15 Apr, 2008
Why should you submit your business to iBegin.com?
Posted by: Ahmed Farooq In: Local Search| iBegin Source
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:
- Submission is free. Submission is easy.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
