{"id":601,"date":"2011-03-09T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2011-03-09T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:32:07","slug":"paid-for-local-business-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/paid-for-local-business-directories","title":{"rendered":"Paid for Local Business Directories"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/paidfordirectories.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-613 img-responsive\" title=\"paidfordirectories\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/paidfordirectories-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been promoting a local business. Now the main task is to get the Google Places up as soon as possible. I also submit to as many local directories as possible! I performed this over a weekend and I was taken back how many calls I recieved the following Monday of people wanting to sell me premium membship to these directory sites. The phone call ususally goes along the lines of\r\n\r\n&#8220;Hows your website doing at the moment , is your website important to you, we can help you become top for your keyword etc etc&#8221;\r\n\r\nI just wanted to get down to the actual price figure like most sales calls, I was amazed at some of the prices being ask for by some of these companys e.g.\r\nApplegate : \u00a3500\/Year\r\n\r\nCity Visitor : \u00a3500\/Year\r\n\r\nQype : \u00a3250\/ Month per country!\r\n\r\nThompson : \u00a3300 for 1 Town and \u00a3360 2 Town\r\n\r\nYell.com : \u00a339 \/ Month for 6 Month Trial &#8211; ( They partner with google to get you up the listings!)\r\nI guess this is down to the fact how google ranks places listings first for local search , and submission to these directories via sponsored links can help your google places rankings!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been promoting a local business. Now the main task is to get the Google Places up as soon as possible. I also submit to as many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}