How Does a ValleyLists Listing Help Me If I Already Have a Website?

Drawing Visitors to Your Website

If you have gone to the trouble to create a website for your business, organization or group, you should be to doing everything you reasonably can to get people to visit your site.  There are many ways to do this and having a ValleyLists Listing which links to your website is one of the most inexpensive, yet highly effective, things you can do to draw traffic to your site. 

No one really knows exactly how Google and other search engines determine which websites are more "relevant" to someone's search and thus should be at the top of a results page.  Some of the factors which seem to be used include how many and what kind of other websites link into your website.  Not all links into your website are counted the same.  More "weight" seems to be given to links in from websites with certain characteristics.

Based on everything we can see, a link from your ValleyLists Listing page to your website seems to be weighted very positively by the search engines (which would therefore improve your website's search engine ranking and thus help people find your site).  We believe that links from ValleyLists to your website are given a heavier weighting because ValleyLists:

(a) is a susbstantial website with 750+ pages;

(b) has been on the web for over 3 years; 

(c) is increasing in size and being updated on a daily basis; and

(d) provides you with a link to your website which is clearly and directly related to you and your business, organizaztion or group. 

Making it Easy for People to Find You Directly on ValleyLists

The more people who find you directly on ValleyLists, the more people will click through to your website. 

The search engines appreciate, and thus rank higher, webpages that make it easier for their system to determine what the webpage is about.

ValleyLists is designed so that the URL of your ValleyLists Listing automatically includes your ValleyLists category and your business, organization, or group name.  This means that the search engines immediately know that your ValleyLists Listing page is about you and what you do.

Search engines also use the Keyword and Description metatags (nonvisible information about a webpage) to determine what a website is about.  You have complete access to each part of your ValleyLists Listing page, including the content of your Keywords and Description metatags. Thus you have the ability to tweak these tags to improve the search engine ranking for your ValleyLists Listing.

Free, Unlimited Access to Other ValleyList Tools

The ValleyLists Calendar is only available to those who have Listings on the system.  Similarly, while most ValleyLists Classified Ads are free to anyone, the Classified Ad categories which are useful to businesses and non-profit organizations are only available to those  with Listings on ValleyLists.  Thus, your ValleyList Listing gives you the ability to put as many free postings on the ValleyLists Calendar and as many free ads in the ValleyLists Classified Ads as you want.