Canadian Citations – Breaking News on 411.ca!
Once again, our Canadian online search arena has changed! If you’ve ever wondered how come your Yellow Page ads cost so dang much, here’s an example of how some of those funds are being spent. The Yellow Pages Group, who already own yellowpages.ca, canada411.ca, canadaplus.ca and canadatollfree.ca have just purchased the site 411.ca to add it to their stable of online phone indexes here in Canada. According to their Press Release, they have signed an agreement to acquire an ownership position and interest in 411.ca, to allow them to leverage traffic between them and all their other properties too!
Canadian Citations — Breaking News on canpages.ca!
Back about 6 months or so ago, David Mihm a very well known and respected SEO practitioner with a real bent on LOCAL skills, wrote a seminal article on Canadian Citations — the piece recommended I remember about 10 URLs for various directorys to list in, to gain LOCAL authoritative/trust backlinks to your site.
Since then, both Dev Basu and I and a few others have updated that list with some more canadion-only directories to add to your normal listings, to help all of us involved in an SEO practice — but as of today (thanks Greg Sterling!) there is some news about one of the original citation sources on our lists — canpages.ca!
While it was pretty well known then that the firm had also just bought ziplocal.ca in about late June I think and as such there was only speculation as to what that might mean to us canuck SEO practitioners. Well, word’s out as of today!
Canadian Citations – Add ons…
After a good run thru David Mihm’s pretty all-encompassing list of Canadian Citations for LOCAL search, I thought that I’d retest them with regards of updating the list with some new “juicy” ones. First here’s his list (on his great Blog Mihmorandum!) — click here to read same! Great listing…but then I thought, hey maybe I should share some of our own too…hence this blog posting!
So what’d I learn from that list? All are great lists, and yes, IMHO, some are better than others. First off, the yellowpages.ca is still very authoritative for use for rankings and as was pointed out by Andrew Shotland over at LOCALSeoGuide – click here to read same – and this will give you an idea on where the rankings come from and what the numbers are….you’ll need this to be able to tell which ones carry the bestest juice, eh!
So, nuff of setup, what spots do we want to add to that great list? Well, here they are!
1]. BELL — okay, I hear you, and yes “touting” our national telecommunications company up here in the #1 spot can be somewhat of a challenge to some who hate MaBell, but this is solid SEO, honest. The reg is pretty easy, the site gathers lots of searches especially by what I’d call the “old school” biz types…but this one does pass juice, eh!
2]. CanadaONE – this one is run by the folks over at canoe.ca, another large canuck business organization, but the reg is free and there are some synergy bonuses within that site too. Great ‘other’ content IMHO and this one passes juice too!
3]. Canadian Environmental Directories — if you’re in the ‘green’ space this is a long long scrolling list of various databases, directories and business listers. Why did I include this one here? Simple, really. This whole ‘green’ arena is pretty new, just getting started and for the most part I’ve no idea as to what kind of juice these will pass….but if you ARE in the ecology world, you should look some of these over!
And lastly for a great read by Mike Blumenthal, on exactly how and which online directories pass details TO Google MAPS — click here to read this definitive post! Great info there, eh!
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