Want to get more traffic to your website?
Then adding your website to a reputable and popular online directory, that is relevant to your business, is an excellent way to jump-start the process!
Business web directories provide a central location/portal for potential customers to find you. These customers often browse these directories to see what's on offer locally or within specific market segments.
They find directories to be much more efficient at finding new businesses than having to do a Google or Yahoo search and scrolling through multiple pages to find that business.
This is even more relevant if your business if not yet well-known locally, and may not be yet attracting the relevant traffic and back-links to appear on page 1 of search engine results.
The fact that you've listed your website in the business web directory with a brief summary of your business and the products/services offered, raises the awareness of your site/business among potential customers (your target market), thus increasing their desire to visit your site to find out more about you!
One business web directory that I've found to be superior to others, is Jasminedirectory.com:
It's a relatively new directory for online businesses, but its features are more comprehensive than most ordinary web directories.
E.g.
1) It is 100% SEO friendly - meaning, all categories in this directory allow you to have a keyword-relevant description and an image of your website
2) It is W3 CSS and HTML compliant - meaning, that webpages written in these languages and others, can be listed
3) Along with the home page URL, you can list five (5) extra deep links to your website...these links can be popular pages with frequently-searched-for keywords by your target market that search engines will index, thus attracting more of these visitors to your website
4) You can list your company's address, phone number and even a niche article, along with your URL.
This is paramount to a putting a billboard advertisement next to your URL, for free!
5) Two thumbnail images of your website and/or products and services offered, can also be added to your listing.
Wow!
Yes, friends...and all this is free!
And you don't have to worry about finding an ideal category to list your business under. This directory is wide-ranging, with categories ranging from Arts & Humanities to Shopping & Ecommerce.
Your directory listing is even reviewed by human editors, who then give the go-ahead for the listing.
Another great thing about Jasminedirectory.com, is that for each directory category, you get a brief introduction to the products and services offered by businesses listed in the category...
...Which keeps potential customers coming back for more information!
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So if you want increased visibility for your online business, you've got to list your website on Jasminedirectory.com, now, while you can, for free - there are very few free, business web directories of this calibre left!
Gillian
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