Professional e-commerce directory

1. We all knew before the 2000s, the White Pages or the Yellow Pages. These paper telephone directories that list French households and businesses. What is an online business directory? Since the development of the Internet, dozens of professional directories have been created online. These Directory for online shop are websites that list different professions, with their company names, telephone numbers, email addresses, SIRET numbers in France for example. These directories are free or paying, general or specialized depending on the sector of activity. For example, there are directories for health professionals, professional directories for building tradesmen and for self-employed people. Also called directory 2.0 or web directory, an online professional directory is above all, a website. The online directory par excellence remains Google. Thus, we all have the reflex when we are looking for people, to type their name or profession on this search engine. In the same way, when we are looking for a website. Micro-enterprise, company, liberal profession, craftsman, etc... Anyone can offer a product or service for which they are competent. Professionals with a legal entity and micro-entrepreneurs can be identified with a "professional" badge. They are, for example, site foremen, building craftsmen, graphic designers, masseurs, decorators, developers, designers. They may work in personal services, business services or in the sale of products. For the Internet user, the interest of online professional directories is to quickly find the right professional. For the professional, the problem is to make his activity known. What is online referencing? We cannot talk about online business directories without mentioning SEO. Because an online directory is an SEO tool. SEO concerns any website. As soon as the site is created, it must be well referenced to appear on the first page of results. It is the same for an online professional directory. There are indeed millions of unknown websites. Search engines list the different sites according to their themes and keywords. A good referencing, allows to go up in the search results and be visible to the user who enters a query. We could talk about how Google or Bing robots index pages and how Google established the ranking of "pagerank". But this is not the subject of this article. From now on, we talk about TrustFlow rating, Citation Flow, Domain Autority, etc.. However, it is important to briefly understand the concept of natural referencing because it

2. is the foundation of any online directory. Why is it important to be listed in an online business directory? For a professional online directory, a good SEO is essential. It is about appearing and being visible on the web. For the freelancer, independent or small business, a good SEO is the solution to the question "how to make yourself known". The challenge of making one's activity known is major to find new customers. It is possible to find missions by working your professional network. However, it is good to have several clients from different sourcings to guarantee your activity. Especially since it will be the regularity of the missions that will ensure sustainable income. Do you have an online shop? Tell us about your business on our StayOnPro directory: https://stayonpro.com