March 13th, 2009 — TheBatavian.com has added a significant new service to improve the search experience for all its site visitors and to aid consumers in finding local business services and experts quickly.  A link that joined the top navigation of the site a couple of weeks ago is titled: Local Businesses.  Check the top right corner of www.TheBatavian.com

It is a new online business directory for Genesee County. Every service, retail and expert in Genesee County gets a free basic listing.  We encourage you to use it to find local goods and services.

For business owners and managers, each get free and alphabetized listing in the directory.  For a fee, your business can get an enhanced listing which includes more information about your firm, but that’s not the coolest part of this directory. By enhancing your listing using our directory you also greatly improve your chances of being spotted in the major search engines at or near the top of the search results. That’ll give a significant boost to phone leads coming your way and we can track those leads for you too.

Our first two enhanced listings have been posted:

Diegelman’s Plumbing

Fastec Automotive – (this one includes an online video)

But here’s a key point about the directory: eLocal Listing powers the directory and each listing is automatically optimized for local search.

As most business owners now recognize, hardly anybody uses the Yellow Pages these days. When people with online access want to find a business, they go to Google or Yahoo.  If your business isn’t part of the top search results, it’s almost as if your business doesn’t even exist.

eLocal Listing specializes in helping businesses get found on the Web. They’ve been helping thousands of businesses for a number of years, they are the leading such firm in the world helping small businesses in America get found online.  We’re proud they picked The Batavian to launch their new directory product with.

So when you buy an enhanced listing on The Batavian, you’re not just buying an ad on The Batavian, you’re helping improve your business’s search ranking in Google and Yahoo!

The standard package is $49 to set up and then $59 per month.  Businesses can add a “trackable” phone number — what that means is, we’ll be able to deliver a monthly report showing you how many times you’re phone rang because of the service.  We’ll also show you how you are ranked in Google Maps and the Yahoo Local Showcase, it’s impressive to watch The Batavian’s customer gain that improved visibility.

We also can offer a limited number of upgraded packages that add more features to help your business be among the best ranked in Google and Yahoo.

These packages are $79 set up and $89 per month.  In this package, we create a short 18-20 second video in about 150 categories like plumbing, car detailing, spas, law, hair salons, the Main Street businesses of America.

And as long as we’re talking about their advertising, please find a comprehensive display advertising media kit at www.batavian.com/mediakit.com .

If you want to get your local business showing well in the major search engines start by advertising on TheBatavian.com.

Have any questions, contact:  Howard@theBatavian.com

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Just wanted to say thank you for providing such a good service. I am very happy with the results I am getting … my site is showing up on the first page with my keyword searches.

~ Shelia Wallis – Lake Mountain Cabins, Broken Bow, OK