Does anyone have experience with ecinity.com as a vehicle for populating local search directories? If yes, how would you rank it as a competitor to Localeze and UBL?
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I've been approached by the company to use their tool. It has functionality beyond just populating local data sources which I'm not concerned with. I just want to know how it ranks in terms of local directory coverage. They claim 85% of the local directories will be populated.
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You're welcome, Donna. Sorry not to have more direct advice. A couple of things I noticed about ecinity that didn't thrill me right off the bat was the fact that it seems to be still in Beta, it's asking for my email for me to see what the tool does and the About page is really unspecific. To be fair, looks like they are just getting started and they could turn out to be a super service in future, but if they are already marketing the business and attempting to engage business owners like you, the welcome I'm receiving hitting the site isn't making me immediately comfortable. Again, I know nothing negative about the company whatsoever, and this could turn out to be great, but for now, I don't feel instant confidence. I'm sure they'll improve in the future when they are out of Beta.
Have a good weekend!
Miriam
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Thank you Miriam. I was hoping you'd pipe in.
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Hi Donna,
Unfortunately, I don't have direct experience with ecinity.com. I believe that's a pretty new service, so there just may not be that much feedback out there about them yet. Between Localeze and UBL, I have repeatedly heard local colleagues make statements of preference for Localeze, while at the same time stating that there just isn't a replacement for careful, manual submission. For my own clients, I've always gone the manual route, but at an agency level, many Local SEOs do find these automation tools to be good time savers.
Sorry not to have an experienced opinion on ecinity. I'll leave your question as unanswered in case one of our members has actually put this tool into practice.
Miriam
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