The (%KEYWORD!%) are changing, alot these days, and this can pose dilemmas for local businessmen with limited time for optimization. I am the Director of Express Submit: (yellow page directories) a (local search optimization) company, and YellowPages.com has been one of the major free listing sites we recommended to local business owners. But now it’s hard to know what’s happening to information inputted into their submit business form. You can open up the YellowPage business listing area and submit information.. However, when you try to make a search on yellowpages.com you will have a tough time getting the web site to open up. Lately, it has been down right impossible. I tried calling the company last week and got a voice recording even though it was during business hours. I felt like I had reached a ghost town. But for all this, nothing is said on the web about what has happened to YellowPages.com.
The lack of public explanation about the dramatic change in the Intenet’s original yellow page reminds me a lot of the Fairy Tale of the King With No Clothes. This King asked a famous tailor to make him a new suit of clothes. The tailor wanted to revenge himself on the King, for some wrong he had suffered at the hand of the King, so he played a trick and handed the King an “invisible suit,” which was actually nothing more than air; and told the King it was a magic suit which appeared invisible to him, but would appear as a beautiful new royal suit to everyone else who looked at it. The tailor was so famous, that everyone was afraid to tell the King he had received a suit without any substance. The King donned the “invisible suit,” with the help of his dumbstruck servants and walked outside in his underwear.
The onlooking subjects were aghast, and were terrified to tell the King that the “suit” he was wearing as transparent. Finally a brave soul informed his Majesty that his underwear was showing, and the embarrassed King ran for shelter.
One can speculate that YellowPage.com directory lists have been parceled out to other yellow page directories, such as Superpages and Anywho. However, I have yet to find an article or blog that suggests that is the case. And Anywho has also stopped opening on web searches. From my perspective YellowPages.com has died and its carcass is being cannibalized by a myriad of hungry yellow page directories, which probably paid the owners of YellowPages.com a nice fee to gain access to their vast data bases!
So bottom line, should we bypass yellowpages.com in the name of saving time or is it correct to assume that additional directories are also using the data inputted into yellowpages.com. The current position of Express Submit (local search optimization) is, we don’t know.
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