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Well at least that’s the promise of Universal Business Listings.

UBL will list your business  to top online directories and local directories. These includes, all the major Online Yellow Pages, Search Engines, industry directories and 411 directory assistance.

Being listed on those directories is free but I strongly believe in the old adage “Time is Gold” and it’s wise to pay $30 for their submission service than do it by yourself manually.

UBL does not guarantee though that you’ll be immediately listed. Directories has its own schedule of data updates before they include new listing.

There is an annual fee of $18. According to UBL, most directories requires a re-listing the data annually.

Still, this is a great deal I will say.

I wish though that they also submit to some review site like yelp.com and to other smaller industry specific directories.

Great tip from Local Na8ion.

To improve the ranking of your business website on local searches, you have to tell search engines like Google that your website targets local customers.

One basic optimization is to put your business address, including the zip code, and its phone number in your website in text format and not in a picture or image. This makes your information crawlable by search bots.

This tip seems obvious but you’ll be surprised how many small business website I’ve seen have their contact information in the image or inside a flash animation.

It’s best to put your business address and other contact information at the footer of each page of your site. This is on top of the full information at your main “Contact Us” page.

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