My last post listed over 100 local directories where you can list your local business. Local directories such as Google Places and Yelp are becoming more and more important in ranking your website in the search engines. The problem with listing your business with all these local directories is that it is very time consuming submitting and completing each form for each directory. Plus, once you submit your listings it can takes weeks or even months for your listing to be approved.
Here is a list of important local directories where you can get approved within 2 weeks or less. They also happen to be some of the more important local directories. Often, being listed in these directories first can help speed up the process for being listed in all the other local directories. Here is the list. If you have others you would like to suggest please let me know in the comments area.
Yelp
Yahoo
Insider Pages
Just Click Local
Angie’s List
Foursquare
Brownbook
Yellowbot
Manta
Show Me Local
Kudzu
Citysearch
MojoPages
EZLocal
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Nice list here. Although I wouldn’t call Yelp and Foursquare “local directories”
Why not? Yelp for me is definitely a local directory. Why do you not consider it a local directory?
Yelp is overloaded can not add any more listings. Anyways thanks a lot for the list of directories.
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Too bad most of these are America only. We need more international directories like these!
Most of these sites use a ‘nofollow’ in the URL for your listing, so they won’t give you a boost in your page rank.
I do not worry that much about follow or no follow. These directories get listed very well in Google and have their own search traffic as well so it is good to be listed there.
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Thanks for the list! I added my business to these directories and moved my Motivational Speaker web site from Page 4 on Google to Page 1. Now I’m working to move it to Position 1 on Page 1. Thanks!
Useful article – thanks.