Comments on: 7 Free Local Online Directory Listings for Your Karate School http://www.marketingmartialarts.com/local-search-engine-marketing/ Proven Martial Arts Marketing Ideas for Martial Arts Business Owners Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ryan Wheaton http://www.marketingmartialarts.com/local-search-engine-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Ryan Wheaton Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:45:12 +0000 http://www.marketingmartialarts.com/local-search-engine-marketing/#comment-172 Adam, Thanks for visiting and the comment. You do have to create new accounts for each local directory so be sure to start there and you should be good to go. Hope it helps. Ryan Adam,

Thanks for visiting and the comment. You do have to create new accounts for each local directory so be sure to start there and you should be good to go.

Hope it helps.

Ryan

]]> By: Adam http://www.marketingmartialarts.com/local-search-engine-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Adam Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:15:13 +0000 http://www.marketingmartialarts.com/local-search-engine-marketing/#comment-166 This was help full but i was not able to get my school list on any of these sites but yahoo so going to try to find some one to post my info on the other 6 sites thanks for the help adam This was help full but i was not able to get my school list on any of these sites but yahoo so going to try to find some one to post my info on the other 6 sites thanks for the help

adam

]]> By: Ryan Wheaton http://www.marketingmartialarts.com/local-search-engine-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Ryan Wheaton Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:54:40 +0000 http://www.marketingmartialarts.com/local-search-engine-marketing/#comment-92 Javier, I have not heard of Judy's Book and have not seen it in my local search engine listings. I typically look in the top 10-20 listings. Anything outside of that and there is a point of diminishing returns. If it's coming up in other people's local search in the top 20 or so, I would definitely add your school (if it is free). I agree you should mention these directories to your students and ask them to provide reviews if they are willing. Directory listings with reviews will likely get the most boost in the search engines from what I've seen. Another one that comes up in my local area is http://www.dojolocator.com/. This is highly targeted as it is 100% local and martial arts related. You might want to consider that if it comes up in your local results. Ryan Javier,

I have not heard of Judy’s Book and have not seen it in my local search engine listings. I typically look in the top 10-20 listings. Anything outside of that and there is a point of diminishing returns. If it’s coming up in other people’s local search in the top 20 or so, I would definitely add your school (if it is free).

I agree you should mention these directories to your students and ask them to provide reviews if they are willing. Directory listings with reviews will likely get the most boost in the search engines from what I’ve seen.

Another one that comes up in my local area is http://www.dojolocator.com/. This is highly targeted as it is 100% local and martial arts related. You might want to consider that if it comes up in your local results.

Ryan

]]> By: Javier Lozano Jr http://www.marketingmartialarts.com/local-search-engine-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Javier Lozano Jr Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:59:06 +0000 http://www.marketingmartialarts.com/local-search-engine-marketing/#comment-91 Great tips on marketing your Karate school on those online directories. I use 5 of the 7 directories, and they seem to work fine. Google Maps and Local.com are probably the two directories that gets me the most traffic. I've never heard of Insider Pages.com, so I'll have to check them out. Also, don't know if you've run across them - Judy's Book (www.judysbook.com). I'm in their directory as well. I've heard other small businesses use them and have received great success. My only problem is that I don't get any traffic from Judy's Book or Yelp, and I'm wondering if that is because I haven't received any reviews from the public. Granted, my business is not open quite yet (taking longer than expected), but I'm hoping that once I get reviews it will help my rankings. What I may do is ask customers to write a review on these directories... Thoughts? Thanks again for the great info! Javier The Dojo of Karate Great tips on marketing your Karate school on those online directories. I use 5 of the 7 directories, and they seem to work fine. Google Maps and Local.com are probably the two directories that gets me the most traffic. I’ve never heard of Insider Pages.com, so I’ll have to check them out.

Also, don’t know if you’ve run across them – Judy’s Book (www.judysbook.com). I’m in their directory as well. I’ve heard other small businesses use them and have received great success.

My only problem is that I don’t get any traffic from Judy’s Book or Yelp, and I’m wondering if that is because I haven’t received any reviews from the public. Granted, my business is not open quite yet (taking longer than expected), but I’m hoping that once I get reviews it will help my rankings.

What I may do is ask customers to write a review on these directories…

Thoughts?

Thanks again for the great info!

Javier
The Dojo of Karate

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