In The Findability Basics

Yahoo, Bing, & many more…

In addition to Google Places for Business, there are two other top Local Search Engines where you will definitely want to be correctly found. They are Yahoo and Bing.

There are many others beyond those, and I have listed those below as well. The sign up process for all of these is similar to Google Maps and Places, but each will have some differences.

You will pull all of your information from your Local Promotion Resource Document, and will want to upload your pictures and put in your YouTube video links as well.

Remember, you will still want to check for existing listings on each of these sites.

Search for your church by name and phone number to see if you are listed. When you find one you can try to claim it and just reenter the correct information when it is claimed and you can login. Otherwise claim and delete it, or email them to see if the wrong one can be removed.

Claiming should involve a postcard to your church address or call verification to the primary church phone number.

If you are not found on the site at all, create a new business listing and submit your church to be included in the directory. The links are below. Remember every site is different so it will take some time to work through this process. This is a great opportunity to get a detail oriented volunteer involved to help clean up your online listings.

How many should I complete?

Many of these are FREE to include your listing and a few have a fee. If you encounter some that cost or are too much for what you want to pay just skip them.

You can either attempt to submit to all of them, or wait until the next step where you Google yourself to find incorrect information. Then you would only correct the ones that have incorrect information that you find.

There is another reason, besides correcting information, for completing as many of these listings as possible correctly. Google wants to see your church name, address, and phone number [NAP] in the exact same format on as many reputable sites as possible. This gives Google more verification that you are a real functioning church so that it can move you up in the search rankings. It is up to you, but the best option is to complete as many as possible.

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