LSM hosts a growing network of local business directories for your business needs.
Select from:
Local Directory Listings
Banner Advertising
Feature Promotion
Local Directory Listings
You can register your business free at any of our local business directories and receive substantial business exposure when purchasing your upgrade.
All our local business directories receive thousands of unique visitors every month making them a valuable resource for you local search marketing campaign.
Your local business listing will also benefit from being linked centrally from our UK local search directory hub.
Benefits of Free Listing in the Directory and Your Local Directory Listing Options
1) Targeted Customers
Your Local Directory Website gets thousands of visitors, new and old, every month and they come to us because they are either live in or are looking to visit your local area.
Think about it. People who visit your Local Directory will only find businesses/products and services in your Local Area. So if you aren’t in it they won’t find you!
Because your Local Directory only contains businesses in your local area visitors are not put off by looking for a car dealer, hairdresser or restaurant and being given results of entries over 50 miles away or even in a different country if they use a search engine incorrectly.
That is why our visitors come back time and time again – because they get the results they want quickly.
This is truly targeted local search for your business.
2) You are in control
Whether you have your own website or not a free listing in your Local Directory is invaluable. Once you have entered your initial details you can go back at anytime and make additions, correct any information and change your listing as you wish.
So if you don’t have a website placing your listing in your Local Directory basically gives you a mini website page all of your own! You can direct your customers here for updated company information as you wish.
3) Be found by visitors not just local residents
Now this is truly the magic of your Local Directory.
Think about it. If you have your business listed in the Thomson Local or Yellow Pages for your local area how likely are you to be found by someone who doesn’t live in your local area but is due to visit and wants your services/products?
Scenario: Bob lives in Kent and is coming to visit his sister in Chester. They are going to have a special night out on Saturday and he wants to get his hair cut in the morning and purchase a special gift for his sister straight afterwards.
He doesn’t have a copy of your Local Area Thomson or Yellow Pages – of course!
So he goes online and visits Yell.com and enter ‘Hairdressers’ ‘Chester’.
The first result given is in Llandudno which is certainly not in Chester!
The second is in Vicars Cross which is in Chester but nowhere near the gift shops.
Then he is finally given five hairdressers to choose from in Chester city centre.
To be sure he can plan properly he visits your Local Directory and chooses the gents hairdresser closest to the shops where he can then go and buy his gift giving him plenty of time to get ready for the evening out.
If you aren’t listed you won’t be found!
4) Backlinks!!!
All free listers have the option of entering a url to their business website. This provides a valuable backlink.
What does a valuable backlink do?
The backlink that you place in your free listing will be coming to your website from your chosen category/subcategory. These pages are optimised for the search engines for appropriate keywords. Therefore the backlink is what is referred to as ‘relevant’. You can attempt to place links to your business/company website all over the internet but to be honest they are little more than useless if, for instance, you have a link to your plumbing business from a beauty blog.
Our new directory format is incredibly search engine friendly; and by this we mean that there are lots of tweaks and special elements which make search engines like Google and Yahoo find your Local Directory more easily and therefore find your free listing entry for chosen search terms.
Placing your backlink to your own business here will strengthen your own website for your specific business area. Even if you never come back to your free listing this strength will further grow over time as other people enter their free listings and the strength of your chosen category grows with the Local Directory and in its presence on the internet. This growing strength will automatically be transferred through your free backlink without you lifting a finger.
Add social marketing to boost your local business directory listing – contact us now for details
Your Local Directory Listing Upgrades
If I get this for free, why should I pay for upgraded listing?
Standard Listings £25 per month
Upgraded Standard listings in the Local Directory have valuable additional features for your business.
Choose an upgrade to Standard – your business listing within the Local Directory will:
1) be placed above all the free listings in your chosen subcategory and so to the visitor you will appear highlighted and at the top of all relevant searches
2) will be personally dealt with by our web content and site development manager who will take your listing and optimise it for a selection of keywords which you will be able to contribute to.
