Does advertising on business directorys increase business profile.?

Question

Does advertising on directories such as www.streetslocal.co.uk help my business profile?

I currently dont advertise in many places but i have heard getting links from relevant sites would help me.

I am a plumber and this site shows top in my area so would it be worth it?

Im thinking of a free listing.

Answer 1

getting links from relevant site such as directories might help your site's SERP ranking through backlinks however submitting your site on directories doesn't mean that you'll get listed immediately and it doesn't mean that ranking will improve immediately...try to gather more backlinks and promote your site...  

Answer 2

Getting listed in local directories, will help you hold the control on your local / region. Try getting listed in Google Local (Google Maps ) and Yahoo Local, which could help you to brand your self / your business and at the same time, u can expect some quality traffic from there.  

Answer 3

I have looked over the site and all seems good.

Freindly urls and also gives a good web precence.

I also looked over business listings and they rank well on the search engines.

If its free go for it.

Answer 4

YES!  Get links to your site whenever you can.  The best links ARE from related web pages and they are harder to get.  However, directories that have your business category is a related website, because there are other businesses within your same category, so that makes it relavant.  Since you are a plumber, you definitely need to target local directories in your area.

Merchant Circle is a great site to promote to locals:  http://www.merchantcircle.com/signup

Here is a link that has dozens of local directories that would be great for you, and best of all, most of them are FREE!

http://www.locallytype.com/pages/submit....

Answer 5

Yes ofcourse. Submitting your website in local business directories will surely increase your business profile. There's no doubt about that. Instead of going global if you prefer local you'll have to face less competition and also will reach your targeted audience easily without any hurdles. Moreover on SE's point of view it seems to be more viral.

Here's a huge collection of local listings. Just utilize it...

http://www.locallytype.com/pages/submit....

Good Luck! :)