Now you’ve got your business listed correctly in Google Maps, it’s time to turn your attention to Yahoo Local.

Simply go to the home page - local.yahoo.com - and enter in your business information. It it’s there you’ll get a list of results starting with any sponsored listings, then any local listings, then a list of web search results, containing the business name that are ‘near your location’. If the business in the local listing is yours, click on the name for the detailed listing. This gives you hours of operations, any user reviews from insiderpages.com or Yahoo, payment methods, specialties, brands, etc.



If you want you can then edit the listing, changing / adding data as necessary. This data change request is then reviewed by an editor before it’s accepted. You can also claim your listing, providing Yahoo with your contact information, which will then set you up as the trusted contact for this listing, and you can set up some extra features, such as refusing to display your address (useful for a service oriented business), or having Yahoo periodically send you reviews that are written about your business - useful to give you a warm glow, or to let you know when you need to start damage control. Similar to Google Maps, when you add or claim your listing you have the chance to select categories that relate to your business