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Do you want to improve your business, attract more customers, and increase your volume?
Today, there are all sorts of link building strategies, free and paid, but be careful because some are scams that will plummet your rankings into oblivion. They say you can improve your local SEO by buying thousands of inbound links and it actually works for a very short time period. Until of course, Google finds out that you’re participating in a black hat link building scheme. In reality a few high quality links will boost your rankings more and without worry of a Google penalty.
There are many forms of advertisements and marketing channels that allow you to get your business recognized by the thousands of people you want to reach. But which will work best for your company and your budget?
Marketing strategies, ads, reviews and acknowledgment of your business lets customers learn more about you and what you have to offer them. By knowing where to post your business listings, and how to conveniently monitor the customers interested in your business, your customer volume will drastically increase.
It is simpler now, than ever before, to be in control of managing your business listings. Now with the help of Yext, we are able to span your company nationwide on a power-listing network of 100+ maps, engines, and intelligent GPS systems, social networks including Google+, Apple, Facebook, Bing, and Yahoo, all from this network-connected, cloud-based platform.
We use this simple and very effective tool to maximize the full potential of your business, by reaching out on every network, making you more recognized! And most importantly, you won’t get penalized by Google for buying high quality links.
Enhance your business listings
With many of the apps, search engines, and social media out there today, it is hard to keep up with it all. However, this is a great thing for you because it allows your business to be advertised in multiple places, and all at the same time!
Special features from your business posts allows you to view how often your listings appear in search, how many people click from those search results to learn more about you, the terms for which your locations appear to consumers, their favorite Instagram hashtags used at your location, and so much more.
Manage your local listings is so easy! Your locations will perform better in search results and your customers will find the information they need faster.
Entice & attract more customers with the most effective marketing tools
- Search Engines, such as Google, Bing and Yahoo make your listings visible to the people who are searching for what you have to provide to them.
- Review Sites, such as Yelp, gives feedback of your business to others by ratings and personal experiences of working with your company directly from the actual customers you have provided your services to.
- Social Media & Networking, such as Facebook & Google+, lets you stay connected with your customers and keep them up to date on new and exciting details happening in your company.
Involving your business in all of these marketing channels are the key to running and maintaining a long-lasting, and very successful business!
Providing a successful Local search
Make your listings more visible and reach out to more viewers than ever before! Put your business on the map!
Customers rely on in-the-moment searches to get the knowledge they need at the click of a button. To succeed in this mobile world, it’s important that you optimize every fact about your business for a successful local search on the most reliable networks.
Being familiar with all of these current avenues of marketing that are out there today, and being up on top of the newest ones, will allow you to reach as many people as possible. The search engines will trust your site and your consumers will find you more easily with these high quality links, directories and profiles.
Managing your digital knowledge
Be in control of the contents that are displayed about your business from over 100+ digital networks across the globe. The Yext PowerListings® Network keeps you connected to the popular engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, and Yelp. The Match & Lock™ feature allows you to stay in touch with all places where consumers seek answers to learn more about your brand. Stay connected to your internal systems, website, and mobile app, all from this one central source.
The Yext Listings process enables you to update & publish across the industry’s largest network
- Industry-Leading Outsourcing- Always Stay Connected! Direct connections to our publishing partners ensure that you stay up-to-date on all your listing searches, with up-to-the minute speed and accuracy.
- Total Control with Match & Lock™- Safety & Security! When you go live with Yext Listings, our patented Match & Lock™ technology feature automatically scans, locates, and claims your business listings on every site in the PowerListings® Network.
- Total Confidence with Dual-Sync™- Maintain Control! Once locking your local listing, Yext protects it from being updated by any source other than you. The Dual-Sync™ system keeps your data safe and secure. You stay in control of your listings.
- Real-Time Updates- Be Flexible and Fast! The real-time update technology ensures that the changes you make are communicated immediately across the PowerListings® Network within seconds.
- Scheduled Updates- Let Us Do the Work for You! Changes can be made to your location. From your holiday hours, to your featured promotions call-to-action link, to your social media posts. This can be automatically scheduled and posted to your account on the dates that you desire.
- Duplicate Suppression- Stay Consistent! The Duplicate Suppression process will scan and find duplicate listings, so consumers never see inaccurate data about your brand.
- Publisher Suggestions- You Control What Your Customers See! This feature enables you to view edits made by consumers, directly from you, in real-time. Edits can be incorporated into your business listings by you, so consumers never see changes to your listings data unless you’ve authorized it.
- Analytics- See How Your Customers View Your Listing! – How often has your listing appeared in search? How many people click from those search results to learn more about you? Did they call or get directions to your business? You can see it all under one hood!
Be In Control of Your Brand Wherever It Appears to Consumers Across the Web
Enhance your listing, entice your viewers, build local high quality links, and manage your company’s information from one cloud-based hub. We make it simple to control and maintain your listings allowing you to grow your company locally and without fear of penalties!
From experience, Yext is worth it’s weight in gold and we have personally seen returns from Yext’s powerful local SEO and link building tool within 4-5 months. To view important stats and a recent case study about the effectiveness of Yext, check out this amazing infographichere. To view how consumers see your company’s NAP (name, address, phone number) info and other important business information, click the button below for a FREE local business listing scan.