If you are struggling to get traffic from local listings in Google, Bing and Yahoo, then you really need to start submitting your site to a range of local based directories. Services such as the Google business centre (or center for our US readers) are a great easy way to start getting traffic from some of the local search phrases relevant to your business. These sites tend to featured highly in local search within Google especially so take out some time and signup with some of the directories listed.
Here is a small list of some of the best local based services your site needs to be featured on, in order to maximise your chances of getting traffic and business from local search. I have broken these down into US and UK as there will be no benefit or in some cases way for UK sites to submit to some of the US sites with out a US postal address.
UK Local Directories
Bing – https://ssl.bing.com/listings/BusinessSearch.aspx
BT Tradespace – http://www.bttradespace.com
City Local – http://www.citiylocal.co.uk
Free Index – http://www.freeindex.co.uk
Google Business Center – http://www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter?hl=en-US&gl=GB
HotfrogUK – http://www.hotfroguk.co.uk/AddYourBusiness.aspx
My Local Services – http://www.mylocalservices.co.uk
The Best of – http://www.thebestof.co.uk
Touch Local – http://www.touchlocal.co.uk
Yahoo- http://listings.local.yahoo.com/csubmit/index.php
US Local Directories
CitySearch.com – http://www.citysearch.com
Google Maps – http://maps.google.com
InsiderPages.com – http://www.insiderpages.com
Local.com – http://www.local.com
SuperPages.com – http://www.superpages.com
Yahoo Local – http://local.yahoo.com
Yelp – http://www.yelp.com
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