If you run an Australian business, you must get listed on as many local directories as possible, not only does it give your customers another avenue to find your business and get you more customers; but it will also help with your overall 'SEO score'.
According to Moz, Online Directories and directory aggregators can add around 10.82% weighting to your overall Google Local Pack SEO score... That's significant enough to warrant taking 30 minutes to register your business on a bunch of the best Online Directories (specific for Australia, of course).
Having great citations for your business that all match up from a NAP perspective (Name, Address, Phone) is an important factor to your overall SEO score - According to Moz, who let's face it, are an authority on SEO research.
So we thought we'd point you in the direction of some of the best directories to get listed on, some of them even pass you some link juice (follow links) for Local SEO!
Make sure that you have consistency across all of your Online Directory listings, that means that the Name, Address and Phone Number needs to match up exactly.
If you're an Australian Business, you want to get on top of this asap, so here's the list and if you'd like our help with building more links for your business - get in touch with Marketix!
Australian Business Directory
Yellow Pages
Yelp Australia
True Local
Search Frog
Local Search
Pure Local
Star Local
Go Guide
Local Business Guide
womo.com.au
infobel.com
aussieweb.com.au
pinkpages.com.au
businesslistings.net.au
startlocal.com.au
These 15 Australian Online Directories should get you started off!
By following through on this you would have added another 16 links to your website, added 16 more sources to get customers from, and as a bonus contributed to over 10% of your overall SEO rating.
We have also put together a complete SEO guide.
If you'd like to find out how we can impact and improve a larger percentage of your SEO score, get in touch with Marketix today!
