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I think Google's attitude is "we're ALREADY the online directory". It's just they aren't interested in businesses that don't have websites (just like the yellow pages aren't interested in businesses...

Then why doesn't someone produce a decent online yellowpages type directory? I'm sure the advertising revenues that could be generated would make it worthwhile. There's a classic for google - they...

Pretty much correct Spider. I spent the 80's selling telephone switches to the 7 RBOC's (Regional Bell Operating Companies), AT+T, Sprint and MCI. In the 90's I sold internationally and have no idea...

Well there is at least one person out there that wants to see all the results. Even scarier is that there may be more :)

We are pretty much agreeing. The point I'm emphasizing (or at least trying...

I'd suggest this is less about convincing people they should search the phone book for a local plumber and more why the local plumber should have a website or at least a local search listing with the...

Open a YP directory and look at any category. Now search for that category on your favorite search engine. All the names shown on the serps page will be in the YP page, but not all the names on the...

I believe that. There are plenty of businesses that don't try to advertise online. Still, the Chinese restaurant down the street I'm sure doesn't know what the internet is appears in a search. I...

Dunno Spider. I was in a car dealship buying a car a couple of weeks ago. I needed to switch my Geico insurance to the new vehicle and change coverages. The receptionist handed me the yellow pages....

Congratulations! It is funny how many people focus on SEO/PPC w/o revamping and testing site content. What good is all that traffic going to do you if you are not closing? :D

Who said that?

i can see Adwords doing nothing for me and its been proven 3x

Again you condemn adwords when its probably your execution of adwords.

As I said above to ann, to do it yourself you need to know seo well and be ok at writing web pages. At least using the way I would approach it. You should be paying 10 cents to 25 cents a click. Not...

Ann, let me just add one thing to my post above since it dealt with both wordpress and adwords:

With adwords, as I mentioned earlier, one good strategy comes with using a unique landing page for...

our constant challenge in adwords or picking key words words is that we are kind of like a department store....and sell a huge amount of things in lots of categories......picking one or 2 ...

I'd strongly suggest you have an expert help you with adwords if you try it again. I'd suggest Vangogh but I'm sure there are others around here that can help. There is a lot to it to be successful...

@Ann - You do know there are plenty of people here who design websites. If you're looking to have your site redone why not start with the people here?

I agree with that statement or at least that...