Although the initial success of our new advertising campaign has been overwhelming, we understand that top search engine placement takes time and patients.  Of the 120 cities targeted to date, more than half of them now display CleanupDirectory.com at the top of Google for most industry keyword searches.  As a result, traffic to our directory is increasing on a weekly basis.

In addition to direct traffic to your listing page and subsequent traffic to your company website, our members now enjoy regular “Service Request” emails.  Although these emails have been sporadic, we anticipate a marked increase in calls for assistance as our directory reaches more markets.  These emails, similar to the ones you’ve already received, will include all of the contact information as we receive it from the client.  As these emails will be sent to all of our paid listing members, it would be in your best interest to read each email we send and to respond quickly if the request is within your service area.  Please keep in mind that these emails will only be sent to our paid listing members.  If you have received any of these emails as a member, but you have not paid for a listing page, they have been sent as a courtesy. Only paid listing members will continue to receive these “Service Request” emails on a regular basis. To become a paid listing member, please visit http://www.cleanupdirectory.com/compare.php.  The entire process will take approximately 30 minutes and will cost $99 for the entire year (Platinum Package).

As we write this blog post, we are in the process of uploading our site to several new cities.  At a rate of 20 new sites a day we should have our entire targeted market, which includes every major city in every state, covered by the middle of July.  Once complete, CleanupDirectory.com will be the major source of crime scene cleanup news, information and resources in the nation.  Within the next few months several new features will be added to the directory.  These features may include: a comprehensive forum, improved help desk, member uploaded (submitted) videos, better integration of social media, more FAQs and several other features and options.

If you are not a member of CleanupDirectory.com, now is a good time to consider a membership package.  Unlike many directories that charge hundreds of dollars a month and thousands of dollars a year, our best package is still only $8.25 a month (membership rates are expected to increase in the next 30 days).  If you do not understand how to create a directory listing, please contact us for assistance.  We will be more than happy to walk you through the process.   If you are located in any of the cities we’ve currently targeted, and CleanupDirectory.com has indexed by Goggle, you may be missing out on work that is being referred to our listing members.  If you are located in any other city, not currently listed at http://www.hoardingbloodcrimedeath.com, chances are we will be a dominant presence in the local Google (Yahoo & Bing) search engine results within the upcoming days.

Thank you to our current listing members.  We hope that our efforts will help to bring more business to our directory and to your business specifically.

CleanupDirectory.com has been serving the Crime Scene Cleanup Industry for over two years.  We recently began advertising a free PDF Crime Scene Cleanup Directory, which is void of any listings for the State of California.  This will soon become a great resource for home owners and businesses, as individuals can download this directory to there computer.  Thus, a digital or hard copy of the directory will always be on hand when or if it’s needed.  Our PDF directory only lists companies who are active listing members of CleanupDirectory.com.

CleanupDirectory.com receives thousands of unique visitors every month.  Our various categories have recorded well over 50,000 individual hits since we started.  And, with each passing month, a greater number of people use CleanupDirectory.com to find a biohazard remediation company.

As we’ve told our members since day one, you may not know if customers are calling you as a direct result of your listing at CleanupDirectory.com.  A customer may simply tell you he found your website or stumbled upon it through the internet.  An individual may not click the link on your listing page to visit your website, but may copy your company name and “Google” it.  An individual may write down your phone number and call you several days after visiting CleanupDirectory.com.  At that point, the caller won’t remember where they found your company.  Whether or not you know for sure where your customers are coming from, we know that people are visiting CleanupDirectory.com.  We know that the additional exposure our members receive is well worth the listing cost of $8.25 per month.

If your company provides California Crime Scene Cleanup Services, California Hoarding Services or any other biohazard related service in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland (or the surrounding areas), consider listing with CleanupDirectory.com.

Remember, if you do decide to list, we are here to help you to maximize your exposure.  Feel free to contact us for free assistance in placing your listing information, photos, sales brochures and more.

