How To get 200 listings For Your Business In One Week Michael Mire Co-Founder
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How to GET 200 Listings For Your Business In One Week
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Introduction To Local Listings
Introduction To
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INTRODUCTION TO LOCAL LISTINGS
So you are looking for more places to get your website listed. There are thousands of them out there, but finding those truly relevant sites that can help bring traffic and possibly impact your rankings in the search engines usually takes work. Now sweetiQ offers you a way to accomplish this in less than a week. There are all sorts of tools that will find you places to list your site – but these sites carry no influence with the search engines and in some cases may actually have a negative impact. Google created the Penguin updates to its search ranking algorithm to reverse the effect of ’over optimized’ sites. Using repeated anchor text for those high traffic-generating keywords has been replaced by links from quality related sites. It’s important to note that while directory listings have been downplayed, this has been mainly from the broad directories, not from the niched ones that are recognized by your industry.
has done the heavy lifting for you: the platform breaks out listing locations by industry.
Securing 200 new listings is very possible if you are willing to spend many hours scouring the web for appropriate places. But sweetiQ has done the heavy lifting for you: the platform breaks out listing locations by industry. The additional benefit is the ability to correct listings that may have been scraped by listing sites but captured incorrect or incomplete information. These inaccuracies can create all sorts of problems for your website, generating false listings that pop up on Google Maps. These annoying listings send potential customers on wild goose chases cursing your business, which can in worst cases can inspire them to write negative re- views against your accurate listing on Yelp or other review sites.
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INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE AND FREE TRIAL
So how can you get access to these listings and make sure your information is accurate? Simple: sign up for a FREE TRIAL at sweetiQ. Once you have entered your company information, the platform scours the web to find where your company is mentioned and how accurate that data is. It will also provide you with a list of places where you can add your information and build your listings.
FIGURE 1: A VIEW OF THE sweetiQ DASHBOARD
As you can see at the top right, there are 310 listings that have not yet been claimed. But the platform offers much more than that, whether you are a seasoned site or have just put your site up on the web. The older your site the more it has been scraped and placed in various listing sites. The sweetiQ platform gives you the chance to correct inaccurate listings, key to streamlined web presence and customer satisfaction at any stage.
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FIGURE 2: DIRECTORY SOURCES FOR AN EXAMPLE CAR DEALERSHIP
This car dealer has a serious number of listings already – but the accuracy is something that needs to be addressed. There are a couple of ways to explore the data and, depending on how you want to address your needs, you can choose to scroll through the entire list or filter the list to see specific types.
FIGURE 3: EXAMPLE OF ACCURATE LISTINGS FOUND
The listings are ranked by percentage of accuracy to how you enter your information when setting up your account. This helps reinforce a consolidated presentation of your business information.
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FIGURE 4: EXAMPLE OF INNACURATE LISTINGS FOUND
The platform typically designates any listing that has lower than 75% accuracy as “Not Me” - but you can fix that by claiming the listing and then clicking the blue link above your name, which will take you to the site where you can change the information. To claim a listing, click on the black down arrow in the top right corner of the listing.
FIGURE 5: HOW TO CLAIM A LISTING INSIDE sweetiQ
At the far right of the Listing Tracker page you will find the sites that sweetiQ has found that relate directly to your industry where you have yet to get a listing.
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FIGURE 6: BROAD PLACES TO LIST
The available listings start with the broader directories that have an area dedicated to your industry. Remember you are not specifically doing this to improve rankings, though you will see an impact on Map listings, as all mapping programs look for repeated similar listings. If all mentions of your location follow the same NAP (name, address and phone number) then the map program returns a high confidence. Confuse these details however and your internal rank will be effected. The conflicting accounts give the program less confidence they have you identified correctly, causing them to show you lower. We recommend grabbing a number of these general listings first, but beyond that do not work your way down the list. Lower down you won’t want to miss those specific sites that solely gather information on businesses in your industry.
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FIGURE 7: NICHE PLACES TO LIST
Reinforcingyourpresence within your industry will help when someone searches for your type of business in any of the search engines. Google Places pages and map listings are reinforced by this type of information. Apart from finding these listings for you, the platform also provides a link to where you can enter your information.
FIGURE 8: sweetiQ SENDS YOU DIRECTLY TO THE SIGN-UP FORM
This taps us into your particular industry, making things so much simpler and saving you the time as we help you get those 200 listings within the week.
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FIGURE 9: EXAMPLE OF DIRECTORY LISTING PAGE
These appear as a popup, so as soon as you complete one and close it, you are back and ready to fill in another. This feature alone should have you closing this article and signing up for the trial right now. But there are a few other features you should check out before jumping to the free trial.
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FIGURE 10: DISCOVERED LISTINGS AND CITATIONS
If you go back to the middle section of the listing page – the Discovered Listings & Citations – there is an area that helps filter which listings you are checking out. Clicking the “Not Me” will show listings that need to be cleaned up. If you go back to the first column – Directory Sources – you can click on the blue link that appears when you scroll over any individual citation in that list. It will show you any listing that the site has that could be yours. Again this is showing you how inaccurate information divides your potential. You can clean up the single information and disavow the inaccuracies.
FIGURE 11: LISTINGS OVERVIEW FROM sweetiQ
There are many more ways to use this tool, but to quickly get additional listings and clean the ones that are already out there – which really makes them new accurate ones – using the sweetiQ platform is an easy decision.
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