Businesses will pay top dollar for landing pages that go along with their listings in online directories. In order to be effective from a traffic and conversion standpoint, directory landing pages should include a few key ingredients. Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s talk a little about what directory landing pages actually are. Directory…
Could your publication be doing more to help readers? With an online job board, digital publishers can better serve their readers and generate additional revenue at the same time. When most people think of online job boards, they think of the standalone websites like Monster.com and CareerBuilder. These websites publisher hundreds of thousands of listings…
Online directories offer some unique benefits for digital publishers. When they’re executed and managed in the right way, online directories can generate traffic, revenue, and engagement across a publisher’s existing websites. We’ve talked a lot about monetization strategies for online directories in previous blog posts, so you should already be familiar with the various paths…
Have you heard? Right now is possibly the best time in history to be running a niche job board. Sure, the big three players in the job board market—Monster.com, CareerBuilder, and Indeed—are facing increasing threats from LinkedIn, but smaller digital publishers are finding that the niches they’ve carved out are still large enough to build…
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Designing a community calendar is the easy part. In order for your calendar to be a success, it needs to be brimming with events that are timely, relevant, and interesting to your readers. Digital publishers often find that there is a fine line between having a community calendar that’s too sparse and having a community…
Meet people where they’re at. In order to get people into the habit of visiting any digital property on a regular basis — whether that’s a community calendar, an online magazine, or even a business directory — you need to meet them at a place where they already have an existing habit. That concept, the…
The most successful business directories aren’t the most exclusive. They usually aren’t the most expensive for advertisers, either. What the most successful business directories have in common is that they’re free — up to a point, at least. The free business directory has a way of luring in both readers and advertisers with the promise…
Have you heard? The digital obituary business is booming. Legacy.com gets more than 40 million unique visitors each month, with multiple streams of revenue coming in from news publications, business advertisers, and the bereaved. If it’s been a while since you visited an obituary website, you’re in for a surprise. The days when obituaries were…
Launching an online business directory isn’t like opening a coffee shop on Main Street. Nobody passes by a website and randomly decides to pop in. That’s why marketing and promotion are so important for digital businesses. It’s also why publishers need to work so hard when they’re promoting a business directory, if they want to…
City and regional magazines have been printing “best of” lists for decades, but fundamental changes in the way publishers generate revenue now are creating renewed demand for this type of advertiser-heavy content. The latest generation of “best of” lists—think, Top Doctors, Best Restaurants, and the like—are creating an additional stream of revenue for digital publishers…