CleanupDirectory.com has been serving the Crime Scene Cleanup Industry for over two years.  We recently began advertising a free PDF Crime Scene Cleanup Directory, which is void of any listings for the State of Ohio.  This will soon become a great resource for home owners and businesses, as individuals can download this directory to there computer.  Thus, a digital or hard copy of the directory will always be on hand when or if it’s needed.  Our PDF directory only lists companies who are active listing members of CleanupDirectory.com.

CleanupDirectory.com receives thousands of unique visitors every month.  Our various categories have recorded well over 50,000 individual hits since we started.  And, with each passing month, a greater number of people use CleanupDirectory.com to find a biohazard remediation company.

As we’ve told our members since day one, you may not know if customers are calling you as a direct result of your listing at CleanupDirectory.com.  A customer may simply tell you he found your website or stumbled upon it through the internet.  An individual may not click the link on your listing page to visit your website, but may copy your company name and “Google” it.  An individual may write down your phone number and call you several days after visiting CleanupDirectory.com.  At that point, the caller won’t remember where they found your company.  Whether or not you know for sure where your customers are coming from, we know that people are visiting CleanupDirectory.com.  We know that the additional exposure our members receive is well worth the listing cost of $8.25 per month.

If your company provides Ohio Crime Scene Cleanup Services, Ohio Hoarding Services or any other biohazard related service in Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo or Cleveland (or the surrounding areas), consider listing with CleanupDirectory.com.

Remember, if you do decide to list, we are here to help you to maximize your exposure.  Feel free to contact us for free assistance in placing your listing information, photos, sales brochures and more.

It took only a few minutes to discover the root of his concern.  In viewing his directory listing, we counted a total of 68 words.  There were no photos, no sales literature and his “short description” used for the sidebar throughout the directory was only a single sentence long.  Taking it one step further, we looked at his website.  It was an absolute mess.

CleanupDirectory.com receives thousands of unique visitors every month.  The vast majority are targeted visitors, looking for crime scene cleanup services, or other services typically provided by crime scene cleanup companies.  Although we provide a great starting point for you to reach out to customers, we cannot finish the sale for you.  Time and time again, through emails and blog posts, we make recommendations.  We beg and plead for our members to put some time and effort into their listing page. Time and time again, we get members who complain that their $8.25 monthly investment is a waste of money.  And time and time again, we discover the reason why.  As an example, we pointed out to one such member that his website address was misspelled.  When he typed it into the setup screen for his listing page, he inadvertently added and extra letter.  Needless to say, he was getting absolutely no traffic to his website from his listing page.

Your listing page with CleanupDirectory.com is like an invitation.  If it’s not attractive and full of useful information, no one will come to the party. 68 words is barely enough to tell the viewing public what area of the world you service, let alone convince someone to seek our more information about your company and its services.  If you do get potential customers to click through to your website, it must be up to the task of “closing the deal”.  We cannot stress enough the importance of a well-organized website that’s informational and easy to navigate.  While some customers may reach you directly from your listing page, most will want to visit your website to learn more about your business.  Based on our experience most websites tend to turn people away, rather than to convert them to paying customers.

Of the 22 listing members at CleanupDirectory.com, only three or four have taken the time to upload a banner ad.  Why?!?  It’s a free form of advertising that will direct more people to your listing page.  Can you not find a spare hour to create a banner.  Take advantage of every single free source of advertising you can find.

We recently created a nationwide crime scene cleanup directory.  This is a directory for you and your company.  After several emails to our members, only one member has thus far responded.  Do you not care about having your business name in a directory that is being distributed to thousands of potential customers?

The point of this post is to once again try to motivate you to take an active role in the success of your business.  Take advantage of the free and inexpensive advertising that is all around you.  If you pay $8.25 for a directory service like CleanupDirectory.com, put some effort into your listing page. The information you include (or fail to include),  just as your website, is a direct reflection on you, your business and the quality of the services you provide.

