{"id":6186,"date":"2018-07-08T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostileblog.com\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2020-05-30T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T01:31:06","slug":"best-business-listing-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/best-business-listing-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 8 Best Business Listing Sites (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The number of internet users has grown from 100 to 3+ billion. Although a\u00a0lot of firms have benefited from the internet revolution, many businesses have become bankrupt. eCommerce platforms have destroyed the business of 1000s of brick and mortar stores. The only way to survive the wrath of these sites is to make people aware of your shop\/service and the products you sell.<\/p>\n
Listing a business online is the best way to promote it.\u00a0Although there are 100s of sites where you can list your office, shop, or service, not all sites are trustworthy or complete. Businesses won’t benefit from such sites. Hence, they should not be listed on it.<\/p>\n
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Where should you list your firm? Here’s the list of the top sites where you can list your company, office, shop details or service for free:<\/p>\n
Facebook is a great place to promote a firm or service. Although users can create a page or group on Facebook for free, the page is of no use if it has doesn’t have a good amount of followers.<\/p>\n
Facebook provides an ad generator tool with which you can promote your business page. The company charges within 1 to 100000 dollars to launch an ad campaign. Once you create an ad, your page will get likes for sure. But will the new followers of your page buy items you promote?<\/p>\n
Of Late, the social network giant has launched a marketplace section where you list your products\/offers for free. If you’re using FB for chatting with friends, the marketplace section will annoy you. Also, if one of your friends has listed an item for sale on facebook, you’ll see the post in your news feed. The FB marketplace place\u00a0su*** as it makes Facebook a business promotion site rather than a social network. Also, FB also increases the number of stalkers as it displays your FB profile in a HoverCard when a user clicks on your name.<\/p>\n
Google displays the details of the business on the right side of the first page of its\u00a0search results. It also displays the rating and timings. If you have a Google account, you can create a GMB profile within a few minutes. Google lets you customize the appearance of your listing. It also allows page owners to interact with the customers who have left a review on their page.<\/p>\n
The major advantage of YP over other websites its the target audience. Unlike other sites that are restricted to just one country, YP is a global site which means anyone can list their business on YP.\u00a0YellowPages.com enables users to update their profiles. It also allows users to share deals on the site. YP is visited by around 60 million people every month.<\/p>\n