Free Web Links and Listings for Your Business

Small businesses are often looking for free advertising. Online directories provide a few benefits:

• free directory listing
• calls from new potential customers
• sometimes a free link to your website

Directory listings are especially valuable to small businesses that target a local geographic market, such as real estate agents, retail stores, accountants, attorneys, etc.

You can add a free business listing and a link to your website here:

• Google. This listing helps your search engine optimization (SEO) in Google, and causes your business to be listed near the top of searches for your business type in your city. Sign up now for a free local listing for your business: https://www.google.com/local/add/
• Superpages. SEOMOZ reports that Google looks at Superpages (among other sites) when Google considers what local businesses to display for searches. So by signing up for Superpages, you get a free directory listing, a link to your website, and some help in search engine rankings. Sign up now for a free local listing for your business: https://advertising.superpages.com/spportal/business-listing
• YellowPages. YellowPages doesn’t give you a free link to your website, but since YellowPages is such a popular site, you are likely to get new leads from people looking up business types in YellowPages. However, once you sign up, be prepared for a sales call from YellowPages trying to sell you upgrades to your listing. Sign up now for a free local listing for your business: http://store.yellowpages.com/post/.
• Best of the Web. BOTW gives you a free directory listing, a link to your website, and some help in search engine rankings. Sign up now for a free local listing for your business: http://local.botw.org/helpcenter/jumpstartproduct.aspx.