Yahoo! Local wants your business. Your local business listing, that is.
While Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Bing search engines are combining some of their services as part of their recently-announced partnership arrangement, it’s not immediately clear how or if they’ll combine forces when it comes to their Local sites as well. For now, it’s definitely still a good idea to submit your local business to both — and it will only take a couple of minutes of your time, so why not?
Participating in the Bing Local Listing Center, the local product offering from Bing, the newest major in the search industry, is downright simple. Of course, you’ll also want to make sure you’ve added your local business information to Google Local and Yahoo! Local too — it’s important to get listed with all 3 of the major search engines on their local platforms. But, back to Bing Local, it’s just going to take a few easy minutes to get your site listed. Here goes…
We’ve discussed in-depth why going local with your website is quite likely to have an impact that’s very measurable — in many cases, even on the same scale used to measure "going global." Local is good stuff because it’s a very focused niche in and of itself, especially when applied as an overlay to your existing niche or specialty.
With this in mind, there are a few local websites and resources that often go overlooked. So let’s re-hash and take a look at some of these.