My business caters to several hundred small businesses, mostly small restaurants, hair salons and auto repair shops. As a “courtesy” for them being a customer I would like to submit their businesses to the major search engines so they can be found organically by their Business Name. For example, if someone is looking for Rachael’s Hair Salon, goes to Google and types in “Rachel’s Hair Salon” I want the business to be found. All of these customers already have websites and email addresses.
Since we want to provide this as a “free” service I am looking for a cost-effective way of bulk uploading the information to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, SuperPages etc).
There are only 3 major search engines (as of today, 2 actually, since Bing will be powering Yahoo!), so pasting their URL into 3 forms should not require any automation.
There is really no need to submit anyone’s website to any search engine. As long as there is a link to the site somewhere, the site will be found. Companies that sell bulk search submission services are preying upon the non-technical folk that don’t know there is zero value to this service.
Just being indexed does not mean you will find that company’s site when you search for them. Not unless they have a name consisting of primarily unique words.
Thank you for the information. What I really need is a program or service that will allow me to bulk upload to Local Google & Local Yahoo, & superpages. Are you aware of any software which will allow me to due bulk submissions?