Progress on Longview Washington Business Directory
Longview Washington Business Directory is nearing completion. The formal name and URL is www.LongviewBiz.com. We are into this project nearly three months now and are nearing a rough draft! Look and feel needs alot of work still as does some of the SEO. Mainly we have been getting content into the website. We finally have a completed Business Category list compiled. Although more can be added to this Business Directory it reflects the Longview/Kelso Washington areas main areas of Business Commerce. We have added a great deal of listings in all the main categories.
When coming up with the concept of a Business Directory for the Longview Washington area, it was clear it had to be a straight forward Business Directory and not a community online newspaper. First of all it is hard to market a newspaper online and still serve your advertisers with value. A well done Business Directory should be just that. It should be easy for consumers to retrieve information quickly and easily. Advertising should not be randomly put into a website so readers “might” get to see it. This means if someone is looking for a Pizza Restaurant, it should be quite apparent where it may be found. In LongviewBiz, it is laid out much like a phone book in that there are categories, and Advertisers are found in their respective place in the Directory. Clean and simple.
Another concept at LongviewBiz is that this Business Directory should be a local, community website where at all possible. Meaning, most of the advertisers in the Longview Washington Business Directory should be from the Cowlitz County area. Most Directories accept and seek out anyone to advertise in their website where ever they may be. There will be no national advertising in our site, period. This website is for the residents of the Longview area and it should reflect that. Also, we believe in promoting and helping our local economy. If we as residents of Cowlitz County drive less, and spend more in our own local, it will benefit all. If local businesses do well they can afford to hire more help. And it goes round and round.
With the completion of the Categories now in the website here is a list:
Accounting and Taxes, Attorneys, Auto Dealers, Automotive Service, Banks and Credit Unions, Boat, Cell Phones and Providers, Churches, Clothing, Computers and Software, Construction, Copiers-Faxes-Printers, Dentistry, Education and Research, Employment, Flowers-Florists-Growers, Furnaces and Air Conditioning, Hardware Stores, Home and Garden, Hotels and Motels, Insurance, Jewelry, Landscape, Locks and Locksmiths, Opticians, Pest Control, Pet Supplies, Physicians, Pizza, Plumbing, Real Estate, Recreational Vehicles, Restaurants, Roofing, Sporting Goods, Storage, Tanning Salons, Taverns and Lounges, Three Rivers Mall, Towing, Transportation, Travel Agency’s and Agents and Well Drilling.
As you can see it is very detailed and quite easy to navigate. We are quite sure we have obtained our goal of designing and implementing for the Longview Washington area a comprehensive and user friendly Business Directory. Here are some previous Posts in this Blog pertaining to the progress of the Business Directory.
http://longviewbiz.com/blog/category/longviewbiz/
http://longviewbiz.com/blog/2008/06/longview-washington-business-directory/
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