How Do I Get A Free Search Engine Business Listing?

Getting your business, business website or blog out there on the Internet can be a challenge. Getting listed in Google, Yahoo and other major search engines can be even more of a challenge. What I am learning though, is that there are companies out there that provide local business directories. Yellow Pages and Yahoo Local are two on the top of my head. Submitting your business into local these local business directories is a great way to give your business instant Internet exposure. People will sit there and wait weeks to a month to appear in Google, Yahoo and the others while during this waiting period they can be taking advantage of local search.

Is local search more powerful than global search? (i.e. going to www.google.com, to do a Google search and have your site pull up) The answer is obviously no. If you can land great keywords in Google, ultimately you are doing the best you can do. However, I am not sure if you have heard the old saying, “Bad breath is better than no breath”, meaning, while you sit there and wait for your business site, blog or website to gain good rankings in Google, wouldn’t it be a smart idea to take advantage of having a listing in local search?

There is a company called MerchantCircle that you can use (totally free) that allows you a way to manage your local listings in multiple directories. Depending on your level of experience, on MerchantCircle you can create a great-looking listing using their easy business listing tools. You can link to your website from your listing or use your listing as a secondary website for your business. Your MerchantCircle home page comes complete with a blog, online coupons, newsletters and more. Another powerful feature of MerchantCircle is that you can add your business to their business directory. They also provide a quick and easy way to link with other businesses. You can even create your own customer referral network.

Why Wait Weeks To A Month To Get Listed…

Again, why sit there and wait to get crawled by Google and Yahoo. Eventually it will happen. There is no doubt about it. And if you are smart and do your homework, you can land some really powerful listings on the main search engines. But the point I am trying to put across to you is the fact that there are thousands of people who do use local search to find what they need. If you are a business owner who has a website or blog to promote your business, you can take full advantage of getting your name out there using local search. If you don’t do it, then you can count on your competition doing it. And right now, if you haven’t taken advantage of local search your buddy next door is getting all the sales calls while you are sitting at your desk waiting to get listed in Google. Take advantage of local search. It’s free, instant, highly effective and reinforces your efforts getting a good ranking on global search.

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