company!How Do You Add or Update Your Listings on Yahoo Local?
There have been a lot of changes to how Yahoo Local works for business
listings management:
- Yahoo no longer manages its own business listing claiming & updating
- In order to add or update a business to Yahoo Local you must now do
so via Yext Powerlistings
YEXT’S FREE BUSINESS LISTING SCAN*
You can create a free Yahoo Local Basic Listing by going to http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/local-listings/basic-listing/.
Yahoo has three different types of listings: Yahoo! Local Enhanced Listing ($9.95/mo), Yahoo! Localworks ($29.99/mo), Yahoo! Local Basic Listing. You can compare plans here.
For this article we are only demonstrating how to add a business listing to Yahoo local’s “Basic Listing”. The Basic Listing takes only seven steps to complete.
1.Go to the URL above and click on the “Sign up now” button
It looks like Yahoo Local Works is now $29.99 a month. Not, the $29.99 a year as described in the article.
updated….thanks.
If you scroll to the VERY BOTTOM there is a box on the left that says try yahoo local basic for free.
For the benefit of anyone in the UK, Yahoo Local works a little differently over here. If you need to know more I give away a free guide on my website called The Power of Online Directories and How to Get Started Fast. There is a short video about it on the Home Page (www.mylocal.org.uk) and a sign up form just below it (signup required to access the download). In addition to Yahoo Local it lists a number of other directories that work in the UK and excludes any that are USA only.
we need to change our address on our free listing, how do I do this???
The free Yahoo Local basic business listings are so horrible and slow that I would never pay for their premium services in fear that I would be throwing my money away on an equally slow and horrible service.
David Dyson,
To change your address on the free listing you must first claim ownership. Do a free scan using the link: https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/local-listings then claim your business (maybe you have already done this). Once you are the verified owner of the account, you can edit it as you please.
Daniel
How can we add business in Yahoo Directory in india?
Hi Rajesh. It doesn’t appear that Yahoo has a local directory in India, or at least I can’t see it.
I can not get into my yahoo local business account
Alanis Electronic Product Design Services
to modify it?
Yahoo Business Basic listing is horrible. I just want to try it out and I can’t get in to edit my biz info or verify my listing. Why would I want to pay them for an upgraded listing when I can’t even get into this one?
If you want to access your claimed pages on yahoo, there’s a new link you’ll need to use to get to your dashboard. It is: https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/dashboard/mybusinesses
I tried this several times – it keeps telling me that my business name is invalid.
Our listings have been stuck “Pending Review” for over 6 months and numerous calls to Yahoo customer support have come up dry. Does anyone know of a way to get listings out of “Pending Review”?
Is the yahoo business listing available in India? I tried adding but the states from list only show from US.
All our listings are also stuck at “Under review…” for more than 3 months now. The information listed is still incorrect which is really frustrating.
The basic listing (free) is no longer available, I think.
Does anyone know how to get a free basic listing with Yahoo? Although they advertise it, I have tried, and nothing works.
Thanks for the information on submitting a Yahoo business listing. I’ve found them to be much harder than Bing or Google Plus to get verified but finally had some luck today getting that done. Thanks again for the post and great job on your blog. Super content!
Free Basic Listings is still “under review” for about 3 months now. It does seem that everything is being pushed to Yext. I guess I’ll wait and see if “under review” will ever get published.
Michael, if you start turning blue, you may want to stop holding your breath…
Yes, Yahoo don’t have local listing directory for India, at-least not this time.
But you one can find other alternative on Google search directly. It is good to submit your business as many as you can.
Go local, get maximum exposure!
I have tried many times to get a free listing and without results! Ever time I put all my business information and look for the submit button there is no submit button!!! lol I do not believe they want you to use there free listing!
I will not try use yahoo anymore!
We tried listing on Yahoo but the phone call gives the wrong verification code. Silly really.
Tried to set up a business page on Yahoo also and was told I was going to get some kind of code on a postcard in the mail and it NEVER CAME!! I contacted Customer Service and they told me it could take up to 30 days to get the postcard. Well…..here we are 4 months later and still never got it. And when I contacted them again about it I got no response. I even went so far as to re-add our business listing for a 2nd time and still never got anything!! I guess our business will forever be pending verification! Oh well….Getting on GOOGLE was much faster and painless!
it’s been 5 months for the free local listing and we’re SOL. its supposed to be 2 months for the review. they said to just pay for the $30 localworks and said no. dont bother signing up for the free listing.
Have been trying to figure out how to get listd on yahoo local (free) for an hour now. Absolute shit. Nothing I click on gives me this option. Good riddance yahoo.