How Yahoo Local Can Help You Gain Traffic

Writing by Brick Marketing on Thursday, 21 of February , 2008 at 6:30 pm

Yahoo has been popping up in the media a lot lately, but that hasn´t hurt the Yahoo Local brand . . . in fact, now is just a good a time as any to get your business listed. In fact, it might even be best to do it now, since we have no idea how the rules of submission will change once the company is sold, which experts agree is definitely going to happen at some point.

It´s very easy to get listed in the Yahoo Local directory. Simply head over to http://listings.local.yahoo.com and you can fill out the form to give all your business information, which will then be put into the Yahoo Local directory and show up on any maps that are shown. This can be a huge benefit because Yahoo still gets a good chunk of traffic, even with Google overshadowing the search engine market.

Having your business listing pop up when someone is searching on Yahoo Local is great. If you are on the map, your chances of being visited are far higher, since most people gravitate to those maps when they do a search. It´s easier for surfers because they can see at a glance where you are located and pick the business closest to them.

Yahoo Local listings can really help boost your traffic, particularly if you are featured on the maps. If you haven´t listed your business there yet, then go do it now. It literally takes a couple of minutes and you can have everything up and running and start boosting your traffic levels and hopefully your local customer levels, too!  This is another solution to your local advertising efforts!

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