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Getting started with your local online advertising? Well, you should consider the Yellow Pages for your advertising dollars. The online version that is! Not to mention the local search engines and online directories. And guess what? Most are free and all are affordable.
Start by listing your business with the 33 best local search engines and directories shown here. We’ve ranked them based on our editorial review, monthly US visitors (estimated by Quantcast), and Google page rank (a key factor in determining ranking in search results… the higher the number the better).
| Local Directories |
Business Listing |
Monthly Visitors |
PageRank |
| Google (Local) | Free | 141,000,000 | 10 |
| Yahoo (Local) | Free | 120,000,000 | 9 |
| Bing (Local) | Free | 41,000,000 | 9 |
| YellowPages.com | Free | 17,200,000 | 7 |
| Yelp | Free | 6,600,000 | 7 |
| SuperPages | Free | 6,300,000 | 7 |
| MerchantCircle | Free | 5,800,000 | 8 |
| Citysearch | Pay | 4,500,000 | 8 |
| Local.com | Free | 4,200,000 | 7 |
| Yellowbook | Free | 2,400,000 | 7 |
| InsiderPages | Free | 2,400,000 | 7 |
| DexKnows | Pay | 2,000,000 | 6 |
| LocalPages | Free | 1,800,000 | 5 |
| Hot Frog | Free | 1,600,000 | 6 |
| MagicYellow | Free | 1,500,000 | 5 |
| Switchboard | Free | 1,300,000 | 8 |
| YellowBot | Free | 1,200,000 | 7 |
| GenieKnows.com | Free | 1,200,000 | 6 |
| Discover Our Town | Free | 691,000 | 6 |
| CitySquares | Free | 523,000 | 5 |
| GetFave | Free | 436,000 | 6 |
| Judy's Book | Free | 433,000 | 5 |
| Kudzu | Free | 375,000 | 6 |
| MapQuest | Free | 254,000 | 6 |
| Best of the Web | Free | 244,000 | 6 |
| Matchpoint | Free | 203,000 | 5 |
| YellowPageCity | Free | 151,000 | 5 |
| USDirectory | Free | 94,500 | 3 |
| OpenList | Pay | 87,000 | 5 |
| Yext | Free | 84,000 | 4 |
| HelloMetro | Pay | 71,000 | 3 |
| MojoPages | Free | 37,000 | 6 |
| CityWaboo |
Free | 35,000 | 3 |
Of course, there are quite a few local search and online directories to list with. So you may instead want to use services such as Universal Business Listing, iBegin.com, and Localeze. They’ll do the submitting for you at little or no cost… plus save you a ton of time!
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