WEST PALM BEACH - Every once in a while I'll come out with a list of goodies for those who look for website owner tips. Below is a list of these including the top ten best and/or most popular ways (in my opinion) to market your small business on the Internet including both do-it-yourself strategies and for those which aren't, reasons why you might be better off hiring a fully managed solution provider or Internet marketing company to do it for you. Some of these ideas you … [Read more...]
From $132 to $100M: Was YellowPages.com The Smartest Domain Name Grab Ever?
NEW YORK, NY – Back in April of 1996, Dane Madsen registered YellowPages.com, an idea that popped into his mind after being demanded to come up with ad-copy for one of his firms clients, Sprint, who was rushing to be included in the next issue of the print Yellow Pages book; back then if you missed the deadline, you needed to wait an entire year for your business to seemingly exist. At about the same time, Dan was told about a company called “Network Solutions”, which … [Read more...]
Yellow Pages Goes Green® Offers Annual Scholarship to High School Seniors Pursuing Environmental Careers
EAST NORTHPORT, NEW YORK - YellowPagesGoesGreen.org (“YPGG”), a telephone directory at the forefront of the environmentally-conscious “Green” movement, has announced that beginning in 2019, the company will be offering a $1,500 College scholarship annually to a distinguished graduating high school senior whose career path is slated to take them into any fields related to environmental science or preservation. The goal of this scholarship, which will be awarded to at least … [Read more...]
Premium .Green Domain Names Acquired by YELLOW PAGES GOES GREEN®
Innovator in digital telephone directory listings and advocate for staunch environmentalism, announces acquisition of new gTld Internet domain names. NEW YORK - Yellow Pages Directory Inc., which operates its Yellow Pages Goes Green ("YPGG"), an environmentally-conscious "Green" telephone directory, has announced the acquisition of Internet domain names "YellowPages.green" and "WhitePages.green" as a part of their ongoing effort to support "a greener Internet", and build … [Read more...]
UK Print Yellow Pages to Cease in 2009; Are US Based Yellow Pages Soon To Follow?
NEW YORK, NY – Yell, publisher of the UK’s Yellow Pages, announced that, due to consumer demand and general lack of need or use, they will cease production of their print phone books as of January 2019 after annually releasing them for over 50 years. The shift in business strategy, Yell officials said, is due to a corresponding shift in consumer use of online phone directory options over print, as well as a growing concern among the general populace over the negative … [Read more...]
Yellow Pages Goes Green ® (Yellow Pages Directory Inc.) Makes Additional Top 50 List
NEW YORK - The environmentally friendly Yellow Pages website, Yellow Pages Goes Green ® (by Yellow Pages Directory Inc.), has made yet another top business directory listing "list" this time by Business.com. Yellow Pages websites are critical to local search engine placements which is why Yext and other local search services such as Moz Local continue their rapid growth. Business.com, itself much of a business directory, has changed hands several times since its inception … [Read more...]
Yellow Pages Goes Green ® Makes 2018 Business Directory List at Search Engine Bay
NEW YORK, NY – A project I have put considerable work and time into over the years has made yet another top list thanks to https://searchenginebay.com. Search Engine Bay is a blog for Digital Marketers and Entrepreneurs which covers advanced topics related to Digital Marketing such as SEO, SEM, Website Monetization and Blogging. The listing includes Yellow Pages Goes Green ® under “50 Online Local Business Directories” and is online here with its reference pasted below. 50 … [Read more...]
Yellow Pages Goes Green ® Makes Top Yellow Pages List at Small Biz Trends
NEW YORK, NY – A project I have put considerable work and time into over the years has made yet another top list thanks to https://smallbiztrends.com. Small Business Trends offers small business news, tips and advice exploring trends driving small business. The listing includes Yellow Pages Goes Green ® under "Yellow Pages Type Directories" and is online here with its reference pasted below. The article is titled "The Hidden Mystery Behind Business Guides: A Comprehensive … [Read more...]
Yellow Pages Goes Green ® (Yellow Pages Directory Inc.) Makes Additional Top 100 List
NEW YORK, NY - A project I have put considerable work and time into over the years has made yet another Top 100 list thanks to https://www.vendasta.com. Vendasta offers a platform for companies that sell to local businesses. Calling themselves, an agency-in-a-box solution, it includes a sales CRM, needs-analysis tools, marketing automation, app services, and white-label fulfillment. The listing, which is very detailed and fairly accurate despite it uses only publicly … [Read more...]
Search Engine Optimization (“SEO”) for “CEOs” – ln Layman’s Terms
NEW YORK, NY - About twelve years ago when “search engine optimization” was beginning to get popular, a competing news publisher invited me to lunch at his restaurant to brainstorm about collaborating. It never materialized, but while there and after getting to know each other for a little while, he then turned to me, changed his posture in his chair a bit, sort of gathered his thoughts, and asked me straight out, “sell me on search engine optimization”, “what is it” and “how … [Read more...]
Websites and Domain Names to Become Insignificant within 20 Years or Less
LONG ISLAND, NY – Ten or twenty years ago, if you wanted to find information a search engine such as Yahoo would allow you to simply type-in what you were looking for, and countless websites would appear with information related to your search. Sometimes, ugly websites would appear that had keyword-stuffed their pages with the search string, but often you would be able to find what you were looking for within a few clicks around; and your answer was always on a website or web … [Read more...]
Top 15 National Yellow Pages Websites Worth Your Business; Listed by Traffic
The "Yellow Pages" are still very much alive and well, they’re just not big, heavy tree-killing, paper-wasting books anymore. In 1886 when the very first official Yellow Pages Directory was created, the name "Yellow Pages" was actually unintentional; it came into use when a printer ran-out of white paper and yellow paper was used instead. Fast forward 130 years later, the term Yellow Pages was and is still so successful, there seems to be a thousand different “Yellow Pages”. … [Read more...]
Yellow Pages Directory Inc., Acquires Both Yellow Pages & White Pages .Green Environmental Domain Names
Yellow Pages Directory Inc., (YellowPagesGoesGreen.org), a business directory website at the forefront of the environmentally-conscious “Green” movement, has acquired the set of premium domains YellowPages.green and WhitePages.green, made available through the efforts of the DotGreen Community. Offered by Ireland-based Afilias Global Registry Services, the DotGreen Community was founded in 2007 by Annalisa Roger. “Going green is important today to achieve a sustainable … [Read more...]