When conducting a search for New York City crime scene cleanup or Chicago crime scene cleanup, one will find many out-of-state companies listed in the top ten search results.  Some of the larger locally owned companies often don’t appear until page two or three of Google.  Shouldn’t the companies that can respond in a timely fashion, and often at a less expensive rate, be listed first for a local search such as New York City crime scene cleanup? 

We all know that search engines don’t always provide us with the most reasonable choices.  For a crime scene cleanup company in California could easy find themselves listed at the top of a search for crime scene cleanup in New York.  Search engines have no way of knowing where a company provides services to or where they are physically located. 

However, we as website owners and administrators have complete control over whether or not we appear in the search results for the market we service.

Time and time again, we tell members of www.CleanupDirectory.com to fully optimize their listing page.  We know the importance of this advice because a well-optimized page will show up in the search engine results page for Google and other search engines.  To learn more about optimizing your listing page, please visit http://www.cleanupdirectory.com/Blog/directory-listings/draw-attention-to-your-listing/.

In addition to your listing page with CleanupDirectory.com, you must have a search engine friendly website that is optimized for the market you service.   In years past, companies could count on being found in Chicago or New York City as long as their website appeared when one searched for Illinois crime scene cleanup or New York crime scene cleanup.  Now, in light of the increased competition, it’s imperative that your company is found for the city in which you provide services to.   Thus if you provide services to Chicago or New York City, your website must come up on the first page of the search results for Chicago crime scene cleanup or New York City crime scene cleanup or Chicago hoaring cleanup or New York City hoarding cleanup, etc.  Likewise, if you provide services to Miami Florida, you shouldn’t be too pleased with a 1st page placement for Florida crime scene cleanup.  Most people will be more apt to search for Miami crime scene cleanup vs. Florida crime scene cleanup.

Hard cover phone books are a thing of the past.  If you’re not receiving the business you think you should be receiving, then people are not finding your company when they are in need of your services.  Consider spending time to properly optimize your website and list your company with directories such as Yellowpages.com (YP.com) and CleanupDirectory.com.  For more information about search engine optimization, please visit http://www.keybusinessideas.com/SEO-made-simple.html

If you are not a current member with CleanupDirectory.com and you provide either Chicago crime scene cleanup services or Los Angeles crime scene cleanup services, now would be a great time to list your company with our directory.  To do so is quite easy and only cost about $8 a month.  Compared to other advertising sources, this is one of the least expensive you will find.  To learn more about listing your company with CleanupDirectory.com, please visit http://www.cleanupdirectory.com/Blog/directory-listings/easy-as-1-2-3/.  Once you have created your account and begin working on your listing page, please reference the above link for website optimization tips.

If you service any locations within California or Illinois, please use appropriate keyword terms, such as Chicago hoarding cleanup or Los Angeles Hoarding Cleanup.  Likewise, you may use California crime scene cleanup or Illinois crime scene cleanup.  Any industry keywords or keyword phrases, used appropriately, will likely result in your listing page being listed by the major search engines.  During the past two years, we have seen many of our listing pages rank higher in the search engine results page (SERP) than our member’s own website.

If you do not service Chicago, Los Angeles, Illinois or California, please consider listing your business for any of the other cities and states you may service.  

We provide you with your own control panel (affiliate center) where you can track the success of the banners and links you’ve chosen.  You can see how many times your banner has been clicked, which ones are performing well and which ones need to be changed.  Best of all, you can see how much money you’ve made.  All of this is provided free of charge.  Join for free, stay with us as long as you want and leave the program at will.  This will cost you nothing, except for about an hour to upload some banners and links.  It’s all there for you, all you have to do is sign up.

To do so, please visit www.EmergencyListing.com/affiliate.  From here you can create your affiliate account and start making a little extra money.  We can’t make it any easier!

