If you are a website owner or webmaster for a client’s website, listen up. Search Engine Optimization is important to you, yes? Over the past year, Google has updated their algorithm to make quality links more important than quantity.
One way that local businesses and national companies can create quality links is by setting up well written business profiles on business listing websites. Submitting to the top business listing sites is one of the first actions that we take as part of our SEO services for our clients.
Submitting quality profiles to these directories create multiple benefits for your business. Some of these sites will attract new customers directly from the business directory. Other business directories will help fill up page 1 and page 2 for your business, pushing down any negative pages or competitor sites sneaking into branded terms. And most of all, these sites will create quality link backs to your site that search engines like to see.
Top 50 Business Directory Listings
- Google Places
- CrunchBase
- Bing Places
- Super Pages
- Yellow Pages
- Yelp
- Local
- White Pages
- Manta
- Angel.co
- Merchant Circle
- Yahoo!
- Yellow Book
- City Search
- MapQuest
- BBB
- Angie’s List
- Biznik
- Foursquare
- Area Connect
- Magic Local
- Mojo Pages
- Yellow Bot
- Local Pages
- Yellow Wise
- Get Fave
- Tupalo
- Zip Local
- EZ Local
- City Squares
- US City
- Kudzu
- Express Update
- Alexa
- Dmoz
- Dizila
- Locality
- Brown Book
- Judy’s Book
- BOTW
- City Slick
- Business Journals
- Just Click Local
- Twibs
- Directory Company
- Yellow Assistance
- US GEO
- Navteq
- ABC Directory
When submitting to business directories be sure to: use the correct information, check for phone or email verification, submit quality / unique content for each directory listing, try not to leave any spaces blank, and do not hire an offshore company to do this for you (they typically do not pay attention to detail).
Also note that some of these listings above may not be the best for your business, and there are niche business listing sites for doctors, lawyers, real estate professionals, and other industries. The list above is generic for almost any business, but specifically more for local businesses.
We recommend to create a spreadsheet, and keep track of your logins for each business listing, chances are that you will have to go back and make changes at some point in time.
If you have any business listing recommendations to add, please do so in the comments below!
For commercial real estate professionals, who are verified and approved, every office and broker can have a free profile here: http://theBrokerList.com. For Vendors serving the industry, with 2 references, it is $300 per year to appear in the Marketplace. Great blog post Matt. Merry Christmas.
Thanks Linda!
Excellent local business listing websites. it is very useful for my business promotion.
Some more site:
http://www.findmetop.com/
Is the above list only of use to USA businesses ?
Thanks
Gemma
Hi Gemma,
This top list is for the US, but many of these will apply to UK companies. Right now I am testing and compiling the top lists for the UK.
I will post when we have that data prepared!
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Thanks!
Matt
This is great, thank you.
A list for Australia would be much appreciated too!
Must say thanks to you for this excellent and useful post will defiantly share and recommend to all keep share your posts !!!
Great List for those who are looking for business listing websites. Also include http://getdoortags.com in this list.
Great list you have there Matt. Perhaps, you can also include websitelister.org, it’s a free business directory for businesses of any size and industry that operate locally and/or globally.
I would like to list my company
Thank You
Gregory
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