Comments on: Boost Your Site with Business Listings http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/ Website Promotion, Generating Revenue, Website Management Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Devon Wright http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-110 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:51:11 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-110 Peter, did you get the MS Access version or a MySQL dump, what did you receive?

]]> By: Peter http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-80 Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:35:15 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-80 I bought one of their business databases and the quality is really bad, I mean really bad. It looks like they or their vendor scraped the listings from yellow pages, but they didn’t do it properly and the data in many listings is mixed. Also the listings look rather old (old business addresses, old phones, etc.), which make them useless.

It was waste of money.

Peter

]]> By: Masetek http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-59 Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:25:47 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-59 I guess you could just write a script for it :)

]]> By: Peach http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-58 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:44:13 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-58 Masetek, I was told it’s fairly easy to convert any database into the native db structure of most CMS

]]> By: Ozgression http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-57 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:14:24 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-57 A nice advice, but hardly earth shattering stuff. “Local search” is a growth market for sure, but there are better.

]]> By: Masetek http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-56 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:32:20 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-56 You would need a custom script because al the databases for sale have different fields. I custom script wouldn’t be hard to write.

]]> By: Peach http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-55 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:45:10 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-55 Thanks for sharing.
Can anyone recommend a good script/CMS that can be used to publish the business directory?

]]> By: Michael Gersitz http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-53 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:13:48 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-53 Good Tips, Not really interested though. Seems too boring for me.

]]> By: Chromate http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-52 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:42:10 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-52 Oh, man. Why did you have to go and blog about this? ;)

]]> By: Shawn Weeks http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-51 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:55:25 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/03/08/boost-your-site-with-business-listings/#comment-51 Oh, and Oddity Software is not very impressive. The databases are very poorly put together (but they’re dirt cheap). Don’t expect quality, expect quantity.

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