In addition your business will:
1) Feature in an article on Your Local Business Directory Blog
The article will be relevant to business category and will be highly optimised for the search engines and contain a link back to your featured business listing within the directory.
Articles on Your Local Business Directory Blog have superior power in the search engines in comparison with your business listing page. The benefits of appearing on Your Local Business Directory Blog are endless.
All articles remain on the website permanently. With your upgraded listing this will enable you to be found in your Local Directory internal search engine AND in the Your Local Business Directory Blog search engine.
The link from within this article feeding back to your featured business listing will strengthen the presence of your listing in the search engine and further strengthen the backlink from your listing to your own business/company website.
Further exposure and power is give with the promotion of these articles within your Local Directory which uses a special feature to link to your article whenever an article of similar subject is published.
2) Be invited to join your Local Directory special promotions
Your Local Directory will invite you to further enhance the internet presence of your business within our special promotions.
These special promotions will be designed using seasonal and local events which receive high levels of traffic and internet visitors.
When your Local Directory is planning a special promotion you will receive notification with the opportunity to have your business featured alongside.
Premium Listings £32.50 per month
Upgraded Premium listings in the Local Directory have valuable additional features for your business.
Choose an upgrade to Premium – your Premium business listing within the Local Directory will:
1) be placed above all the free and standard listings in your chosen subcategory and so to the visitor you will appear highlighted and at the top of all relevant searches
2) will be personally dealt with by our web content and site development manager who will take your listing and optimise it for a selection of keywords which you will be able to contribute to
3) you will have the facility to add detailed business description and any images or video you may own of your business (fully editable)
4) you will have the option to add two more valuable backlinks to pages of your choice ie. Contact Us or About Us or Service Prices – anywhere you wish your visitors to be directed to.
Deep links back to your business website further increase the power of your website on the internet.
In addition your business will:
1) Feature in an article on Your Local Business Directory Blog as for the Standard Listing Package
2) Receive FIRST invitation to special promotions
For best results in increasing your local business presence on the internet combine your Local Business Directory Listing with social marketing or receive your upgraded listing as an integral part of your complete Local Search Marketing Campaign
Contact us now to discuss cross promotion requirements or visit your Local Business Directory to purchase your upgraded listing online now.
Directory of Chester | Directory of Liverpool | Directory of York | Directory of Leeds | Directory of Newcastle upon Tyne
Banner Promotion
Choose from banner advertisements slots available on Your Local Business Directory Home Page and Local Business Directory Blog to get your business seen by thousands of local customers every month.
Design your own banner advertisement placement with our ‘customised banner advertisement placement’ option.
Select to place your business promotion advertisement across a selection of cities and/or our UK local search directory hub.
Contact us now to discuss cross promotion requirements or visit your Local Business Directory to purchase online now.
Directory of Chester | Directory of Liverpool | Directory of York | Directory of Leeds | Directory of Newcastle upon Tyne
Feature Promotion
Feature Promotion on your Local Business Directory Blog is a great alternative to purchasing a banner ad space or you can combine the two for great advertising and exposure for your local business.
1) It’s YOUR feature: with YOUR words and YOUR pictures, you control what YOUR prospective customers see.
2) Your feature will be seen by all visitors to Local Business Directory Blog Home Page when published, and a link will also be displayed on your Local Business Directory Home page.
3) Your feature remains on Local Business Directory Blog making it easy for people to discover your services and products every time they visit.
4) Your feature will be searchable within the Directory Site at all times.
5) Once your feature is published, it will be fully integrated into Local Business Directory Blog and Local Business Directory, allowing you to reach your targeted audience again and again – all from one single article.
Select to place your feature promotion across a selection of cities and/or our UK local search directory hub.
Contact us now to discuss cross promotion requirements or visit your Local Business Directory to purchase online now.
Directory of Chester | Directory of Liverpool | Directory of York | Directory of Leeds | Directory of Newcastle upon Tyne