• Mississippi Crime Scene Cleanup
• Mississippi Suicide Cleanup
• Mississippi Hoarding Cleanup
• Ohio Crime Scene Cleanup
• Ohio Suicide Cleanup
• Ohio Hoaring Cleanup
• South Carolina Crime Scene Cleanup
• South Carolina Suicide Cleanup
• South Carolina Hoarding Cleanup
• Wisconsin Crime Scene Cleanup
• Wisconsin Suicide Cleanup
• Wisconsin Hoarding Cleanup

In addition to the above, several other states are absent of any crime scene cleanup companies.  Please take time to visit CleanupDirectory.com and view our state and category listings.  There are several categories, such as Meth Lab Cleanup, Mold Remediation and Fire and Water Damage that only have a few listings for the entire country.

One job from CleanupDirectory.com will pay for your listing for nearly ten (10) years!  Start looking for us on page #1 of the search engine results pages.  Look at our previous blog posts to see where we rank.  As a matter of fact, since our last blog post “1st page Google rankings”, our directory and many of our member’s listing pages have moved up two or three positions for most of the keyword phrases discussed in the post.

Take time to visit us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/crimescenedecon and Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crime-Scene-Cleanup/163359443674940?v=wall

• Detroit Suicide Cleanup #9
• Detroit Hoarding Cleanup #9 and #10
• Indianapolis Crime Scene Cleanup #8
• Indianapolis Hoarding Cleanup #4 and #5
• Indianapolis Suicide Cleanup #5 and #6
• New Orleans Suicide Cleanup #6
• New Orleans Hoarding Cleanup #3 and #4
• Orlando Hoarding Cleanup #2 and #3
• Orlando Suicide Cleanup #6
• Milwaukee Suicide Cleanup #6

These are just a few keyword terms we checked in a few cities.  And, this is only a search of Google.  Across the board, CleanupDirectory.com is becoming a noticeable and often used directory in the crime scene cleanup industry.  As previously reported, we receive some 125 to 150 new unique visitors every day, recording thousands of hits a week.  Each month these figures increase by as much as 30%. 

Many of our member’s pages are indexed by Google and other search engines.  Not only do our members have the benefit of being found through a directory search by category or location, but their individual listings are showing up on the first page of the search engines for various keywords and keyword phrases.  What’s even greater is the fact that many of our member’s company websites are found on pages 2, 3 and 4 of Google, yet their CleanupDirectory.com listing is found on page #1.  What a great way to increase your exposure and name recognition.  If you are a current member of CleanupDirectory.com, please make sure your listing page includes at least 250 words of text, with several keywords and phrases throughout the text.  Include your city and state in the main body of your listing page.   

Our next goal will be to improve our Google Pagerank with quality backlinks from relevant sites.  In addition to improved placement on the SERP, increased exposure will drive even more traffic to our member’s listing pages. 

If you have any questions about our directory, please visit CleanupDirectory.com and find the “Contact Us” button.  We’ll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

Too often we hear these concerns about CleanupDirectory.com, “you don’t show up in Google for my city” or “I haven’t received any business from CleanupDirectory.com”.  Here is our response:

• Google isn’t the only search engine in existence.  Although we are starting to place relatively high on Google for several keywords and keyword phrases, we are doing the same for Yahoo, Bing, Ask, etc.  In addition, we routinely do advertising though Google Adwords, which places us prominently in the Sponsored Links section for keyword searches.   Although our goal is to eventually be on the first page of Google for most keyword searches, we don’t have to be number one on all search engines to generate traffic.
• As for business directed to your website from CleanupDirectory.com, we’ve explained this through several different blog entries during the past year.  When a customer comes to your website, it’s up to you to “close the deal”.  You may be getting quite a bit of traffic directed to your website from our directory, but you don’t know it because the customer leaves before being converted into a paying customer.  Likewise, a customer who does secure your service may simply tell you that he found your website on the web.  Too often, visitors don’t remember that they found your website through a directory or followed a link from another website.

Without a doubt, CleanupDirectory.com offers more features than any other directory in your industry.  Please take time to visit with us and conduct a search of your crime scene cleanup competitors in South Florida, Central Florida or any other part of Florida for that matter.  Then, take time to create a listing page so that when customers do visit our directory, your company will be considered for the work they have to offer.