Life on Florida’s West Coast

Will People Find Your Business Online?

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In the world of brick and mortar businesses, you can still rely a little bit on the old adage of “if you build it, they will come.” If you open a restaurant or a sporting goods store in a strip mall in your town, you are going to get some foot traffic simply due to passers by and the like. Of course, you still need to promote and advertise, but there is no substitute for a physical storefront.

On the internet, things are very different. If you build a business website and put it online, people are absolutely not going to find it unless you make sure you are indexed in the search engines, advertise in all the right places, and get your site’s URL listed in as any good business web directories as you can manage.

A majority of the solid web directories these days charge a fee to list your web site. The fees can be minimal, or they can be exorbitant. More often than not, they are not really worth the price of admission. If you know where to look, you can find free directory web sites that will meet your needs. DirMania business web directory, for example, is a quality free directory that is carefully organized into specific categories. Once you submit your site, it will be listed with in 24 hours as long as your listing meets the DirMania guidelines.

Impressively, in a critical time when Google has stripped Rage Rank from most blogs and directory sites, Dirmania retained their PR3 ranking.

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