iBegin Blog

I recently read a post by David Mihm on The Ten Commandments of Online Marketing for Small & Local Business (whew how is that for a targeted link text!), and was not surprised to not find iBegin.com listed.

I sent a quick email to David outlining why adding to iBegin.com is a good idea:

1. Submission is free. Submission is easy.
2. We have over 75 paying customers using our data. So if you submit to us, not only are you listed with ‘us’, you could appear on another 75 sites
3. When we list your business on www.iBegin.com, and you have a URL - our link is not nofollowed. I find local sites that nofollow links to the business owner’s website despicable.
4. The search engines love our site! Some Google and Yahoo stats:
   • Google has 4.8 million pages indexed for iBegin. Google trusts us (and we have earned it!)
   • Google reports 80,000 backlinks to iBegin.com (this from Google Webmaster Tools)
   • Yahoo has 3.25 million pages indexed for iBegin. Just like Google, Yahoo trusts us
   • Yahoo reports almost 190,000 backlinks to iBegin.com

   We have worked hard to build a reputable site.

5. iBegin.com itself gets over 600,000+ unique visitors a month. And we are not targeted as a destination site.

By submitting your busines to iBegin.com you get both exposure and SEO value out of it. Could be why we are getting more and more submissions every day.

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