Biz-find business directory reaches landmark 1,000 members

WIRRAL, U.K. - July 7, 2013 - PRLog -- Biz-find.co.uk the UK’s only article marketing and business directory with social media integration, has surpassed its first 1,000 members and nearly 600 businesses over two countries have advertised on the site in just over 1 year.

We asked the Director what makes this directory so popular, and what the future of biz-find is.

“We are not surprised at the growth of the business” Alan Johnston Director of Netmediauk Ltd the company behind the Biz-find sites told us.

“People want content from a web site, they want to know that their time they spend after they have clicked on your website is worth it to them, and that they have gained something from it. This is why we have so many articles as well as business listings, we are the only free business directory AND article marketing site with social media integration.

Search engines, a while back started changing algorithms, rewarding websites that contain good content and have links from authority sites, with higher rankings on the search engine results pages (SERPS). We didn’t so much concentrate on search engines, we concentrated on making a user friendly site with great articles that people could get an education from, yet we have managed a very decent ranking on all search engines. During the month of May 2013; 11,000 visitors stayed over 3 minutes each on Biz-find, not bad for a website just over a year old and no other advertising as yet!

Because we have come from a SEO background starting back in 2006 on other online businesses, some failed, some succeeded, it’s all part of the game, we now know what makes people stay on a website and what information they are looking for. All this experience has led to the success of Biz-find.

One other factor I feel has benefited us greatly is that all our business listings are ‘user added.’ There is a tendency for listing and classified sites to want to ‘look busy’ so the temptation is; to upload a database for big numbers, but we felt this is purely cosmetic, and the web site visitor is not stupid. The Visitors can see that the numbers is made up of quantity and not quality on other sites, so we started with one listing and we were patient, and we asked people to join, begged to be honest in the beginning, however now we are approving 5-10 a day, and we are growing in visitors each month.

We examine each listing and add the SEO manually, so each member, free or paid, gets the free consultancy of an SEO expert on their listing page before they are published, we even create a brand new business category for them if the category they chose from our list is tenuous.

Social Media is also a huge part of our success, we have around 30,000 people who are following us on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Pinterest, and we also use book marking sites like Stumble upon, Rebel mouse, and Reddit, to full effect for our listing members. In fact our paid members get a social media boost every month through us. We can almost guarantee if a member writes a blog for Biz-find, we can get those blogs over 50 shares by other people, not just us, on Social media, branding their business massively. This is a free service for members!

All this leads to the kind of ‘Noise’ Search engines are looking for, and as a business model I think Kiyosaki would be proud of us, as I think our competitors would kill to have our overheads, I think they would have a heart attack if they saw the ‘team’ behind this phenomenon!

In the future, as in this year we are excited to announce we have gained massive investment from the business community. This means that all members and especially premium members will all benefit greatly from a huge PPC campaign, advertising campaign and tele-marketing campaign starting within the next few months.

We are also rolling out our ‘Buyers’ page where we will publish what our members are looking for; be it staff , consultancy, services, products etc.

We have also started work on:  ‘Offers page’ where all our members will be encouraged to offer the biz-find community considerable discount on their services.

We are really excited about the future of http://biz-find.co.uk and we are seriously looking at franchised models in all countries over the next five years also”