Best of the web announced this morning the launch of their local business directory. Its totally free and I suggest you get your business in!
You can check out our listing here and even make some jackass comment!
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Hi,
Is this a website directory? It seems to be a different one, because visitors can comment on each others websites like in social media sites.
I was just doing research on local directories (YPs). Perfect timing. I’m noticing big offline players losing position in serps to online only properties. Wishing BOTW all te best!
Great idea – if you can’t rank with your own SEO, you had better list yourself with someone who can.
no place for a link placement, no link juice…F it
That’s great. And who cares if it doesn’t have a place for links. It’s still free promo.
Great Idea, Classy Directory and a Wonderful Opportunity!
They even have an affiliate program – if anyone is interested in joining – http://botw.org/helpcenter/resellers.aspx
Do I spot times new roman on that page (review)?
Very nice work from those guys, they also offer 50% off now for advertisers.
Check out the Premium product – http://local.botw.org/premium/
Looks great. I will definitely try this Local product in the future.
Is this like Merchant Circle? I thought I liked that directory until I was logged out and I did a search for our company. It came up with an additional listing at the same address without all the customized info I put in, and then it suggested that I also check out 5 of my local competitors!
Thanks for the tip. Will look into it.
man! another directory? at least this one is a part of the best one….
looks great… the map makes it more interesting..
soooo.. how many tech support calls have you gotten since posting this?
When will we see BOTW Knol?
cheap used cars,
Nice site is that a Bans site?
David G.
Shoe,
Tried to leave you a “good” comment, not working.
We’re working on the commenting issue. It’s a temporary glitch.
Interesting, thanks for the heads up!
JR
noooooo dont be lazy just say no to BANS. Just use the API
Ask for jackass comments and get jackass comments. Wonder what would have happened if you had asked for intelligent comments?
I noticed you mention botw quite a bit. Are you affiliated with it in any way?
They are just good people. At SES 5 years ago (my first conference ever) i talked to them and they were super cool.
I really think there is a ton of untapped money for local websites!
ShoeMoney, thats great info. I design websites for businesses, so maybe this is something I can also do for future clients.
My team and I just started our website, and I just wanted to invite everyone who read this to check out the site, and enter our weekly raffle for a FREE exclusive HTC Shirt.
I built a site for Sioux Falls, SD that is similar to this… I want to do more with it and promote it so that businesses will pay a small listing fee to list their business each year. If you want to check it out click the name in my comment. I would have to agree with Geiger that there is money involved in local websites!!
have made some look at the site and the www and found they have great rep….
Thats cool
but they are very strict to submissions.
I’m not sold simply because Google steals local search traffic with fancy listings AHEAD of real rankings. Also, does anyone remember Marchex flooding the local market with 100,000 websites 6 months ago? That didn’t work out so well, their sites don’t show up in search results very often which kills the “local search” purpose.
Time will tell, local search is a tough sell, I hope I’m wrong for their sake – great company.
$9.95 a month for premiun with link juice
The affiliate program could have some potential.
nice site indeed, but how useful is this?
well,
what a great LAYOUT, this website has a great layout!
Sam
They are having excellent design.
Erm good and fresh idea.Good approach and hopefully it can give benefit to all blogger and internet marketer.
http://erzodir.com
Nice site, good clean layout, google maps are great too. I couldn’t resist adding a review
Does it allow any sort of moderation of the reviews? Very user friendly site.
The features at the bottom looks great.
google map seems cool too
While giving an overall positive review, I also warned the world about Shoemoney Media Group’s occasional failings and gave a good tip on how to control them.
Jeremy,
Where did you say your business was located – do you just say your house/office for a website?
It’s different, that’s for sure! I like it!
I think it’s primarily an offline business directory but you can easily list websites there.
is this going to be useful for people out of the US
anyways… the site is well designed…
Is this for companies in any state?
nice design, but only for US
@Jeff – Yes it is.
I this this is only an okay service. You have to pay if you really want an impact from it. Since I do not want to pay the $10 a month it is not worth it to me.
I think that the only value that a directly can offer now a days is its ability to help with SEO, either directly or indirectly.
$10/mo is a lot cheaper than the regular listing as well.
The offering is currently limited to businesses in the US.
I just added our business, but it sucks that most of the useful features cost $$.. Monthly charges FTL!
True enough, but I think this is the wrong approach. Apart from Google Local, I believe that the only way to have real success with a local directory is to be focused on one locality, instead of spreading your efforts thin.
It is very simple. People will try it and if it doesnt drive traffic or calls to these local websites then it becomes another “web” directory that provides little value.
Sounds interesting, great to read about this!
You should send an HTC shirt to Jeremy and maybe he will feature it one Friday.
lol. i agree. lazy webzers.
I don’t use web directories often, and I wont use this either :p
Damn I might have to get that – looks like great value!
If any of you are trying out the premium service now, please write a post about your experiences in a few weeks – will be interesting!
I think web directories are unfortunately becoming obsolete simply because people have become to accustomed to using google, yahoo, and other search engines… Not that results from directories don’t come up in search engines but I think you get what i’m saying.
The comment left on your place is just too funny! But what makes this better than Google Maps?
I checked out this site, it looks useful, but what if you don’t have a designated office that you do business from? lol
Like always, on the front of all the news. Thanks Shoe.
Question, how do you keep or how can one receive such news to be able to keep up or be in the “IN” on the net marketing pulse? How do you do it?
Great directory, love how you can comment on the sites/ companies.
I did as u said – I checked out ur listing and made a jackass comment here
it is nice if we can see our company in local directory and our clients also interactively can involved through comments there..
Nice interface!
still pr2 but we’ll think about it
Wow its amazing how close shoemedia is to where I live…I live just about a mile south. I didnt even know it was there until now. Very cool. Whatsup neighbor?!
Thanks for the post that you have. I came across a new one the other day. They look open , but very similar to linkedin.com with more of a social business directory look and feel. Nice thought out interface though. Found it at SocialTerrain.com
To help promote my hotel?