SEO Cheatsheet

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First, complete the following questionnaire BEFORE you begin to submit your website to the search engines, review websites and other citation sites. Some of these questions may not apply to your business, if that is the case, just leave them blank.

Be accurate and thorough. The most important thing to remember is to BE CONSISTENT! All of your submissions must have identical information or you will not get the search engine rankings that you will need to improve business.

After you have completed this questionnaire, use it and the information that it asked you to gather up, to submit to the 25 sites included below it.

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Company Owner/Contact Person:

Business Name (use the EXACT company name as in MyCompany, Inc. consistently across all submissions. Do not mix it up with variations like MyCompany, LLC or MyCompany Corp. or just MyCompany):

Street Address:
Suite/Office (if any):
City:
State:
Zip/Postal Code:

Business Primary Phone Number:
Toll Free # (if any):
Fax# (if any):

Business Category #1 (at least one is required):
Business Category #2:
Business Category #3:

Website Address:
Primary Email Address :
Secondary Email Address (if any):

Brands you sell or use (if any):
Products/Services - comma separated up to 200 characters :

Year Established:
Hours of Operation:
Languages Spoken:
Payment Methods Accepted:
Tagline (if any):

Company logo: (have a digital copy handy to add to sites that ask for it and/or have a URL for one)
Service Areas (cities, counties states or radius from your office - e.g within 50 miles of my office):
Contractor#/License# (if any) :

Business Images (have handy some examples of your work that you can add to the listings and/or have a URLs for them) :
Company owner picture (have a digital copy handy to add to sites that ask for it and/or have a URL for it):
Video URL�s (if you have a YouTube account, get the code for any videos that you would like to include on your site:

Short description of your business - no more than 200 characters
Long description of your business - length varies by website

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Here are, in my opinion, the top 25 review/citation sites in no particular order to submit the above information to. As I mentioned before, accuracy and consistency is vitally important. This is in no way an exhaustive listing, but it has been proven to be successful for me.

There are also many directory sites for specific industries that you should submit your business to. You can find these by searching for �Your Industry Directory Listings

Google+ Local -

First thing you will need is an account with Google. When you create your account, you should create a unique email address that will only be used for submitting your business to Google+ Local. To create your account go here:

https://accounts.google.com/SignUp

After you have created your account, or if you already have one that you want to use, visit this page to learn how to create a business page for your business on Google+ Local:
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1713911
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Yahoo Local -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Yahoo Local:
[smallbusiness.yahoo.com...]
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Bing Local -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Bing Local:
https://www.bingplaces.com/
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Yelp -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Yelp:
https://biz.yelp.com
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Manta -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Manta:
https://www.manta.com/ng#!/member/register
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Show Me Local -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Show Me Local:
[showmelocal.com...]

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SuperPages -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for SuperPages:
[supermedia.com...]
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Mojo Pages -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Mojo Pages:
[mojopages.com...]
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Angie�s List -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Angie�s List:
[angieslistbusinesscenter.com...]
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HotFrog -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Hot Frog:
[hotfrog.com...]
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Foursquare -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Foursquare:
https://foursquare.com/venue/claim
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Chamber of Commerce -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for the Chamber of Commerce:
https://www.chamberofcommerce.com/add-business/
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yellowbot.com -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Yellow Bot:
https://www.yellowbot.com/signin
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kudzu.com -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Kudzu:
https://register.kudzu.com/packageSelect.do
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brownbook.com -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Brown Book:
[brownbook.net...]
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B2B Yellowpages -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for B2B Yellow Pages:
[b2byellowpages.com...]
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Directory Central -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Directory Central:
[directorycentral.com...]
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MapQuest -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for MapQuest:
https://listings.mapquest.com/pl/mapquest-claims/preview.html
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Local.com -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Local.com:
[localcorporation.com...]
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Dexknows.com -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for Dexknows.com:
[dexknows.com...]
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Citysearch,com uses Express Update -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for City Search:
[expressupdate.com...]
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nSphere -
Visit this page to learn how to create an account for nSphere:
[register.nsphere.net...]