OhioBiz

All OhioBiz Listing Title Tags have become more localized by using the format:

Business Listing Name, City, State, Zip Code & Category.

MG

Within a matter of a few days, we’ll be adding the capability for paid members to upload video and audio clips to their listing. Watch for other shortly as well.

For those of you that have websites, take advantage of the Deep Link feature. This feature enables you to link to preferred internal pages within your existing website. These are direct links from your OhioBiz listing page to, let’s say, product pages within your website. Having external links to these internal pages will have a positive effect in the search engine rankings.

For further questions or explanations how these features can further benefit your business, please contact me at mark@ohiobiz.com or 216.381.1820. I’d be glad to discuss further.

Mark Geyman
OhioBiz.com

I wish all Ohioans a wonderful Holiday Season and a very Prosperous New Year!!

As you can see the OhioBiz business directory has been re-vamped! It now contains over 400,000 Ohio businesses/organizations – largest and most comprehensive in the State of Ohio. Obviously, this is just the beginning of many future updates.

Any Ohio business can now log in and update/add their listings. Take control of your listing!!

For example, here is a business already taking advantage of the new features - check out this business in New Concord Ohio who just updated their OhioBiz listing page - http://www.ohiobiz.com/southeast-ohio/GUDesigns.com.html.

Businesses can upload customized coupons, product & service listings and much more – there’s lots of potential here.

Here’s a brief breakdown of some of the new features and benefits for you to take advantage of (whether or not you currently have a website):

OhioBiz.com Expansion/Features:

• Expanded coverage to over 400,000 Ohio business listings
• Ohio-based/centric business search directory that truly cares about our state/region, not just another national company trying to put on a “local” face, offering more of a personalized approach
• Site Search broken down into 5 Ohio Business Regions (NE, NW, Central, SE, SW)
• Businesses can login and manage their own listings
• Tiered levels of membership from FREE, PAY (additional features included, “We Maintain” – OhioBiz will maintain the listing for you) – we have it covered!
• Included in all levels – Customized business location map, information fields on the business, including short descriptions and full descriptions
• All members will be validated before editing
• Additional paid features include:

o Deep Links – Additional links to pages within a company’s website (i.e. product landing pages, blog, specials page)

o Coupon Creation – program automatically builds coupons/special offers which can be easily customized OR member can upload their own coupon

o Document Upload – members can upload documents (Word, PDFs, etc.)

o Products Upload – members can upload photos of products

o More features will be added – job listings, video clips, etc.

• Search by location, keyword, business community, address. zip code, products, coupons, documents, images

Benefits to listees/members:

• Be a part of Ohio’s #1 biz search directory – Over the long-term, we’ve ranked highly across the board (Google, Yahoo, Live.com, Ask.com) for the following terms: ohio business, ohio companies, ohio corporations, ohio search, ohio directory, ohio business directory, ohio business search and many more combinations. Google views OhioBiz.com as an authority site with regards to the “Ohio Business” realm and this can only benefit your online presence
• SE (Search Engine)–friendly listings containing the name of the company or organization listed
• Effectively reach the Ohio business community
• Add exposure to your website’s inner pages through the use of the Deep Links feature
• Easy to login and keep your information fresh
• Don’t need to have a website to have a “presence” on OhioBiz

As always, this is a work in progress and I’m ALWAYS open to suggestions to make it a more meaningful & valuable resource for the end-user.

Here’s to a great ‘08!

Mark J. Geyman
OhioBiz.com