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The following is a list of FREE Places to submit your local business to. In order to submit to all the places, simply click on the links highlighted in blue and follow the directions on each website.
Local : These are places to list your business, a website is NOT required.
Website Submit: These are places to submit your website for free.
Website Submit: These are places to submit your website for free.
*Nearly all of these will ask you to pay extra for additional services or features, we DO NOT recommend any of the paid features as of right now. We DO have a paid package whereby we manually submit to all of the following, that package is $19.95 per month or $200 annually.
Yahoo Local (Free Basic, Paid Enhanced) - Allows merchants or business owners to add their business name, website, address, phone number, relevant categories, hours, payments accepted and more to Yahoo local. Free basic listing or paid enhanced listings available. Yahoo account required. http://local.yahoo.com/
YellowPages.com (Free Basic, Paid Enhanced) - Allows local business owners to list relevant information about their company including names, locations, contact information and more. Listings appear within YellowPages.com and affiliate sites. Once updated, listings may take several weeks to display. Both free basic and paid enhanced listing options available. Free account required to list.
http://adsolutions.att.com/internet-solutions
Google Local Business Center (Free)- Allows business owners to add their company address location, hours of operation, storefront or product photos and more to Google. Listings appear within Google Maps and Business searches. Free to list, comes with account listing and management tools, no website needed. Google account required. Local business listings update every few weeks.
Google Places: First go to http://maps.google.com/maps?ct=reset search for your business if you find it click on business owner, if not then proceed here: http://www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter?pli=1http://www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter?pli=1
Google website submit: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
DMOZ (Free)- VERY IMPORTANT. This is a human based search engine which all the big search engines use to find websites. Many of the major search engines take the listings from this search engine very, very seriously. If you have a website you MUST list it here.
DMOZ website submit: http://www.dmoz.org/docs/en/add.html
Bing (MSN) (Free)- Allows business owners to add their company address location, hours of operation, storefront or product photos and more to Bing. Listings appear within Bing Maps and Business searches. Free to list, comes with account listing and management tools, no website needed. Local business listings update every few weeks.
Local https://ssl.bing.com/listings/ListingCenter.aspx
Yelp: 38 million users, mostly younger demographics
Yelp (Free Basic, Paid Enhanced) - Allows local businesses to gain exposure and brand awareness through business or company reviews. Business owners can manage or enhance reviews listed within Yelp pages and can even join their word of mouth program. Listing update in real time. Free to review, paid enhancement and word of mouth program options available.
http://www.yelp.com/business?country=US
Citysearch (Paid Programs) - Get your local business listed within Citysearch including the company name, photos, address, map, website, coupons, personal messages, offer types and more. Citysearch listing look like recommendations or reviews but work like advertisements. Only paid programs are available at this time. Listings are updated within a few days from the time businesses update information.
Flint City Search: https://myaccount.citygridmedia.com/login
SuperPages (Free Basic, Paid Enhanced) - Allows business owners to list relevant information including location, hours, contacts, categories, optional enhancements and more. Free listing option along with paid enhanced listing options. Listings appear within SuperPages and affiliate sites. Listing may take several weeks to update.
http://www.supermedia.com/
Merchant Circle is the largest online network of local business owners, combining social networking features with customizable web listings that allow local merchants to attract new customers. We are a small, growing company dedicated to connecting neighbors and merchants online to help build real relationships between local business owners and their customers. To date, well over 1,000,000 local businesses have joined MerchantCircle to get their business more exposure on the Internet, simply and inexpensively.
http://www.merchantcircle.com/corporate/
Tools that can help manage your businesses online presence:
Postling: Manage all your social networks in one place (Free and paid versions)
http://postling.com/
HootSuite: Manage all your social networks in one place (Free and paid versions)
http://hootsuite.com/
Sprout Social - Business Tools for the Social Web (Free trial but paid after)
http://sproutsocial.com//
Submit Express: this will automatically submit your website to several search engines.
http://www.submitexpress.com/free-submission.html
Link Popularity Tool: Find out where your website has links online:
http://www.submitexpress.com/link-popularity-check.html
Restaurant listings:
http://www.restaurant.com/
Daily deals Grand Rapids/ Detroit (Can list any area/ Business in MI):
http://livingsocial.com/
Postling: Manage all your social networks in one place (Free and paid versions)
http://postling.com/
HootSuite: Manage all your social networks in one place (Free and paid versions)
http://hootsuite.com/
Sprout Social - Business Tools for the Social Web (Free trial but paid after)
http://sproutsocial.com//
Submit Express: this will automatically submit your website to several search engines.
http://www.submitexpress.com/free-submission.html
Link Popularity Tool: Find out where your website has links online:
http://www.submitexpress.com/link-popularity-check.html
Restaurant listings:
http://www.restaurant.com/
Daily deals Grand Rapids/ Detroit (Can list any area/ Business in MI):
http://livingsocial.com/