Jun 09 2010

Yahoo Local Listing Requirements

We tend to spend much of our time focused on Google, yet Yahoo has local listings for businesses as well.  Just like Google the basic service is free to businesses.  Yahoo! Local Listings gives businesses the ability to provide detailed business information like products and service local consumers on Yahoo! Local. Yahoo! does have some requirements that businesses need to adhere to in order to take advantage of this local business marketing tool. First of all Yahoo! Local is only for the United States, so your address has to be a U.S. address. Your business must operate a physical store location or service a local region.  This, also, translates into “no P.O. Boxes”. The category you select for your business...

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Google Places No-No’s

Google Places is a free marketing tool for local businesses.  The benefits of these listings include showing up in web search results and mobile search results.  Updating these listings is free and available to the business 24x7x365.  Not something you can easily do with the traditional yellow pages.  Definitely something you need to consider beyond Google and tap into multiple local listing websites and search engines. Here are a few...

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Local Business Marketing: Google Local Listing Coupons

Local listing coupons help to promote your special discounts to local consumers that reach your local business listing through web searches and mobile searches.  These local listing coupons can be used by printing them out or presenting them on a mobile device when a local consumer visits your store. Here are the steps to create your coupon in your local listing at Google.  The steps below assume you have...

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Local Business Marketing: Three Most Important Tips for Local Business Listings

If you are a business dependent upon the local consumer for your revenue, then local business listings at multiple local listing websites is an important local business marketing tool for you.  A few important tips. 1.  Claim Your Local Listing By claiming your listing you are effectively protecting your listing from hijackings and also allow you to use your local business listing as a marketing tool.  Don't wait to do this....run!

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Getting Front Page Listings in Google Maps

*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who does Tulsa pay per click advertising* Google made a recent revision on AdWords, and some changes are more visible than others. One of the major changes was adding the ability to post ads that can have a full address, phone number, and a visible "pin" on Google Maps, just like Google Local. (Note: yes, the customization for addresses in AdWords Campaign settings has been available for...

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