Importance of Local Business Listing?

[Reynolds Riser]

As per my experience on business listing, am sharing some valuable tips of business listing strategies..i.e.:

1. Use your location in your keywords.
2. Use your location in your meta tags.
3. Take advantage of Google and Yahoo Local business listing along with better services like this Yelp, YellowPages, Merchant Circle etc.
4. Create backlinks with your location as a anchor text.
5. Use social media to promote their link.
6. Create separate pages for your different locations.

[Mellisa Smith]

Local business listing helps local customers to easily find the business near by their place. Mostly people prefer to go for local business first as per their requirement hence it is good to first list business through local listing. It will also help to build strong brand in local areas. This type of listing helps people to directly reach at the destination with the help of provided information in the listing.

[stephenj141]

The normal tendency of users are to find people in their own process. When the user searches with the city name, search engines list the local business profile in their area with a map, which helps the user to find the directions and distance of the service provider from their area.

[emedianetwork]

Ok, i think you could have given this name as - tips of local business listing. By the way nice post. Local business listing is a great way to list your business locally and promote business locally.

[John335]

Local business listing helps your website to get local customers. It is a best method to make your product or services popular in your local area. It will give you targeted traffic as well as sales.

[brainsickmedia]

The below all points are very effective for making important of business listing.

# Having the proper website address (not an old site you used to have) helps people find you and for search engine optimization.
# Having your logo uploaded helps with branding your business.
# Having photos and videos uploaded helps the potential customer gain trust with your organization.
# Having categories listed helps with SEO as well has potential customers know what services you offer.
# Having the correct address and telephone number helps people find you.

[Joozed]

Another good strategy that could be added to the original list is using online classifieds to promote locally.  A lot of classified listing are broken out by state/city so they are a great way to target local clients and promote local business listings.  Also online coupons/deals/discounts are a great way to promote locally.  Also any type of media or listings you that support GEO targeting / google maps are great places to build backlinks and content.  Attending offline functions where you can promote your online activities is another great out of the box way of "listing" locally.

[matthewbjone]

According to me local business listings refer to local unique traffic on your website. You can also promote majorly your product by the help of local business listing.

[brainsickmedia]

Local business listing helps your website to get local customers.
   
1.  Give you control over how the search engines index your business and website.
2. Prevent others from hijacking your business listing.
3. Improve your SEO rankings.
4. Increase web and foot traffic to your business.

[jesusbond]

Hi,

Many many thanks to you for sharing these useful information. I agree with your points... I mean that with the help business listing sites submission we can get the leads from local business center I mean from locally market which is to much beneficial for any business to get a famous brand on any local market.