A business that gets a lot of positive reviews will have a significant advantage over a business that doesn’t. This advantage comes about since most review sites are highly ranked and trafficked so having a link on them is great both for SEO value and company exposure; and maybe most importantly, studies have noted that…
Once the first search engines started ranking pages there came about a competition of sorts to rank at the top. If a business wanted to ensure that their website was ranked well they would utilize a variety of search engine optimization techniques, otherwise know as SEO. Initially the techniques used were all about keyword stacking. …
Not long back Bing changed the name of the “Bing Business Portal” to “Bing Places for Business”, and a while before that Bing removed the “review” part of their “Places” listings. For this reason you may think that there is little reason to create a listing with them (beyond the standard URL submit) but from…
UPDATE: Yahoo Small Business will no longer be providing their own reviews, or their small business marketing dashboard. The review part of their site is now importing Yelp reviews, and when I visited their page I found this notice: Coming soon! Yahoo Small Business is becoming Luminate from Aabaco Small Business. Considering that Yahoo has…