sites with more relevant sites or sites with more Google juice. After all, it really is Google that we are trying to impress with all this. So, our Local Directory list is up to about 67 sites. And then we have all of our other sites we submit to like Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, etc.
Today, we also added Squidoo to the list of sites we submit to. So not only do these listing have a lot of Google juice for increasing rankings in Google Maps, but they also help with the businesses website ranking by getting more and more backlinks. This is really a huge benefit to businesses. By using Local Site Submit, your are able to create a huge footprint on the web, quickly and easily. Here’s to your success online and offline.
Today, we increased the amount of sites submitted to over 100. We added 20 more local directories that we have identified as important to get additional citations from. This will help increase your total citations and we have not yet increased the price. Get in now before we do.
Top 7 Local Maps
Google Maps
Yahoo! Local
Bing Local
AOL Local
Ask Local
Mapquest
CommunityWalk
Top 10 Mobile Maps
Google Maps
Yahoo! Mobile
OnStar
TeleMap
TomTom
Blackberry RIM
Apple iPod/iPad Maps
Navteq GPS
Windows Mobile
TeleAtlas
Top 5 Phone Assistance
Google Goog-411
LSSI
KGB InfonOO
V-Enable
TellMe
Top 40 Local Listings
Cityvoter
Citysearch
Kudzu
Best of the Web Local
DiscoverOurTown
CitySquares
Just Click Local
GetFave
Yelp
Local Database
Judy’s Book
InsiderPages
Local
Mojopages
Genieknows
Switchboard
Metrobot
Yellow Pages
LocaleEze
DexKnows
iBegin
Whitepages
411
AssistGuide
Search Bug
Topix
Tellme
Spock
Menu Network
Go2
OpenList
YellowBot
Axciom
InfoSpace
True Local
Amazon
Praized
Magic Yellow
YP
Superpages
Top 10 Business Sites
BizNik
MerchantCircle
Hotfrog
Entrepenuer Connect
Intuit Business
PartnerUp
LinkedIn
ZoomInfo
BizJournals
InfoUSA
Top 10 Search Engines
Google
Yahoo!
Bing
AOL
Ask
MSN
AltaVista
AllTheWeb
ScrubTheWeb
DMOZ
Top 10 Social Networks
Facebook
MySpace
Google Orkut
Bebo
Ning
Stumbleupon
Delicious
Blogger
Twitter
Windows Live Spaces
Top 10 Video Spots
Google YouTube
Yahoo Video
Bing/MSN Video
AOL Video
Motionbox
MetaCafe
Dailymotion
Google Picasa
Photobucket
Flickr
Top 20 Blog Directories
Weblogs
Technorati
Feed Burner
Syndic8
NewsGator
My Yahoo!
Blogdigger
BlogRolling
BlogStreet
Moreover
Weblogalot
Icerocket
News Is Free
Topic Exchange
Google Blog Search
Spinn3r
Bloglines
PostRank
SkyGrid
Collecta
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Citations are the lifeblood of your local listings. Meaning without them, don’t expect to rank too well.
What are citations?
Citations are where your business information is placed on other website. An example would be your listing on Yelp. The Google Bot will go over to help and find our business information like Business Name, Phone Number, Address and URL. If it all matches up, then this is a “citation.” In other words, Google has verified that your business is legit on this other directory.
So a citation is basically another listing on another site that has all of your business information.
There are several types of citations available for your business. Most can be explained by taking a look at the Local search Ecosystem. The Local Search Ecosystem by David Mihm is basically what we have designed our submission process after.
What we have done is taken this blueprint and then added some additional business related sites like Facebook, Twitter, Ning, Blogger and other related sites and we post your business information on these sites. This casts a large web of data that represents your business.
In addition we place links on all these sites so that your business will gain over a hundred inbound links to your site. This will help in your organic search engine rankings as well.
Our hand submission process is better than Universal Business Listings and other submission services. The reason being is that we set up new accounts at each website. We then add photos, and video where possible, and then add blog posts, ads and as much content as possible to each listing. The problem with Universal Business Listings is that after it passes data off the first level data aggregators like InfoUSa your data gets sent out as a feed. This feed is “thin,” meaning that they only send out basic information. So, while you may get a listing on Faves.com for example it wont be super optimized.
Our philosophy is that if your listing is ranking high on the other directories and search engines then this will help boost your rankings on Google and Google Maps. So basically, more is better. And I believe we have the best submission practice out there. If you really want the best, then use our submission service. I challenge anyone else out there to match what we are doing. Yes, you CAN do it but are the companies you are working with actually doing the work. So read more about what we do at www.localsitesubmit.com