Straight Up Site of Interest - Online Yellow Pages

Posted by keirsun on July 06, 2006 at 12:31 PM

Welcome back. It's nice to see you again. For the fresh faces in the crowd, our monthly Straight Up Site of Interest post enables us to focus our spy-glasses on websites thriving upon forward-thinking internet technologies. After sharing the view, you will have another answer to this very important question: "How can I market my website?"

This month's topic: Online Yellow Pages

Straight Up Site of Interest: Yellowikis

In their Own Words: "We aim to provide up-to-date, open, accurate, honest but quite basic business information to everyone on the internet."

First Impression: Labeling itself as "Yellow Pages for the 21st Century" Yellowikis is a wiki-formatted version of online Yellow Pages. This means that anyone can add and edit a business listing to Yellowikis.

Similar to Wikipedia becoming the online information directory, Yellowikis hopes to become the all-important online business directory.

It took all of 15-20 minutes to add a basic listing for our company, and of course the more time you have, the more elaborate your listing can become. And the instant gratification of seeing your business listed immediately is more than favorable to waiting for an email verification that your listing has been added.

Some Key Features:

It is free to add a business and organizations to Yellowikis
First Yellow Pages with Videos
First Yellow Pages with VoIP
First Yellow Pages with Chat

With Wikipedia listings showing up favorably in Google's search results, it's only logical that business listings from popular wikis will be meshed with local search results in one fashion or another.

Don't forget to read about June's Straight Up Site of Interest for Net Neutrality.

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Technology