IBD aims to offer its customers the benefits of a fully Internet marketed website, but at a fraction of the cost. Advertisers can be found Locally, Regionally or Nationally according to the needs of the individual company.
A crucial, highly important difference between IBD and most other directories is what happens when the link is clicked in the search results. IBD customers are taken directly to their page on the directory - not to the front page of IBD - not to a list of their competitors.
It is because of the above point that IBD is not split into categories, thus eliminating the problems experienced when searching a traditional paper directory and some Internet directories.
Standard Entry - £159 - £179 - £199
The standard entry - about your business, and nothing but your business - consists of:
- Description of your business
- Contact details
- E-mail link
- Website link
- Optional map link
- Built to W3C Standards
- Three cost options with up to 12 good quality images including company logo
- Optimisation to give you the best possible chance of being found in major search engines
The example below has eleven images and costs £199 per year. Two other versions are available:
- As above but with five images and logo - £179 per year
- As above but with three images and logo - £159 per year
Basic Entry - £125
The Basic Entry - about your business, and nothing but your business - consists of:
- Description of your business
- Contact details
- No images
- E-mail link
- Website link
- Optional map link
- Built to W3C Standards
- Optimisation to give you the best possible chance of being found in major search engines
National & Regional Advertisers - £price on application
Companies operating Nationwide or Regionally have a number of options and will have:
- A standard entry with up to twelve images
- Listing on County pages under National Advertisers, with link to their Standard Entry
- Company logo with added keywords linking directly to their own website or Standard Entry
- Choice of the above appearing on every County Page - 136 in total - or County Pages of selected Countries
- Regional advertisers can choose the exact Towns and Counties they wish to target
Because there are various options, price is on application but will not exceed £800 at present. A regional advert is unlikely to cost more than £450, for example, one customer advertises in 23 towns accross 2 Counties. This consists of company logo on each page linking to their website, and text links to their standard entry.
Free Entry
A free entry is available, but this will not be found in Google, Yahoo or any of the major search engines. It may be seen by people browsing IBD.
Please supply the details shown in the example below:
Statistics
During the last twelve months IBD has had over FOUR Million hits. June and July 2007 saw the monthly hits exceed 500,000 for the first time, with over 50,000 unique visitors each month. The reason these huge numbers are important to advertisers, and potential advertisers, is they demonstrate that IBD receives a lot of traffic - some of which are actually real people using search engines to find YOUR business.
This was demonstrated recenty when one customer looked at stats for his own web site. These showed that 70% of his traffic came from search engines and 30% from web sites. No less than 58% of the web site traffic came from his two pages on IBD!
Click the link below to view independent Webalizer stats: