Comments on: Yahoo Maps Gets Upgrade, Local Businesses Benefit

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Fri, 23 May 2008 13:10:33 +0000

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By: Fred Waters

Fred Waters — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:54:24 +0000

It constantly amazes me how few local businesses know about the free listings on the major search engines. Unfortunately, articles like this are mainly read by webmasters and internet marketing professionals. Once local businesses understand how the Internet can profit their business, it will be the “Next Wave.”

By: Chris Travers

Chris Travers — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:16:17 +0000

@ Mike – If you are not listed on ALL these sites, or not listed with the proper descriptions and terms that people queried, you may not appear at all on the maps.

By: Mike Montague

Mike Montague — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:07:33 +0000

@ Chris – I think this service is more focused on the functionaility and visability of placement on the maps service than a ranking opportunity. SERP is one thing, but a lot of people actually uses the maps applications to find things.

By: Steve Rosenbaum

Steve Rosenbaum — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:18:08 +0000

I see that adding a business to Google Maps is free, but isn’t Yahoo charging for the directory service including placement on maps?

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Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:00:54 +0000

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By: Chris Travers

Chris Travers — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:26:03 +0000

It is great that you reminded readers of the importance of posting their business information to the search engines, but there are many other equally important places they need to post as well if they are truly going to take advantage of the ranking opportunity. Specifically, online yellow pages, local data aggregators that feed the engines and vertical directories – all of which can deliver a high-profile result. But this gets complicated and time-consuming, so you might also like to mention next time that there is an industry initiative under www.universalbusinesslisting.org where for a small fee you can post your information one time and it is be distributed to 20-plus sites, including all the major ones. Also, it provides a way to upload and manage all the enhanced information such as product info, brands, logo, video link, social network link, coupon link and all the other important details that some engines WANT to show about a business – all of which gets spidered.