Optimise Your Local Business Listing

Our site is indexed by all the major search engines, this includes Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and many more smaller ones.

What this means for you as an advertiser is, your Local Business Listing will be read by the search engines and added to the relative search engine search results, this means more people will find your business, when using the search engines to find a Trade, Professional or Business.

You as an advertiser can help people find your business by being selective with keywords when writing your listing.

Below you will find examples of how to improve or write your listing using keywords and phrases that relate to your type of business.

• If your business is a Tiling Company in Manchester, we would suggest you write down keywords that you think people will type into the search engines when looking for a business similar to yours.
  
  
• Now write a short description for your business, this is made up of two lines of text which can include up to 80 characters on each line.
  
  
• Ensure that your keywords are included within the short description, also ensure they flow within the text and that the short description makes sense to people reading it.
  
  
• Do not repeatedly type in your keywords otherwise the search engines will ignore your listing and harm your chances of customers finding your business.
  
  
• The above also applies to the full description, write a good meaning full description for your business, including the products and services your business specialises in. Ensure that your keywords and phrases are included within the flow of the text and make sense when being read by a person. You can use up to 1000 characters of text for your full description.
  
  
• If you have not completed the above procedure, please login to your account and using your control panel add or edit your short and full description.
  
  
• The search engines can take up to 3 months to index your details but a well written advert will help to increase the number of potential customers finding your business.