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Claiming or creating a listing on CityDirect.info

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Claiming or creating a listing on the CityDirect.info network allows you to control information on your Directory listing or publish new information.

Note that only Business Owners, or an authorized Marketing Manager employed by the company will be allow to control a businesses listing. Under no circumstances will 3rd party organizations be allowed to control a listing of another business.

 

To Claim a listing:

Click on the Claim button.

Click on the Claim button.

Method one: From your ‘More Info’

Your more info page is simply a page that contains your vital business information such as your phone number, address (if available), and business name as well as applicable categories.

You will find the “More Info” page by clicking on your Directory Listing on your CitySite.

There are sevral different “claim” or “edit” buttons throughout the site.  Clicking on any of them will allow you to start the claim process.

 

 

 

 

 

To Claim or Create a listing

From City Site or Directory Sub Categories.

Click to sign in.

Click to sign in.

On almost every page on the CityDirect.info network there are “sign-up” and “sign-in” in the top right hand corner of the page. Simply click on the “Sign-Up” link to start the claiming process.

By using either of these two methods you will be taken to the account creation page. You can be confident while inputting your information that CityDirect.info will not disclose your it to any third party, you can read our privacy policy here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once you have created your account select “join” and your account will automatically be created. Be sure to remember your password as you will use it along with your email to access your account in the future.

At this step you may be asked to sign in using the account that you just created. If you are, this is a normal step. Simply enter in your email and password and click “login.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whether you are claiming an existing listing or adding one to our network, the first thing you need to do is find your organization on our CitySite.

 

 

 

 

 

First, search for your business by using your telephone number. If you are trying to claim a listing with an incorrect telephone number, use the number the current displays on the listing you are attempting to claim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If no match has been generated, we then ask you to search for you business by it’s name and city.

 

 

If a match has been found you will be able to select the satellite box beside it and claim it. If not you can choose to create a listing or search for it again.

Once you select claim, or create your listing, you will be taken to our Wizard that allows your to add and edit details of your business.

 

 

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Editing your Profile Page Content Groupings

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Unlike the Start Page, the Enhanced Profile Page has ten groupings, where the basic version only has three.  In other words, the enhanced version gives you ten opportunities to describe different aspects of your business, ten opportunities to tell the search engines what you do, and ten opportunities to get found by potential customers.

Once you have logged in using the pencil icon on the Profile Page Content Grouping, you will be taken directly to the Profile Page editing area in Centrepointe.  The first section you will see is the Graphic Options which are exclusive to the Enhanced Profile Page.

Scroll down past the graphic options until you arrive at the profile information and First Content Grouping.

Are you wondering what should you be writing in each content grouping?  The first Content Grouping should be another overview of your business that reinforces the important parts of your business.  You should tell people the broad stroke of your business, how long you have been in business, why someone should pick you, what sets you apart from other similar business, what are you good at, the core values of your company and your mission statement.

The second, through the tenth Content Grouping should focus exclusively on one important product, service, or aspect of your business.  It should not include any reference to any other product, service or aspect.  They should also be in order of importance. For example, the second Content Grouping should be exclusively about your most important keyword, and the tenth Content Grouping should be about your ninth most important keyword.

The Content Groupings on the Profile Page are very similar to the Start Page. Refer to the Start Page Content Grouping blog to learn how to write a proper 1. Heading, 2. Sub Heading and 3. Paragraph.

A big difference with the Profile Page Content Grouping is that it comes with the ability to create an 4. external link.  Search engines, like Google, will read a particular paragraph and then follow the associated link.  If they find material that is relevant after the link, it will help with your search result for the keyword in your Content Grouping.  For instance, if your paragraph is all about ‘Emergency Veterinary Services’ and you link to a page on your web site that is exclusively about ‘Emergency Veterinary Service’ search engines will consider this a valuable link and you should receive better search results for it.  (Learn more about creating effective External Paragraph Links)

5. Paragraph Graphics are a very powerful way to encourage people to understand what a Content Grouping is about.  Think of how newspapers grab your attention about a particular article by associating a descriptive picture with it.

6. The SEO Assistant is a tool that provides helpful hints on how to best use a particular option.  There is one for each content grouping.  For each one, you should include 3 keywords that are closely related to the content grouping.  By including these words in your SEO Assistant, you are clearly telling the search engines what particular keywords the associated paragraph is focused on.  Keyword included in the SEO Assistant will also appear in a keyword list at the bottom of the page, further optimizing those words.

7. Should you wish, you can have the update that you have made to the first Content Grouping, published to the different social media pages for your particular CitySite.  This satellite box remains checked by default, and we encourage you to publish all updates when you alter your first Content Grouping.

Once you are finished writing your content, scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on the “Preview Edits” button. This will take you to a preview of how your content will be displayed on the web.

Once you are satisfied with how the content appears, click on “Save and Return to Account Overview.”

 

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Social Page from CityDirect.info

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You’re busy. We get that, and we can totally relate!

Time is precious and as more and more people are using the Internet to search for information, your online presence is the key to being found— this includes your social media activity.

Providing fresh, up-to-date content is going to keep people coming back to your social media profiles to see “what’s new” with you and your company.

It takes a lot of time to check into Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and as we know, not everyone has a lot of extra time.

The Social Page, available to CityDirect.info Business Members, provides one place to display Twitter and Facebook posts and connect to LinkedIn. From here you can update Facebook and Twitter and collect all of your posts and tweets on one page.

Having everything together in one place makes it faster and easier for you to get more followers, likes and connections.

Click below to see an example of a Social Page:

Morley Accounting- Social page

 

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More Content Than Ever Before

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* Improved *

Headlines are now available on Basic Listings!

Previously, headlines were only available on Enhanced Listings and were followed by a small summary about the organization.

Enhanced Listings Headlines

Enhanced Listings Headlines

Now, Basic Listings have headlines as well!

Placing headlines on the Basic Listings controlled by Business Members is another way in which we can differentiate Business Members from Prospects. The headlines also provide another way for you to get updated, fresh content on your Listings.

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Get Rewarded

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* New *

Business Members are now awarded Merit Badges for their updates!

The date of the most recent update will determine whether you get a gold, silver or bronze badge based on the following time lines:

Merit Badges

Merit Badges

If the Listing goes 91 days or more, without an update, all badges will be removed from the Listing.

No updates past 90 days, no badges!

The Merit Badges are displayed on the Listing as shown here:

Merit Badges Example

Merit Badges Example

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Show You’re Involved

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* New *

“Verified Listing Published by Owner” label placed on Listings managed by actual businesses or organizations.

New: Label- “Verified Listing Published by Owner”

By placing a  “Verified Listing Published by Owner” label on your Listing, we are showing that you are involved. Visitors see that you support this Listing, and in turn, makes it a more trustworthy, reliable and credible source of information.

Verified Listing by Owner- Enhanced

Verified Listing by Owner- Enhanced

Verified Listing by Owner- Basic

Verified Listing by Owner- Basic

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