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Pronto Insider: Take control of your Local Search business listings
Piotr Wajdzik
posted this on April 08, 2011 07:37 pm
Pronto Marketing is happy to announce a new add-on service for managing your local business listings – across 100+ local search business listings identities.
SEO and Local Directory Listings
Increasing the search engines value local directory citations in Search Portals, Internet Yellow Pages (IYP), Hype Local and Vertical directories. To get the maximum SEO impact your listings need to be accurate, consistent across all business listings identities and in sync with your website. Even more important prospects are using these directories to look for products and services – they can’t find you if you aren’t listed.
If an address or phone number changes, you want that updated everywhere at one time. Also important are the service, product and brand keywords associated with your listing. As your business changes, such as adding cloud services or a new vendor product line, we can immediately update your listing information across all directories.
Our solution gives you a single source for creating a consistent identity for direct, authorized distribution to the largest and best local search platform network in the industry.
Pronto Local Business Listings Management
- Controlling your business listings across over 100 local search platforms. We securely certify your Name, Address and Phone (NAP) and actively manage it 24/7.
- Improving your “findability” in Local Search. We work with you to cleanse, organize and optimize your business listings for Local Search with geo-coding, address standardization and more.
- Reaching more consumers. We get your listing to the largest network of local search platforms in the industry, so your certified business listings reach sites where over 90% of U.S. consumer local searches occur.
Get noticed on search platforms you know
Our network of 100+ best-in-class local search platform partners spans applications from desktop and mobile to social, industry-vertical and other specialty directories. Here are just a few of the partners in our ever-expanding network.
Get found consistently in online local search and walk customers right to your door
- Set up a secure listing, certify your Name, Address and Phone (NAP) and enhance your listing.
- Optimize for performance. We optimize your listings specifically for Local Search so potential customers get the best possible results.
- Get quality assurance feedback. We give you proactive feedback on your business listings’ Local Search optimization as well as recommendations for improvement.
- Manage, re-verify, update. We prompt you to continuously manage, update, refine and re-verify your local business listings anytime, 24/7.
- Enjoy broad distribution. Our solution delivers your local business listings directly to the industry’s largest authorized network of local search platforms.
- Bring customers to your door due to increased visibility and online consistency.
Keep your business listings 100% accurate and 100% consistent, 100% of the time
We help you easily take and maintain control of your Local Search business listings identities – especially your anchor Name, Address and Phone (NAP) information – whether you have one location or thousands. We can also ensure that only authorized users can access your account and make changes to your business listings.
>> Certify
Signing up, reviewing and certifying your local business listings is quick and easy. Once we set up your account, we will ensure that it is updated and monitored on a regular basis.
>> Enhance
Beyond your anchor NAP information, we enhance your listings with unique descriptive keywords, links and more, including:
- Hours of operation
- Languages spoken
- Payment methods
- Products/brands/services offered
- Special qualifications and accreditations
- Website, email, social-site and other links
Enhancing your business listings is vital to standing out from your competition. Our built-in best practices optimization and organization tools ensure you also stand out to local search platforms.
>> Manage
Our tool enables us to update your business listings, 24/7. If you need to make a change, add a location, refresh your keywords, hours of operation and more, we can ensure that information is sent out to our 100+ search partners right away keeping your listing fresh and visible across the web.
Signup today and get 100+ Local Directory Listings working for you. Only $150 for a full year of service, unlimited updates, and proactive management by Pronto.
Comments
Do you have any references on this? I'd like to speak to someone who has been on the program for a while.
Same here. I'm interested in the local seo program.
Rick and Dillard,
This is a fairly new program. We've only had clients actively signed up for a few weeks now. It will most likely be a few months before we get enough usable data to say how successful for the program is. We are currently tracking rankings, % of traffic from search results, % of traffic from referrals and number of inbound links for all clients with active listings.
Once we gather enough data, we will certainly be sharing it with all clients and making recommendations based on the results.
Despite the lack of data we currently have access to, many SEO experts agree that the quantity and quality of your local citations and business listings are important factors in local search results. That's exactly what this program strives to achieve and we're confident that it will have a positive impact on your SEO.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
Best,
Tim
Hi Tim,
I recently signed up for this program. How long will it take to get listed on all the sites that are included in this program? Also, can I get a list of these sites so that we do not duplicate our efforts?
Thanks for the excellent service.
Marco Alcala
HI Marco,
Great questions. Here is the full list of directories included in the service. Some of these may not be included depending on your location or the specifics of your business.
If you plan on submitting your company to additional directories, it's important that you list the company name, address and phone number exactly as they appear on your website. You can find this in the footer of any page on your site. An exact match for name, address and phone number is one of the key trust indicators used by search engines when indexing these listings.
The Local Listing Management service is meant to be a slow, long-term program. We work with a local listing distributor that prepares your information for directories and informs them when that data is ready to be collected. At that point, it is up to each directory to collect the info and update their site. Some directories are very good about keeping their listings up to date while others only update their site once per quarter. Overall, this process can often take several weeks to a couple of months.
Although it may be a while before any improvements are noticeable, our research shows that patience pays off here. We've been tracking stats since we started the program about three months ago. Those that signed up back in May have, on average, seen an 18% increase in traffic from search engines!
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Best,
Tim
How do you sign up for this add on service and how much is it?
Hi Theresa,
The Business Listings Management Program costs only $150 for one FULL year! Everything will be managed by Pronto. In order to sign up please click here.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks
Piotr