Submit Your Business
A business website needs as much exposure as possible in order to get traffic and eventually clients.
There are two main things you have to do:
/join PPC programs
Without any doubt, the best place you can get PPC traffic is Google Adwords.
Build backlinks
Over the last years search engines have created very complex algorithms, relying on many factors, but backlinks along with content are still the most important. An effective way to get valuable backlinks is to submit your site to niche web directories. General directories tend to become spammy and are not so recommended.
Business Directories
Business Directories
Generally speaking directories are huge lists of websites containing along with the name of a site and the link to that site additional information related to that certain website. Each site has a category it belongs to and sometimes subcategories of the main category are created in order to ease he search of specific sites.
You have two possibilities to find the information you need: you can browse by categories and subcategories until you find what suits you best, or you can search by keywords. The fact that the number of domains a directory can contain is huge lead to a more special type of directories. For example there are directories that contain only websites and information related to “business”. We will try to offer you a list with the most popular business directories on the net.
Business.com is the site we have to start with. We don’t know exactly how many websites are listed here because the number increases everyday. What we know is business.com has over 65 000 categories, thats huge, we can only imagine how many sites business.com offers to its visitors.
Business Directory UK is another huge directory. Though it has a lot of good websites and a good rating its totally free to promote your business on this directory.
Www.wwwI.co.uk also gives you the chance to promote your business totally free. There is “submission guidelines”, a list of conditions that need to be fulfilled in order to get your site submission approved.
Business Magnet claim they have the highest traffic if compared to any other B2B Directory. There are 0ver 80 000 subscribers and a traffic of over 2 million visitors each month. It all started 5 years ago and the company is still growing.
Other business directories are :
www.LocalD.com
www.MFAD.net
www.business-directory.com.hk
Business.com
Business.com
Business.com was founded in 1999 as a search engine with the purpose to become a leader in displaying all kind of businesses and corporations information. It is a business-to-business search engine, therefore if your business’s target is another business then you’ve come to the right place, if the target is the consumer then the results will not be exactly what you’re looking for. Being a search engine means the site allows you to search for the right business partners just like any other search engine, but more precise and with better results. You can also use it as a business directory as you can browse through categories and subcategories until you get to your target.
The listings belong to one of the three options available: Featured (or Premium), Sponsored and Standard. The featured listings start at $40 cents per click and are available only for US businesses, no start-up cost. The listings are shown above the natural search results. The sponsored listings start at $20 cents per click and a minimum $25 start-up cost. The listings are displayed right next to the natural search results. The standard listings are shown in alphabetical order and the cost is as low as 99$ per year.
With over 400 000 listings and covering over 65000 industries you can rest assured you won’t leave the site unsatisfied. Busines.com is also a pay per click advertising network and it is running smoothly as we have over 40 million unique business users and thousands of advertisers every month. In 2006 the company launched work.com, a site dedicated to informing and helping others through the so called “How to Guides”. At this moment the site provides more than 3000 such guides, all written by business experts.