How To List Your UK Business In Yahoo! and Bing Local
Getting your UK business listed in Google Local is fairly easy. Go to Google Local and follow the guides to claim your business. Try to do the same with Yahoo! and Bing and you will hit a blank wall. There is very little in the way of information to help you list your UK business for these two search engines. Never fear, we have done the hard work for you. You get the easy part – filling in your business details.
Neither Yahoo! nor Bing maintain a local search directory in the UK. For Yahoo!, you need to go through a third party site called Infoserve. Their web address is http://search.infoserve.com/. Fill in the details of your business and they will contact you to complete the listing. You can also get listed with CityVisitor and Sky Search Local using the one form.
For Bing, first observations suggest that Bing is not delivering local search results in the UK. Search users will tell you differently so after some convoluted research, I found the third party – or in this case, the fourth party.
Bing sources local search information through MultiMap.com. Multi Map is the web’s oldest mapping service and has been acquired by MicroSoft and added to the Bing network. However, don’t go to MultiMap – they source business information through MarketLocation.com. As with Yahoo!, fill in the form and they will handle things from there.
It seems strange that neither Yahoo! nor Bing have clearly labeled links to these sites. Perhaps they don’t want users knowing that they are not the primary source of the information. Whatever the reason, if you have a business in the UK then you do need to appear in as many local search databases as possible.
A third, smaller option, is UK-Local-Search.co.uk. Although smaller again than Bing or Yahoo!, it is still worth entering your business details. Every listing helps, even if it only delivers a handful of traffic.
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