This Months Topic: LookSmart Business Express Submission review

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Five months ago, we started to analyze LookSmart's business express submission. While it is our belief that any business express submission to a major search engines is a very positive step in a promotion program, we wanted to review our submission for a few months before offering our qualified opinion.

What we've seen is that it takes about 2 weeks for LookSmart to approve your site. A small drawback is that you are not allow to suggest a category as with Yahoo but they seem to make good decisions based on the description you supply and review of the site. A significant improvement over Yahoo. This might be because they are in the first year of offering this service.

It takes another 2-6 weeks for the other listed directories and ISP's to start picking up you site in their category. What we liked about this listing is not necessarily getting listed in the LookSmart directory but that it gave us access to other major search engine directories such as MSN, AltaVista, Excite, CNN, and more than 370 ISP's. With this type of coverage, we can now get our customers web pages not only into the top 10 search engines but those directories also. This is of major importance for search engine placement because one of the first categories used in the search engine's analog formula is link popularity from the top 10 search engines.

Traffic varies from site to site and of the ones we've submitted numbers range from a few dozen additional hits per day to 100's of hits per day. It really depends on the popularity of your product and services. However, every $250 business express submission we've done has been returned to the client in increased traffic within 1-4 months. Everything after that is gravy. :-)

It will get you listed faster, add relevancy to your individual pages, and afford your site greater link popularity overall.

We have extensive knowledge and experience of working with the directories. We are even partners with some directories. We can help you find the best categories for your site along with the best description.

So along with a business express submission to Yahoo, we highly recommend the same to LookSmart. These 2 submission process along with optimization of your homesite and our other page and directory submissions to Open Directory Project, Go.com, and NBCi.com will give you all the coverage your business will ever need.

Then, add a $100 a month regular maintenance program and you have all the tools, you need for present and future success with your website. Let's talk about putting a promotion program for you today! 1-877-235-9076 TOLL-FREE!