Local listing services that will do phone verification of ownership
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can you please tell me some local listing directory services that will do phone verification instead of sending out the post card?
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Hi Netlover,
The following local business indexes/directories require phone verification either part of the time, or always:
Google
Bing
Yelp
Foursquare
Infogroup/Express Update
iBegin
Other forms of verification will include email and postal mail verification or a combination of these with phone verification. Hope this helps!
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They will show you the best local listing directory's
Hope that helps,
Thomas
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A few: Yelp is one, pretty sure CitySearch is another. FourSquare has done phone verification in the past.
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