List Your Business Online With Directory Websites – GeoCraft
I have already posted about features of perfect directory theme. I have got many emails from directory website owners regarding how to encourage peoples to list their business online. This post will answer those questions in a decent manner. This post is for every business directory which is using GeoCraft theme. This post is a guide to normal user that how easily one can list their business online. It’s as good as having online presence of your business. I suggest every directory website owner to share this post in your website so that your readers can learn how easily they can list their business with your website and get advantages out of that.
To add your business in the listing you can register yourself for free in the website. To register your free account all you need is to have a valid email id. Click on any of the options and you will be taken to registration/sign-in page.
Registration for a new user is quite simple and straight forward.
Fill out all the options and hit “register”. I suggest you to choose unique and “difficult to guess” username and password. Once you complete the simple registration process. Get into your dashboard by signing in. Just three simple steps and your business will be listed.
On the very first step all you have to do is enter your business details. Every field is self explanatory and easy to fill. Check the suitable category under which your business falls. Enter name of your business in listing title and set your business address.
Further you have options to enter Listing description. Here you can explain benefits of your services and business. You can upload pictures of your business so that people can easily see it. You need to also specify the name of the person to be contacted by visitors.
You have to now choose the package that you want to go with. Package depends on the owner of sites, so it would be different from site to site.
Note: Package described in above image is arbitrary. I created this just to show you insights of dashboard from a user’s account.
Once you are done with payment and all. Your listing is successfully submitted. You can start sharing the page with your community and spread it in social medias. Your listing page works as landing page for your business in the directory website. Its really important to list your business with top directory websites because it adds various advantages to your business, which are as follows:
- SEO advantages.
- You can list your business even for FREE.
- Get potential clients through directory websites.
- If you don’t have any website for your business then also you can get clients by listing your business with directory websites built using GeoCraft theme because it offers you to capture your leads and view their details in dashboard.
Thank you veru much for your effort
I am in love with geocraft directory theme and i am personally thinking to buy this theme but i have some doubts.
1. Can I list all types of businesses like i want to start directory related to all businesses in Ludhiana a city in punjab India. i want to do it but then there will be too much categories on home page Can I customize home page further like in future ?
2. Suppose a businessman has little knowledge of internet and want his business to be listed then can i add his business listing from admin area.
3. Can i charge in Indian Rs ? and How i will ?
1. Yes, you can list different types of businesses in your directory site. I would recommend you to check a site by one of the other fellow GeoCraft Theme user who developed a directory site for his city in India. Check it at: http://apnarourkela.com/
2. You can easily insert business listings from the Admin Panel yourself.
3. Since Paypal doesn’t allows payment within India, the best way for you would be to collect Offline Cheques and setup the listing for that business.
Thanks Pankaj for detailed reply.
This is a great theme. Thank you. It is hard to find a quality theme for directories, believe me….whew.
Couple Questions for you Pankaj:
1) If you insert a business listing from the admin panel yourself and the business wants to “take ownership of it”, how do you assign it to them, or do you have to create a new one and delete that one?
2) How come, while using a mobile, the main page does not allow you to use the drop down menu to view the “Page Categories”, but when you are on another page, say “All Listings” it will?
3) Is “Contributor” the default new ID authorship level, and if so, is it the correct level, or must it be “author”?
Thanks for your help.