Top Online Business Listing Directories

There are many great online business listing directories that can help you get your business noticed. Here are 29 of the best online business directories that you can use to promote your business.

1. Google

Google Business profile Manager is a free tool for businesses of all sizes to manage their online presence. It offers a simple way to set up and customize your business website, create and manage your business listing, and track your business growth.

Google My Business is easy to use and can be customized to fit your business needs. You can add photos, descriptions, and keywords to your listing, and track your traffic and reviews

2. Facebook

Facebook Is a social networking website that doubles as a place to list your business. Here, users can create profiles, upload photos and videos, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family, and follow their favorite businesses and brands. Companies can create business profiles that users can follow

3. Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a portal website that incorporates a search engine and a directory of websites organized in a hierarchy of categories. Yahoo! Local is the online business Listing directory portion of the website devoted to business listings. For a time, Yahoo and Bing were teamed up as a part of the Yahoo Bing Network, but their agreement has now changed.

4. Bing

Bing is a web search engine owned by Microsoft. Bing Places for Business is a Bing portal where local business owners can add a Business directory listing for their business on the Bing network

5. Instagram

Instagram is a social network and platform for mobile photo and video sharing. Users can take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately via the app. They can also use hashtags to appear on popular or niche categories

6. The Knot

The knot is a local and national wedding vendor Business Listing Directory resource that offers a gift registry, bridal gown search, local vendor information, and wedding etiquette (theknot.com).

7. LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social networking website for the business community. Registered members can link to networks of people they know professionally. It can also be a way to grow your professional network. It has recently become a leads machine for sales teams, so you’ve likely noticed that every person who’s asked for a demo has also asked you to connect

8. Zillow

Zillow is a real estate and rental listing marketplace Business Listing Directory that gives consumers data and knowledge to find a home and connects them with the local agents who can help them. The site provides value estimates of homes, notes changes in value over time, shows aerial views, and displays prices of comparable homes in the area. The site has a “Find an Agent” local business directory where homeowners can perform a local search of agents that includes agent type and service needed. Users can also leave reviews on their agents within the agent directory.

9. Yelp

Yelp is a platform (website and app) where users can publish reviews about local businesses. Yelp also trains small businesses on how to respond to reviews, host social events for Yelpers (a.k.a. Yelp reviewers), and provides data about businesses including health inspection scores (Yelp.com).

10. TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor is a travel website company where users can leave reviews of places they’ve gone to. Users can also book rooms, find flights, find things to do, and reserve tables at participating restaurants. TripAdvisor operates websites internationally in over 25 countries

11. Realtor

Realtor.com is the official consumer website of the National Association of Realtors. Operated by Move, Inc, realtor.com aims to provide all applicable parties—buyers, sellers, and renters—with the right tools to perform buy/sell a home.

12. Redfin

Redfin has the powerful platform homebuyers need to buy, sell, and find local agents in their area. As the #1 brokerage review website in the US, agents can reach 3 times more buyers than using traditional avenues.

13. Trulia

Trulia is one of the largest websites in the Real Estate vertical for buying and selling homes, and also boasts a paid directory for agents and brokers. Trulia allows agents to post listings and chat with interested buyers and clients through their platform

14. Cars

Cars are one of the leading sites for automotive consumers. They aim to help consumers research new and used vehicles, as well as find reputable service and repair providers. Users can leave reviews about specific makes and models. Users can search through an online business directory of dealerships and service centers on the “Find Service Centers & Dealers” tab of the site’s home page

15. Autotrader

Autotrader is an online marketplace for car shoppers and sellers. The site brings together millions of new, used, and certified second-hand from thousands of dealers and private sellers. Users can purchase, sell and research vehicles as well as find a list of dealers on the site’s dealership directory.

16. Whitepages

Whitepages are frequently used to look up someone’s address or determine where an unknown call came from. It claims to have the largest directory database of contact information on US and Canadian residents readily available. Users can search for businesses from their business directory tab on the website, or on the yellow pages section of the website

17. DoorDash

DoorDash is one of the delivery websites and apps that is changing the restaurant game. Upload your menu and have customers order through the website or app. No delivery person? No problem. DoorDash has a team of drivers that handle pick-up and drop-off.

18. GrubHub

GrubHub is another popular website and app for food delivery and pick-up. Customers type in their address and are shown a list of restaurants that will deliver to them, ranging from local favorites to chains. They can search by the restaurant, type of cuisine, and even specific menu items. Restaurants have the option to use GrubHub’s drivers or use their own staff.

19. Houzz

Houzz is a website for all things related to homes (including interior design, landscaping, and home improvement) that features an online community and online business directory for businesses with related services such as contractors, interior designers, and architects..

20. Edmunds

The Edmunds website lists prices for new and used vehicles, a database of incentives and rebates, dealership and inventory listings, vehicle reviews, dealer reviews, and advice on car purchases and ownership. The dealer portion of the site has resources for dealerships including tools, an industrial center, and dealer resource articles. .

21. MapQuest

Founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, MapQuest has a history that shifts from traditional to digital media. The company was acquired by AOL in 1999 and then Verizon in 2015. It is a mapping site where users can get directions for their routes or search for hotels, food, gas, coffee, grocers, parking, bars, post offices, and more

22. Better Business Bureau

Better Business Bureau is designed to help people find and recommend businesses, brands, and charities they can trust (bbb.org). Based on a consumer rating system, BBB educates consumers and assists people in finding trusted businesses. Better Business Bureau is designed to protect consumers from fraudulent business or scammers.

23. YellowPages

YellowPages is an online business Listing  directory owned by YP. YP is a local marketing solutions provider that focuses on helping local businesses grow. YP launched in May 2012 and was the result of bringing AT&T Interactive and AT&T Advertising Solutions together. YP’s offerings include their YP℠ app, yp.com, and The Real Yellow Pages® directory.

24. OpenTable

OpenTable is an online real-time restaurant reservation service, and works with more than 32,000 restaurants worldwide, seating more than 16 million diners each month. OpenTable can not only host business listings but also collect reviews from customers that have dined at the restaurants and build their online reputation

25. Manta

Manta is an online business Listing directory and search engine that provides small businesses with information about the network. The directory helps small businesses connect and grow through their community where users can buy from, partner with, and connect to companies

26. City-data

City-data is a website that offers information on local US cities. Statistics and estimates about an area or region are compiled with the use of government data. City-data is owned and operated by Advameg, an Illinois-based company that operates over 50 websites. If you are looking for a website that provides you with everything you need to know about any US city or town, then City-data is a go-to

27. Postmates

Postmates is an online and app on-demand service, delivering food, groceries, and alcohol, or in their words “anything from anywhere.” Customers can order from their favorite local businesses or discover new hotspots. Think of Postmates as your personal assistant

29. HomeAdvisor

HomeAdvisor is a website that lists service professionals that have been pre-screened and rated by customers in their online business directory.